Quotes

"Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we make ourselves happy, but how we make ourselves worthy of happiness." -- Immanual Kant

"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher regard those who think alike than those who think differently." -- Nietzche

I know that you believe you understand what you think I said but, I'm not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.

"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true." -- James Branch Cabell

"Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." -- T.S. Eliot

"A politician is a fellow who will lay down your life for his country." -- "Texas" (Mary Louise Cecilia) Guinan

"If ignorance is bliss, then why aren't more people happy?" -- Unknown, from CS Sun lab

"Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again." -- Franklin P. Jones

"Happiness is just an illusion caused by the temporary absence of reality." -- Anonymous

"No good deed goes unpunished." -- Clare Boothe Luce

"Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation." -- Edward R. Murrow

"The reward for a thing well done is to have done it." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces." -- Sigmund Freud

"Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate." -- Henry David Thoreau, Walden

"Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them." -- Adlai Ewing Stevenson (II)

"Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future." -- Niels Bohr

"Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but unlike charity, it should end there." -- Clare Boothe Luce

"It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent." -- Vincent van Gogh

"Never part with your illusions. Without dreams you may continue to exist, but you have ceased to live." -- Mark Twain

"The lust for power is not rooted in strength, but in weakness." -- Eric Fromm

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." -- Albert Einstein

"I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves." -- Ludwig Wittgenstein

"Black holes are where God divided by zero." -- Steven Wright

"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." -- Arthur Schopenhauer

"There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life." -- Frank Zappa

"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome." -- Isaac Asimov

"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity." -- Albert Einstein

"The mistakes are all waiting to be made." -- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower on the game's opening position

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." -- Albert Einstein

"The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people." -- Lucille S. Harper

"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his." -- General George Patton

"When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before." -- Mae West

"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?" -- Abraham Lincoln

"How can I lose to such an idiot?" -- A shout from chessmaster Aaron Nimzovich

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." -- Mark Twain

"A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted." -- Helen Rowland

"Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done." -- Carl Friedrich Gauss, while working, when informed that his wife is dying

Computers follow your orders, not your intentions.

"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense." -- Tom Clancy

"There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher." -- Flannery O'Connor

"God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time." -- Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair

"Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other." -- Oscar Ameringer

"Pray, n:. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner, confessedly unworthy." -- Ambrose Bierce

"Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies." -- Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan

"We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction." -- General Douglas MacArthur

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."  -- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"The danger in life is not that we aim too high and miss. The problem is that we aim too low and hit the mark."  -- Michelangelo

"My grandfather once told me there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group; there was much less competition." -- Indira Ghandi

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