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| 1. | Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do. Jean-Paul Sartre |
| 2. | Don't tell me how hard you work. Tell me how much you get done.
James Ling |
| 3. | Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
James M. Barrie |
| 4. | There are times when I think that the ideal library is composed solely of reference books. They are like understanding friends-always ready to change the subject when you have had enough of this or that.
J. Donald Adams |
| 5. | Let your speech be better than silence, or be silent.
Dionysius |
| 6. | It is cheering to see that the rats are still around - the ship is not sinking.
Eric Hoffer |
| 7. | Take care not to step on the foot of a learned idiot. His bite is incurable.
Paul Gaugin |
| 8. | Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature... Life is either a daring adventure or it is nothing.
Helen Keller |
| 9. | Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
E.F. Schumacher (biography) |
| 10. | When you're finished changing, you're finished.
Benjamin Franklin (biography) |
| 11. | Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.
Dame Edith Sitwell |
| 12. | A thought which does not result in an action is nothing much, and an action which does not proceed from a thought is nothing at all.
Georges Bernanos |
| 13. | Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Winston Churchill |
| 14. | As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
Benjamin Disraeli (biography) |
| 15. | The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -- it is the illusion of knowledge.
Daniel J. Boorstin |
| 16. | Originality consists in trying to be like everybody else -and failing.
Raymond Radiguet |
| 17. | A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.
Groucho Marx |
| 18. | I am easily satisfied with the very best.
Winston Churchill |
| 19. | They know enough who know how to learn.
Henry Adams |
| 20. | If you assign people duties without granting them any rights, you must pay them well.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| 21. | It is far easier to write ten passable effective sonnets, good enough to take in the not too inquiring critic, than one effective advertisement that will take in a few thousand of the uncritical buying public.
Aldous Huxley |
| 22. | Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living!
Mary Harris 'Mother' Jones (biography) |
| 23. | Everyone is a prisoner of his own prejudices. No one can eliminate prejudices -- just recognize them.
Edward R. Murrow |
| 24. | Everyone is ignorant, only on different subjects. Will Rogers |
| 25. | Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going.
Tennessee Williams |
| 26. | When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
Abraham Lincoln |
| 27. | Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at that moment.
Robert Benchley |
| 28. | Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.
W.H. Auden |
| 29. | Chaos often breeds life, when order breeds habit.
Henry Adams |
| 30. | Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.
Lance Morrow |
| 31. | Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.
Lord Dunsany |
| 32. | Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
Gore Vidal |
| 33. | We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read. Mark Twain |
| 34. | The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
R Buckminster Fuller |
| 35. | Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours.
Yogi Berra |
| 36. | I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific.
Lily Tomlin |
| 37. | Finally, in conclusion, let me say just this.
Peter Sellers |
| 38. | Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
W.C. Fields |
| 39. | A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.
David Brinkley |
| 40. | One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.
Walter Bagehot |
| 41. | Life at university, with its intellectual and inconclusive discussions at a postgraduate level is on the whole a bad training for the real world. Only men of very strong character surmount this handicap.
Paul Chambers |
| 42. | Men are men before they are lawyers, or physicians, or merchants, or manufacturers; and if you make them capable and sensible men, they will make themselves capable and sensible lawyers or physicians.
John Stuart Mill |
| 43. | Ah but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?
Robert Browning |
| 44. | Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Immanuel Kant (biography) |
| 45. | Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
Laurence J. Peter (biography) |
| 46. | For every problem, there is one solution which is simple, neat and wrong.
H. L. Mencken |
| 47. | Shop the Web for Peace on Earth.
Option on AltaVista |
| 48. | Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
Walter Lippmann |
| 49. | Is not life a hundred times too short for us to bore ourselves?.
Friedrich Nietzsche |
| 50. | The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I've found it!), but 'That's funny...'.
Isaac Asimov (biography) |
| 51. | Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
John Kenneth Galbraith |
| 52. | College isn't the place to go for ideas.
Helen Keller |
| 53. | One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.
James Watson |
| 54. | A clever man commits no minor blunders.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| 55. | One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
A.A. Milne |
| 56. | Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Pablo Picasso |
| 57. | A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
Napoleon Bonaparte |
| 58. | For myself I am an optimist-it does not seem to be much use being anything else.
