Showing posts with label Charles M. Schulz. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Charles M. Schulz. Show all posts

Saturday, July 04, 2009

Quotes

Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow
I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so
little hope for advancement.
- Charles M. Schulz


Whenever you have an efficient
government you have a dictatorship.
- Harry S Truman

You know that children are growing
up when they start asking questions
that have answers.
- John J. Plomp

Consider your origins: you were
not made to live as brutes, but
to follow virtue and knowledge.
- Dante Alighieri

The future belongs to those who believe
in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for
you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if
you do, and damned if you don't.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Friday, July 03, 2009

Quotes

We should behave to our friends as we
would wish our friends to behave to us.
- Aristotle


You've got to get to the stage in
life where going for it is more
important than winning or losing.
- Arthur Ashe

Don't cross your bridges until you get to
them. We spend our lives defeating ourselves
crossing bridges we never get to.
- Bob Bales


It is easy to take notice. What is difficult
is getting up and taking action.
- Al Batt

You got to be careful if you don't
know where you're going, because
you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra

I have a new philosophy. I'm only
going to dread one day at a time.
- Charles M. Schulz

Wednesday, May 06, 2009

Quotes

"Fortune favors the prepared mind."
- Louis Pasteur

A common mistake that people make when trying
to design something completely foolproof is to
underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
- Douglas Adams


"I love mankind; it's
people I can't stand."
- Charles M. Schulz

"A thinker sees his own actions as experiments
and questions--as attempts to find out something.
Success and failure are for him answers above all."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Never let your sense of morals get
in the way of doing what's right."
- Isaac Asimov


"I never know how much
of what I say is true."
- Bette Midler

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Quotes

"There are three rules for writing the novel.
Unfortunately, no one knows what they are."
- W. Somerset Maugham


"I've done the calculation and your
chances of winning the lottery are
identical whether you play or not."
- Fran Lebowitz

"An economist is a man who states the
obvious in terms of the incomprehensible."
- Alfred A. Knopf

"That's the secret to life...
replace one worry with another...."
- Charles M. Schulz

"Old age is the most unexpected of
things that can happen to a man."
- Leon Trotsky

"A man is rich in proportion to the number
of things he can afford to let alone."
- Henry David Thoreau

Quotaria

"We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance
planet: and, amid all the forms of life that
surround us, not one, excepting the dog, has
made an alliance with us."
- Maurice Maeterlinck


"This is like deja vu
all over again."
- Yogi Berra

"All you need is love. But a little
chocolate now and then doesn't hurt."
- Charles M. Schulz


"The world is always in movement."
- V. S. Naipaul


"The only function of economic forecasting
is to make astrology look respectable."
- John Kenneth Galbraith

"The maxims of men reveal their characters."
- Luc de Clapier

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Quotaria

"Destiny is not a matter of chance;
it is a matter of choice. It is not
something to be waited for; but,
rather something to be achieved."
- William Jennings Bryan

"If God wanted us to bend over
he'd put diamonds on the floor."
- Joan Rivers

"Never does nature say one
thing and wisdom another."
- Juvenal

"Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth
it to gnaw through the leather straps."
- Emo Phillips

"Don't worry about the world coming to an end
today. It's already tomorrow in Australia."
- Charles M. Schulz

"Where humor is concerned there are
no standards - no one can say what
is good or bad, although you can
be sure that everyone will."
- John Kenneth Galbraith

Sunday, September 14, 2008

Quotes

Charles M. Schulz
"Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, "Where have I gone wrong?"/ Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than one night.""

Kevin Rose
"I don't care what it is, when it has an LCD screen, it makes it better."

Daniel Webster
"The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it."

Mike Ditka
"If God had wanted man to play soccer, he wouldn't have given us arms."

Edward Bulwer-Lytton
"Talent does what it can; genius does what it must."

Malcolm Forbes
"Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one."