Quotes, February 2002
01. Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
-John F. Kennedy
02. I'm not into working out. My philosophy: No pain, no pain.
- Carol Leifer
03. The whole foundation of Christianity is based on the idea that intellectualism is the work of the Devil. Remember the apple on the tree? O.K., it was the Tree of Knowledge. "You eat this apple, you're going to be as smart as God. We can't have that".
- Frank Zappa
04. When the Pope gets sick, how come they never think of sending him to Lourdes?
- Fact magazine
05. Modesty is the lowest of the virtues, and is a confession of the deficiency it indicates.
- William Hazlitt
06. Scorn also to depress thy competitor by any dishonest or unworthy method; strive to raise thyself above him only by excelling him; so shall thy contest for superiority be crowned with honour, if not with success.
- Akhenaton, pharaoh ca 1350-34 BC
07. The march of the human mind is slow.
- Edmund Burke
08. As iron is eaten by rust, so are the envious consumed by envy.
- Antisthenes
09. It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality.
- Virginia Woolf
10. You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, intelligent enough.
- Aldous Huxley
11. Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient.
- Aristotle
12. Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
- Fran Lebowitz
13. When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one.
- Edmund Burke
14. In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.
- Albert Einstein
15. Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.
- H.L. Mencken
16. A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never her age.
- Robert Frost
17. Each religion, so dear to those whose life it sanctifies, and fulfilling so necessary a function in the society that has adopted it, necessarily contradicts every other religion, and probably contradicts itself.
- George Santayana
18. The origin of all science is the desire to know causes, and the origin of all false science and imposture is the desire to accept false causes rather than none; or, which is the same thing, in the unwillingness to acknowledge our own ignorance.
- William Hazlitt
19. Saxum volutum non obducitur musco
[A rolling stone does not gather moss]
- Publilius Syrus
20. USER, n.: The word computer professionals use when they mean 'idiot.'
- Dave Barry
21. There are too many people; and too few human beings.
- Robert Zand
22. None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.
- Charles Caleb Colton
23. The advantage of doing one's praising for oneself is that one can lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places.
- Samuel Butler
24. This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were no religion in it.
- John Adams
25. One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.
- Oscar Wilde
26. Anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success.
- Oscar Wilde
27. A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies
- Oscar Wilde
28. Experience - the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
- Oscar Wilde
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