Quotes, June 2000
01. My formula for success? Rise early, work late, strike oil.
- Jean Paul Getty
02. A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you.
- Bert Leston Taylor
03. There is nothing so annoying as to have two people talking when you're busy interrupting.
- Mark Twain
04. Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
- Woody Allen
05. Computer: a million morons working at the speed of light.
- David Ferrier
06. A kleptomaniac is a person who helps himself because he can't help himself.
- Henry Morgan
07. Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
- Albert Camus
08. A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
- Herm Albright
09. Subtlety is the art of saying what you think and getting out of the way before it is
understood.
- Unknown
10. Some people march to a different drummer - and some people polka.
- Unknown
11. A penny saved is ridiculous.
- Unknown
12. The shortest distance between two points is under construction.
- Noelie Altito
13. Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.
- Unknown
14. If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.
- Margaret Thatcher
15. All wrong-doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do.
- Arnold Bennett
16. He who praises everybody, praises nobody.
- Samuel Johnson
17. Actually, it only takes one drink to get me loaded. Trouble is, I can't remember if
it's the thirteenth or fourteenth.
- George Burns
18. Du sublime au ridicule il n'y a qu'un pas
[From the sublime it is only one step to the ridiculous]
- Napoleon Bonaparte
19. The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.
- Clarence Darrow
20. Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.
- Kin Hubbard
21. Only shallow people do not judge by appearances.
- Oscar Wilde
22. An apple a day keeps the doctor away - if you can hit him.
- Unknown
23. A closed mouth gathers no foot.
- Unknown
24. Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
- Charlie McCarthy
25. Any time you think you have influence, try ordering around someone else's dog.
- Unknown
26. Reality is a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.
- Lily Tomlin
27. Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
- H. L. Mencken
28. There is nothing friendlier than a wet dog.
- Unknown
29. "I'd love to stay and help you save the Galaxy," insisted Zaphod, rising himself up on to his shoulders, "but I have the mother and father of a pair of headaches, and I feel a lot of little headaches coming on."
- Douglas Adams, "Life, the universe and everything"
30. Man was born to live, not to prepare for life.
- Boris Pasternak
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