Quotes (#459)

"Music is essentially
useless, as life is."
- George Santayana

"I do not take a single newspaper, nor
read one a month, and I feel myself
infinitely the happier for it."
- Thomas Jefferson

"I owe it all to little
chocolate donuts."
- John Belushi

"The last time anybody made a list of the top
hundred character attributes of New Yorkers,
common sense snuck in at number 79."
- Douglas Adams

"Do you realize if it weren't for Edison
we'd be watching TV by candlelight?"
- Al Boliska

"In heaven all the interesting people are missing."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

Quotes - Favorites

If you can't convince them, confuse them.
- Harry S. Truman

"Truly great madness cannot be achieved
without significant intelligence."
- Henrik Tikkanen

There is no mistaking a real book when one
meets it. It is like falling in love.
- Christopher Morley

Remember tonight... for it
is the beginning of always.
- Dante Alighieri

Time is an illusion.
Lunchtime doubly so.
- Douglas Adams

If knowledge can create problems, it is not
through ignorance that we can solve them.
- Isaac Asimov

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 - Douglas Adams

He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary
genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult
to tell which was which.
- Douglas Adams

"He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife.
Then he realized there was a contradiction involved
here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife."
- Douglas Adams

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President
should on no account be allowed to do the job.
- Douglas Adams

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing
sound they make as they fly by."
- Douglas Adams

The major difference between a thing that might go wrong
and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a
thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually
turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.
- Douglas Adams

Nothing travels faster than the speed of light,
with the possible exception of bad news, which
obeys its own set of laws.
- Douglas Adams

Quotes - Favorites

"When you blame others, you
give up your power to change."
- Robert Anthony

"The earth is like a spaceship that
didn't come with an operating manual."
- R. Buckminster Fuller

"If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he
is fond of you; but if a cat does the same
thing, it is because your lap is warmer."
- Alfred North Whitehead

"The ships hung in the sky in much
the same way that bricks don't."
- Douglas Adams

Count Dracula: Listen to them.
Children of the night.
What music *they* make!
- Dracula (1931)

A wise man gets more use from his enemies
than a fool from his friends.
- Baltasar Gracian

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

Quotaria

‘The trouble with life isn't that there is no
answer, it's that there are so many answers.’
- Ruth Benedict

"The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this
notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be
fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any."
- Russell Baker

"I don't make jokes. I just watch the
government and report the facts."
- Will Rogers

"A James Cagney love scene is one
where he lets the other guy live."
- Bob Hope

"I know I am getting better at golf because
I am hitting fewer spectators."
- Gerald R. Ford

Even he, to whom most things that most
people would think were pretty smart were
pretty dumb, thought it was pretty smart.
- Douglas Adams