Quotes, June 2005
01. There is something to be said for every error; but, whatever may be said for it, the most important thing to be said about it is that it is erroneous.
- G. K. Chesterton
02. Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.
- Andre Maurois
03. If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers
04. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
- Ann Landers
05. I don’t think we’re here for anything, we’re just products of evolution. You can say ‘Gee, your life must be pretty bleak if you don’t think there’s a purpose’ but I’m anticipating a good lunch.
- Dr. James Watson, winner of the Nobel prize for his co-discovery of the structure of DNA
06. There are worse things than getting a call for the wrong number at 4 AM. It could be the right number.
- Doug Larson
07. There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.
- Tennessee Williams
08. Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.
- Mark Twain
09. Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.
- Benjamin Franklin
10. More men die of worry than of work, because more men worry than work.
- Robert Frost
11. Money is a strange thing. It ranks with love as our greatest source of joy, and with death as our greatest source of anxiety.
- Joe Moore
12. Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
- George Santayana
13. The cynics are right nine times out of ten.
- Henry L. Mencken
14. A closed mouth catches no flies.
- Miguel de Cervantes
15. Education is the period during which you are being instructed by somebody you do not know, about something you do not want to know.
- G. K. Chesterton
16. It is the part of wisdom to keep your word and the part of folly to count on other people keeping theirs.
- Richard Needham
17. How far would Moses have gone if he had taken a poll in Egypt?
- Harry S. Truman
18. What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.
- Will Rogers
19. Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects.
- Roger Zelazny
20. A child is a person who can't understand why someone would give away a perfectly good kitten.
- Doug Larson
21. The world is filled with willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
- Robert Frost
22. School days are the unhappiest in the whole span of human existence. They are full of dull, unintelligible tasks, new and unpleasant ordinances, with brutal violations of common sense and common decency.
- Henry L. Mencken
23. It is true that wealth won't make a man virtuous, but I notice there ain't anybody who wants to be poor just for the purpose of being good.
- Henry Wheeler Shaw
24. Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.
- Albert Camus
25. It is better to live rich than to die rich.
- Samuel Johnson
26. Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.
- G. K. Chesterton
27. Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
- Benjamin Franklin
28. I have lived some thirty-odd years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.
- Henry David Thoreau
29. Blushing is the color of virtue.
- Diogenes
30. Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
- Oscar Wilde
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