Quotes, October 2001
01. By neccessity, by proclivity, - and by delight, we all quote.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
02. I argue very well. Ask any of my remaining friends. I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don’t even invite me.
- Dave Barry
03. If it doesn't burn fuel or make a lot of noise, what good is it?
- Jim Byers
04. The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.
- Fredric Bastiat
05. I say, if your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.
- Bill Watterson, American cartoonist "Calvin and Hobbes"
06. One should forgive one's enemies, but not before they are hanged.
- Heinrich Heine
07. The wretchedness of religion is at once an expression and a protest against real wretchedness. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the feeling of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of unspiritual conditions. It is the opium of the people.
- Karl Marx
08. I felt this incredible surge of power, like God must feel when he's holding a gun.
- Homer Simpson
09. The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it.
- George Bernard Shaw
10. No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
- Abraham Lincoln
11. Justice is truth in action.
- Benjamin Disraeli
12. A free society is a place where it's safe to be unpopular.
- Adlai Stevenson
13. If we were all given by magic the power to read each other's thoughts, I suppose the first effect would be to dissolve all friendships.
- Bertrand Russell
14. The Christian system of religion is an outrage on common sense.
- Thomas Paine
15. "When you wake up in the morning, Pooh," said Piglet at last, "what's the first thing you say to yourself?"
"What's for breakfast?" said Pooh. "What do you say, Piglet?"
"I say, I wonder what's going to happen exciting today?" said Piglet.
Pooh nodded thoughtfully. "It's the same thing," he said.
- A. A. Milne
16. When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you sometimes find that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.
- A.A. Milne
17. "How long does getting thin take?" Pooh asked anxiously.
- A. A. Milne
18."I don't see much sense in that," said Rabbit.
"No," said Pooh humbly, "there isn't. But there was going to be when I began it. It's just that something happened to it along the way."
- A. A. Milne
19. "Rabbit's clever," said Pooh thoughtfully.
"Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit's clever."
"And he has Brain."
"Yes," said Piglet, "Rabbit has Brain."
There was a long silence.
"I suppose," said Pooh, "that's why he never understands anything."
- A. A. Milne
20. "Well," said Pooh, "what I like best--", and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn't know what it was called.
- A. A. Milne
21. I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words bother me.
- A. A. Milne
22. At no time is freedom of speech more precious than when a man hits his thumb with a hammer.
- Marshall Lumsden
23. A good girl is a good girl, but a bad girl is better.
- Unknown
24. Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.
- Rousseau
25. Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
- George Bernard Shaw
26. It is pure unadulterated country life. They get up early, because they have so much to do, and go to bed early because they have so little to think about.
- Oscar Wilde
27. There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it?
- Kin Hubbard
28. Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
- Mark Twain
29. Gray hair is God's graffiti.
- Bill Cosby
30. The most beautiful make-up of a woman is a passion. But cosmetics are easier to buy.
- Yves Saint Laurent
31. It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
- Voltaire
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