Quotes, February 2004
01.Whatever a man prays for, he prays for a miracle. Every prayer reduces itself to this: "Great God, grant that twice two be not four".
- Ivan Turgenev
02. I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.
- Oscar Wilde
03. Mater artium necessitas
[Necessity is the mother of invention]
- Latin proverb
04. Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
- Abraham Lincoln
05. Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths.
- Lois Wyse
06. Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
- Ronald Reagan
07. Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven’t got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die.
- Oscar Wilde
08. I count religion but a childish toy, and hold there is no sin but ignorance.
- Christopher Marlowe (from "The Jew of Malta")
09. Wonders are many, and none is more wonderful than man.
- Sophocles
10. The pen is mightier than the sword.
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton
11. It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.
- Jerome K. Jerome
12. To be alone is the fate of all great minds - a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils.
- Artur Schopenhauer
13. The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
- John Milton (from "Paradise Lost")
14. There’s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
- Dick Cavett
15. How happy can you be when you think every action and thought is being monitored by a judgmental ghost?
- Dan Barker
16. Sentimentality is only sentiment that rubs you up the wrong way.
- William Somerset Maugham
17. Perhaps no person can be a poet, or can even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.
- Thomas Babington Macaulay
18. Wherever a set of alternative possible routes toward achieving a given end presents itself, a student movement will tend to choose the one which involves a higher measure of violence or humiliation directed against the older generation.
- Lewis S. Feuer
19. A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody has read.
- Mark Twain
20. You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
- Ray Bradbury
21. Basically my wife was immature. I’d be at home in the bath and she’d come in and sink my boats.
- Woody Allen
22. Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats, then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.
- Fred Allen
23. It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find next morning that it was someone else.
-Samuel Rogers
24. Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself.
- Oscar Wilde
25. Those who make their dress a principal part of themselves, will, in general, become of no more value than their dress.
- William Hazlitt
26. Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it.
- Woody Allen
27. He knows nothing and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
- George Bernhard Shaw
28. If you’re going through hell, keep going.
- Winston Churchill
29.For every credibility gap, there is a gullibility fill.
- Richard Clopton
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