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Sunday, January 13, 2013

One liners-6


The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.
Steven Weinberg
The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
Richard Buckminster Fuller
The English country gentleman galloping after a fox--the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
The first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
The first sign of a nervous breakdown is when you start thinking your work is terribly important.
Milo Bloom
The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.
Richard Cecil
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
Paul Valery (1871-1945)
The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
Winston Churchill, Sir (1874-1965)
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
Walter Bagehot
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
Robert G. Ingersoll
The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind
Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)
The hen is an egg's way of producing another egg.
Samuel Butler
The higher up you go, the more mistakes you are allowed. Right at the top, if you make enough of them, it's considered to be your style.
Fred Astaire
The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest.
Simone Weil
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
Henry Kissinger (1923- )
The illusion of progress can be achieved by simply rearranging the terms of description so that new acronyms are created.
Scott Smith , Sikorsky Test Pilot
The important thing in acting is to be able to laugh and cry. If I have to cry I think of my sex life. If I have to laugh, I think of my sex life.
Glenda Jackson
The fool doth think himself wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
William Shakespeare
The free-lance writer is the person who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.
Robert Benchley
The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions - which time and mediocrity can solve.
Hugh Trevor-Roper - Men and Events
The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.
James Baldwin
The good people sleep much better at night than the bad people. Of course, the bad people enjoy the waking hours much more.
Woody Allen (1935- )
The grass may be greener on the other side of the fence, but you still have to mow it.
Anonymous
The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
Charles de Gaulle, General (1890-1970)
The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.
Adolf Hitler
The great question - which I have not been able to answer - is, "What does a woman want?"
Sigmund Freud
The great tragedy of Science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
Thomas Henry Huxley

The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.
William Bragg, Sir
The innkeeper loves the drunkard, but not for a son-in-law.
Yiddish Proverb
The insatiate itch of scribbling.
William Gifford
The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.
Jean Cocteau (1889-1963)
The intelligent man is one who has successfully fulfilled many accomplishments, and is yet willing to learn more.
Ed Parker
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
The investigator should have a robust faith -- and yet not believe.
Claude Bernard (1813-1878) , French physiologist
The iron gate ground its teeth to let me pass!
Elizabeth Barret Browning
The Law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich, as well as the poor, to sleep under the bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
Anatole France
The least practical solutions have the best acronyms.
Charles Evans Hughes
The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction.
Michael Faraday
The life so short, the craft so long to learn.
Hippocrates
The little I know I owe to my ignorance.
Sacha Guitry (1885-1957)
The little things are most worthwhile - quiet word, a look, a smile.
Margaret Lindsey
The long term is really just a bunch of short terms taped together.
Nick Lappos
The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.
Henry Kissinger (1923- )
The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes
Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)
The magnitude of a problem can be gaged by the number of acronyms associated with its potential solutions.
Ed Dinsmore
The man for whom law exists -- the man of forms, the Conservative, is a tame man.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
he man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.
Mikhail Gorbachev , June 8, 1990
The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
William H. Borah
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
Pittacus
The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935)
The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) , Chessmaster, on the game's opening position
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
John Kenneth Galbraith
The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
Dag Hammarskjold
The more things change, the more they are the same.
Alphonse Karr
The more you say, the less people remember. The fewer the words, the greater the profit.
Felelon
The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.
Brandan Behan
The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.
Nathaniel Borenstein
The most merciful thing in the world ... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
H. P. Lovecraft
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization
Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)
The moving finger writes; and, having writ, moves on...
Omar Khayyam - The Rubaiyat
The NBA players are smart enough to know that you get the virus from unprotected sex, and we're not going to have unprotected sex on the basketball court.
Rony Seikaly , Golden State Warriors center, on the return to pro backetball of Los Angeles Lakers superstar Magic Johnson, who retired four years ago after testin
The news is the one thing the networks can point to with pride. Everything else they do is crap and they know it.
Fred Friendly
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault.
Henry Kissinger (1923- )
The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.
Andres S. Tannenbaum
The most important of all sciences man can and must learn is the science of living so as to do the least evil and the greatest possible good.
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)
The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
Virginia Woolf
The one on my board right now
Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959) , when asked which of his buildings was the most beautiful
The only motivation I need to write a musical is a phone call from the producer.
Cole Porter
The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.
Russell Baker
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
The only way to amuse some people is to slip and fall on an icy pavement.
