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Quotes Important or Not to Life's little Nessicities"Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd. "
"Do, or do not. There is no 'try'. "
- William Congreve (1670-1729)
- Yoda ('The Empire Strikes Back')"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. "
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)"I'll sleep when I'm dead."
"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. "
- Warren Zevon
- General George Patton (1885-1945)"Wit is educated insolence. "
"The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense."
- Aristotle (284-322 B.C.)
- Edsgar Dijkstra "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)"C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg"
- Bjarne Stroustrup"God gave us a penis and a brain, but only enough blood to run one at a time."
"He would make a lovely corpse."
- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair
- Charles Dickens (1812-1870)"Grove giveth and Gates taketh away. "
"Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me. "
- Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep up with software demands
- Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) (Todd) "When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before. "
- Mae West (1892-1980) "I would have made a good Pope. "
- Richard M. Nixon (1913-1994) "I am become death, shatterer of worlds. "
- Robert J. Oppenheimer (1904-1967) (citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear explosion)"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. "
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. "
"Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate. "
- Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
- Thomas Jones"You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone. "
- Al Capone (1899-1947)"A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies. "
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. "
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. "
"The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. "
- John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)"He who hesitates is a damned fool. "
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. "
- Mae West (1892-1980)
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)"Belief in a cruel God makes a cruel man."
Thomas Paine (1737-1809)"Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability."
Cicero"Hardware: the parts of a computer that can be kicked."
Jeff Pesis"Get busy living, or get busy dying. Fear can hold you prisoner, hope can set you free."
Both from the movie: The Shawshank Redemption"As flowers grow in more tropical luxuriance in a hothouse, so do wild and frenzied ideas flourish in the darkness."
Stefan Zweig"Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length."
Robert Frost – 1942"All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal, or fattening."
Alexander Woolcott"Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up."
Anonymous"If we all said to people's faces what we say behind one another's backs, society would be impossible."
Honor� de Balzac"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
Aristotle"I haven't failed. I've found 10,000 ways that don't work."
Thomas A. Edison"You always smile but in your eyes your sorrow shows."
William Peter Horn"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)"Do we, holding that gods exist, deceive ourselves with unsubstantiated dreams, and lies, while random careless chance and change alone rule the world?"
Euripides (480?-406 BC)"If faith cannot be reconciled with rational thinking, it has to be eliminated as an anachronistic remnant of earlier stages of culture and replaced by science dealing with facts and theories which are intelligible and can be validated."
Erich Fromm (1900-80)"If I'm not back in five minutes, wait longer."
Ace Ventura, Pet Detective"The sweeter the apple, the blacker the core. Scratch a lover and find a foe!"
Dorothy Rothschild Parker (1893-1967)"The holiest of all holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart; The secret anniversaries of the heart."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow"I love to lose myself in other men's minds."
Charles Lamb – 1833"If you can't live without me, why aren't you dead already?"
Cynthia Heimel"The sin they do two by two they must pay for one by one."
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)"Sarcasm should not be like a saw, but a sword; it should cut, and not mangle."
Lord Francis Jeffrey"Who's more foolish? The fool, or the fool who follows him?"
Star Wars (Obi Wan)"A man who won't lie to a woman has very little consideration for her feelings."
Olin Miller"Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead."
Chinese Proverb"So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find something to worship...[W]hat is essential is that all may be together in it. The craving for community worship is the chief misery of...all humanity. For the sake of common worship they've slain each other with the sword."
Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky (1821-81)"To prevent violence," it was at one time customary at certain phases of the moon to chain and flog inmates of England's notorious Bedlam Hospital.
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