Thursday, 21 January 2010

quotes

More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
           -- Woody Allen, My Speech to the Graduates

I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place.
           -- Steven Wright

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
           -- Albert Schweitzer

By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.
           -- Charles Wadsworth


The world's as ugly as sin, and almost as delightful
           -- Frederick Locker-Lampson

Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vaccuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1.5 tons.
           -- unknown, Popular Mechanics, March 1949


When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion.
           -- C. P. Snow

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
           -- Evelyn Waugh, Diaries of Evelyn Waugh (1976)

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
           -- Andre Gide

People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
           -- Anatole France, The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard

But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
           -- Benjamin Franklin, Letter to Jean Baptiste Le Roy (1789)

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it.
           -- Voltaire

Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.
           -- Joseph Wood Krutch

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
           -- William James

Confusion is always the most honest response.
           -- Marty Indik



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