Anonymous
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
Niels Bohr (1885-1962)
The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
Robert Oppenheimer
The origin of all science is the desire to know causes, and the origin of all false science and imposture is the desire to accept false causes rather than none; or, which is the same thing, in the unwillingness to acknowledge our own ignorance.
William Hazlitt
The pain passes, but the beauty remains.
Pierre Auguste Renoir
The paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace the hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.
Alfred Hitchcock
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
Frank Herbert
The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat.
Vilhjalmur Stefansson
The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
George Stephanopolous , Clinton's aide speaking on Larry King Live
The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
Roger Simon
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The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
Robert Frost (1874-1963)
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
The reward for a thing well done is to have done it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
Karl Marx
The right half of the brain controls the left half of the body. This means that only left handed people are in their right mind.
Anonymous
The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
Hubert H. Humphrey ]
The scientists split the atom; now the atom is splitting us.
Quentin Reynolds
The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
Groucho Marx (1895-1977)
The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.
Jean Giraudoux
The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
Aristotle Onassis (1906-1975)
The service life of a cobbled up fix is inversely proportional to the time required to slap it together.
Nick Lappos
The size of your problem is defined by your efforts to convince yourself that it's not a problem.
Nick Lappos
The Social Sciences are good at accounting for disasters once they have taken place.
Claude T. Bissell
The sports page records people's accomplishments; The front page nothing but their failures.
Jutice Earl Warren
The streets are safe in Philadelphia, it's only the people who make them unsafe.
Frank Rizzo
The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone.
Henrik Ibsen
The theoretical broadening which comes from having many humanities subjects on the campus is offset by the general dopiness of the people who study these things...
Richard Feynman
The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
Edward VIII, King
The Third World was not created randomly. Rest assured, they got themselves there the hard way.
Nick Micskey
The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.
Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965)
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
Anonymous
The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
Heywood Brown
The trick is to structure your question so that the answer No gets you what you want.
Lorren 'Rus' Stiles, Sr. , Comanche project pilot
The trouble with a kitten is that Eventually it becomes a Cat.
Ogden Nash
The trouble with out times is that the future is not what it used to be.
Paul Valery (1871-1945)
The trouble with the rat-race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
Lily Tomlin
The true art of memory is the art of attention.
Samuel Johnson
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Ann Landers
The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about.
William Hazlitt
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)
The truth is more important than the facts
Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)
The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
Brian Pickrell
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
Herbert Spencer
The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
W. Somerset Maugham
The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
Elizabeth Taylor
The progress of science is often affected more by the frailties of humans and their institutions than by the limitations of scientific measuring devices. The scientific method is only as effective as the humans using it. It does not automatically lead to
Steven S. Zumdahl
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
The question in life is not whether you get knocked down. You will. The question is, are you ready to get back up... and fight for what you believe in.
Dan Qualye
The real danger from advertising is that it helps to shatter and ultimately destroy our most precious non-material possessions: the confidence in the existence of meaningful purposes of human activity and respect for the integrity of man.
Paul Sweezy
The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.
Doris Day
The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Eden Phillpotts
The universe is laughing behind your back.
Anonymous
The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it unfriendly. It is simply indifferent.
John H. Holmes
The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.
Edsgar Dijkstra
The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
Joseph Addison (1672-1719)
The Vice Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.
Bill Vaughan
The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.
Adolf Hitler
The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
Paula Poundstone
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
The market is not an invention of capitalism. It has existed for centuries. It is an invention of civilization.
Mikhail Gorbachev , June 8, 1990
The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.
William H. Borah
The measure of a man is what he does with power.
Pittacus
The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841-1935)
The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) , Chessmaster, on the game's opening position
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
John Kenneth Galbraith
The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
Dag Hammarskjold
The more things change, the more they are the same.
Alphonse Karr
The more you say, the less people remember. The fewer the words, the greater the profit.
Felelon
The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.
Brandan Behan
The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.
Nathaniel Borenstein
The most merciful thing in the world ... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
H. P. Lovecraft
The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization
Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)
The moving finger writes; and, having writ, moves on...
Omar Khayyam - The Rubaiyat
The NBA players are smart enough to know that you get the virus from unprotected sex, and we're not going to have unprotected sex on the basketball court.
Rony Seikaly , Golden State Warriors center, on the return to pro backetball of Los Angeles Lakers superstar Magic Johnson, who retired four years ago after testin
The news is the one thing the networks can point to with pride. Everything else they do is crap and they know it.
