Quotes

My random favorites from Google’s Quotes of the Day gadget ON QUOTATIONS: Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. - Ambrose Bierce The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. - Robert Benchley A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought. - Dorothy L. Sayers It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. - Sir Winston Churchill Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote. - Edward Young She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit. - W. Somerset Maugham He wrapped himself in quotations- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors. - Rudyard Kipling The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting. - Amanda Cross Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations. - Orson Welles Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely. - Hesketh Pearson A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion. - Robert Chapman When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it. - Anatole France A witty saying proves nothing. - Voltaire

ON EVERYTHING ELSE: Being in politics [and science – KKL] is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important. - Eugene McCarthy The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool. - Jane Wagner 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 Management [and physics – KKL] is doing things right; leadership [and engineering – KKL] is doing the right things. [Applied physics is doing right things right. – KKL] - Peter Drucker America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week. - Evan Esar Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. - George Bernard Shaw You know you’ve achieved perfection in design not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away. - Antoine de Saint-Exupery 1 G:\User\Personal\Literature\From Google's Quotes of the Day gadget.doc

Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle. - Ken Hakuta The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them. - Albert Einstein To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend. - Jacques Derrida Take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then say it with the utmost levity. - George Bernard Shaw My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met. - Rodney Dangerfield The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. - Bertrand Russell All of us learn to write in the second grade. Most of us go on to greater things. - Bobby Knight There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob. - GK Chesterton A liberal is a person whose interests aren't at stake at the moment. - Willis Player A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits. - Woodrow Wilson Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. - Euripides Excellence makes people nervous. - Shana Alexander Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see. - Arthur Schopenhauer I don't want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member. - Groucho Marx People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest. - Hermann Hesse Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened. - Sir Winston Churchill We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered. - Tom Stoppard An expert is a person who avoids small error as he sweeps on to the grand fallacy. - Benjamin Stolberg If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. - Anatole France A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends. - Baltasar Gracian The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards. - Arthur Koestler When you're through changing, you're through. - Bruce Barton Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears. - Robert W. Sarnoff Everything in the world may be endured except continued prosperity. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim. - Bertrand Russell 2 G:\User\Personal\Literature\From Google's Quotes of the Day gadget.doc

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being selfevident. - Arthur Schopenhauer There art two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness. - Franz Kafka If you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness. - Robertson Davies 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 Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action. - Frank Tibolt To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle. - George Orwell If men were angels, no government would be necessary. - James Madison The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible. - George Burns As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls. - M. Cartmill Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it. - Jane Wagner Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves. - Carl Sagan Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. - Andre Gide Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers. - TS Eliot After being Turned Down by numerous Publishers, he had decided to write for Posterity. - George Ade A life of pleasure makes even the strongest mind frivolous at last. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty. - Ralph Waldo Emerson The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well. - Joe Ancis I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world. - Georges Duhamel No wise man ever wished to be younger. - Jonathan Swift I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. - Umberto Eco A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students. - John Ciardi The significance of man is that he is insignificant and is aware of it. - Carl Becker The actual tragedies of life bear no relation to one's preconceived ideas. In the event, one is always bewildered by their simplicity, their grandeur of design, and by that element of the bizarre which seems inherent in them. - Jean Cocteau 3 G:\User\Personal\Literature\From Google's Quotes of the Day gadget.doc

When everyone is somebody, then no one's anybody. - WS Gilbert Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. - Samuel Johnson You can only be young once. But you can always be immature. - Dave Barry The purpose of life is to fight maturity. - Dick Werthimer No one has ever had an idea in a dress suit. - Sir Frederick G. Banting Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much. - Peter Ustinov I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image. - Stephen Hawking There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking. - Alfred Korzybski No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating. - Harold Rosenberg He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches. [And he who cannot do even that, teaches how to teach. – Anon; used to discuss the USSR Academy of Pedagogical Sciences. - KKL] - George Bernard Shaw The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it. - Leo Rosten If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties. - Sir Francis Bacon The world's as ugly as sin, and almost as delightful. - Frederick Locker-Lampson What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books. - Thomas Carlyle There are two types of people--those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are.' - Frederick L Collins The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois. - Gustave Flaubert Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists. - John Kenneth Galbraith A husband is like a fire, he goes out when unattended. - Evan Esar Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality. - Nikola Tesla Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. - BF Skinner We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true. - Robert Wilensky Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. - Martin Luther King Jr. A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized. - Fred Allen 4 G:\User\Personal\Literature\From Google's Quotes of the Day gadget.doc

