Fun Quotations

These quotes are not philosophical, maybe whimsical. They make me smile.
"I'm not young enough to know everything."
-J. M. Barrie

"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."
-Pablo Picasso

"When we are young we want to change the world. When we are old we want to change the young."
-Anonymous

"To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.
-Voltaire

"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."
-Winston Churchill

"The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people."
-Lucille S. Harper

"Health nuts are going to feel stupid some day, lying in hospitals dying of nothing."
-Redd Foxx

"If you live to the age of a hundred you have it made because very few people die past the age of a hundred."
-George Burns

"I'm going to live forever, or die trying!"
-Spider Robinson

"I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph."
-Shirley Temple

"It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious."
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"I wouldn't belong to any club that would have me as a member."
-Groucho Marx

"Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy. For another, how can it be the survival of the fittest when the fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he is most likely to be creamed?"
-Solomon Short

"Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable."
-Plato

"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend: and inside a dog, it's too dark to read."
-Groucho Marx

"I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave."
-E.M. Forster as a small child

"There are lies, damned lies, and statistics."
-Mark Twain

"Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language, and forthwith it is something entirely different."
-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"We really don't have any enemies. It's just that some of our best friends are trying to kill us."
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"When a fellow says, "It ain't the money but the principle of the thing," it's the money."
-Kim Hubbard

"Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong."
-Oscar Wilde

"It doesn't signify anything. I just _built_ it."
-Alexander Calder, at the unveiling of a sculpture at MIT

"A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his client to plant vines."
-Frank Lloyd Wright

"I have nothing to declare except my genuis."
-Oscar Wilde

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