Quote (#573)

"We are here to add what we can to life,
not to get what we can from life."
- William Osler

"The right to swing my fist ends
where the other man’s nose begins."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841-1935)

"The Romans would never have found time to conquer the
world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin."
- Heinrich Heine

"I respect faith, but doubt is
what gets you an education."
- Wilson Mizner

"Never ascribe to malice that which can
adequately be explained by incompetence."
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

"If Stupidity got us into this mess,
then why can’t it get us out?"
- Will Rogers (1879-1935)

Quote (#559)

"The object of war is not to die for your country,
but to make the other bastard die for his."
- General George Patton (1885-1945)

"It is better to be feared than
loved, if you cannot be both."
- Niccolo Machiavelli

"When a man is wrapped up in himself
he makes a pretty small package."
- John Ruskin (1819-1900)

"I choose a block of marble and
chop off whatever I don’t need."
- Rodin

"Copy from one, it’s plagiarism;
copy from two, it’s research."
- Wilson Mizner

"University politics are vicious precisely
because the stakes are so small."
- Henry Kissinger

Quote (#553)

Some people are like a callus; they always
show up when the work is finished.
- Anonymous

"Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot
live without and know we cannot live within."
- James A. Baldwin

"I'm afraid that if you look at a thing
long enough, it loses all of its meaning."
- Andy Warhol

The difference between ordinary and
extraordinary is that little extra.
- Anonymous

"That's the motivation
of an artist - to seek
attention of some kind."
- James Taylor

"A good listener is not only popular everywhere,
but after a while he gets to know something."
- Wilson Mizner

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

Quotaria

"There's an old saying about those who forget
history. I don't remember it, but it's good."
- Stephen Colbert

"Those who welcome death have
only tried it from the ears up."
- Wilson Mizner

"It's so much easier to suggest solutions when
you don't know too much about the problem."
- Malcolm Forbes

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain
new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.
- Sir William Bragg, British physicist (1862 - 1942)

"Making duplicate copies and computer printouts
of things no one wanted even one of in the first
place is giving America a new sense of purpose."
- Andy Rooney

When one is a stranger to oneself then
one is estranged from others too.
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Quotes

"To my embarrassment I was
born in bed with a lady."
- Wilson Mizner

"Drive-in banks were established so most of
the cars today could see their real owners."
- E. Joseph Cossman

"We are an impossibility in
an impossible universe."
- Ray Bradbury

"Write to be understood,
speak to be heard,
read to grow."
- Lawrence Clark Powell

"A man thinks that by mouthing hard
words he understands hard things."
- Herman Melville

"I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward
more freedom and democracy - but that could change."
- Dan Quayle

Quotaria

Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my
own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem
mild, harmless, rather engaging little things,
not at all like the staring defects in other
people's characters.
- Margaret Halsey

Life's a tough proposition, and the
first hundred years are the hardest.
- Wilson Mizner

Ours is the age that is proud of machines that
think and suspicious of men who try to.
- H. Mumford Jones

Preserving health by too severe
a rule is a worrisome malady.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

She was a woman who, between courses, could
be graceful with her elbows on the table.
- Henry James

"No winter lasts forever;
no spring skips its turn."
- Hal Borland

Quotes - Oneliner

The best way out is always through.
- Robert Frost

"Only fools are positive."
- Moe Howard

I fight on, I fight to win.
- Margaret Thatcher

God help those who do not help themselves.
- Wilson Mizner

I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
- WC Fields

Life is a long lesson in humility.
- James M. Barrie

Quotes

"After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers,
he had decided to write for Posterity."
- George Ade

"A fellow who is always declaring he's
no fool usually has his suspicions."
- Wilson Mizner

"It's a lot like nature. You only have as
many animals as the ecosystem can support
and you only have as many friends as you
can tolerate the bitching of."
- Randy K. Milholland

"An epigram often flashes light into
regions where reason shines but dimly."
- Edwin P. Whipple

We must use time creatively and forever realize
that the time is always ripe to do right.
- Nelson Mandela

Reflective thinking turns
experience into insight
- John Maxwell