Fred Friendly
The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault.
Henry Kissinger (1923- )
The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.
Andres S. Tannenbaum
The most important of all sciences man can and must learn is the science of living so as to do the least evil and the greatest possible good.
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)
The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.
Virginia Woolf
The one on my board right now
Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959) , when asked which of his buildings was the most beautiful
The only motivation I need to write a musical is a phone call from the producer.
Cole Porter
The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.
Russell Baker
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
The only way to amuse some people is to slip and fall on an icy pavement.
Anonymous
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
Niels Bohr (1885-1962)
The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
Robert Oppenheimer


The origin of all science is the desire to know causes, and the origin of all false science and imposture is the desire to accept false causes rather than none; or, which is the same thing, in the unwillingness to acknowledge our own ignorance.
William Hazlitt

The pain passes, but the beauty remains.
Pierre Auguste Renoir
The paperback is very interesting, but I find it will never replace the hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop.
Alfred Hitchcock
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
Frank Herbert
The philosophers of the Middle Ages demonstrated both that the Earth did not exist and also that it was flat. Today they are still arguing about whether the world exists, but they no longer dispute about whether it is flat.
Vilhjalmur Stefansson
The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.
George Stephanopolous , Clinton's aide speaking on Larry King Live
The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.
Roger Simon
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
Robert Frost (1874-1963)
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
The reward for a thing well done is to have done it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
Karl Marx
The right half of the brain controls the left half of the body. This means that only left handed people are in their right mind.
Anonymous
The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
Hubert H. Humphrey ]
The scientists split the atom; now the atom is splitting us.
Quentin Reynolds
The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.
Groucho Marx (1895-1977)
The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.
Jean Giraudoux
The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
Aristotle Onassis (1906-1975)
The service life of a cobbled up fix is inversely proportional to the time required to slap it together.
Nick Lappos
The size of your problem is defined by your efforts to convince yourself that it's not a problem.
Nick Lappos
The Social Sciences are good at accounting for disasters once they have taken place.
Claude T. Bissell
The sports page records people's accomplishments; The front page nothing but their failures.
Jutice Earl Warren
The streets are safe in Philadelphia, it's only the people who make them unsafe.
Frank Rizzo
The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone.
Henrik Ibsen
The theoretical broadening which comes from having many humanities subjects on the campus is offset by the general dopiness of the people who study these things...
Richard Feynman
The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children.
Edward VIII, King
The Third World was not created randomly. Rest assured, they got themselves there the hard way.
Nick Micskey
The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.
Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965)
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it.
Anonymous
The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins.
Heywood Brown
The trick is to structure your question so that the answer No gets you what you want.
Lorren 'Rus' Stiles, Sr. , Comanche project pilot
The trouble with a kitten is that Eventually it becomes a Cat.
Ogden Nash
The trouble with out times is that the future is not what it used to be.
Paul Valery (1871-1945)
The trouble with the rat-race is that even if you win, you're still a rat.
Lily Tomlin
The true art of memory is the art of attention.
Samuel Johnson
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
Ann Landers
The truly proud man knows neither superiors or inferiors. The first he does not admit of - the last he does not concern himself about.
William Hazlitt
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)
The truth is more important than the facts
Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)
The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity. But not in that order.
Brian Pickrell
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
Herbert Spencer
The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
W. Somerset Maugham
The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
Elizabeth Taylor
The progress of science is often affected more by the frailties of humans and their institutions than by the limitations of scientific measuring devices. The scientific method is only as effective as the humans using it. It does not automatically lead to
Steven S. Zumdahl
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
The question in life is not whether you get knocked down. You will. The question is, are you ready to get back up... and fight for what you believe in.
Dan Qualye
The real danger from advertising is that it helps to shatter and ultimately destroy our most precious non-material possessions: the confidence in the existence of meaningful purposes of human activity and respect for the integrity of man.
Paul Sweezy
The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.
Doris Day
The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Eden Phillpotts
The universe is laughing behind your back.
Anonymous
The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it unfriendly. It is simply indifferent.
John H. Holmes
The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.
Edsgar Dijkstra
The utmost extent of man's knowledge, is to know that he knows nothing.
Joseph Addison (1672-1719)
The Vice Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won't take it, but somebody always does.
Bill Vaughan
The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.
