The Quotes Basement
Sub-Level 2
'Magic is just science we don't yet understand'
'The truth can kill you or set you free'
'Words are the supreme objects. They are minded things.'
'Great minds discuss ideas;
'Nobody knows. Therefore you know as much as anyone.'
'Intelligence recognises what has happened. Genius recognises what will happen.'
Remember: it's good to talk but it's better to type.
"Christ never found it hard to work as a threesome."
Most people feel that everyone is entitled to their opinion.
Death is nature's way of telling you to slow down.
"so little questions to dicuss, so many answers to disprove"
'Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard Are sweeter.'
'Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.'
'There is always something more to discover. Seeking never ends.'
'I love being a writer. It's the paperwork I can't stand'
'We make our future by the best use of the present'
'If you don't stand for somehting you will fall for everything'
'There is no right and wrong.
You don't become a failure until you're satisfied with being one.
Mother told me to be good but she's been wrong before.
'Make new friends, but keep the old
'The exsistance of a majority logically implies a corresponding minority.'
Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.
'When in charge, ponder. When in trouble, delegate. When in doubt, mumble.'
'Bores put you in a mental cemetery while you are still walking.'
'Music...can name the unnamable and communicate the unknowable'
'Music is the sole art which evokes nostalgia for the future'
'To have a large audience is not obscene.
'While deception requires secrecy, not all secrecy is meant to decieve.'
"As strange as it may seem I've just had a thought"
You have no idea how glad I am I didn't know that.
Your life would be very empty if you had nothing to regret.
'There is nothing stable in the world - uproar's your only music.'
'You will never know where you're going till you know where you'e been'
It is impossible to make anything foolproof as fools are ingenious
'Evil is the stone on which good sharpens itself.'
You can accept defeat. Or you can stare at it. Until Defeat blinks.
'Genius must be born, and never taught. '
It is better to have loved and lost than just to have lost.
Don't worry if you're a kleptomaniac; you can always take something for it.
'To keep your friends treat them kindly; to kill them, treat them often.'
'Do not all charms fly At the mere touch of cold philosophy?'
'Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.'
'Classic music is th'kind that we keep thinkin'll turn into a tune.'
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
'Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience.'
"No author is a man of genius to his publisher."
'When people cease to believe in God, they will believe in anything'
'My mind is already made up. Don't confuse me with facts!'
'Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after.'
"You get more with a gun and a smile than a smile alone."
'Eat fast - it's good to finish first at something'
"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans"
'Staring out windows makes you seem poetic and complex'
hubub, hubub, HUBUB, hubub, hubub, hubub, HUBUB, hubub, hubub, hubub.
"Respect is a rational process."
He who laughs last hasn't been told the terrible truth.
'Eating chocolate is like being in love without the aggravation.'
'This sentence contradicts itself -- no actually it doesn't.'
"Some people have no respect for age unless it's bottled."
"I've never been drunk, but often I've been overserved."
"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of purge."
"For every credibility gap, there is a gullibility fill."
"Things equal to nothing else are equal to each other."
'Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.'
'We don't care how they do it in New York.'
"Conquest is easy. Control is not."
"I love your outfit, does it come in your size?"
"There must be more to life than having everything."
The best man for the job is often a woman.
'Ice Cream cures all ills. Temporarily.'
'Pie are not square. Pie are round. Cornbread are square.'
'Happiness is just an illusion, filled with sadness and confusion.'
'Beam me up, Scotty, there's no intelligent life down here!'
"Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature."
It was a brave man that ate the first oyster.
"Love thy neighbor as thyself, but choose your neighborhood."
"Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money."
We all dream of being the darling of everybody's darling.
modesty, n.:
"Not all who own a harp are harpers."
'Fine day to work off excess energy. Steal something heavy.'
Measure with a micrometer. Mark with chalk. Cut with an axe.
"The real trouble with reality is that there's no background music."
'Everyone is more or less mad on one point.'
'Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.'
"The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth."
'Man's reach must exceed his grasp, for why else the heavens?'
