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"The object of war is not to die for your country,
but to make the other bastard die for his."
- General George Patton (1885-1945)

"It is better to be feared than
loved, if you cannot be both."
- Niccolo Machiavelli

"When a man is wrapped up in himself
he makes a pretty small package."
- John Ruskin (1819-1900)

"I choose a block of marble and
chop off whatever I don’t need."
- Rodin

"Copy from one, it’s plagiarism;
copy from two, it’s research."
- Wilson Mizner

"University politics are vicious precisely
because the stakes are so small."
- Henry Kissinger

Quotes - Favorites

"A billion here and a billion there, and
soon you're talking about real money."
- Everett Dirksen

"There cannot be a crisis next week.
My schedule is already full."
- Henry A. Kissinger

"There is nothing on this earth more
to be prized than true friendship."
- Saint Thomas Aquinas

"In order to succeed, your desire for success
should be greater than your fear of failure."
- Bill Cosby

"Life is like a trumpet - if you
don't put anything into it, you
don't get anything out of it."
- William Christopher Handy

"The easiest kind of relationship
for me is with ten thousand people.
The hardest is with one."
- Joan Baez

Quotes

"There's no secret about success.
Did you ever know a successful man
who didn't tell you about it?"
- Kin Hubbard

"It is hard enough to remember my opinions,
without also remembering my reasons for them!"
- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Always get married early in the morning.
That way, if it doesn't work out, you
haven't wasted a whole day."
- Mickey Rooney

"Adopted kids are such a pain - you have
to teach them how to look like you."
- Gilda Radner

"Health food makes me sick."
- Calvin Trillin

"The absence of alternatives
clears the mind marvelously."
- Henry Kissinger

Quotaria

"Doing is a quantum leap
from imagining."
- Barbara Sher

"The nice thing about being a celebrity
is that when you bore people, they think
it's their fault."
- Henry Kissinger

"We are going to have peace even
if we have to fight for it."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

"Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog;
fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the
wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion."
- Robertson Davies

"Competence, like truth, beauty and contact
lenses, is in the eye of the beholder."
- Laurence J. Peter

"Things are only impossible
until they're not."
- Jean-Luc Picard

Quotes

Mignon McLaughlin
"No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why."

Henry Kissinger
Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

Bob Marley
"Don't gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold."

Tom Lehrer
"On my income tax 1040 it says 'Check this box if you are blind.' I wanted to put a check mark about three inches away."

Charlie Chaplin
"All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl."

Dennis Miller
"We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head."

Quotes

Marvin Minsky
"Imagine what it would be like if TV actually were good. It would be the end of everything we know."

Sir William Osler
"The desire to take medicine is perhaps the greatest feature which distinguishes man from animals."

Ann Landers
"Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other."

Robert Jackson
"The price of freedom of religion, or of speech, or of the press, is that we must put up with a good deal of rubbish."

Ken Venturi
"1. Never tell everything at once."

Henry Kissinger
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Quotes

George Burns
"Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city."

Henry A. Kissinger
"Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation."

Pliny the Elder
"In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain."

Michael Korda
"The more you can dream, the more you can do."

Heather Armstrong
"People often write me and ask how I keep my wood floors so clean when I live with a child and a dog, and my answer is that I use a technique called Suffering From a Mental Illness."

Louis Pasteur
"There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science."