Quotes (#481)

"A poet who reads his verse in public
may have other nasty habits."
- Robert Heinlein

The most valuable of all talents is that
of never using two words when one will do.
- Thomas Jefferson

Greater love hath no man than this, that
a man lay down his life for his friends.
- Jesus Christ

There can be no friendship
without confidence, and no
confidence without integrity.
- Samuel Johnson

"Don't forget Mother's Day. Or
as they call it in Beverly Hills,
Dad's Third Wife Day."
- Jay Leno

"Vote for the man who promises least;
he'll be the least disappointing."
- Bernard Baruch

Quotaria - Favorites

No matter how busy you may think you are,
you must find time for reading, or surrender
yourself to self-chosen ignorance.
- Confucius

"Women who seek to be equal
with men lack ambition."
- Timothy Leary

Always listen to experts. They'll tell you
what can't be done and why. Then do it.
- Robert A. Heinlein

"Not only is the universe stranger
than we imagine, it is stranger
than we can imagine."
- Sir Arthur Eddington

You are never given a wish without also
being given the power to make it true.
- Richard Bach

"Argument is meant to reveal the
truth, not to create it."
- Edward de Bono

Quotaria - Oneliners

"A poem is never finished, only abandoned."
- Paul Valery

"Gray skies are just clouds passing over."
- Duke Ellington

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
- Colin Greene

God's finger touched him, and he slept.
—Alfred, Lord Tennyson

A motion to adjourn is always in order.
- Robert Heinlein

Quotes

"The less you know, the
more you believe."
- Bono

"Three minutes thought would suffice to
find this out; but thought is irksome
and three minutes is a long time."
- A.E. Houseman

"When action grows unprofitable, gather information;
when information grows unprofitable, sleep."
- Ursula K. LeGuin

"The supreme irony of life is that
hardly anyone gets out of it alive."
- Robert Heinlein

"Somewhere, for everyone, there is that person, who,
inside their mind, carries the memories of a person's
soul so that they might never be forgotten, and in that,
we are all immortal."
- Julie Randolph

"With doubt and dismay you are smitten,
You think that there's no chance for you, son?
Why the best books haven't been written,
The best race hasn't been run."
- Berton Braley