Quotes

"There's no secret about success.
Did you ever know a successful man
who didn't tell you about it?"
- Kin Hubbard

"It is hard enough to remember my opinions,
without also remembering my reasons for them!"
- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Always get married early in the morning.
That way, if it doesn't work out, you
haven't wasted a whole day."
- Mickey Rooney

"Adopted kids are such a pain - you have
to teach them how to look like you."
- Gilda Radner

"Health food makes me sick."
- Calvin Trillin

"The absence of alternatives
clears the mind marvelously."
- Henry Kissinger

Quotes

When they call the roll in the Senate, the
Senators do not know whether to answer
'Present' or 'Not guilty.'
- Theodore Roosevelt

"I'm about to write you a reality check! Or would
you prefer the cold, hard cash of truth?"
- the Tick

The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things
to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control,
genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry
and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
- Lewis Thomas

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to
lose sight of their objects than love.
- George Eliot

"The most remarkable thing about my mother is
that for thirty years she served the family
nothing but leftovers. The original meal has
never been found."
- Calvin Trillin

"The most overlooked advantage to owning a
computer is that if they foul up there's no
law against wacking them around a little."
- Joe Martin

Quotes

Americans will put up with anything
provided it doesn't block traffic.
- Dan Rather

"I have as much privacy
as a goldfish in a bowl."
- Princess Margaret

"Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment
of our intelligence by means of language."
- Ludwig Wittgenstein

Anybody caught selling macrame in public should
be dyed a natural color and hung out to dry.
- Calvin Trillin

Between two evils, I always pick
the one I never tried before.
- Mae West

Don't bother just to be better than
your contemporaries or predecessors.
Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner