Quotes (#461)

"My definition of an expert in any field
is a person who knows enough about what's
really going on to be scared."
- P. J. Plauger

"Idealism is what precedes experience;
cynicism is what follows."
- David T. Wolf

"When I read about the evils of
drinking, I gave up reading."
- Henny Youngman

"No one means all he says, and yet
very few say all they mean, for words
are slippery and thought is viscous."
- Henry Adams

"Illusion is the first
of all pleasures."
- Oscar Wilde

"Everybody hates me because
I'm so universally liked."
- Peter de Vries

Quotes

It is much more comfortable to be mad and know
it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.
- G.B. Burgin

I do not consider it an insult, but rather a
compliment to be called anagnostic. I do not
pretend to know where many ignorant men are
sure--that is all that agnosticism means.
- Clarence Darrow

If you haven't got anything nice to say
about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth

I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
- Robert J. Oppenheimer

"My father hated radio and could not
wait for television to be invented so
he could hate that too."
- Peter De Vries

The President has kept all of the
promises he intended to keep.
- George Stephanopolous

Quotaria

"Education is the transmission
of civilization."
- Will Durant

"I love being a writer. What I
can't stand is the paperwork."
- Peter De Vries

"Wisdom is what's left after we've
run out of personal opinions."
- Cullen Hightower

"Newspapermen learn to call a murderer
'an alleged murderer' and the King of
England 'the alleged King of England'
to avoid libel suits."
- Stephen Leacock

"He taught me housekeeping; when
I divorce I keep the house."
- Zsa Zsa Gabor

"All the rivers run into the
sea; yet the sea is not full."
- King Solomon

Quotes

"I write down everything I want to remember. That
way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to
remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time
looking for the paper I wrote it down on."
- Beryl Pfizer

"The murals in restaurants are
on par with the food in museums."
- Peter De Vries

"We don't see things as they
are, we see things as we are."
- Anais Nin

"Time will bring to light whatever is hidden; it will
cover up and conceal what is now shining in splendor."
- Horace (65 - 8 BC); Roman poet.

"I bought some batteries,
but they weren't included."
- Steven Wright

"Do not condemn the judgement of another because
it differs from your own. You may both be wrong."
- Dandemis

Quotes

My grandfather once told me that there were two
kinds of people: those who do the work and those
who take the credit. He told me to try to be in
the first group; there was much less competition.
- Indira Gandhi

A leader must have the courage to
act against an expert's advice.
~ James Callaghan

He's turned his life around. He used
to be depressed and miserable. Now
he's miserable and depressed.
- David Frost

The most wasted of all days
is one without laughter.
- E E Cummings

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.
- Katharine Hepburn

Life is a zoo in a jungle.
- Peter De Vries