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. - Albert Einstein I don't mind what Congress does, as long as they don't do it in the streets and frighten the horses. - Victor Hugo Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. - EW Dijkstra Invention is the mother of necessity. - Thorstein Veblen An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous. - Henry Ford The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it. - Flannery O'Connor The sane are usually attracted by other things than power. - David Brin An optimist stays up to see the New Year in. A pessimist waits to make sure the old one leaves. [Our family is smarter: On Dec. 31, we go to bed at 9 pm as usual, and let the years decide. – KKL] - Bill Vaughan Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. - Tom Stoppard A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done. - Fred Allen Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. - George Santayana The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time. - George Bernard Shaw Adventure is just bad planning. - Roald Amundsen The truth is more important than the facts. - Frank Lloyd Wright Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. - Oscar Wilde Humankind cannot stand very much reality. - TS Eliot Silence is the virtue of fools. - Sir Francis Bacon The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Plans are useless, but planning is indispensable. - Dwight D. Eisenhower The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young. - Willa Cather I am not young enough to know everything. - Oscar Wilde Ours is the age that is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to. - H. Mumford Jones Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm. - John F. Kennedy It is bad luck to be superstitious. - Andrew W. Mathis No good deed goes unpunished. - Clare Booth Luce 5 G:\User\Personal\Literature\From Google's Quotes of the Day gadget.doc

A cult is a religion with no political power. - Tom Wolfe There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action. - Bertrand Russell We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic. - David Russell He who praises you for what you lack wishes to take from you what you have. - Don Juan Manuel Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything. - Frank Dane My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. - Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. The intermediate stage between socialism and capitalism is alcoholism. - Norman Brenner A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works. - John Gaule To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it. - GK Chesterton Behind every great fortune there is a crime. - Honore de Balzac Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. - Thomas Sowell I'm a born-again atheist. - Gore Vidal Never answer a critic, unless he's right. - Bernard M. Baruch It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job depends on not understanding it. - Upton Sinclair Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious. - Peter Ustinov We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by. - Will Rogers Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted. - Aldous Huxley This book fills a much-needed gap. - Moses Hadas When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers. - Oscar Wilde Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. - George Bernard Shaw A gentleman is a man who can play the accordion but doesn't. - Unknown Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones. - Bertrand Russell In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better. - Ellen DeGeneres Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them. - HL Mencken 6 G:\User\Personal\Literature\From Google's Quotes of the Day gadget.doc

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all. - William Goldman For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled. - Richard Feynman Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions. - Albert Einstein Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim. - Bertrand Russell Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons. - R. Buckminster Fuller I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. - Jerome K. Jerome The most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it. - Arnold Toynbee The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised. - George F. Will We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems. - John W. Gardner A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. - Thomas Mann The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities. - Sophocles The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty. - Eugene McCarthy Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want. - Clive Barnes Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow. - Oscar Wilde There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence. - Henry Adams The price of freedom of religion, or of speech, or of the press, is that we must put up with a good deal of rubbish. [Oooh those old optimists... What if the reason completely disappears in the rubbish? – KKL] - Robert Jackson 2 is not equal to 3, not even for large values of 2. - Grabel's Law You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do. - Olin Miller The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it. - George Orwell The glory of great men should always be measured by the means they have used to acquire it. [Leo Tolstoy went into more detail: “There is no real glory without simplicity, goodness, and truth”. – KKL] - Francois de La Rochefoucauld Not only is there no God, but try getting a plumber on weekends. - Woody Allen Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves. - Carl Sagan Only fools are positive. - Moe Howard Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg 7 G:\User\Personal\Literature\From Google's Quotes of the Day gadget.doc

