Quotes, April & May 2005
01. Acquaintance: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
- Ambrose Bierce
02. Sanity is a madness put to good uses.
- George Santayana
03. Has science ever retreated? No! It is Catholicism which has always retreated before her, and will always be forced to retreat.
- Emile Zola
04. I imagine, therefore I belong and am free.
- Emily Dickinson
05. Only grown-ups have difficulty with childproof bottles.
- Joe Moore
06. Der Hunger is der beste Koch
[Hunger is the best cook]
-Freidank, German 13th century writer
07. The fools in this world make about as much trouble as the wicked do.
- Henry Wheeler Shaw
08. A man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
- Walter Besant
09. It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
- Isaac Asimov
10. The theory that you should always treat the religious convictions of other people with respect finds no support in the Gospels.
- Arnold Lunn
11. Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
- Samuel Johnson
12. Sing away sorrow, cast away care.
- Miguel de Cervantes
13. If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.
- Thomas Fuller
14. Pour water on a sportswriter - instant horseshit.
- Ted Williams, American baseball player
15. It's practically impossible to look at a penguin and feel angry.
- Joe Moore
16. The reason people blame things on previous generations is that there's only one other choice.
- Doug Larson
17. Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up.
- Wilson Mizner
18. Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
- G. K. Chesterton
19. If you want to make certain a job gets done, give it to somebody who is really busy. They'll have their secretary do it.
- Joe Moore
20. Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
- William Somerset Maugham
21. The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do.
- John Stuart Mill
22. You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.
- Tennessee Williams
23. Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
- Cyril Connolly
24. One owes respect to the living, but to the dead, one owes nothing but the truth.
- Voltaire
25. It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.
- Winston Churchill
26. Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.
- John Lubbock
27. I can sympathise with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.
- Thomas Fuller
28. There are moments when everything goes well; don't be frightened, it won't last.
- Jules Renard
29. Be like a postage stamp. Stick to one thing until you get there.
- Henry Wheeler Shaw
*** No quotes April 30 - May 29 due to computer problems ***
30. I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
- Isaac Asimov
31. The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.
- Douglas Adams
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