'Honk if you hate bumper stickers that say "Honk if ..."'
"I am not an Economist. I am an honest man!"
'We are drowning in information but starved for knowledge.'
'Support your local church or synagogue. Worship at Bank of America.'
"Lack of money is the root of all evil."
"There's so much to say but your eyes keep interrupting me."
"If you're uncertain of the answer do not ask the question."
"Of course there's no reason for it, it's just our policy."
'While having never invented a sin, I'm trying to perfect several.'
"You can't have everything... where would you put it?"
'Never drink from your finger bowl -- it contains only water.'
'Death is life's way of telling you you've been fired.'
'You cannot propel yourself forward by patting yourself on the back.'
"I'm prepared for all emergencies but totally unprepared for everyday life."
Good-bye. I am leaving because I am bored.
"No, `Eureka' is Greek for `This bath is too hot.'"
"Reality is bad enough, why should I tell the truth?"
Every creature has within him the wild, uncontrollable urge to punt.
'He who is content with his lot probably has a lot.'
"Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in."
'Anybody can win, unless there happens to be a second entry.'
'If it wasn't so warm out today, it would be cooler.'
My mother was a test tube; my father was a knife.
"Would it help if I got out and pushed?"
'A celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.'
patent:
'Change is always best, though it has the worst intentions.'
"Confession is good for the soul, but bad for the career."
"Love the sea? I dote upon it -- from the beach."
'The true value of something or someone depends entirely on what it is compared with.'
'God save the Queen because nothing will save the Govener General.'
Girls who throw themselves at men, are actually taking very careful aim.
God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.
'Nothing is so good that somebody, somewhere, will not hate it.'
'Learn to pause -- or nothing worthwhile can catch up to you.'
"An ounce of prevention is worth a ton of code."
character density, n.:
'Stinginess with privileges is kindness in disguise.'
"We have reason to be afraid. This is a terrible place."
"The test of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts."
'I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.'
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."
Once is happenstance,
"The best laid plans of mice and men are usually about equal."
'Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worthwhile.'
"War is like love, it always finds a way."
Let he who takes the plunge remember to return it by Tuesday.
'The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.'
A witty saying proves nothing, but saying something pointless gets people's attention.
'Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.'
May you die in bed at 95, shot by a jealous spouse.
"Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse."
"I prefer rogues to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest."
"The reward of a thing well done is to have done it."
"Better hope you get what you want before you stop wanting it."
'God, I ask for patience -- and I want it right now!'
'A failure will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.'
"Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket."
I demand the establishment of the government in its rightful home at Disneyland.
Neglect of duty does not cease, by repetition, to be neglect of duty.
'The man who understands one woman is qualified to understand pretty well everything.'
"No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it."
"Murphy's Law is recursive. Washing your car to make it rain doesn't work."
"He was a modest, good-humored boy. It was Oxford that made him insufferable."
It is very difficult to prophesy, especially when it pertains to the future.
"I sometimes think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability."
'It's easier to get forgiveness for being wrong than forgiveness for being right.'
"Can anyone remember when the times were not hard, and money not scarce?"
transfer, n.:
"I'm going to raise an issue and stick it in your ear."
"I get my exercise acting as pallbearer to my friends who exercise."
Minicomputer:
'I wouldn't be so paranoid if you weren't all out to get me!!'
"Love is the process of my leading you gently back to yourself."
'Absence makes the mind mistake what it remembers of matters of the heart.'
'Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off your goal.'
"Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders."
'Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know.'
Aren't you glad you're not getting all the government you pay for now?
"The sooner you fall behind, the more time you have to catch up."
'I put up my thumb... and it blotted out the planet Earth.'
"Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists."
Some scholars are like donkeys, they merely carry a lot of books.
It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.
"In a hierarchical organization, the higher the level, the greater the confusion."
I know you're in search of yourself, I just haven't seen you anywhere.
'The moss on the tree does not fear the talons of the hawk.'
The time for action is past! Now is the time for senseless bickering.
"Campus sidewalks never exist as the straightest line between two points."
