Monday, February 9, 2009

Witty quotes and sayings

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

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

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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

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

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 words is 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

Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
- W. C. Fields

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