Adolf Hitler
The wages of sin are death, but by the time taxes are taken out, it's just sort of a tired feeling.
Paula Poundstone
The wheel is come full circle.
William Shakespeare - King Lear
The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone.
Stella Adler - Lady Stella Reading
The will to win is worthless if you don't get paid for it.
Reggie Jackson
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
Benjamin Disraeli
The words walked right out of my mouth.
James Brady
The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him.
Claude Levi-Strauss
The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
Horace
The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
Robert Frost (1874-1963)
The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.
Joseph Joubert
The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation.
Pearl S. Buck
There are four kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) - The Devil's Dictionary, 1911
There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them.
Heisenberg
There are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics.
Benjamin Disraeli
There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians.
Georges Pompidou
There are three schools of magic. One: State a tautology, then ring the changes on its corollaries; that's philosophy. Two: Record many facts. Try to find a pattern. Then make a wrong guess at the next fact; that's science. Three: Be aware that you live i
Fortune
There are times when parenthood seems nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you.
Peter De Vries
There are trivial truths, and there are great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.
Niels Bohr
There are two major products to come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
AnonymousThere are two means of refuge from the misery of life - music and cats.
Albert Schweitzer
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.
Francois de La Rouchefoucald , Duc de La Rouchefoucald
There are, of course, several things in Ontario that are more dangerous than wolves. For instance, the step-ladder.
J. W. Curran
There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the tail and face the situation.
W. C. Fields
There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
Fred Hoyle
There is a country in Europe where multiple-choice tests are illegal.
Sigfried Hulzer
There is a melancholy that stems from greatness.
Chamfort
There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
Frank Zappa
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Gandhi
There is no cause so right that one cannot find a fool following it.
Niven's Law # 16
There is no course of life so weak and sottish as that which is managed by order, method, and discipline.
Michel de Montaigne
There is no good arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.
James Russell Lowell
There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.
Helen Keller
There is no problem so complex that it cannot simply be blamed on the pilot.
Earl Wiener , Human Factors Society President
There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
Ken Olson , President, Chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977
There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
There is no substitute for hard work.
Thomas Edison
There is no sweeter sound than the crumbling of your fellow man.
Groucho Marx (1895-1977)
There is nothing in this world constant but inconstancy.
Swift
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order to things.
N. Machiavelli
There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result.
Winston Churchill, Sir (1874-1965)
There is nothing more uncommon than common sense
Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)
There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus
There is nothing so annoying as to have two people talking when you're busy interrupting.
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend the whole.
Bill Wulf
There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
There might be some credit in being jolly.
Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
There never was night that had no morn.
Dinah Mulock Craik
There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.
Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965)
There were so many stories around, it was almost inevitable some of them would turn out to be true.
Nigel Evans , Majesty magazine editor, explaining a string of accurate stories about the royal family in the London tabloids
There, that is our secret: go to sleep! You will wake, and remember, and understand.
Elizabeth Barret Browning

There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me.
John Erskine
There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot.
Steven Wright
There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want.
Bill Watterson - Calvin and Hobbes
There's no fool like an old fool -- you can't beat experience.
Jacob Braude
There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.
Will Rogers (1879-1935)
There's nothing better than good sex. But bad sex? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich is better than bad sex.
Billy Joel
There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.
Robert L. Stanfield
These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equaled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.
Alfred Hitchcock
These people have served a longer sentence than some people who have committed murder.
Jeff Greenfield , news analyst, describing the jury in the OJ Simpson murder trial, 1995
They say a reasonable amount o' fleas is good for a dog--keeps him from broodin' over bein' a bog, mebbe.
Edward Noyes Westcott
They say miracles are past.
William Shakespeare - All's Well that Ends Well
They talk most who have the least to say.
Mathew Prior
They think they can make fuel from horse manure.... Now, I don't know if your car will be able to get 30 miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.
Billie Holliday
They were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Naturally they became heroes.
Anonymous
They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Edgar Allen Poe - Eleonora
They've got us surrounded again... the poor bastards!
Creighton W. Abrams, General
Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Think, or be damned.
Bryan Penton
Think? Why think! We have computers to do that for us.
Jean Rostand
This is the very coinage of your brain.
William Shakespeare - Hamlet
This is the way the world ends. Not with a bang but a whimper.
T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)
This is very true: For my words are my own, and my actions are my ministers.
Charles II
This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.
Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958) , upon reading a young physicist's paper
This secret spoke Life herself unto me: "Behold," said she, "I am that which must ever surpass itself."
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
This very moment is a seed from which the flowers of tomorrow's happiness grow.
Margaret Lindsey
Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others.
Groucho Marx (1895-1977)
Those who attain to any excellence commonly spend life in some single pursuit, for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.
Samuel Johnson
There are no signposts in the sky to show a man has passed that way before. There are no channels marked. The flier breaks each second into new uncharted seas.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
There are no such things as applied sciences, only applications of science.
Louis Pasteur
There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them.
Emile Chartier
There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings.
Hodding Carter
There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors.
Jim Morrison , singer of The DoorsTime is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.
Anonymous
Time is the great legalizer, even in the field of morals.
Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)
Time passes irrevocably.
Virgil
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
Those who flee temptation generally leave a forwarding address.
Lane Olinghouse
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
Alex Hamilton
Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug.
Jon Lithgow
Time wounds all heels.
Groucho Marx (1895-1977)
Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.
John Lennon
Tip the world on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles
Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)
To be great is to be misunderstood.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
To be loved, be lovable.
Ovid
To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit the target.
Ashleigh Brilliant
To decide, to be at the level of choice, is to take responsibility for your life and to be in control of your life.
Abbie M. Dale
To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
To err is human, to forgive, divine.
Alexander Pope
To err is human--and to blame it on a computer is even more so.
Orben - Current Comedy
To expect defeat is nine-tenths of defeat itself.
Francis Crawford
To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow, the coup de Grace for the painter as well as for the picture.
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
To hold a pen is to be at war.
Voltaire (1694-1778)
To laugh at men of sense is the privilege of fools.
Anonymous
To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me.
Charles William Stubbs
To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
To those who think that the law of gravity interferes with their freedom, there is nothing to say.
Lionel Tiger
Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic
Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
James F. Byrnes
Too much of a good thing is wonderful.
Mae West (1892-1980)
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.
Mel Brooks
Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
True friendship is never serene.
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal
Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.
Benjamin Spock, Dr. , American pediatrician, address to new parents
Truth in science can be defined as the working hypothesis best suited to open the way to the next better one.
Konrad Lorenz
Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
Truth is more of a stranger than fiction.
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
Matthew Arnold
Try not to have a good time...this is supposed to be educational.
Charles Schultz
Try to be the best of what you are, even if what you are is no good.
Ashleigh Brilliant
Try to relax and enjoy the crisis.
Ashleigh Brilliant
Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts.
Serge Gainsbourg
Understanding is a kind of ecstasy.
Carl Sagan
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
William Shakespeare - Henry IV Part I
Value your words. Each one may be the last.
Stanislaw J. Lec
Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) , Chessmaster
Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
Virtue is its own reward, but then so is sin!
Anonymous
Virtuous and vicious every man must be, few in the extreme, but all in the degree.
Alexander Pope
Visions of glory, spare my aching sight...
Thomas Gray
Voters quickly forget what a man says.
Richard M. Nixon (1913-1994) , Former U.S. President
Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour.
Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868)
Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.
George S. Patton, General (1885-1945)
We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?
Niels Bohr (1885-1962)
We all are worms, but I do believe I am a glow worm.
Winston Churchill, Sir (1874-1965)
We all know how stupid the average person is. Now realize that, by definition, fifty percent of the population is dumber than that.
Ivan Stang
We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire.
Francois de La Rouchefoucald , Duc de La Rouchefoucald
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
We are dancing on a volcano.
Comte De Salvandy
We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a very grave danger they will be misinterpreted.
H. R. Haldeman , testifying in his own defense
We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
We are in such a slump that even the ones that aren't drinkin' aren't hittin'.
Casey Stengel
We are more important than the Catholic religion.
Juan Antonio Samaranch , International Olympic Committee president, on the significance of the Games
We are no more than candles burning in the wind.
Japanese Proverb
We are not abandoning our convictions, our philosophy or traditions, nor do we urge anyone to abandon theirs.
Mikhail Gorbachev
We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
Douglas MacArthur, General (1880-1964)
We are wiser than we know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
We boil at different degrees.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.
Helen Keller
We can take an aircraft clear to the battlefield without bending tin.
Warren E. Richeson , MDHC Simulation Lab Manager
We can't all be heroes because someone has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.
Will Rogers (1879-1935)
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
We compound our suffering by victimizing each other.