Eighty percent of all people consider themselves to be above average drivers.
Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.
court, n.:
"I base my fashion taste on what doesn't itch."
"You can't evaluate a man by logic alone."
"The sun never sets on those who ride into it."
'Perdidit antiquum litera prima sonum.'
Oui n'a plus qu'un moment a vivre
'Dicebant mihi sodales si sepulchrum amicase visitarem
'Son coeur est un luth suspendu;
'Television has raised writing to a new low.'
Learning is a treasure which accompanies its owner everywhere
'When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.'
Beauregard's Law:
'Non ha l'ottimo artista alcun concetto
Criticise everything and praise nothing. Just hate everybody the same.
"Lots of people want to be schizophrenic. Why else is alcohol so popular?"
'Out of the mouths of babes comes half-digested food and dribble.'
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"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening - but this wasn't it"
-Chinese saying
-The Pretender
-William Grass
Average minds discuss events;
Small minds discuss people.'
-Mac Gudgeon
-muse(moose)
-John Keats
-Thomas Gray
-Silver Dreams
There is only fun and boring.'
One is silver, the other gold'
-The Minority Report
-Leonard Bernstein (The Unanswered Question)
-Aaron Copland
To want one is.'
-Aaron Copland
-Geoffrey Bocca
-Tim Fergerson
-John Keats
- Dorothy Auchterlonie [Dorothy Green]
-John Dryden (Epistle to Congreve)
-John Keats
-Sir Karl Popper
-Frank Hubbard
-Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon
-Heinich Heine
-Oscar Wilde
-The Sandman
-John Lennon
-The Sandman
-McCoy ("The Galileo Seven", stardate 2822.3)
-Douglas Hofstadter
-George Gobel
-R. Clopton
-Kirk ("Mirror, Mirror", stardate unknown)
-QOTD
-Maurice Sendak
-Seleznick's Theory of Holistic Medicine
-Rich Kulawiec
-Louise Beal
-Arthur Miller
Being comfortable that others will discover your greatness.
-Marcus Terentius Varro
-Rudyard Kipling
-Robert Heinlein
-A. Camus
-Paul McCracken
-John Naisbitt (Megatrends)
-George Bernard Shaw
-QOTD
- Steven Wright
-R. Geis
-George Saunders (dying words)
-Dr. Who
-Patrick Sky
-Snoopy
-Henry David Thoreau
-Friday
-Princess Leia Organa
A method of publicizing inventions so others can copy them.
-Paul Valery
-Pohl's law
-an anonymous programmer
The number of very weird people in the office.
-Guide to VAX/VMS Security, Sep. 1984
-John Berryman
-Aldo Leopold
-Plato
-Albert Einstein
Twice is coincidence,
Three times is enemy action.
-Auric Goldfinger
-Blair
-Ambrose Bierce
-Bertolt Brecht ('Mother Courage')
-Clifton Fadiman
-Jawaharlal Nehru
-Alexandre Dumas
-Emerson
-George Orwell
-Napoleon
-Yeats
-C. Schulz
-Oscar Wilde
A promotion you receive on the condition that you leave town.
-John Foreman
-Chauncey Depew
A computer that can be afforded on the budget of a middle-level manager.
-Saint Exupery
-Nietzsche
-Daniel J. Boorstin
-Neil Armstrong
-John Kenneth Galbraith
-Folk saying
-Dow's Law
-M. M. Johnston
-Grelb's Reminder
A place where they dispense with justice.
-Arthur Train
-Gilda Radner
-McCoy ("I, Mudd", stardate 4513.3)
-RKO
-(In reference to Orion, formerly Urion)
Na plus rien a dissimuler.
-Quinault (Atys)
curas meas aliquantulum fore levatas.'
-Ebn Zalat
Sitot qu'on le touche il resonne.'
-De Beranger
-Samiel Goldwyn (Hollywood film producer)
-Chinese proverb
-Ralph Emerson
When you're up to your nose, keep your mouth shut.
Che un marmo solo non circonscriva'
-Michael Angelo