Quotable Quotes

[drron]

‘Ah, General,I'm so sorry, you'll have to find a new enemy.’

Mikhail Gorbachev to Colin Powell.

 

[tk14]

Anyway... Attitude is not about whether the glass is half full or half empty, it's about who is paying for the next round.

 

[Foreigner]

"Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change."

Malcolm X, Malcolm X Speaks, 1965
US black nationalist leader (1925 - 1965)

 

[drron]

William Shakespeare.

 

[anat0l]

"I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead."

- Mark Twain

 

[anat0l]

"An Italian man kissed me on both cheeks as I was leaving. I was tying my shoelaces."

- Woody Allen

 

[Foreigner]

"In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress."

- John Adams, US President

Few other worthy quotes here:

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/08/19/politics/politicians-best-lines/

 

[drron]

And from Spike Milligan-

Chopsticks are one reason why the Chinese didn't invent custard.

I only want a chance to prove money doesn't make you happy.

 

[JohnM]

Awards are like haemorrhoids - sooner or later every @rsehole gets one. - anon.

 

[Foreigner]

Yehudi Menuhin, in 1991 when awarded the prestigious Wolf Prize by the Israeli Government, in his acceptance speech in the Knesset in which he criticised Israel's continued occupation of the West Bank:

"This wasteful governing by fear, by contempt for the basic dignities of life, this steady asphyxiation of a dependent people, should be the very last means to be adopted by those who themselves know too well the awful significance, the unforgettable suffering of such an existence. It is unworthy of my great people, the Jews, who have striven to abide by a code of moral rectitude for some 5,000 years, who can create and achieve a society for themselves such as we see around us but can yet deny the sharing of its great qualities and benefits to those dwelling amongst them."

 

[JohnM]

It's not the number of breaths you take -

It's what takes your breath away.

- anon.

 

[flyrod]

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.”

- Upton Sinclair

 

[Foreigner]

"The important thing is not to stop questioning."

- Albert Einstein

 

[flyrod]

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."
-Albert Einstein

 

[anat0l]

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."
-Albert Einstein

A similar one oft quoted, which is as funny as it is true...

"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning."
- Rick Cook

 

[drron]

Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier."

-- Mother Teresa,​

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[Foreigner]

“ Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience. ”
— Elbert Hubbard

(Quoted from Forbes.com online)

 

[mrs.dr.ron]

 

[drron]

I never dreamed about success.I worked for it.
Estee Lauder.

 

[Foreigner]

“A comfortable home is a great source of happiness. It ranks immediately after health and a good conscience."

- Sydney Smith