Quotes, January 2002
01. It's not the monuments that teaches us history. It's the ruins.
- Carl Hammaren
02. Committee: A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit to do the unnecessary.
- Richard Harkness
03. Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
- Bill Vaughn
04. What do I care what impression I make on people? It's because we waste our lives caring about what others think that most of us remain morons.
- Colin Wilson
05. Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan "press on" has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
- Calvin Coolidge
06. Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
- Philip K. Dick
07. I never work out. If God had meant us to do, he would have put diamonds on the floor.
- Joan Rivers
08. Laus est facere quod decet, non quod licet
[It is commendable to do what is right, not what is legal]
- Cicero, Roman statesman 106-43 BC
09. Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world.
- Arnold Bennet
10. Science is not a sacred cow. Science is a horse. Don't worship it. Feed it.
- Aubrey Eben
11. The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
- Paul Valery
12. I like long walks. Especially when they're taken by people who annoy me.
- Noel Coward
13. Christianity teaches you to love your enemies. If you love your enemies, what value does that place on love?
- Marilyn Manson
14. "I'm a great believer in doin' nothing."
- Kevin Kline in "Silverado"
15. "If I'm not back in five minutes…just wait longer!"
- Jim Carrey in "Ace Ventura, Pet Detective"
16. "Emotions... there ought to be a law against them."
- Sylvester Stallone in "Judge Dredd"
17. "Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberries."
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail
18. Chico: Right now I'd do anything for money. I'd kill somebody for money. I'd kill you for money.
[Harpo looks dejected.]
Chico: Ha ha ha. Ah, no. You're my friend. I'd kill you for nothing.
[Harpo smiles.]
- Marx Brothers, "The Cocoanuts" (1929)
19. J: Why the big secret? People are smart, they can handle it.
K: A PERSON is smart. PEOPLE are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it.
- Will Smith & Tommy Lee Jones in "Men in Black"
20. "Between air conditioning and the Pope, I chose air conditioning."
- Woody Allen in "Deconstructing Harry"
21. Start every day with a smile and get it over with.
- W.C. Fields
22. What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
- Dave Barry
23. The minute you read something you can't understand, you can almost be sure it
was drawn up by a lawyer.
- Will Rogers
24. After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's relations.
- Oscar Wilde
25. The public is a fool.
- Alexander Pope
26. The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
- Ayn Rand
27. The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.
- Benjamin Franklin
28. Life is one foolish thing after another whereas love is two foolish things after each
other.
- Oscar Wilde
29. Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
- Mark Twain
30. Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamp-post how it feels about dogs.
- Christopher Hampton
31. I am not over-fond of resisting temptation.
- William Beckford
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