Quotes, October 2004
01. Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.
- Samuel Johnson
02. A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
- Aristophanes
03. I am approached with the most opposite opinions and advice, and by religious men who are certain they represent the Divine will. I hope it will not be irreverent in me to say, that if it be probable that God would reveal his will to others, on a point so connected with my duty, it might be supposed he would reveal it directly to me.
- Abraham Lincoln
04. Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn’t work out, you haven’t wasted a whole day.
- Mickey Rooney
05. I do not mind lying but I hate inaccuracy.
- Samuel Butler
06. Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.
- Sigmund Freud
07. Money is the only substance which can keep a cold world from nicknaming a citizen "Hey, you!"
- Wilson Mizner
08. By working faithfully eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.
- Robert Frost
09. Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about.
- Sam Ewing
10. Religion consists of a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain.
- Mark Twain
11. In a progressive country change is constant, change is inevitable.
- Benjamin Disraeli
12. Men often oppose a thing merely because they have had no agency in planning it, or because it may have been planned by those whom they dislike.
- Alexander Hamilton
13. Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.
- Harry Fosdick
14. Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world - making the most of one's best.
- Richard Willard Armour
15. What’s the point of wearing your favorite rocketship underpants if nobody ever asks to see ‘em?
- Bill Watterson, American cartoonist «Calvin and Hobbes»
16. Confusion is the welcome mat at the door of creativity.
- Michael Gelb
17. People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.
- Dave Barry
18. Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.
- William Somerset Maugham
19. About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.
- Henry Wheeler Shaw
20. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.
- Rita Mae Brown
21. When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
- Eric Hoffer
22. I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution.
- Wernher von Braun
23. Junk is the ultimate merchandise. The junk merchant does not sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to the product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise, he degrades and simplifies the client.
- William S. Burroughs
24. What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
- Joseph Addison
25. Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of facts.
- Henry Brooks Adams
26. The true measure of your worth includes all the benefits others have gained from your success.
- Cullen Hightower
27. Nobody understands anyone 18, including those who are 18.
- Jim Bishop
28. Women love the lie that saves their pride, but never an unflattering truth.
- Gertrude Atherton
29. Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.
- John Kenneth Galbraith
30. Live out of your imagination, not your history.
- Stephen R. Covey
31. The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.
- James Arthur Baldwin
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