Mark Twain - Quote (#564)

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery
of fear - not absence of fear."
- Mark Twain

The holy passion of friendship is so sweet
and steady and loyal and enduring in nature
that it will last through a whole lifetime,
if not asked to lend money.
- Mark Twain

There is nothing so annoying as
to have two people go right on
talking when you're interrupting.
- Mark Twain

"The universal brotherhood of man is our most
precious possession, what there is of it."
- Mark Twain

"Whenever you find that you are on the side
of the majority, it is time to reform."
- Mark Twain

"Just the omission of Jane Austen's books
alone would make a fairly good library out
of a library that hadn't a book in it."
- Mark Twain

Mark Twain - Quote (#563)

"Humor is a good thing. A saving thing."
- Mark Twain

"Often it does seem a pity that Noah
and his party did not miss the boat."
Mark Twain

"The human race has one really effective
weapon, and that is laughter."
- Mark Twain

"Climate is what we expect,
weather is what we get."
- Mark Twain

"He had discovered a great law of human action, without
knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a
boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the
thing difficult to obtain."
- Mark Twain

"Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt."
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)

Quote (#562)

"The trouble with normal
is it always gets worse."
- Bruce Cockburn

"I sang in the choir for years, even though
my family belonged to another church."
- Paul Lynde

"The truth is that many people set
rules to keep from making decisions."
- Mike Krzyzewski

"Did you ever walk into a room and
forget why you walked in? I think
that's how dogs spend their lives."
- Sue Murphy

"The only sure thing about luck
is that it will change."
- Bret Harte

"The way to write American music is simple.
All you have to do is be an American and
then write any kind of music you wish."
- Virgil Thomson

Quote (#561)

"2 is not equal to 3, not even
for large values of 2."
- Grabel's Law

"War is not nice."
- Barbara Bush

"No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his
own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar."
- Donald Foster

"Man forgives woman anything
save the wit to outwit him."
- Minna Thomas Antrim

"There is a coherent plan in the universe,
though I don't know what it's a plan for."
- Fred Hoyle

"A taste for irony has kept more hearts from
breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes
irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself."
- Jessamyn West

Quote (#560)

"My theories appal you, my heresies outrage you, I
never answer letters and you don't like my tie."
- The Doctor, Doctor Who

"You cannot slander human nature; it
is worse than words can paint it."
- Charles Haddon Spurgeon

"Tradition is what you resort to
when you don't have the time or
the money to do it right."
- Kurt Herbert Alder

"Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But
because it sees more, it is willing to see less."
- Rabbi Julius Gordon

"If two men agree on everything, you may be
sure that one of them is doing the thinking."
- Lyndon B. Johnson

"There is an evil tendency underlying all
our technology - the tendency to do what
is reasonable even when it isn't any good."
- Robert Pirsig

Quotaria

"It is not only fine feathers
that make fine birds."
- Aesop

"Music can change the world
because it can change people."
- Bono

"Delusions of grandeur make me
feel a lot better about myself."
- Jane Wagner

"Illegitimacy is something we should
talk about in terms of not having it."
- Dan Quayle

"The opposite of a correct statement is a false
statement. But the opposite of a profound truth
may well be another profound truth."
- Niels Bohr

"Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults
by confessing our parents' shortcomings."
- Laurence J. Peter

Quotes

"Silence is more eloquent than words."
- Thomas Carlyle

"The wisdom of the wise and the experience
of the ages are perpetuated by quotations."
- Benjamin Disraeli

"One is very crazy when in love."
- Sigmund Freud

"I wonder what fool it was
that first invented kissing."
- Jonathan Swift

"A man's kiss is
his signature."
- Mae West

"Love looks through a telescope;
envy, through a microscope."
- Josh Billings

Quotaria

"If two wrongs don't make a right, try three."
- Laurence J. Peter

"There are three classes of
men; lovers of wisdom, lovers
of honor, and lovers of gain."
- Plato

"Entertainment and art are not isolated."
- Martin Kippenberger

"Great art picks up
where nature ends."
- Marc Chagall

"I never believed in Santa Claus
because I knew no white dude would
come into my neighborhood after dark."
- Dick Gregory

"To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading
something worthwhile. The first discipline of
education must therefore be to refuse resolutely
to feed the mind with canned chatter."
- Aleister Crowley

Quotaria - Woody Allen

"It is impossible to travel faster than the
speed of light, and certainly not desirable,
as one's hat keeps blowing off."
- Woody Allen

"Students achieving Oneness
will move on to Twoness."
- Woody Allen

"Organized crime in America takes in over
forty billion dollars a year and spends
very little on office supplies."
- Woody Allen

"Money is better than poverty,
if only for financial reasons."
- Woody Allen

There are two types of people in this world,
good and bad. The good sleep better, but the
bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more.
- Woody Allen

"As the poet said, 'Only God can make a
tree' -- probably because it's so hard
to figure out how to get the bark on."
- Woody Allen

Quotes - Douglas Adams

He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary
genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult
to tell which was which.
- Douglas Adams

"He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife.
Then he realized there was a contradiction involved
here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife."
- Douglas Adams

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President
should on no account be allowed to do the job.
- Douglas Adams

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing
sound they make as they fly by."
- Douglas Adams

The major difference between a thing that might go wrong
and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a
thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually
turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.
- Douglas Adams

Nothing travels faster than the speed of light,
with the possible exception of bad news, which
obeys its own set of laws.
- Douglas Adams

