Quotes, May 2006
01. Only servants apologize.
- Alan Clarke
02. I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.
- Frank Colby
03. There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
- Henry Kissinger
04. Gossip is just news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress.
- Liz Smith
05. The hand that rocks the cradle is the hand that rules the world.
- W. R. Wallace
06. No matter how smart you are, you spend much of your day being an idiot.
- Scott Adams
07. We must not be hampered by yesterday's myths in concentrating on today's needs.
- Harold S. Geneen
08. A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
- Baltasar Gracian
09. Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
- Bertrand Russel
10. Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.
- Warren G. Bennis
11. I’m so miserable without you, it’s almost like you’re here.
- Lorena Miller
12. History is a vast early warning system.
- Norman Cousins
13. The CIA is made up of boys whose families sent them to Princeton but wouldn't let them into the family brokerage business.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
14. Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of the imagination.
- John Dewey
15. He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.
- Tryon Edwards
16. A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me.
- Frederick Douglass
17. Every nation has the government that it deserves.
- Joseph De Maistre
18. He would come in and say he changed his mind -- which was a gilded figure of speech, because he didn't have any.
- Mark Twain
19. I've never been hurt by anything I didn't say.
- Calvin Coolidge
20. Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
- Niels Bohr
21. Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.
- G. K. Chesterton
22. Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.
- Goethe
23. Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.
- Miguel de Cervantes
24. George, Prince of Wales: I’m as happy as a Frenchman who has just invented a pair of self removing trousers!
- Hugh Laurie in "Black Adder"
25. As against having beautiful workshops, studios, etc., one writes best in a cellar on a rainy day.
- Van Wyck Brooks
26. The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play.
- Arnold Joseph Toynbee
27. Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
- Samuel Butler
28. The Lord is NOT my shepherd, because I am not a sheep.
- John Arthur Larson
29. The path of least resistance makes all rivers, and some men, crooked.
- Napoleon Hill
30. Whenever a friend succeeds a little something in me dies.
- Gore Vidal
31. People change and forget to tell each other.
- Lillian Hellman
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