Sunday, August 9, 2009

Some quotes that I've accumulated:

Some quotes that I've accumulated:

"No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous."
~ Henry Adams

"Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an art."
~ Charles McCabe

"No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately."
~ Michel de Montaigne

"An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it."
~ Laurence J. Peter

"Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn."
~ C. S. Lewis

"Furious activity is no substitute for understanding."
~ H. H. Williams

"A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool."
~ William Shakespeare

"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."
~ Edgar Allan Poe

"When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him."
~ Thomas Szasz

"I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow."
~ Woodrow Wilson

"When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it."
~ Bernard Bailey

"Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible."
~ Frank Moore Colby

"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve."
~ Bilbo Baggins

"Try to learn something about everything and everything about something."
~ Thomas H. Huxley

"Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand."
~ Putt's Law

"If you're not scared or angry at the thought of a human brain being controlled remotely, then it could be this prototype of mine is finally starting to work."
~ John Alejandro King

"He who builds a better mousetrap these days runs into material shortages, patent-infringement suits, work stoppages, collusive bidding, discount discrimination - and taxes."
~ H. E. Martz

"If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten."
~ George Carlin

"Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist."
~George Carlin

"Chi son? Sono un poeta. Che cosa faccio? Scrivo. E come vivo? Vivo."
(Who am I? I am a poet. What do I do? I write. And how do I live? I live.)
~ Puccini

"Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself."
~ Jane Wagner

"Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it."
~ Ronald Reagan

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