Quotes

"I was so naive as a kid I used to
sneak behind the barn and do nothing."
- Johnny Carson

"If moderation is a fault,
then indifference is a crime."
- Jack Kerouac

"I used to jog but the ice cubes
kept falling out of my glass."
- David Lee Roth

"I have a rock garden. Last
week three of them died."
- Richard Diran

"I never did give them hell. I just told
the truth, and they thought it was hell."
- Harry S Truman

"Arithmetic is being able to count up
to twenty without taking off your shoes."
- Mickey Mouse

Quotaria

"If voting changed anything,
they'd make it illegal."
- Emma Goldman

"Your life story would not make
a good book. Don't even try."
- Fran Lebowitz

Women complain about premenstrual syndrome,
but I think of it as the only time of the
month that I can be myself.
- Roseanne

When it's a question of money,
everybody is of the same religion.
- Voltaire

You can't say that civilization don't
advance, however, for in every war
they kill you in a new way.
- Will Rogers

No one can have a higher opinion
of him than I have, and I think
he's a dirty little beast.
- W. S. Gilbert

Quotes

"Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and
privilege of the learned. A widely- read
man never quotes accurately, for the rather
obvious reason that he has read too widely."
- Hesketh Pearson

"A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought,
and then be welcomed only for some propriety of
felicity justifying the intrusion."
- Robert Chapman

All love that has not friendship for its base,
is like a mansion built upon sand.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, O Magazine, February 2004

"God, I can push the grass apart
and lay my finger on Thy heart."
- Edna St. Vincent Millay

"A little government and a little luck
are necessary in life, but only a fool
trusts either of them."
- P. J. O'Rourke

"When you encounter seemingly good
advice that contradicts other seemingly
good advice, ignore them both."
- Al Franken

Quotaria

"I can't understand it. I can't
even understand the people who
can understand it."
- Queen Juliana

"You can pretend to be serious; you
can't pretend to be witty."
Sacha Guitry

"Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced,
not because it has been sober, responsible,
and cautious, but because it has been playful,
rebellious, and immature."
- Tom Robbins

A girl's legs are her best friends...
but even the best of friends must part.
- Redd Foxx

This is the big one! You hear that, Elizabeth?
I'm coming to join ya, honey!
- Redd Foxx

Nothing so fortifies a friendship as
a belief on the part of one friend
that he is superior to the other.
- Honore de Balzac

Quotes

"The Internet is a telephone
system that's gotten uppity."
- Clifford Stoll

"The less you talk, the
more you're listened to."
- Abigail Van Buren

"What we become depends on what we read
after all of the professors have finished
with us. The greatest university of all
is a collection of books."
- Thomas Carlyle

"There are three constants in life...
change, choice and principles."
- Stephen Covey

All power corrupts, but
we need electricity."
- Diana Wynne Jones

The more the fruits of knowledge become
accessible to men, the more widespread
is the decline of religious belief.
- Sigmund Freud

Quotaria

I object to violence because when it appears
to do good, the good is only temporary; the
evil it does is permanent.
- Mahatma Gandhi

"The ability to delude yourself may
be an important survival tool."
- Jane Wagner

"Memory is more indelible than ink."
- Anita Loos

"When a person can no longer laugh at himself,
it is time for others to laugh at him."
- Thomas Szasz

"I don't deserve this award, but I have
arthritis and I don't deserve that either."
- Jack Benny

"In America, through pressure of conformity, there
is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from."
- Peter Ustinov

Quotes

Although prepared for martyrdom,
I preferred that it be postponed.
- Sir Winston Churchill

A citizen of America will cross the ocean
to fight for democracy, but won't cross
the street to vote in a national election.
- Bill Vaughan

"If God wanted us to fly, He
would have given us tickets."
- Mel Brooks

I was always taught to respect my elders
and I've now reached the age when I
don't have anybody to respect.
- George Burns

Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after
they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.
- Alan Corenk

If you think you can do a thing or think
you can't do a thing, you're right.
- Henry Ford

Quotes

"In all recorded history there has not been
one economist who has had to worry about
where the next meal would come from."
- Peter Drucker

"I am no more humble than
my talents require."
- Oscar Levant

"There are more fools in the
world than there are people."
- Heinrich Heine

"The reason there is so little crime in
Germany is that it's against the law."
- Alex Levin

"'Who are you and how did you get in here?'
'I'm a locksmith. And, I'm a locksmith.'"
- Leslie Nielsen

"Great artists suffer for the people."
- Marvin Gaye

Quotaria

"There's no present. There's only the
immediate future and the recent past."
- George Carlin

"My idea of an agreeable person
is a person who agrees with me."
- Benjamin Disraeli

"No man is exempt from saying silly things;
the mischief is to say them deliberately."
- Michel de Montaigne

"Last week, I went to Philadelphia,
but it was closed."
- W. C. Fields

"Education is what survives when what
has been learned has been forgotten."
- B. F. Skinner

"Success is a journey,
not a destination."
- Ben Sweetland

Quotes

"Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's
nut, that held its ground."
- David Icke

"Confidence is contagious.
So is lack of confidence."
- Vince Lombardi

Courage is the virtue which
champions the cause of right
- Cicero

Do what you can, with what
you have, where you are.
- Theodore Roosevelt

Wheresoever you go, go
with all your heart
- Confucius

"We know the road to freedom has
always been stalked by death."
- Angela Davis