Quotes, October 2002
01. I often quote myself, it adds spice to my conversation.
- George Bernard Shaw
02. Convincing yourself doesn't win an argument.
- Robert Half
03. Women like silent men. They think they're listening.
- Marcel Archard
04. Little things affect little minds.
- Benjamin Disraeli
05. Happiness is when what you think, what you say and what you do are in harmony.
- Mahatma Gandhi
06. Geology shows that fossils are of different ages. Paleontology shows a fossil sequence, the list of species represented changes through time. Taxonomy shows biological relationships among species. Evolution is the explanation that threads it all together. Creationism is the practice of squeezing one's eyes shut and wailing "does not!".
- Unknown
07. Be good and you will be lonesome.
- Mark Twain
08. Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families.
- G. H. Lewes
09. Whenever anyone says, "theoretically", they really mean, "not really".
- Dave Parnas
10. Grace is given of God, but knowledge is born in the market.
- Arthur Clough
11. Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don’t.
- Pete Seeger
12. When the government fears the people, it is liberty. When the people fear the government, it is tyranny.
- Thomas Paine
13. It’s an incredible con job when you think of it, to believe something now in exchange for life after death. Even corporations with all their reward systems don’t try to make it posthumous.
- Gloria Steinem
14. Monday is a hard way to spend 1/7th of your life.
- Unknown
15. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is so.
- James Branch Cabell
16. An injury is much sooner forgot than an insult.
- The Earl of Chesterfield
17. My second favourite household chore is ironing. My first being hitting my head on the top bunk until I faint.
- Emma Brombeck
18. If you have a job without aggravations, you don’t have a job.
- Malcolm Forbes
19. Intellect annuls fate. So far as a man thinks, he is free.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
20. I know few Christians so convinced of the splendor of the rooms in their Father’s house, as to be happier when their friends are called to those mansions. Nor has the Church’s ardent «desire to depart, and be with Christ,» ever cured it of the singular habit of putting on mourning for every person summoned to such departure.
- John Ruskin
21. Mary: Well tell me, why did you get a divorce?
Isaac: Why? I got a divorce because my ex-wife left me for another woman.
Mary: Really? God, that must have been really demoralizing.
Isaac: Well, I dunno, I thought I took it rather well under the circumstances. I tried to run them both over with a car.
- Woody Allen in "Manhattan"
22. Receptionist: How do you write women so well?
Melvin Udall: I think of men, then I take away reason and accountability.
- Jack Nicholson in "As good as it gets"
23. "Some people play hard to get. I play hard to want."
- Andrew Dice Clay in «Ford Fairlane»
24. "I have never been able to understand why small children are so disgusting. They’re the bane of my life. They’re like insects: they should be got rid of as early as possible. Hah, [makes spraying gesture] psst! My idea of a perfect school is one in which there are no children... at all."
- Pam Ferris in "Matilda"
25. I know a lot of people without brains who do an awful lot of talking.
- The Scarecrow (from The Wizard of Oz)
26. Vince (son): You screwed up my childhood.
Rod (father): How could I? I wasn’t even there.
- Kevin Kline in "Fierce Creatures"
27. Brian: I am NOT the Messiah!
Arthur: I say you are Lord, and I should know. I’ve followed a few.
- Monty Python "The Life of Brian"
28. Those who do not depend on luck have less bad luck.
- Yiddish Proverb
29. An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
- H. L. Mencken
30. I’m tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That’s deep enough. What do you want - an adorable pancreas?
- Jean Kerr
31. To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can have.
- T.H. White
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