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Some Interesting Quotes, Some Wise, Some Wiseacre
"Blind respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.".
--Albert Einstein
To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.
-- Unknown
Health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.
-- Unknown
"From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life."
-- Arthur Ashe
A bird in the hand will probably shit on your wrist.
-- Unknown
"Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality."
-- Jules de Gaultier
"Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep."
-- Fran Lebowitz
"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true."
-- Irving Caesar
"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't."
-- Erica Jong
"The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is generally employed only by small children and large nations."
-- David Friedman
"He who hesitates is not only lost, but miles from the next exit."
-- Unknown
"Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain."
-- Lily Tomlin
"Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped."
-- Sam Levenson (1911-1980)
"Start every day off with a smile and get it over with."
-- W. C. Fields (1880-1946)
"Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair."
-- George Burns
"Doing a thing well is often a waste of time."
-- Robert Byrne
"Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve."
-- George Bernard Shaw
"I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it."
-- Ashleigh Brilliant
"The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself."
-- Sir Richard F. Burton
"'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt."
-- Mark Twain
"I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the
truth even if it costs them their jobs."
-- Samuel Goldwyn
"Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act."
-- Truman Capote
"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but That's funny ?"
-- Isaac Asimov
"An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger."
-- Dan Rather
"Crime does not pay... as well as politics."
-- Alfred E. Newman
"Why that have is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we told it to the same person?"
-- La Rochefoucauld
"A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain."
-- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of."
-- Burt Bacharach
"Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed."
-- Jonathan Swift
"When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other."
-- Eric Hoffer
"A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it."
-- Bob Hope
"All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others."
-- George Orwell, `Animal Farm'
"It matters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose."
-- Darrin Weinberg
--Lady Astor to Winston Churchill
Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink.
-- His reply
Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it.
Lady Astor: "Mr. Churchill, you're drunk!"
Winston Churchill: "Yes, and you, Madam, are ugly."
But tomorrow, I shall be sober.
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