The best doctor in the world is the veterinarian. He can't ask his patients what is the matter - he's got to just know. - Will Rogers In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is stoned to death. - Joan D. Vinge Without the aid of prejudice and custom I should not be able to find my way across the room. - William Hazlitt Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. - HL Mencken A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. - GK Chesterton I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours. - Hunter S. Thompson The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders. - Foster's Law The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything. - Walter Bagehot Man is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be. - William Hazlitt Life is a zoo in a jungle. - Peter De Vries The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed. - CS Lewis Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious. - Brendan Gill Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them. - Leo Tolstoy The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous. - Shana Alexander The past is not dead. In fact, it's not even past. - William Faulkner Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science. - Henri Poincare There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity. - Robertson Davies Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else. - Tom Stoppard The secret of being a bore is to tell everything. - Voltaire Unprovided with original learning, unformed in the habits of thinking, unskilled in the arts of composition, I resolved to write a book. - Edward Gibbon If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough. - Mario Andretti [Italian car racer – KKL] There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have. - Don Herold Art is science made clear. - Jean Cocteau No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other. - Jascha Heifetz 8 G:\User\Personal\Literature\From Google's Quotes of the Day gadget.doc

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. - W. Somerset Maugham The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink. - George Orwell Virtue is its own punishment. - Aneurin Bevan When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators. - PJ O'Rourke Reality is something you rise above. - Liza Minnelli The secret of eternal youth is arrested development. - Alice Roosevelt Longworth To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost. - Gustave Flaubert The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. - Herbert Spencer Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. - Friedrich von Schiller It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. - Krishnamurti Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people. - Philip Guedalla To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent. - Robert Copeland Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything. - Floyd Dell Of all noises, I think music [SJ evidently meant classical music – KKL] is the least disagreeable. - Samuel Johnson No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up. - Lily Tomlin Your true value depends entirely on what you are compared with. - Bob Wells Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. - Truman Capote Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking. - Clement Atlee An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible. - Alfred A. Knopf Life is a long lesson in humility. - James M. Barrie All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. - Aristotle If the human mind was simple enough to understand, we'd be too simple to understand it. - Emerson Pugh Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking. - HL Mencken Efficiency is intelligent laziness. - Anonymous A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life. - Robertson Davies 9 G:\User\Personal\Literature\From Google's Quotes of the Day gadget.doc

The fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning. - Sir Winston Churchill An effective way to deal with predators is to taste terrible. - Unknown You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty. - Cecil Baxter Everyone is as God has made him, and oftentimes a great deal worse. - Miguel de Cervantes The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good. - Robert Graves There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters. - Alice Thomas Ellis The squeaking wheel doesn't always get the grease. Sometimes it gets replaced. - Vic Gold Start every day off with a smile and get it over with. - W. C. Fields Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born. - Fyodor Dostoevsky Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long. - Leonard Bernstein A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors. - William Ralph Inge There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe There are only two ways of telling the complete truth--anonymously and posthumously. - Thomas Sowell An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations. - Charles de Montesquieu Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature. - Tom Robbins In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from. - Peter Ustinov Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed. - Sir Winston Churchill If there were no God, there would be no Atheists. - G. K. Chesterton No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session. - Judge Gideon J. Tucker The best way to predict the future is to invent it. - Alan Kay If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. - Rene Descartes Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us. - Jerry Garcia No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one. - Elbert Hubbard There is no moral precept that does not have something inconvenient about it. - Denis Diderot 10 G:\User\Personal\Literature\From Google's Quotes of the Day gadget.doc

