All quotes

"Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo."
- H. G. Wells (1866-1946)

"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever."
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

"The fundamental cause of trouble in the world is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt."
- Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)

"Victory goes to the player who makes
the next-to-last mistake."
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch
Tartakower (1887-1956)

"Don't be so humble - you are not that
great."
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting
diplomat

"His ignorance is encyclopedic"
- Abba Eban (1915-2002)

"If a man does his best, what else is
there?"
- General George S. Patton (1885-1945)

"Political correctness is tyranny with
manners."
- Charlton Heston (1924-2008)

"You can avoid reality, but you cannot
avoid the consequences of avoiding
reality."
- Ayn Rand (1905-1982)

"When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity; when many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion."
- Robert Pirsig (1948-)

"Sex and religion are closer to each
other than either might prefer."
- Saint Thomas More (1478-1535)

"I can write better than anybody who
can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better."
- A. J. Liebling (1904-1963)

"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid."
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855)

"Give me chastity and continence, but not yet."
- Saint Augustine (354-430)

"Not everything that can be counted
counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

"You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you."
- Leon Trotsky (1879-1940)

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."
- Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"We are all atheists about most of the gods humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further."
- Richard Dawkins (1941-)

"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work."
- Emile Zola (1840-1902)

"This book fills a much-needed gap."
- Moses Hadas (1900-1966) in a review

"The full use of your powers along lines of excellence."
- definition of "happiness" by John F.
Kennedy (1917-1963)

"I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart."
- e ecummings (1894-1962)

"Give me a museum and I'll fill it."
- Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

"Assassins!"
- Arturo Toscanini (1867-1957) to his
orchestra

"I'll moider da bum."
- Heavyweight boxer Tony Galento, when asked what he thought of WilliamShakespeare

"In theory, there is no difference
between theory and practice. But in practice, there is."
- Yogi Berra

"I find that the harder I work, the
more luck I seem to have."
- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

"Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems."
- Rene Descartes (1596-1650),
"Discours de la Methode"
"In the End, we will remember not
the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)

"Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right."
- Henry Ford (1863-1947)
"Do, or do not. There is no 'try'."
- Yoda ('The Empire Strikes Back')

"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it."
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

"Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed."
- George Burns (1896-1996)
"I don't know why we are here, but I'm
pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves."
- Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)

"There are no facts, only interpretations."
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)

"The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense."
- Edsgar Dijkstra (1930-2002)

"C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg."
- Bjarne Stroustrup

"A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems."
- Paul Erdos (1913-1996)

"Problems worthy of attack prove their
worth by fighting back."
- Paul Erdos (1913-1996)

"Try to learn something about everything
and everything about something."
- Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895)

"Dancing is silent poetry."
- Simonides (556-468bc)

"The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad."
- Salvador Dali
(1904-1989) "If you can't get rid of the skeleton in
your
closet, you'd best teach it to dance." - George Bernard
Shaw (1856-1950) "But at my back I always hear
Time's
winged chariot hurrying near." - Andrew Marvell
(1621-1678) "Good people do not need laws to tell
them
to act responsibly, while bad people will find
a way around the laws." - Plato (427-347 B.C.) "The
power of accurate observation is
frequently called cynicism by those who
don't have it." - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog
called 'Ego'." - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
"Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you
have to earn." - Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947-)
"Against stupidity, the gods themselves
contend in vain." - Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805)
"We have art to save ourselves from the
truth." - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) "Never
interrupt your enemy when he is
making a mistake." - Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)