Quotes

Although prepared for martyrdom,
I preferred that it be postponed.
- Sir Winston Churchill

A citizen of America will cross the ocean
to fight for democracy, but won't cross
the street to vote in a national election.
- Bill Vaughan

"If God wanted us to fly, He
would have given us tickets."
- Mel Brooks

I was always taught to respect my elders
and I've now reached the age when I
don't have anybody to respect.
- George Burns

Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after
they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.
- Alan Corenk

If you think you can do a thing or think
you can't do a thing, you're right.
- Henry Ford

Quotaria

Remember what is unbecoming to do
is also unbecoming to speak of.
- Socrates

Light travels faster than sound
so some people appear bright
until you hear them speak.
- Joe Messmore

I love Thanksgiving turkey...it's the only time
in Los Angeles that you see natural breasts.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger

Money won't buy happiness, but it will
pay the salaries of a large research
staff to study the problem.
- Bill Vaughan

"I was going to buy a book on hair loss,
but the pages kept falling out."
- Jay London

"There is nothing more
uncommon than common sense."
- Frank Lloyd Wright

Quotaria

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think,
every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every
day, something no one else would be silly enough to do.
It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.
- Christopher Morley

It seems like once people grow up,
they have no idea what's cool.
- Bill Watterson

"Play: Work that you enjoy
doing for nothing."
- Evan Esar

"If you make people think they're thinking,
they'll love you; But if you really make
them think, they'll hate you."
- Don Marquis

"We learn something every day,
and lots of times it's that what
we learned the day before was wrong."
- Bill Vaughan

"Politics is the skilled
use of blunt objects."
- Lester B. Pearson

Quotes

"Suburbia is where the developer
bulldozes out the trees, then
names the streets after them."
- Bill Vaughan

"Man never made any material as
resilient as the human spirit."
- Bern Williams

Lost time is never found again.
Benjamin Franklin

The difference between fiction and reality
is that fiction has to make sense.
- Tom Clancy

Real children don't go hoppity-skip
unless they are on drugs
- Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

Before you embark on a journey
of revenge, dig two graves.
- Confucius

Quotaria

"The beginning of knowledge is the discovery
of something we do not understand."
- Frank Herbert

"If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than
a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't
conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity."
- Bill Vaughan

"Golf is played by twenty million mature American
men whose wives think they are out having fun."
- Jim Bishop

There is no gravity. The earth sucks.
- Graf Fito

In the land of the blind, the
one-eyed man is stoned to death.
- Joan D. Vinge

"War is a series of catastrophes
that results in a victory."
- Georges Clemenceau

Quotaria

"You know more than
you think you do."
- Benjamin Spock

"The tax collector must love poor people,
he's creating so many of them."
- Bill Vaughan

"Give me golf clubs, fresh air and
a beautiful partner, and you can
keep the clubs and the fresh air."
- Jack Benny

"Men stumble over pebbles,
never over mountains."
- Marilyn French

"If people think nature is their friend,
then they sure don't need an enemy."
- Kurt Vonnegut

"We can have facts without thinking but
we cannot have thinking without facts."
- John Dewey

Quotaria

"God runs electromagnetics by wave theory on Monday,
Wednesday, and Friday, and the Devil runs them by
quantum theory on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday."
- Sir William Bragg

"A lawn is nature under
totalitarian rule."
- Michael Pollan

"If man doesn't learn to treat the oceans and the
rain forest with respect, man will become extinct."
- Peter Benchley

I have no witty remarks or quotes to share at the moment.
- unknown

"Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out
the trees, then names the streets after them."
- Bill Vaughan

Courage is the art of being the only one
who knows you're scared to death.
- Harold Wilson