| Why did the Mafia kill Einstein? He knew too much. |
| "Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a
living; the other helps you make a life." |
| If riding in an airplane is flying, then riding in a boat is
swimming. If you want to experience the element, get out of the vehicle. |
| Ever notice that even the busiest people are never too busy to
tell you just how busy they are? |
| The only weapon that becomes sharper with constant use is the
tongue. |
| If you sing country music backwards, you get your job and your
wife back. |
| Someone who thinks of himself as a wit is usually half right. |
| Why not move the political conventions to one of the winter
months so all that hot air won't go to waste? |
| Before Xerox, five carbons were the maximum extension of
anybody's ego. |
| Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise person to be
able to sell it. |
| Don't worry over what other people are thinking about you.
They're too busy worrying over what you are thinking about them. |
| Four out of five people hate being surveyed. |
| It is only possible to live happily-ever-after on a day-to-day
basis. |
| Sometimes I need what only you can provide - Your absence. |
| Never offend people with style when you can offend them with
substance. |
| I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian
because I hate plants. |
| Love does not die easily. It is a living thing. It thrives in
the face of all of life's hazards, save one -- neglect. |
| Anything worth having is worth working for. |
| The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which
could presume to violate it. |
| There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and
having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematicians that four is twice two. But two
is not twice one; two is two thousand times one. That is why, in spite of a thousand
disadvantages, the world will always turn return to monogamy. |
| It does not pay a prophet to be too specific. |
| Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without
losing your enthusiasm. |
| Literature is the art of writing something that will be read
twice; journalism what will be grasped at once. |
| We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep
inside us is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch. Once
we believe in ourselves we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight or any
experience that reveals the human spirit. |
| To be nobody-but-yourself -- in a world which is doing its
best, night and day, to make you everybody else -- means to fight the hardest battle which
any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. |
| I don't like spinach, and I'm glad I don't, because if I liked
it I'd eat it, and I just hate it. |
There's nothing I like less than bad arguments
for a view that
I hold dear. |
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it,
doesn't
go away. |
| People who don't vote have no line of credit with people who
are elected. |
| The reason that the all American boy prefers beauty to brains
is that he can see better than he can think. |
| It was not so long ago that people thought that semiconductors
were part-time orchestra leaders and microchips were very, very small snack foods. |
My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits
with my net
income. |
| Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are
extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people. |
| For me the initial delight is in the surprise
of remembering
something I didn't know I knew. I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew.
Writing...is discovering. |
| A poem begins with a lump in the throat. |
| I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell
in his own way. |
| Everything you've learned in school as "obvious"
becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are
no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute
continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines. |
| You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it
within himself. |
| I do not feel obliged to believe that same God who endowed us
with sense, reason, and intellect had intended for us to forego their use. |
| I'm proud of paying taxes. The only thing is --- I could be
just as proud for half the money. |
| He who seeks for applause only from without has all his
happiness in another's keeping. |
| When one loves somebody, everything is clear - where to go,
what to do - it all takes care of itself and one doesn't have to ask anybody about
anything. |
| The longer the excuse, the less likely it's the truth. |
| Being right too soon is socially unacceptable. |
| The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. |
| Beware how you take away hope from any human being. |
| The great tragedy of Science -- the slaying of a beautiful
hypothesis by an ugly |
| What we know of the past is mostly not worth knowing. What is
worth knowing is mostly uncertain. Events in the past may roughly be divided into those
which probably never happened and those which do not matter. |
| Great minds have purposes, little minds have wishes. |
| If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of
civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. |
| The stakes are much too high for government to be a spectator
sport. |
| A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut
the rope and be free. |
| If you think you're too small to have an impact, try going to
bed with a mosquito in the room. |
| When we say "War is over if you want it," we mean
that if everyone demanded peace instead of another TV set, we'd have peace. |
| The New England Journal of Medicine reports that 9 out of 10
doctors agree that 1 out of 10 doctors is an idiot. |
| Humanity does not pass through phases as a train passes through
stations: being alive, it has the privilege of always moving yet never leaving anything
behind. |
| Law begins when someone takes to doing something someone else
doesn't like. |
| The one man who should never attempt an explanation on poetry
is its author. If the poem can be improved by its author's explanations it never should
have been published. |
| From the earliest times the old have rubbed it into the young
that they are wiser than they, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was
they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture. |
| The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an
error is identical with the discovery of truth--that the error and truth are simply
opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it is cured on one
error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one. |
| An age is called Dark, not because the light fails to shine,
but because people refuse to see it. |
| He's a man way out there in the blue, riding on a smile and a
