Quotes, February 2001
01. Fabrum esse suae quemque fortunae.
[Each man the architect of his own fate.]
- Appius Caecus
02. I love my job, it's the work I hate.
- Unknown
03. In California they don't throw their garbage away - they make it into TV shows.
- Woody Allen
04. In these modern days to be vulgar, illiterate, common and vicious, seems to give a man a marvellous infinity of rights that his father never dreamed of.
- Oscar Wilde
05. How much easier it is to be critical than to be just.
- Benjamin Disraeli
06. Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have.
- Ronald Reagan
07. "I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worth while?"
Death thought about it. "Cats," he said eventually, "Cats are Nice."
- Terry Pratchett, from "Sourcery"
08. Never try to outstubborn a cat.
- Robert A. Heinlein
09. I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
- Bill Cosby
10. You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
- Jack London
11. Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
- George Burns
12. Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.
I have sent up my gladness on wings, to be lost in the blue of the sky.
I have run and leaped with the rain, I have taken the wind to my breast.
My cheek like a drowsy child to the face of the earth I have pressed.
Because I have loved life, I shall have no sorrow to die.
- Amelia J. Burr, "A Song of Living"
13. The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.
- Unknown
14. It is impossible to love and be wise.
- Francis Bacon
15. Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.
- Phyllis Diller
16. If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth
17. After a shooting spree, they always want to take the guns away from the people who didn't do it. I sure as hell wouldn't want to live in a society where the only people allowed guns are the police and the military.
- William S. Burroughs
18. After you've heard two eyewitness accounts of an auto accident it makes you wonder about history.
- Unknown
19. Knowledge is power.
- Francis Bacon
20. Hell is other people.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
21. I was forced to go to a positive thinking seminar. I couldn't stand it. So I went
outside to the parking lot and let half the air out of everybody's tires. As they came out I said, "So ... are your tires half-full or half-empty?"
- Adam Christing
22. A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
- Dean Acheson
23. The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
- Harlan Ellison
24. Telling computer guys that they need to have permission to quote things is like having to tell little children about Death.
- Ted Nelson
25. Don't eat yellow snow.
- Frank Zappa
26. "Do you know what smoking does to you? It stunts your growth, it yellows your teeth and blackens your lungs. Is that what you want? To be a yellow toothed midget with lung cancer?"
- Chevy Chase in "Cops and Robbersons"
27. Ariel: How's your marriage?
Andrew: My marriage is fine.
Ariel: Ya?...
Andrew: It's not working but it's fine.
- Woody Allen in "A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy"
28. I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me.
- Pam Ferris in "Matilda"
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