Winston Churchill |
| 59. | A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
Winston Churchill |
| 60. | Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
Thomas Alva Edison (biography) |
| 61. | On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good and not quite all the time.
George Orwell |
| 62. | Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.
Charles Caleb Colton |
| 63. | If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
Mark Twain |
| 64. | If work was a good thing the rich would have it all and not let you do it.
Elmore Leonard |
| 65. | Life is the process of finding out, too late, everything that should have been obvious at the time. John D. MacDonald |
| 66. | He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| 67. | The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.
G.K. Chesterton |
| 68. | It is a good morning exercise for a research scientist to discard a pet hypothesis every day before breakfast. It keeps him young.
Konrad Lorenz (biography) |
| 69. | It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say 'I don't know'.
W. Somerset Maugham (biography) |
| 70. | The foresight of the astronomer who predicts with complete precision the state of the solar system many years in advance is absolutely the same in kind as that of the savage who predicts the next sunrise. The only difference lies in the extent of their knowledge.
Auguste Comte |
| 71. | A cucumber should be well-sliced, dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out.
Samuel Johnson |
| 72. | All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.
Sean O'Casey |
| 73. | The deeper problems connected with advertising come less from the unscupulousness of our 'deceivers' than from our pleasure in being deceived, less from the desire to seduce than from the desire to be seduced.
Daniel J. Boorstin |
| 74. | Sometimes I see something so moving I know I'm not supposed to linger. See it and leave. If you stay too long, you wear out the wordless shock. Love it and trust it and leave.
Don DeLillo |
| 75. | You make men love their government and their country by giving them the kind of government and the kind of country that inspire respect and love; a country that is free and unafraid, that lets the discontented talk in order to learn the causes of their discontent and end those causes, that refuses to impel men to spy on their neighbors, that protects its citizens vigorously from harmful acts while it leaves the remedies for objectionable ideas to counterargument and time.
Zechariah Chafee Jr. |
| 76. | Your presence in the class is disruptive and affects the other students!
Said to Albert Einstein by a teacher |
| 77. | Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago.
Bernard Berenson |
| 78. | Omit needless words. Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts.
William Strunk Jr. |
| 79. | Old people like to give good advice, as solace for no longer being able to provide bad examples.
Francois , Duc de la Rochefoucauld |
| 80. | Only those who take leisurely what the people of the world are busy about can be busy about what the people of the world take leisurely.
Chang Ch'ao |
| 81. | Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.
Ben Hecht |
| 82. | (On going to war over religion:) You're basically killing each other to see who's got the better imaginary friend.
unknown |
| 83. | And God said: "Let there be Satan, so people don't blame everything on me. And let there be lawyers, so people don't blame everything on Satan." unknown |
| 84. | The Web brings people together because no matter what kind of a twisted sexual mutant you happen to be, you've got millions of pals out there. Type in "Find people that have sex with goats that are on fire" and the computer will ask, "Specify type of goat."
unknown |
| 85. | Luge strategy? Lie flat and try not to die.
unknown |
| 86. | Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; don't walk behind me, I may not lead; walk beside me, and just be my friend.
