Quotes, January 2006
01. God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
02. The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistant, persuasive and unrealistic.
- John F. Kennedy
03. I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.
- Fred Allen
04. The idea that 'the public interest' supersedes private interests and rights can have but one meaning: that the interests and rights of some individuals take precedence over the interests and rights of others.
- Ayn Rand
05. Little said is soonest mended.
- Miguel de Cervantes
06. We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we ever invented, which was human liberty.
- Mark Twain
07. Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties.
- Doug Larson
08. Righteous people have no sense of humor.
- Bertolt Brecht
09. Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
- Henry Ward Beecher
10. The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it.
- Doug Larson
11. The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
- Benjamin Disraeli
12. There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
- Henry Wheeler Shaw
13. When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
- Maxim Gorky
14. There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.
- Will Rogers
15. Everyone takes the limits of his own vision for the limits of the world.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
16. The moment you're born you're done for.
- Arnold Bennet
17. Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up by itself.
- Woodrow Wilson
18. The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you’ll grow out of it.
- Doris Day
19. Some folks as they grow older grow wise, but most folks simply grow stubborner.
- Henry Wheeler Shaw
20. A man is as old as he’s feeling, a woman is as old as she looks.
- Mortimer Collins
21. You know you’re getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
- Bob Hope
22. 35 is when you finally get your head together and your body starts falling apart.
- Caryn Leschen
23. I realize that I'm generalizing here, but as is often the case when I generalize, I don't care.
- Dave Barry
24. If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
- Harry S. Truman
25. We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip little by little at a truth we find bitter.
- Denis Diderot
26. Here’s to our wives and girlfriends...may they never meet!
- Groucho Marx
27. One man's word is no man's word; we should quietly hear both sides.
- Goethe
28. Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its one sure defense.
- Mark Twain
29. People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization.
- Agnes Repplier
30. If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious.
- Kingman Brewster Jr
31. It is not enough to have knowledge, one must also apply it. It is not enough to have wishes, one must also accomplish.
- Goethe
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