Athol Fugard
We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.
Francois de La Rouchefoucald , Duc de La Rouchefoucald
We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
Vince Lombardi
We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language. Language is not simply a reporting device for experience but a defining framework for it.
Benjamin Whorf
We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read.
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
We have had an Imperial lesson; it may make us an Empire yet!
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.
John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
Blaise Pascal - Thoughts, Chap. x. 1., Translated by O. W. Wight
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex - but Congress can.
Cullen Hightower
We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.
Jean de La Bruyere
We never reflect how pleasant it is to ask for nothing.
Seneca (3 B.C. - 65 A.D.)
We only part to meet again.
John Gay
We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.
Phyllis Diller
We think caged birds sing, when indeed they cry.
John Webster
We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.
Nick Faldo
We who are about to die, are going to take one hell of a lot of the bastards with us.
Joel Rosenberg - The Silver Crown
We will either find a way or make one.
Hannibal
We will hang you, never fear, most politely, most politely.
W. S. Gilbert, Sir
Weakness of character is the only defect that cannot be amended.
Francois de La Rouchefoucald , Duc de La Rouchefoucald
Weaseling out of things is good. It's what separates us from the other animals....except weasels.
Homer Simpson , character from The Simpsons, U.S. animated television show
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.
Martin Fraquhar Tupper
We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones.
Andrew A. Rooney
We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees.
Jason Kidd , upon his drafting to the Dallas Mavericks
We're our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.
Tom Robbins
We've eliminated what is undesirable and kept what is good.
James Chu , Computer scientist, whose China Internet Corp. is building an "intranet" that limits access to non-Chinese parts of the Net
What do you take me for, an idiot?
Charles de Gaulle, General (1890-1970) , when a journalist asked him if he was happy
What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
What garlic is to food, insanity is to art.
Anonymous
What have they done to you my poor child?
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)
What if it was cats who invented technology... would they have TV shows starring rubber squeak toys?
Douglas Coupland
What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists?
Woody Allen (1935- )
What is history but a fable agreed upon?
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
Crowfoot , Blackfoot warrior and orator, 1890
What is moral is what you feel good after.
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
What is my loftiest ambition? I've always wanted to throw an egg at an electric fan.
Anonymous
What is now proved was once only imagined.
William Blake
What is the use of a book", thought Alice, "without pictures or conversations?"
Lewis Carroll
What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself.
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
What matters is not the length of the wand, but the magic in the stick.
Anonymous
What passes for optimism is most often the effect of an intellectual error.
Raymond Aron - The Opium of the Intellectuals
What price Glory?
Maxwell Anderson
What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?
Ursula K. LeGuin
What the Caterpiller calls the end of the world, the Master calls a butterfly.
Richard Bach - Illusions
What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens.
Benjamin Disraeli
What we call "morals" is simply blind obedience to words of command.
Havelock Ellis
What would you attempt to do if you knew you would not fail?
Robert Schuller
What you don't know would make a great book.
Sydney Smith
What! All this for a song?
William Cecil - Lord Burleigh
Whatever one man is capable of conceiving, other men will be able to achieve.
Jules Verne
Whatever you are from nature, keep to it; never desert your own line of talent. Be what nature intended you for, and you will succeed; be anything else, and you will be ten thousands times worse than nothing.
Sydney Smith
Whatever you want too much you can't have, so when you really want something, try to want it a little less.
Joel Rosenberg - The Sleeping Dragon
What broke in a man when he could bring himself to kill another?
Alan Paton
What can you say about a society that says that god is dead and Elvis is alive?
Irv Kupcinet
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Dwight D. EisenhowerWhen angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.Mark Twain (1835-1910)
When better business decisions are made, economists won't make them.H. V. Prochnow
When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.Mae West (1892-1980)
When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones.
Peter DeVries
When I don't take a decision, it's not that I don't think about it. I think about it and take a decision not to take a decision.
P. V. Narasimha Rao , Outgoing Indian Prime Minister, defending his reputation for indecisiveness
When I grow up, I want to be an honest lawyer so things like that can't happen.
Richard M. Nixon (1913-1994) , Former U.S. President, while still young on Teapot Dome scandal
When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods.
Leon Battista Alberti
When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.
Seneca (3 B.C. - 65 A.D.)
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But, when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.
Mark Twain (1835-1910)
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
Richard Buckminster Fuller
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