Albert Camus |
| 87. | An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't. Anatole France |
| 88. | Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. Samuel Johnson |
| 89. | There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there. "Colonel" Harlan Sanders |
| 90. | Be it religion, love under all its forms, literature, or art, there is not a single spiritual force that does not become an object of commercial exploitation. Etienne Gilson (biography) |
| 91. | Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time. Jean Cocteau |
| 92. | Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him. Booker T. Washington |
| 93. | Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him to use the Net and he won't bother you for weeks. sent to me by Jimmy Cooke |
| 94. | The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it. Thucydides |
| 95. | I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong. Leo Rosten |
| 96. | To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day. Winston Churchill |
| 97. | The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time. Jack London |
| 98. | Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously. G.K. Chesterton |
| 99. | The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on. Walter Lippman |
| 100. | When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity. Albert Einstein |
| 101. | It is said an eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him with the words, 'And this, too, shall pass away.' How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction! Abraham Lincoln |
| 102. | 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 |
| 103. | The days of the digital watch are numbered. Tom Stoppard |
| 104. | It is a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear. Dick Cavett |
| 105. | Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself. Jane Wagner |
| 106. | Great leaders never tell people how to do their jobs. Great leaders tell people what to do and establish a framework within it must be done. Then they let people on the front lines, who know best, figure out how to get it done. General H. Norman Schwarzkopf |
| 107. | Your eyes believe what they see. Your ears believe others Fortune Cookie |
| 108. | I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top. An English Professor, Ohio State University |
| 109. | Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy. Edgar Bargen (through his puppet Charlie McCarthy) |
| 110. | Nobody believes the official spokesman... but everybody trusts an unidentified source. Ron Nessen |
| 111. | All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income. Samuel Butler |
| 112. | We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read. Mark Twain |
| 113. | The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. Niels Bohr |
| 114. | You aren't a failure until you start blaming others for your mistakes. John Wooten |
| 115. | If you would make a man happy, do not add to his possessions, but subtract from the sum of his desires. Seneca |
| 116. | The days of the digital watch are numbered. Tom Stoppard |
| 117. | I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting. Mark Twain |
| 118. | I hate women because they always know where things are. James Thurber (biography) |
| 119. | Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint. Mark Twain |
| 120. | Instant gratification takes too long. Carrie Fisher |
| 121. | You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat. Albert Einstein |
| 122. | An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field. Niels Bohr |
| 123. | One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say. Will Durant |
| 124. | Every man serves a useful purpose: A miser, for example, makes a wonderful ancestor. Laurence J. Peter (biography) |
| 125. | The tendency has always been strong to believe that whatever received a name must be an entity or being, having an independent existence of its own. And if no real entity answering to the name could be found, men did not for that reason suppose that none existed, but imagined that it was something peculiarly abstruse and mysterious. John Stuart Mill |
| 126. | Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. Oscar Wilde |
| 127. | I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me. Noel Coward |
| 128. | One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. Bertrand Russell |
| 129. | An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field. Niels Bohr |
| 130. | Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read. Frank Zappa |
| 131. | Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. Oscar Wilde |
| 132. | Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work Thomas Alva Edison (biography) |
| 133. | When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained. Edward R Murrow |
| 134. | The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. James Branch Cabell |
| 135. | So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work. Peter Drucker |
| 136. | Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. W Someset Maugham |
| 137. | We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others. Blaise Pascal |
| 138. | You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. J.M. Barrie |
| 139. | I detest life-insurance agents; they always argue that I shall some day die, which is not so. Stephen Leacock |
| 140. | Television has raised writing to a new low. Samuel Goldwyn (biography) |
| 141. | Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. Henry David Thoreau |
| 142. | In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular. Laurence J Peter (biography) |
| 143. | People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news. A.J. Liebling |
| 144. | He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met. Abraham Lincoln |
| 145. | In the history of the world, no one has ever washed a rented car. Lawrence Summers |
| 146. | Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die. Joe Louis |
