Showing posts with label Jonathan Swift. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jonathan Swift. Show all posts

Sunday, September 06, 2009

Quotes

"Silence is more eloquent than words."
- Thomas Carlyle

"The wisdom of the wise and the experience
of the ages are perpetuated by quotations."
- Benjamin Disraeli

"One is very crazy when in love."
- Sigmund Freud


"I wonder what fool it was
that first invented kissing."
- Jonathan Swift

"A man's kiss is
his signature."
- Mae West

"Love looks through a telescope;
envy, through a microscope."
- Josh Billings

Wednesday, September 02, 2009

Favorite Quotes

Grown men may learn from very little children,
for the hearts of little children are pure,
and, therefore, the Great Spirit may show
to them many things which older people miss.
- Nicholas Black Elk [Hehaka Sapa]

Books, the children of the brain.
- "A Tale of a Tub, Sec. 1" (1704), Jonathan Swift

O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend
The brightest heaven of invention!
A kingdom for a stage, princes to act,
And monarchs to behold the swelling scene!
- "Henry V" by William Shakespeare

Abu: Does the world have a roof?
Genie: Of course! Supported by seven pillars, and
the seven pillars are set on the shoulders of a genie
whose strength is beyond thought, and the genie
stands on an eagle, and the eagle on a bull, and the
bull on a fish, and the fish swims in the sea of eternity.
- Thief of Bagdad

MacGyver: The great thing about a map: it gets you
in and out of places in a lot of different ways.
- MacGyver (Episode: The Gauntlet)

Thunder rolled. ... It rolled a six.
- Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Quotes - PBF2B

"Early morning cheerfulness
can be extremely obnoxious."
- William Feather

"You are only as smart as your questions
and as dumb as your answers."
- Allen Wolff


The more laws and order are made
prominent, The more thieves and
robbers there will be.
- Lao-Tzu


"You wouldn't have won
if we'd beaten you."
- Yogi Berra


When we lose the right to be different,
we lose the privilege to be free.
- Charles Evans Hughes

"He was a bold man who
first ate an oyster."
- Jonathan Swift

Friday, April 03, 2009

Quotes

"I read part of it
all the way through."
- Samuel Goldwyn

"Words are but wind; and learning is nothing
but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind."
- Jonathan Swift


"Miracles are not contrary to nature, but
only contrary to what we know about nature."
- Saint Augustine

"The earth is the mother of all people, and
all people should have equal rights upon it."
- Chief Joseph


"I shot an arrow into
the air, and it stuck."
- Graffito

"The two most common elements in the
universe are Hydrogen and stupidity."
- Harlan Ellison

Wednesday, September 03, 2008

Quotes - Oneliners

"Facts are stupid things."
- Ronald Reagan

He who can does - he who cannot, teaches.
- George Bernard Shaw

"May you live every day of your life."
-Jonathan Swift

"The essence of pleasure is spontaneity."
- Germaine Greer

Love is a quality, not a quantity.
- Vanna Bonta

"What's another word for Thesaurus?"
- Steven Wright