Showing posts with label Stephen Leacock. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stephen Leacock. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

Quotaria

"I have never met a man so ignorant that
I couldn't learn something from him."
- Galileo Galilei


"I detest life-insurance agents; they always argue
that I shall some day die, which is not so."
- Stephen Leacock

"Indecision may or may
not be my problem."
- Jimmy Buffett

"My Father had a profound influence
on me, he was a lunatic."
- Spike Milligan

"A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience,
loyalty, and the importance of turning around
three times before lying down."
- Robert Benchley

"Here's a rule I recommend: Never
practice two vices at once."
- Tallulah Bankhead

Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Quotes

"There is nothing more likely to
start disagreement among people
or countries than an agreement."
- E. B. White

"The shortest way to do many things
is to do only one thing at once."
- Samuel Smiles


Advertising may be described as the science of arresting
human intelligence long enough to get money from it.
- Stephen Leacock

I'm not normally a religious man, but if
you're up there, save me, Superman!
- Homer Simpson

"The breaking of a wave cannot
explain the whole sea."
- Vladimir Nabokov


Whatever happens, whatever
comes, know that I love you.
- Beauty and the Beast

Monday, March 02, 2009

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