| 147. | If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk? Laurence J. Peter (biography) |
| 148. | I am not young enough to know everything. Oscar Wilde |
| 149. | I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks. Totie Fields |
| 150. | Armed seiges were one thing, but exploding buildings, like motor racing, were a spectacle best witnessed on television. You got the benefit of replays, multiple camera angles, running commentary and, most importantly, a far far reduced risk of being disembowelled by airborne blazing debris. Christopher Brookmyre - from The Sacred Art of Stealing |
| 151. | All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. Arthur Schopenhauer |
| 152. | You can go a long way with a smile. You can go a lot farther with a smile and a gun. Al Capone |
| 153. | No man ever listened himself out of a job. Calvin Coolidge (biography) |
| 154. | Imagine what it would be like if TV actually were good. It would be the end of everything we know. Marvin Minsky |
| 155. | It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper. Rod Serling |
| 156. | The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others. Friedrich Nietzsche |
| 157. | Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings. Laurence J Peter (biography) |
| 158. | Talent is like the battery in a car. It'll get you started, but if the generator is bad, you don't go very far. Ellis Marsalis |
| 159. | The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance. Laurence J. Peter (biography) |
| 160. | If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. Isaac Newton |
| 161. | Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. Franklin P. Jones |
| 162. | The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven. John Milton |
| 163. | There's no reason to burn books if you don't read them. The education system in [America] is just terrible, and we're not doing anything about it Ray Bradbury |
| 164. | In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs. Sir William Osler |
| 165. | Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present Marcus Aurelius |
| 166. | Money teaches us to count, but science, inasmuch as it is not governed by money, might yet teach us to think. Christopher M Kelty |
| 167. | We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others. Blaise Pascal |
| 168. | Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we have rushed through life trying to save. Will Rogers |
| 169. | A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to. Laurence J Peter (biography) |
| 170. | There's a moment coming. It's not here yet. It's still on the way. It's in the future. It hasn't arrived. Here it comes. Here it is... It's gone. George Carlin |
| 171. | No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. Isaac Asimov (biography) |
| 172. | Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize. James Joyce |
| 173. | Be informative, have fun, and get to the point! NewsScan credo (see for more info |
| 174. | The road to Hell is paved with good intentions Samuel Johnson |
| 175. | The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental; it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust. Elizabeth Bowen |
| 176. | Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill. Johnny Carson |
| 177. | I learned one really sad fact from my career as a columnist: nobody changes their mind about anything. Ever. Once we form the opinion, we become evidence processors and we just collect all the evidence that supports our opinion and reject all the evidence that disputes it. Bob Metcalfe |
| 178. | They said it couldn't be done but sometimes it doesn't work out that way. Casey Stengel |
| 179. | Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute. Josh Billings |
| 180. | Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. Psalm 23 |
| 181. | Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. Anais Nin |
| 182. | Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot. D.H. Lawrence |
| 183. | Competitions are for horse, not artist. Béla Bartók |
| 184. | Great deeds are usually wrought at great risks. Herodotus |
| 185. | Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us. Charles Kingsley |
| 186. | An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous. Henry Ford |
| 187. | Each of us inevitable; each of us limitless -- each of us with his or her right upon the earth. Walt Whitman |
| 188. | Remember what Simonides said -- that he never repented that he had held his tongue, but often that he had spoken. Plutarch |
| 189. | We have a natural opportunity to investigate the connections of a problem when looking back at its solution. George Polyá |
| 190. | The art of creation is older than the art of killing. Ed Koch |
| 191. | In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration. Ansel Adams |
| 192. | The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity Paul Tillich (biography) |
| 193. | Only sick music makes money today. Friedrich Nietzsche |
| 194. | A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession. Albert Camus |
| 195. | When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. Albert Einstein |
| 196. | We have profoundly forgotten everywhere that cash-payment is not the sole relation of human beings. Thomas Carlyle |
| 197. | No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists. T.S. Eliot |
| 198. | The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds. John Maynard Keynes |
| 199. | Fly me to the moon and let me play among the stars; let me see what spring is like on Jupiter and Mars. Bart Howard (song lyrics) |
| 200. | A poet who knows what it is he wants to say may be sure it's been said already. Hugh Kenner [For poet substitute architect, artist, computer scientist, engineer, chef, teacher... ] |
| 201. | We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing George Bernard Shaw |
| 202. | I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up. Tom Lehrer |
