Quotes, January 2001
01. The future isn't what it used to be.
- Yogi Berra
02. If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
- John Kenneth Galbraith
03. While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.
- Giovanni Boccaccio
04. Le refus des louanges est un désir d'être loué deux fois
[The refusal of praise is really a desire to be praised twice]
- La Rochefoucauld
05. If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
- Oscar Wilde
06. The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- H.L. Mencken
07. Faith is the commitment of one's consciousness to beliefs for which one has no sensory evidence or rational proof. A mystic is a man who treats his feelings as tools of cognition. Faith is the equation of feeling with knowledge.
- Ayn Rand
08. There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
- George Santayana
09. Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
10. Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
- Thomas Jefferson
11. Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimension.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
12. People always find it easier to be a result of the past rather than a cause of the future.
- Unknown
13. Blessed are we who can laugh at ourselves for we shall never cease to be amused.
- Unknown
14. Any society that needs disclaimers has too many lawyers.
- Erik Pepke
15. Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
- Mark Twain
16. I wouldn't exactly recommend alcohol, cigarettes, drugs, insanity - but they've always worked for me.
- Hunter S. Thompson
17. Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.
- A. Whitney Brown
18. Winter is the season in which people try to keep the house as warm as it was in the summer, when they complained about the heat.
- Unknown
19. Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
- Chinese Proverb
20. A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government.
- Thomas Jefferson
21. You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
- Al Capone
22. Fugit irreparabile tempus
[Time passes irrevocably]
- Virgil, Roman poet 70-19 BC
23. It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.
- Woody Allen
24. A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
H. L. Mencken
25. He who knows others is clever; he who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu
26. There's no fool like an old fool --- you can't beat experience.
- Jacob Braude
27. Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humour to console him for what he is.
- Francis Bacon
28. Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be a bunch of bastards.
- R. A. Dickson
29. Dein Schicksal ruht in deiner eigenen Brust
[Your destiny rests in your own chest]
- Schiller, German poet 1759-1805
30. I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
- John Locke
31. I have no relish for the country. It is a kind of healthy grave.
- Sidney Smith, English clergyman (1771-1845)
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