Miscellaneous Quotations

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"We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it."

-William Osler

"Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded."

-Fulton J. Sheen

"The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another."

-James Matthew Barrie

"When I gave food to the poor, they called me a saint. When I asked why the poor were hungry, they called me a communist."

-Dom Helder Camara

"Sleazy entertainment and dirty jokes will never be as popular as sobriety and self-denial."

-Marge Simpson

"Consciousness -- that annoying time between naps."

-unknown

"After they make styrofoam, what do they ship it in?"

-unknown

"Age and treachery will always overcome youth and skill."

-unknown

"I hate and love. And if you should ask how I can do both, I couldn't say; but I feel it, and it shivers me."

-Catullus

"It is no victory unless the vanquished foe admits your mastery."

-Claudian

"The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for."

-Homer

"Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together."

-George Lichtenberg

"If we keep doing what we're doing, we're going to keep getting what we're getting."

-Stephen Covey

"A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do you know that his future will not be equal to our present?"

-Confuciu

"Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things."

-Peter Drucker

"Oh God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!"

-William Shakespeare

"Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious."

-George Bernard Shaw

"There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit"

-Alexander Pope

"Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but unlike charity, it should end there."

-Clare Boothe Luce

"A perfect method for adding drama to life is to wait until the deadline looms large."

-Alyce P. Cornyn-Selby

"It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper."

-Errol Flynn

"I am responsible only to God and history."

-Francisco Franco

"A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age."

-Robert Frost

"The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity. To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task."

-Nietzsche

"There ought to be limits to freedom."

-George W. Bush, commenting on an anti-Bush website

"Life in Lubbock, Texas taught me two things. One is that God loves you and you're going to burn in hell. The other is that sex is the most awful, dirty thing on the face of the earth and you should save it for someone you love."

-Butch Hancock

"Electricity lets us heat our homes, cook our food, and enjoy security and entertainment. It also can kill you if you're not careful."

-"Energy Notes", San Diego Gas & Electric Co.

"Whatsoever things I see or hear concerning the life of men, in my attendance on the sick or even apart therefrom, which ought not be noised about, I will keep silence thereon, counting such things to be as sacred secrets."

-From the Hippocratic Oath

"My work is a game, a very serious game."

-M. C. Escher

"In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it."

-unknown

"Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess."

-Oscar Wilde

"I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure."

-John D. Rockefeller

"The voices in my head, which I used to think were just passing through, seem to have taken up residence."

-Elizabeth Wurtzel

"In America only the successful writer is important, in France all writers are important, in England no writer is important, and in Australia you have to explain what a writer is."

-Geoffrey Cottrell

"Virtue herself is her own fairest reward."

-Silius Italicus

"Illegitimis non carborundum. (Don't let the bastards grind you down)"

-Gen. Joseph Stilwell