| 203. | Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought. Sir William Osler |
| 204. | If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it. The more things you do, the more you can do. Lucille Ball |
| 205. | History never looks like history when you are living through it. John W Gardner |
| 206. | People always talk to me about my drinking; they never ask me about my thirst Oscar Levant |
| 207. | Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth. Blaise Pascal |
| 208. | A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. Winston Churchill |
| 209. | The hardest part of gaining any new idea is sweeping out the false idea occupying that niche. Robert Heinlein |
| 210. | A scientist will never show any kindness for a theory which he did not start himself. Mark Twain in 'A Tramp Abroad' |
| 211. | The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend. Robertson Davies |
| 212. | What we need is more people who specialise in the impossible. Theodore Roethke |
| 213. | Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities Lord Dunsany |
| 214. | Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, 'We've always done it this way.' I try to fight that. That's why I have a clock on my wall that runs counter-clockwise. Grace Hopper |
| 215. | The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want. Ben Stein |
| 216. | To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. Anatole France |
| 217. | Grief upon griefs! Disappointments upon disappointments. What then? This is a gay, merry world notwithstanding. John Adams |
| 218. | Memo to the folks in Silicon Valley: You will have good jobs for 20 more years. By 2020, though, computer chips will be cheaper than bubble-gum wrappers, and PCs will be in museums. Physicist Michio Kaku |
| 219. | Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. Ambrose Bierce (The Devil's Dictionary) |
| 220. | Instead of prompting the appearance of delusions and/or hallucinations, many of the patients receiving Valium displayed a progressive development of dislikes and hates. The patients themselves deliberately used the term 'hate'. This hatefulness first involved non-significant figures in the patients' environment, progressed from there to the involvement of key figures such as aides, nurses and physicians, and went on to the involvement of important personal figures such as parents and spouses... This hatefulness was of a peculiar type. The patients were unhappy with it; they realized that it was unnatural and without basis, but were impotent to do anything about it. Many of them, exhibiting real distress, would inquire, 'Why do I feel like this?' P.E. Feldman (Journal of Neuropsychiatry) |
| 221. | Discretion of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words or in good order. Francis Bacon |
| 222. | What is now proved was once imagined. William Blake |
| 223. | True friends stab you in the front. Oscar Wilde |
| 224. | One sees great things from the valley, only small things from the peak. G.K. Chesterton |
| 225. | Travel is only glamorous in retrospect Paul Theroux |
| 226. | The greatest book is not the one whose messages engraves itself on the brain, but the one whose vital impact opens up other viewpoints, and from writer to reader spreads the fire that is fed by various essences, until it becomes a great conflagration. Romain Rolland |
| 227. | The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. William M Thackeray |
| 228. | Whatever you do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| 229. | Magnetism, as you recall from physics class, is a powerful force that causes certain items to be attracted to refrigerators. Dave Barry |
| 230. | I have always tried to hide my efforts and wished my works to have a light joyousness of springtime which never lets anyone suspect the labors it has cost me. Henri Matisse |
| 231. | There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil. Alfred North Whitehead |
| 232. | Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. Benjamin Franklin (biography) |
| 233. | Beware the fury of a patient man. John Dryden |
| 234. | Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. Theodore Roosevelt |
| 235. | Nothing is better than the unintended humor of reality. Steve Allen |
| 236. | Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other. Laurence J Peter (biography) |
| 237. | An autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats. George Orwell |
| 238. | Genius is childhood recaptured at will. Charles Baudelaire |
| 239. | Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart. Seneca |
| 240. | The strongest element of growth lies in the human choice. George Eliot |
| 241. | Bewitched is half of everything. Nelly Sachs |
| 242. | Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (biography) |
| 243. | Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us -- that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. Tom Paine |
| 244. | Things equal out pretty well. Our dreams seldom come true, but then neither do our nightmares. Charles Kennedy |
| 245. | A cat is a puzzle for which there is no solution. Hazel Nicholson |
| 246. | Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members. Pearl S Buck |
| 247. | Time makes more converts than reason. Tom Paine |
| 248. | To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. Thomas Edison (biography) |
| 249. | Because you cannot see Him, God is everywhere. Yasunari Kawabata |
| 250. | What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows. Epictetus |
| 251. | Terrorists and totalitarians have always been two sides of one coin; a totalitarian out of office is a terrorist. David Gelernter |
| 252. | We operate under a jury system in this country, and as much as we complain about it, we have to admit that we know of no better system, except possibly flipping a coin. Dave Barry |
| 253. | The whole world loves a maverick, but the whole world wants the maverick to achieve something nobler than simple rebellion. Kevin Patterson |
