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Good Quotations by Famous People:
"Moral indignation is jealousy with a
halo."
- H. G. Wells (1866-1946)
"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is
forever."
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
"Victory goes to the player who makes
the next-to-last mistake."
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch
Tartakower (1887-1956)
"Don't be so humble - you are not that
great."
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting
diplomat
"His ignorance is encyclopedic"
- Abba Eban (1915-2002)
"If a man does his best, what else is
there?"
- General George S. Patton (1885-1945)
"I can write better than anybody who
can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can
write better."
- A. J. Liebling (1904-1963)
"People demand freedom of speech to
make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid."
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
"Give me chastity and continence, but
not yet."
- Saint Augustine (354-430)
"Not everything that can be counted
counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"Only two things are infinite, the
universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the
former."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"A lie gets halfway around the world
before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"I do not feel obliged to believe that
the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and
intellect has intended us to forgo their use."
- Galileo Galilei
"The artist is nothing without the
gift, but the gift is nothing without work."
- Emile Zola (1840-1902)
"This book fills a much-needed gap."
- Moses Hadas (1900-1966) in a review
"The full use of your powers along
lines of excellence."
- definition of"happiness" by John F.
Kennedy (1917-1963)
"I'm living so far beyond my income
that we may almost be said to be living apart."
- e e cummings (1894-1962)
"Give me a museum and I'll fill it."
- Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
"Assassins!"
- Arturo Toscanini (1867-1957) to his
orchestra
"I'll moider da bum."
- Heavyweight boxer Tony Galento, when
asked what he thought of William Shakespeare
"In theory, there is no difference
between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is."
- Jan L.A. van de Snepscheut
"I find that the harder I work, the
more luck I seem to have."
- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
"Each problem that I solved became a
rule which served afterwards to solve other problems."
- Rene Descartes (1596-1650), "Discours
de la Methode"
"In the End, we will remember not the
words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
"Whether you think that you can, or
that you can't, you are usually right."
- Henry Ford (1863-1947)
"Do, or do not. There is no 'try'."
- Yoda ('The Empire Strikes Back')
"The only way to get rid of a
temptation is to yield to it."
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"Don't stay in bed, unless you can make
money in bed."
- George Burns (1896-1996)
"I don't know why we are here, but I'm
pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves."
- Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)
"The use of COBOL cripples the mind;
its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal
offense."
- Edsgar Dijkstra
"C makes it easy to shoot yourself in
the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away
your whole leg."
- Bjarne Stroustrup
"A mathematician is a device for
turning coffee into theorems."
- Paul Erdos
"The only difference between me and a
madman is that I'm not mad."
- Salvador Dali (1904-1989)
"If you can't get rid of the skeleton
in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance."
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"But at my back I always hear Time's
winged chariot hurrying near."
- Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)
"Good people do not need laws to tell
them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around
the laws."
- Plato (427-347 B.C.)
"The power of accurate observation is
frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it."
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"Whenever I climb I am followed by a
dog called 'Ego'."
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
"We have art to save ourselves from the
truth."
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is
making a mistake."
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
"I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice
ring to it."
- John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) when
asked what is his favorite song
"Human history becomes more and more a
race between education and catastrophe."
- H. G. Wells (1866-1946)
"Talent does what it can; genius does
what it must."
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
(1803-1873)
"The difference between 'involvement'
and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken
was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'."
- unknown
"If you are going through hell, keep
going."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous
weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with
typewriters."
- Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)
"Some cause happiness wherever they go;
others, whenever they go."
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"God is a comedian playing to an
audience too afraid to laugh."
- Voltaire (1694-1778)
"He is one of those people who would be
enormously improved by death."
- H. H. Munro (Saki) (1870-1916)
"I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether
my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is
another matter."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
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