Showing posts with label Walter Bagehot. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Walter Bagehot. Show all posts

Friday, October 30, 2009

Quote (#549)

"You know you're getting old when you stoop
to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else
you could do while you're down there."
- George Burns

"What I look forward to is continued
immaturity followed by death."
- Dave Barry

"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's
the transition that's troublesome."
- Isaac Asimov

"Youth is the gift of nature,
but age is a work of art."
- Stanislaw Lec

"It is good to be without vices, but it
is not good to be without temptations."
- Walter Bagehot

"A life of pleasure makes even the
strongest mind frivolous at last."
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Wednesday, April 01, 2009

Quotaria - PBF2B

"The reason why so few good books are written
is that so few people who can write know anything."
- Walter Bagehot


"Cross country skiing is great
if you live in a small country."
- Steven Wright

"On earth there is no heaven,
but there are pieces of it."
- Jules Renard

"Every drop in the ocean counts."
- Yoko Ono

"Order is power."
- Henri-Frédéric Amiel


There are no passengers on Spaceship
Earth. We are all crew.
- Marshall McLuhan

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Quotes

"Life being what it is,
one dreams of revenge."
- Paul Gauguin

"It is amazing what you can accomplish
if you do not care who gets the credit."
- Harry S Truman


"My life is like a zombie movie! I survive
game after game after game, but the football
just keeps coming! The only way to stop team
sports is to aim for the head."
- Matt Milby

"The greatest mistake is trying to
be more agreeable than you can be."
- Walter Bagehot

"A chess genius is a human being who focuses
vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors
on an ultimately trivial human enterprise."
- George Steiner

"Nobody talks so constantly about God as
those who insist that there is no God."
- Heywood Broun

Saturday, February 14, 2009

Quotaria

"You are the only person on
earth who can use your ability."
- M. Kathleen Casey

"You can be a rank insider
as well as a rank outsider."
- Robert Frost

"You get what you put in, and
people get what they deserve."
- Kid Rock

A paranoid is someone who knows
a little of what's going on.
- William S. Burroughs

"And remember, no matter where
you go, there you are."
- Earl Mac Rauch

"The greatest pleasure in life is doing
what people say you cannot do"
- Walter Bagehot