| 254. | The greatest challenge to any thinker is stating the problem in a way that will allow a solution. Bertrand Russell |
| 255. | Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance. Samuel Johnson |
| 256. | If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing. W. Edwards Deming |
| 257. | If books were sold as software and online recordings are, they would have this legalese up front:
"The content of this book is distributed on an 'as is' basis, without warranty as to accuracy of content, quality of writing, punctuation, usefulness of the ideas presented, merchantability, correctness or readability of formulae, charts, and figures, or correspondence of (a) the table of contents with the actual contents, (2) page references in the index (if any) with the actual page numbering (if present), and (iii) any illustration with its adjacent caption. Illustrations may have been printed reversed or inverted, the publisher accepts no responsibility for orientation or chirality. Any resemblance of the author or his or her likeness or name to any person, living or dead, or their heirs or assigns, is coincidental; all references to people, places, or events have been or should have been fictionalized and may or may not have any factual basis, even if reported as factual. Similarities to existing works of art, literature, song, or television or movie scripts is pure happenstance. References have been chosen at random from our own catalog. Neither the author(s) nor the publisher shall have any liability whatever to any person, corporation, animal whether feral or domesticated, or other corporeal or incorporeal entity with respect to any loss, damage, misunderstanding, or death from choking with laughter or apoplexy at or due to, respectively, the contents; that is caused or is alleged to be caused by any party, whether directly or indirectly due to the information or lack of information that may or may not be found in this alleged work. No representation is made as to the correctness of the ISBN or date of publication as our typist isn't good with numbers and errors of spelling and usage are attributable solely to bugs in the spelling and grammar checker in Microsoft Word. If sold without a cover, this book will be thinner than those sold with a cover. You do not own this book, but have acquired only a revocable non-exclusive license to read the material contained herein. You may not read it aloud to any third party. This disclaimer is a copyrighted work of Jef Raskin, first published in 2004, and is distributed 'as is', without warranty as to quality of humor, incisiveness of commentary, sharpness of taunt, or aptness of jibe." Jef Raskin (credited as being the creator of the Apple Macintosh) |
| 258. | Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| 259. | The great tragedy of science -- the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. Thomas Henry Huxley (biography) |
| 260. | It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it. Joseph Joubert |
| 261. | A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes. Mark Twain |
| 262. | What's the use of worrying, it never was worthwhile. So pack up your troubles in your old kit bag -- and smile, smile, smile. George Henry Powell |
| 263. | Everything in the world has a hidden meaning... Men, animals, trees, stars, they are all hieroglyphics. When you see them you do not understand them. You think they are really men, animals, trees, stars. It is only years later that you understand. Nikos Kazantzakis in his novel 'Zorba the Greek' (biography) |
| 264. | Never give in. Never, never, never, never give in. Winston Churchill |
| 265. | There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government. Benjamin Franklin (biography) |
| 266. | Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again. Beatrix Potter (biography) |
| 267. | One of the great movements in my lifetime among educated people is the need to commit themselves to action. Most people are not satisfied with giving money; we also feel we need to work. Peter Drucker |
| 268. | You must understand that I'm just as interested in someone I've known for ten minutes as in someone I've known for ten years. Alberto Giacometti |
| 269. | If one ever wishes to retain one's fantasies about the good sense of the people in the realm of literary taste, one does best never to consult the bestseller lists. Joseph Epstein |
| 270. | A man is not old until his regrets take the place of dreams. John Barrymore |
| 271. | The subjects that were dearest to the examiners were almost invariably those I fancied least... I should have liked to be asked to say what I knew. They always tried to ask what I did not know. When I would have willingly displayed my knowledge, they sought to expose my ignorance. This sort of treatment had only one result: I did not to well in examinations. Winston Churchill |
| 272. | Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it. Pericles |
| 273. | If you want something said, ask a man. If you want something done, ask a woman. Margaret Thatcher |
| 274. | But in a larger sense we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. Abraham Lincoln |
| 275. | So long, it's been good to know you, So long, it's been good to know you, So long, it's been good to know you, There's a mighty big war that's got to be won, And we'll get back together again. Woody Guthrie (biography) |
| 276. | Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Barbara Tuchman |
| 277. | If only I had the theorems! Then I should find the proofs easily enough. Bernhard Riemann |
| 278. | When you are poor enough, everything has some value. Barbara Ann Porte |
| 279. | Great ideas originate in the muscles. Thomas Edison (biography) |
| 280. | Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge. Claude Bernard |
| 281. | One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. Dorothea Lange |
| 282. | Cherishing children is the mark of a civilized society. Joan Ganz Cooney |
