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April 04, 2005

Witty Quotes



Quotes of the Day for April 3, 2005
He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
George Bernard Shaw
Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.
Lee Simonson
Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
Phyllis Diller
The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
Samuel Butler
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Islam is a religion in which Allah demands you send your son to die for him; Christianity is the faith in which God sent his son to die for you.- John Ashcroft
The beginning is the most important part of the work.- Plato
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.- Geri Weitzman
Don't argue about the difficulties. The difficulties will argue for themselves.- Winston Churchill
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.- George Bernard Shaw
Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.- Phyllis Diller
Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.- Slovenian proverb
Imagination is more important than knowledge.- Albert Einstein
Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well. Think about it.- Elias Schwartz
Everything you can imagine is real.- Picasso
Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.- W. Edwards Deming
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.- Winston Churchill
No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.- Abraham Lincoln
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.- Malcolm S. Forbes
If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done.- Anonymous
What does not kill me makes me stronger.- Goethe
Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.- Ann Landers
If one has not given everything, one has given nothing.- Georges Guynemer
If you choose not to decide - you still have made a choice!- Neil Peart
Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?- Kelvin Throop
The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others.- Anonymous
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.- Oscar Wilde
Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.- Woody Allen
If you can't convince them, confuse them.- Harry S Truman
It usually takes a long time to find a shorter way.- Anonymous
Some day my boat will come in, and with my luck I'll be at the airport.- Anonymous
Every man is the architect of his own fortune.- Appius Claudius
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.- Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
There are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.- Thomas A. Edison
To prophesy is extremely difficult - especially with regard to the future.- Chinese proverb
Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.- Shakespeare
There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.- Henry Kissinger
It is not the horse that draws the cart, but the oats.- Russian proverb
I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.- George Burns
All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.- Samuel Butler
Your true value depends entirely on what you are compared with.- Bob Wells
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.- Albert Einstein
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?" - Albert Einstein
A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.- Bob Edwards
If you think education is expensive, try Ignorance.- Andy McIntyre
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.- Will Rogers
It's not that I'm so smart , it's just that I stay with problems longer.- Albert Einstein
The more you know, the less you need to show.- Anonymous
For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.- Bob Wells
To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have.- Anonymous
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.- Henry Ford
Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night.- Anonymous
Confidence in nonsense is a requirement for the creative process.- Anonymous
Democracy is the worst system devised by with of man, except for all the others.- Winston Churchill
The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.- Anonymous
If everything is coming your way then you're in the wrong lane.- Anonymous
Use soft words and hard arguments.- Anonymous
The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits- Anonymous
The quality of an organization can never exceed the quality of the minds that make it up.- Harold R. McAlindon
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.- Will Durant
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.- William Saroyan
With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.- Friedrich von Schiller
No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.- John Locke
The first rule to tinkering is to save all the parts.- Paul Erlich
Wine is bottled poetry.- Robert Louis Stevenson
He who cannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.- Chinese proverb
"Reality" is the only word in the English language that should always be used in quotes.- Anonymous
I think; therefore I am.- Rene Descartes
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.- Greek proverb
It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.- Oliver Wendell Holmes
I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.- Voltaire
The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.- Casey Stengal
Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.- W. C. Fields
Lady Nancy Astor: Winston, if you were my husband, I'd put arsenic in your morning coffee.Churchill: Madam, if you were my wife, I'd drink it.
Bessie Braddock: Winston, you are drunk!Churchill: And Madam, you are ugly. And tomorrow, I'll be sober, and you will still be ugly.
Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.- H. L. Mencken
My wife dresses to kill. She cooks the same way.- Henny Youngman
The greatest risk is to risk nothing at all.- Leo Buscaglia
God does not play dice with the universe.- Albert Einstein
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.- Albert Einstein
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo.- James Klass
Not all those who wonder are lost.- Anonymous
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.- Lao-Tsu
These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.- Gilbert Highet
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.- Albert Einstein
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
If a person feels he can't communicate, the least he can do is shut up about it.-Tom Lehrer
That's the difference between me and the rest of the world! Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria!-Calvin
No pressure, no diamonds.- Mary Case
You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.- Rita Mae Brown
Good judgement comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgement.- Rita Mae Brown
Don't be afraid to take one large step because you can't cross a chasm in two small leaps.- Anonymous
Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.- Anonymous
If everybody's thinking alike, somebody isn't thinking.- Anonymous
Don't let people drive you crazy when you know it's in walking distance.- Anonymous
Never argue with a fool. Someone watching may not be able to tell the difference.- Anonymous
If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.- Dorothy Parker
Nothing endures but change.- Heraclitus
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.- Socrates
All jobs are easy to the person who doesn't have to do them.- Holt's Law
Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.- Chinese proverb
A picture is worth a thousand wordsis not an old proverb- 1921 ad copy by Fred R Barnard
Wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.- Lucius Accius
'Tis better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than open one's mouth and remove all doubt.- Samuel Johnson
Necessity is the mother of invention.- Plato
A free society is a place where it's safe to be unpopular.- Adlai Stevenson
Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.- Ovid
'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.- Alfred Lord Tennyson
It's better to be quotable than to be honest.- Tom Stoppard