Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Good Quotes

  • Smart girls know how to play tennis, piano and dumb. - Lynn Redgrave
  • When they told me that by the year 2100 woman would rule the world, my reply was “still?” – Winston Churchill
  • The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
  • I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it. -Garrison Keillor
  • Reality is something you rise above
  • Faith is believing in something when common sense tells you not to.
  • Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.
  • You don't have to suffer to be a poet; adolescence is enough suffering for anyone.
  • The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it.
  • There's no fool like an old fool --- you can't beat experience.
  • Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.
  • DISOBEDIENCE, n. The silver lining to the cloud of servitude. Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
  • Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.
  • Proud to be a freak!
  • The Intelligent Human's Guide to Cows and Politics Socialism -- You have two cows--give one to your neighbor. Communism -- You have two cows. Give them both to the government. Government gives you milk. Fascism -- Government shoots you and takes cows. New Dealism -- Government shoots one cow, milks the other and pours the milk down the sink. Capitalism -- Slaughter cow. Compete with McDonald's. Anarchism -- Keep cows. Shoot government. Steal another cow. Conservatism -- Freeze milk. Nuke cows. Liberalism -- Give milk back to cows. Let them escape.
  • If you love something, set it free. If it comes back to you, it is yours. If it doesn't, it never was.
  • If you love something, set it on fire. If it survives, then it is yours. If it doesn't, bon appetit.
  • Give a man match, and he'll be warm for a minute. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
  • Only two things are infinite: the universe, and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. -Albert Einstein (1897-1955)
  • England and America are two countries separated by a common language

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