| 283. | Mathematics is a game played according to certain simple rules with meaningless marks on paper. David Hilbert |
| 284. | Whatever games are played with us, we must play no games with ourselves. Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| 285. | We're obviously going to spend a lot in marketing because we think the product sells itself. Jim Allchim |
| 286. | Ability will never catch up with the demand for it. Confucious |
| 287. | I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction. Aneurin Bevan |
| 288. | Let thy food be thy medicine and thy medicine be thy food. Hippocrates (biography) |
| 289. | In a few hundred years, when the history of our time will be written from a long-term perspective, it is likely that the most important event historians will see is not technology, not the Internet, not e-commerce. It is an unprecedented change in the human condition. For the first time -- literally -- substantial and rapidly growing numbers of people have choices. For the first time, they will have to manage themselves. And society is totally unprepared for it. Peter Drucker |
| 290. | One of the lessons of the Web is that if people have access to information, they will consume it, whether they are hungry or not. Lee Gomes |
| 291. | To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform. Theodore H. White |
| 292. | History is the only laboratory we have in which to test the consequences of thought. Étienne Gilson (biography) |
| 293. | In journalism it is simpler to sound off than it is to find out. It is more elegant to pontificate than it is to sweat. Harold Evans |
| 294. | The mastery of the turn is the story of how aviation became practical as a means of transportation. It is the story of how the world became small. William Langewiesche describing his book "Inside The Sky: Meditation on Flight" |
| 295. | A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about Miguel de Unamuno |
| 296. | There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking. Alfred Korzybski |
| 297. | I conceive that pleasures are to be avoided if greater pains be the consequence, and pains to be coveted that will terminate in greater pleasures. Michel de Montaigne |
| 298. | The more intelligent one is, the more men of originality one finds. Ordinary people find no difference between men. Blaise Pascal |
| 299. | Because we recognise that we are in a privileged position, the least we can do is not be crap Bono of rock band U2 |
| 300. | Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are. George Santayana (biography) |
| 301. | Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real. Jules Verne |
| 302. | To save the theatre, the theatre must be destroyed, the actors and actresses must all die of the plague. They poison the air, they make art impossible. It is not drama that they play, but pieces for the theatre. We should return to the Greeks, play in the open air; the drama dies of stalls and boxes and evening dress, and people who come to digest their dinner. Eleanor Duse |
| 303. | Golf is the only sport where the ball doesn't move until you hit it. Ted Williams (biography) |
| 304. | Art is not about thinking something up. It is the opposite -- getting something down. Julia Cameron |
| 305. | The way of fortune is like the milky way in the sky; which is a number of smaller stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together; so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate. Sir Francis Bacon |
| 306. | A bad peace is even worse than war. Cornelius Tacitus (biography) |
| 307. | Man is an animal that makes bargains: no other animal does this -- no dog exchanges bones with another. Adam Smith |
| 308. | Love is a condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. Robert Heinlein |
| 309. | Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch longer we'd have frozen to death. Mark Twain |
| 310. | Waking in the night; the lamp is low, the oil freezing. Matsuo Basho |
| 311. | In everything that can be called art there is a quality of redemption. Raymond Chandler |
| 312. | Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament. George Santayana (biography) |
| 313. | Whoso does not see that genuine life is a battle and a march has poorly read his origin and his destiny. Lydia Child (biography) |
| 314. | Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are. Thomas Carlyle |
| 315. | I fell asleep reading a dull book, and I dreamed that I was reading on, so I awoke from sheer boredom. Heinrich Heine |
| 316. | Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things. Robert Louis Stevenson |
| 317. | Everything is practice. Pelé (biography) |
| 318. | Being human is itself difficult, and therefore all kinds of settlements (except dream cities) have problems. Jane Jacobs |
| 319. | Memory fails me
Who what when where why how much?
Time to ask Google W. John MacMullen |
| 320. | A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (biography) |
| 321. | Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me. Anatole France |
| 322. | As long as algebra is taught in school, there will be prayer in school. Cokie Roberts |
| 323. | I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters. Frank Lloyd Wright |
| 324. | I say that the art of sculpture is eight times as great as any other art based on drawing, because a statue has eight views and they must all be equally good. Benvenuto Cellini |
| 325. | The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery. Anais Nin |
| 326. | One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music. Stephen Sondheim |
| 327. | There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. Sir Francis Bacon |
| 328. | No harm's done to history by making it something someone would want to read. David McCollough |
| 329. | Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work. Carl Sandburg |
| 330. | You are not superior just because you see the world in an odious light. Vicomte de Chateaubriand |