shoeshine. And when they start not smiling back -- that's an earthquake...A salesman is
got to dream, boy. It comes with the territory. |
| A sex symbol becomes a thing. I hate being a thing. |
| Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real
toads. |
| Meaning is not thought up and then written down. The act of
writing is an act of thought. All writing is experimental in the beginning. It is an
attempt to solve a problem, to find a meaning, to discover its own way towards a meaning. |
| It's a funny thing, the more I practice the luckier I get. |
| Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
|
| I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead
of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time
looking for the paper I wrote it down on. |
| When you come right down to it all you have is yourself. The
sun is a thousand rays in your belly. All the rest is nothing. |
| I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends call
it. |
| Great Literature is simply language charged with meaning to the
utmost possible degree. |
| If hard work were really a virtue, then mules would be saints. |
| Two step formula for handling stress: 1. Don't sweat the small stuff.
2. Remember that it's all small stuff. |
| It is far easier to be wise for others than to be so for
oneself. |
| Never assume the obvious is true. |
| I was about half in love with her by the time we sat down.
That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they're not
much to look at, or even if they're sort of stupid, you fall half in love with them, and
then you never know where the hell you are. |
| We have a Bill of Rights, which protects each of us from a
bullying society, but no Bill of Responsibilities, which would oblige us to answer to the
needs of others. |
| A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great
idea will keep you awake during the night. |
| Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and
more violent. It takes a touch of genius--and a lot of courage--to move in the opposite
direction. |
| A man's interest in the world is only an overflow from his
interest in himself. |
| To find in ourselves what makes life worth living is risky
business, for it means that once we know we must seek it. It also means that without it,
life will be valueless. |
| It takes a lot of time to be a genius, you have to sit around
so much doing nothing, really doing nothing. |
| Time is a companion that goes with us on a journey. It reminds
us to cherish each moment, because it will never come again. What we leave behind is not
as important as how we have lived. |
| We do not walk on our legs, but on our Will. |
| Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired. |
| The art of medicine consists of
amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. |
| There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil.
The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I
hope they are organized along the lines of the Mafia. |
| The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf. It's
almost a law. |
| Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a
little than to break. |
| I have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is:
I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that
differentiate me from a doormat. |
| Imagination is a quality given a man to compensate him for what
he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is. |
| No amount of sophistication is going to allay the fact that all
your knowledge is about the past and all your decisions are about the future. |
| Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known
to him by heart; and his friends could only read the title. |
| Television is chewing gum for the eyes. |
| When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading. |
| Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff. |
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If there is a worse time for something to go wrong,
it will happen
then.
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I want to die in my sleep like my grandfather
...Not screaming and
yelling like the passengers in his car.
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If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked
something.
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Warning: Dates in Calendar are closer than they appear.
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When you do a good deed, get a receipt,
in case heaven is like the
IRS.
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We are born naked, wet and hungry. Then things get worse.
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He who laughs last thinks slowest.
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Always remember you're unique, just like everyone else.
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Consciousness: that annoying time between naps.
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If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
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I souport publik edekasion
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The sex was so good that even the neighbors had a cigarette.
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Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view.
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There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
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Tell me what you need, and I'll tell you
how to get along with out
it.
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My reality check bounced.
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Everybody is somebody else's weirdo...
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Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down
to their level then
beat you with experience.
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I do whatever my rice Krispies tell me to.
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Heart attacks--Gods revenge for eating
his animal friends.
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Saw it...Wanted it...Had a fit...Got it!
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BEER: It's not just for breakfast anymore.
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The more you complain, the longer God makes you live.
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One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor.
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Never underestimate the power of stupid
people in large groups.
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Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
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