I collect quotes.
"Education is an admirable thing. But it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught." --Oscar Wilde
"If you understand, things are as they are. If you do not understand, things are as they are." --Gensha, Zen Master
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called reseaarch, would it?" --Albert Einstein
"A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes." --Hugh Downs
"You don't drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there." --Edwin Louis Cole
"If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars." --J. Paul Getty
"If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice." --Neil Peart
"The relationship between truth and a newspaper is like the relationship between the color green and the number seven. Occasionally you will see the number seven written in green, but you learn not to expect this." --Garrison Keillor
"In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most." --Epicurus
"Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But I repeat myself." --Mark Twain
"Of one's illusions one only knows the broken ones." --Frithiof Brandt
"You will never hear the truth from people who call each other fools." --The Buddha
"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?" --Abraham Lincoln
"There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance." --William F. Buckley Jr.
"A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in." --Greek Proverb
"I would have made a good pope." --Richard Nixon
"It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop." --Confucius
"Sometimes I thhink we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering." --Arthur C. Clark
"I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia." --Woody Allen
"My wife says I never listen to her. At least I think that's what she said." --unknown
"You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her." --unknown
"Time's fun when you're having flies." --Kermit the Frog
"Operator! Give me the number for 911!" --Homer Simpson
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"A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it." --G. K. Chesterton
10 Aug 2011, 8:53 pm
