Showing posts with label Harry S. Truman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Harry S. Truman. Show all posts

Friday, August 28, 2009

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

Friday, August 14, 2009

Quotes

"I was so naive as a kid I used to
sneak behind the barn and do nothing."
- Johnny Carson

"If moderation is a fault,
then indifference is a crime."
- Jack Kerouac


"I used to jog but the ice cubes
kept falling out of my glass."
- David Lee Roth

"I have a rock garden. Last
week three of them died."
- Richard Diran


"I never did give them hell. I just told
the truth, and they thought it was hell."
- Harry S Truman

"Arithmetic is being able to count up
to twenty without taking off your shoes."
- Mickey Mouse

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

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Quotes

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a
very good plan; you should wear it inside,
where it functions best.
- Margaret Thatcher

Our greatest glory is not in never falling,
but in getting up every time we do.
- Confucius


"America forms the longest and straightest
bone in the earth's skeleton."
- Ellsworth Huntington

"All the President is, is a glorified public
relations man who spends his time flattering,
kissing and kicking people to get them to do
what they are supposed to do anyway."
- Harry S Truman

"The only really good place to buy lumber is at
a store where the lumber has already been cut and
attached together in the form of furniture, finished,
and put inside boxes."
- Dave Barry

"You must not think me necessarily foolish
because I am facetious, nor will I consider
you necessarily wise because you are grave."
- Sydney Smith

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Quotes

"Life being what it is,
one dreams of revenge."
- Paul Gauguin

"It is amazing what you can accomplish
if you do not care who gets the credit."
- Harry S Truman


"My life is like a zombie movie! I survive
game after game after game, but the football
just keeps coming! The only way to stop team
sports is to aim for the head."
- Matt Milby

"The greatest mistake is trying to
be more agreeable than you can be."
- Walter Bagehot

"A chess genius is a human being who focuses
vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors
on an ultimately trivial human enterprise."
- George Steiner

"Nobody talks so constantly about God as
those who insist that there is no God."
- Heywood Broun