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

Quotaria

"Good-bye. I am leaving
because I am bored."
- George Saunders

"Learning to dislike children at an
early age saves a lot of expense and
aggravation later in life."
- Robert Byrne

"Last night somebody broke into my apartment and replaced
everything with exact duplicates... When I pointed it out
to my roommate, he said, 'Do I know you?'"
- Steven Wright

To be content with little is hard;
to be content with much, impossible.
- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

"My loathings are simple: stupidity,
oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music."
- Vladimir Nabokov

"Today you can go to a gas station and find the
cash register open and the toilets locked. They
must think toilet paper is worth more than money."
- Joey Bishop

Quotaria

Programming today is a race between software engineers
striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs,
and the universe trying to build bigger and better idiots.
So far, the universe is winning.
- Robert Cringley

Be nice to people on your way up because
you'll meet 'em on your way down.
- Wilson Mizner

A bus station is where buses stop.
A train station is where trains stop.
On my desk, I have a workstation.
- Jon Wätte

The characteristic of scientific progress
is our knowing that we did not know.
- Gaston Bachelard

Knowing you'll have something
good to read before bed is among
the most pleasurable of sensations.
- Vladimir Nabokov

We make our friends; we make our enemies;
but God makes our next-door neighbour.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton