Showing posts with label Andy Rooney. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Andy Rooney. Show all posts

Monday, March 02, 2009

Quotaria

"There's an old saying about those who forget
history. I don't remember it, but it's good."
- Stephen Colbert

"Those who welcome death have
only tried it from the ears up."
- Wilson Mizner

"It's so much easier to suggest solutions when
you don't know too much about the problem."
- Malcolm Forbes

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain
new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.
- Sir William Bragg, British physicist (1862 - 1942)

"Making duplicate copies and computer printouts
of things no one wanted even one of in the first
place is giving America a new sense of purpose."
- Andy Rooney

When one is a stranger to oneself then
one is estranged from others too.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Saturday, September 13, 2008

Quotes

If a man will begin with certainties,
he shall end in doubts; but if he will
be content to begin with doubts he shall
end in certainties.
- Sir Francis Bacon

Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody
I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers.
- Jimmy Breslin

If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were
laid end to end, I wouldn't be a bit surprised.
- Dorothy Parker

The creator of the universe works
in mysterious ways. But he uses a
base ten counting system and likes
round numbers.
- Scott Adams

"Well, if crime fighters fight crime and
fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom
fighters fight? They never mention that
part to us, do they?"
- George Carlin

"Computers make it easier to do a lot of things,
but most of the things they make it easier to do
don't need to be done."
- Andy Rooney