Quotaria - Favorites

There's always somebody who is paid
too much, and taxed too little - and
it's always somebody else.
- Cullen Hightower

"First get your facts; then you
can distort them at your leisure."
- Mark Twain

Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange
and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and
some folks have half a one for breakfast.
- Douglas Adams

The universe is full of magical things patiently
waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
- Eden Phillpotts

All great truths begin as blasphemies.
- George Bernard Shaw

You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream
things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"
- George Bernard Shaw

Quotes

"Nobody sees a flower really; it is so
small. We haven't time, and to see takes
time - like to have a friend takes time."
- Georgia O'Keeffe

"If little else, the brain
is an educational toy."
- Tom Robbins

"I've got to keep breathing. It'll be
my worst business mistake if I don't."
- Steve Martin

"Those who agree with us may not be right,
but we admire their astuteness."
- Cullen Hightower

"The word 'meaningful' when used today
is nearly always meaningless."
- Paul Johnson

"If the automobile had followed the same development
cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost
$100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once
a year, killing everyone inside."
- Robert X. Cringely

Quotaria

"Education is the transmission
of civilization."
- Will Durant

"I love being a writer. What I
can't stand is the paperwork."
- Peter De Vries

"Wisdom is what's left after we've
run out of personal opinions."
- Cullen Hightower

"Newspapermen learn to call a murderer
'an alleged murderer' and the King of
England 'the alleged King of England'
to avoid libel suits."
- Stephen Leacock

"He taught me housekeeping; when
I divorce I keep the house."
- Zsa Zsa Gabor

"All the rivers run into the
sea; yet the sea is not full."
- King Solomon