The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy. - Steven Weinberg Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this, that you are dreadfully like other people. - James Russell Lowell I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it. - Rita Mae Brown The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable. - John Kenneth Galbraith The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. - Lily Tomlin The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself. - John Ciardi It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that. - G. H. Hardy What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen? - Evelyn Waugh A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. - Herm Albright Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. - Franklin P. Jones One of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity. - Andrew Carnegie In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you. - Frank Wilczek It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous. - Robert Benchley As I grow older, a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of me. - H. Rider Haggard Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best-seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. - Flannery O'Connor Things are only impossible until they're not. - Jean-Luc Picard Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try. - Fran Lebowitz The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children. - Clarence Darrow Speak the truth, but leave immediately after. - Slovenian Proverb The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. - Samuel Johnson The best way out is always through. - Robert Frost History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. - Sir Winston Churchill Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you're being had. - Michael Crichton It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. - Abraham Lincoln 11 G:\User\Personal\Literature\From Google's Quotes of the Day gadget.doc

No one can earn a million dollars honestly. - William Jennings Bryan Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money. - Arthur Miller I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. - Thomas A. Edison We’re not playing. - Craig Venter [To the accusations that he is playing God, when trying to create the first artificial bacterium. - KKL] Television [and journals like Science and Nature – KKL] is for appearing on - not for looking at. - Noel Coward Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was. - Margaret Mitchell Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops. - Kurt Vonnegut The very purpose of existence is to reconcile the glowing opinion we have of ourselves with the appalling things that other people think about us. - Quentin Crisp There is always a well-known solution to every human problem--neat, plausible, and wrong. - H. L. Mencken Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives. - Maurice Chevalier The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can. - Margo Kaufman If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to. - Dorothy Parker You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. - Jack London Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it. - Russel Lynes We think in generalities, but we live in detail. - Alfred North Whitehead I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars. - Fred Allen A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors. - William Ralph Inge We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways. - Samuel McChord Crothers I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time. - Orson Welles All science is either physics or stamp collecting. [During the past-Rutherford century, combos have emerged. For example, theoretical neuroscientists are mostly physicists by education who have opted for stamp collecting. – KKL] - Ernest Rutherford Cockroaches and socialites are the only things that can stay up all night and eat anything. - Herb Caen We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the fact that many inventions had their birth as toys. - Eric Hoffer The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible. - Jean Kerr Writing is the only profession where no one considers you ridiculous if you earn no money. - Jules Renard 12 G:\User\Personal\Literature\From Google's Quotes of the Day gadget.doc

Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good. - Samuel Johnson The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly', meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'. - Larry Hardiman Where facts are few, experts are many. - Donald R. Gannon All television is children's television. - Richard P. Adler I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. - Albert Einstein When love is gone, there's always justice. And when justice is gone, there's always force. And when force is gone, there's always Mom. Hi, Mom! - Laurie Anderson The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. - Bertrand Russell When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both. - Al Franken The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously. - Henry Kissinger An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field. - Niels Bohr Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. - John Lennon A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms. - George Wald There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you. - Will Rogers When ideas fail, words come in very handy. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice. - Marquis de la Grange No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately. - Michel de Montaigne A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't? - Don Marquis I have seen the future and it doesn't work. - Robert Fulford To be pleased with one's limits is a wretched state. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Part of being sane, is being a little bit crazy. - Janet Long Wagner's music is better than it sounds. - Edgar Wilson Nye Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. - Stephen King What's the difference between a boyfriend and a husband? About 30 pounds. - Cindy Gardner The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past. - Robertson Davies 13 G:\User\Personal\Literature\From Google's Quotes of the Day gadget.doc

The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it. - Patrick Young Laughter is the closest distance between two people. - Victor Borge Is sloppiness in speech [or science – KKL] caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care. - William Safire Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. - Thomas A. Edison Learning to dislike children at an early age saves a lot of expense and aggravation later in life. - Robert Byrne Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind. - Marston Bates It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. - Harry S Truman The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be. - Walter Bagehot I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't. - Jules Renard I have often depended on the blindness of strangers. - Adrienne E. Gusoff Anything too stupid to be said is sung. - Voltaire If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. - Abraham Maslow I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. - Will Rogers All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance. - Edward Gibbon The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them. - Kin Hubbard If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything. - Bill Lyon A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not. - Henry Fielding What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to. - Hansell B. Duckett A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure. - Segal's Law It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office. - H. L. Mencken After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one. - Cato the Elder You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it. - Charles Haddon Spurgeon It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. - Voltaire Get the facts, or the facts will get you. - Dr. Thomas Fuller Those who welcome death have only tried it from the ears up. - Wilson Mizner 14 G:\User\Personal\Literature\From Google's Quotes of the Day gadget.doc

