Saturday, 13 February 2010

quotes

The entire economy of the Western world is built on things that cause cancer.
           -- From the 1985 movie "Bliss"
Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.
           -- Will Rogers

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
           -- G. K. Chesterton
Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy.
           -- Charles Peters
Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.
           -- Raymond Chandler

In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known.
           -- Thomas Pickering

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.
           -- Arthur Koestler
There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say.
           -- Cyril Connolly

The squeaking wheel doesn't always get the grease. Sometimes it gets replaced.
           -- Vic Gold

The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.
           -- E. B. White




The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
           -- Albert Einstein

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
           -- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
           -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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

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