Showing posts with label Michel de Montaigne. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Michel de Montaigne. Show all posts

Friday, August 07, 2009

Quotaria

"There's no present. There's only the
immediate future and the recent past."
- George Carlin


"My idea of an agreeable person
is a person who agrees with me."
- Benjamin Disraeli

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


"Last week, I went to Philadelphia,
but it was closed."
- W. C. Fields

"Education is what survives when what
has been learned has been forgotten."
- B. F. Skinner


"Success is a journey,
not a destination."
- Ben Sweetland

Saturday, July 04, 2009

Quotes - Favorites

What if nothing exists and we're
all in somebody's dream?
- Woody Allen


"Judge a man by his questions
rather than his answers."
- Voltaire


When an elderly and distinguished scientist tells
you that something is possible, he is very probably
right. When he tells you that something is impossible,
he is very probably wrong.
- Arthur C. Clarke

Nothing endures but change.
- Heraclitus


Things are not bad in themselves,
but our cowardice makes them so.
- Michel de Montaigne


God put me on this earth to accomplish a
certain number of things. Right now I am
so far behind that I will never die.
- Bill Watterson

Thursday, March 19, 2009

Quotaria

Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist.
- Harrison Ford


The young have aspirations that never come to pass,
the old have reminiscences of what never happened.
- Saki

Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for
experiments, and they wander off through equation
after equation, and eventually build a structure
which has no relation to reality.
- Nikola Tesla

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


Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The world is a tragedy to those who
feel, but a comedy to those who think.
- Horace Walpole