Saturday, January 23, 2010

Famous quotes, witty quotes, and funny quotations 2



"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)




"There are no facts, only interpretations."
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)




"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)



"The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense."
- Edsgar Dijkstra (1930-2002)




"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 (1913-1996)




"Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back."
- Paul Erdos (1913-1996)




"Try to learn something about everything and everything about something."
- Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895)



"Dancing is silent poetry."
- Simonides (556-468bc)




"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)




"Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn."
- Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947-)




"Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain."
- Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805)



"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




"I have nothing to declare except my genius."
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) upon arriving at U.S. customs 1882




"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




"Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake a whole relationship."
- Sharon Stone




"If you are going through hell, keep going."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)



"He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'."
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)




"Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions."
- Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)

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