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live. - Henry David Thoreau Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something. - Plato There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness. - Friedrich Nietzsche There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income. - Edmund Wilson The first discipline of education must be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter. - Aleister Crowley Good taste is the worst vice ever invented. - Edith Sitwell In journalism [not only – KKL], there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right. - Ellen Goodman Doing a thing well is often a waste of time. - Robert Byrne We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them. - Johann von Neumann Everybody lies, but it doesn't matter because nobody listens. - Nick Diamos No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you'll see why. - Mignon McLaughlin As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls. - M. Cartmill Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance. - Sam Brown Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed. - Blaise Pascal It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are. - O. Henry Only fools are positive. - Moe Howard A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance. - Anatole France The smaller the mind the greater the conceit. - Aesop I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this. - Emo Phillips Man is ready to die for an idea, provided that idea is not quite clear to him. - Paul Eldridge Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions. - Cullen Hightower Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer. - Charles Caleb Colton We are born charming, fresh and spontaneous and must be civilized before we are fit to participate in society. - Judith Martin If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it. - Pierre Beaumarchais 15 G:\User\Personal\Literature\From Google's Quotes of the Day gadget.doc

No human thing is of serious importance. - Plato Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist. - G. K. Chesterton If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can’t be taken on its own merits. - Dan Barker Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. - Mark Twain Equations are the devil's sentences. - Stephen Colbert We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like? - Jean Cocteau Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people. - W. C. Fields About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment. - Josh Billings Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where it often substitutes for both. - John Andrew Holmes Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing. - Oscar Wilde Happiness is an imaginary condition, attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults. - Thomas Szasz A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. - Jane Austen In a mad world only the mad are sane. - Akira Kurosawa Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions. - G. K. Chesterton Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others. - Edward Abbey I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it. - Terry Pratchett What is life but a series of inspired follies? - George Bernard Shaw The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think. - Horace Walpole A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell. - George Bernard Shaw When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion. - Abraham Lincoln The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums. - G. K. Chesterton In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; in practice, there is. - Chuck Reid Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege. - Unknown Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted. - Martin Luther King Jr. A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. - George Bernard Shaw 16 G:\User\Personal\Literature\From Google's Quotes of the Day gadget.doc

The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything - or nothing. - Nancy Astor Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. - Gail Godwin Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard. - Daphne du Maurier All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. - Mark Twain Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock. - Will Rogers Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. - Isaac Newton Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars. - Hobart Brown It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. - Voltaire It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem. - Malcolm Forbes Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own. - Doug Larson Writing is not necessarily something to be ashamed of, but do it in private and wash your hands afterwards. - Robert Heinlein It is a sign of a creeping inner death when we no longer can praise the living. - Eric Hoffer It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them. - Dame Rose Macaulay Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. - George Bernard Shaw Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it. - Samuel Johnson I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions. - Augusten Burroughs The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth. - Edith Sitwell Speech was given to conceal thought. - Sir William Osler Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. - Friedrich von Schiller Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. - Will Durant Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. - Andre Gide [Rule] 1. Never tell everything at once. - Ken Venturi Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do. - Dale Carnegie The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others. - Friedrich Nietzsche 17 G:\User\Personal\Literature\From Google's Quotes of the Day gadget.doc

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward. - John Maynard Keynes When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. - Eric Hoffer Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. - Edgar Allan Poe Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us. - Henrik Tikkanen Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric. - Bertrand Russell Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. - Friedrich Nietzsche Rational arguments don't usually work on religious people. Otherwise, there wouldn't be religious people. - Doris Egan Most people would rather be certain they're miserable than risk being happy. - Robert Anthony

CONCLUSION A poem [and a list of quotations – KKL] is never finished, only abandoned. - Paul Valery Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored. - George Saunders

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