quotes

As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.
           -- Dick Cavett

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
           -- Thomas A. Edison

An ardent supporter of the hometown team should go to a game prepared to take offense, no matter what happens.
           -- Robert Benchley

If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
           -- Ted Turner
The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
           -- George Orwell, Polemic, May 1946, "Second Thoughts on James Burnham"

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
           -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The shortest distance between two points is under construction.
           -- Noelie Altito
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
           -- Margaret Bonnano

It's all right letting yourself go as long as you can let yourself back.
           -- Mick Jagger

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
           -- Isaac Newton, Letter to Robert Hooke, February 5, 1675

All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.
           -- Sean O'Casey

Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home.
           -- Phyllis Diller

Few people can see genius in someone who has offended them.
           -- Robertson Davies
An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do.
           -- Dylan Thomas, in Constantine Fitzgibbon, Life of Dylan Thomas (1965)

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I've ever known.
           -- Walt Disney

 The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.
           -- Sir Richard Francis Burton

If you don't know what to do, call the media and at least give the appearance of doing something.
           -- David Peterson


Never judge a book by its movie.
           -- J. W. Eagan

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
           -- Charles de Gaulle

The truth is more important than the facts.
           -- Frank Lloyd Wright
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
           -- Abraham Lincoln
There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there's only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there's no reason why you shouldn't have a fairly good time.
           -- Edith Wharton, The Last Asset, 1904
England and America are two countries separated by a common language.
           -- George Bernard Shaw
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
           -- Thomas A. Edison, (attributed)

I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
           -- W. C. Fields
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
           -- Charles Austin Beard


I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.
           -- Oscar Wilde, upon being told the cost of an operation

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
           -- Arthur C. Clarke, "Profiles of The Future", 1961 (Clarke's third law)

Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing.
           -- Wernher von Braun

The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.
           -- George F. Will

I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.
           -- E. V. Lucas

If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
           -- Alfred North Whitehead

The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.
           -- Henry Stimson


Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to become as mediocre as possible.
           -- Margaret Mead
Walking isn't a lost art: one must, by some means, get to the garage.
           -- Evan Esar




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
We are all apt to believe what the world believes about us.
           -- George Eliot