Quotes, December 2000
01. My opinions may have changed, but not the fact that I am right.
- Ashleigh Brilliant
02. I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
- Winston Churchill
03. I don't want to achieve immortality through my work... I want to achieve it through not dying.
- Woody Allen
04. It's not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game even starts.
- Addison Walker
05. To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.
- John Locke, English philosopher
06. The world more often rewards the appearances of merit than merit itself.
- La Rochefoucauld
07. Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.
- Ed Gardner
08. You can easily judge the character of others by how they treat those who can do nothing for them or to them.
- Malcolm Forbes
09. Personalization: the automatic tailoring of sites and messages to the individuals viewing them so that we can feel that somewhere there's a piece of software that loves us for who we are.
- David Weinberger
10. Youth has no age.
- Pablo Picasso
11. I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.
- Nancy Mitford
12. Cocaine isn't habit-forming. I should know - I've been using it for years.
Tallulah Bankhead
13. If you cannot convince them, confuse them.
- Harry S. Truman
14. I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.
- Woody Allen
15. Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
- Gore Vidal
16. There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
- Christopher Morley
17. Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
- Voltaire
18. Missionaries are perfect nuisances and leave every place worse than they found it.
- Charles Dickens
19. On the sixth day God created man. On the seventh day, man returned the favor.
- Unknown
20. I have found Christian dogma unintelligible. Early in life, I absenteed myself from Christian assemblies.
- Benjamin Franklin
21. Theology is but the ignorance of natural causes reduced to a system.
- Baron Paul Henri T. d'Holbach
22. It is no accident that the symbol of a bishop is a crook, and the sign of an archbishop is a double-cross.
- Unknown
23. Christian Fundamentalism: The doctrine that there is an absolutely powerful, infinitely knowledgeable, universe spanning entity that is deeply and personally concerned about my sex life.
- Andrew Lias
24. Christian Liberalism: The doctrine that there may be an absolutely powerful, infinitely knowledgeable, universe spanning entity that is deeply and personally concerned about baby seals but doesn't give a damn about my sex life.
- Andrew Lias
25. Christmas is the season when people run out of money before they run out of friends.
- Larry Wilde
26. We discover in the gospels a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstition, fanaticism and fabrication.
- Thomas Jefferson
27. Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise.
- Cato the Elder
28. I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.
- Neil Armstrong
29. There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
- Bertrand Russell
30. If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution.
- Emma Goldman
31. Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,
The flying cloud, the frosty light:
The year is dying in the night;
Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.
Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.
Ring out a slowly dying cause,
And ancient forms of party strife;
Ring in the nobler modes of life,
With sweeter manners, purer laws.
Ring out old shapes of foul disease;
Ring out the narrowing lust of gold;
Ring out the thousand wars of old,
Ring in the thousand years of peace.
- Alfred Tennyson, from "In Memoriam"
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