Showing posts with label Euripides. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Euripides. Show all posts

Friday, March 06, 2009

Quotaria

It is a sin to believe in the evil of
others, but it is seldom a mistake.
- H. L. Mencken

Reality is so continuous and pervasive, so solid, impenetrable,
inscrutable, so real, that it is virtually impossible for the mind
to grasp the simple fact that what we call REALITY is an illusion,
a construct, a schema devised by the mind to explain the
phenomenon and mystery of life.
- Floyd Arnold

"There are many questions which fools
can ask that wise men cannot answer.’
- George Polyá
The Irishman's Wish
An Irishman is sitting at the end of a bar. He sees a lamp at the end of the table. He walks down to it and rubs it. Out pops a genie. It says, "I will give you three wishes."

The man thinks awhile. Finally he says, "I want a beer that never is empty."

With that, the genie makes a poof sound and on the bar is a bottle of beer. The Irishman starts drinking it and right before it is gone, it starts to refill. The genie asks about his next two wishes.

The man says, "I want two more of these."

"Prosperity is full of friends."
- Euripides

"The consumer isn't a
moron; she is your wife."
- David Ogilvy

Monday, October 20, 2008

Quotes

"Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture
available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want.
The most terrifying thing is what people do want."
- Clive Barnes

"Everybody believes in something and everybody, by
virtue of the fact that they believe in something,
use that something to support their own existence."
- Frank Zappa

"The man who insists on seeing with perfect
clearness before he decides, never decides."
- Henri-Frédéric Amiel

"Nothing is impossible. Some things
are just less likely than others."
- Jonathan Winters

"I do not want people to be agreeable, as
it saves me the trouble of liking them."
- Jane Austen

"There is just one life
for each of us: our own."
- Euripides

Saturday, October 04, 2008

Quotes - Oneliners

"If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt."
- Dean Martin

Talk low, talk slow, and don't talk too much.
- John Wayne

Crime does not pay...as well as politics.
- Alfred E. Newman

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
- Paul Gauguin

"Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish."
- Euripides