My Favorite Quotes

Here are some of my favorite quotes; this is the only page that has quotes that are in the other sections, since this is just a page of what I like.

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. -- Mark Twain

I don't know what weapons World War Three will be fought with, but World War four will be fought with sticks and stones. -- Albert Einstein

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. -- Albert Einstein

By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher... and that is a good thing for any man. -- Socrates

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. -- Tolstoy

Life is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, and the lesson afterward.

There are three ways to get something done: do it yourself, hire someone, or forbid your kids to do it.

To let a fool kiss you is stupid, to let a kiss fool you is worse.

People are more violently opposed to fur than leather, because it's safer to pick on rich women than biker gangs.

Procrastinate later.

The bitterness of poor quality remains long after the sweetness of meeting the schedule has been forgotten.

The person who knows how will always have a job, but the person who knows why will always be his boss.

Of course, the *real* work was done by a team of God's grad student flunkies, working under enormous pressure to get the job done in three days because he had waited until Wednesday to tell them it was due on Saturday.

The concerned investment banker is the one who blows the horn on his Mercedes as he drives through a red light.

If everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.

Maturity does not come with age but with the acceptance of responsibility.

Always remember that you are unique. Just like everyone else.

I don't do .INI, .BAT, .DLL, or .SYS files. I don't assign apps to files. I don't configure peripherals or networks before using them. I have a computer to do all that. I have a Macintosh, not a hobby. -- Fritz Anderson

640K [of memory] ought to be enough for anybody. -- Bill Gates (1981)

To see tomorrow's PC, look at today's Macintosh. -- BYTE Magazine, October 1995

To create a new standard it takes something that's not just a little bit different. It takes something that's really new and really captures people's imagination. And the Macintosh, of all the machines I've ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard. -- Bill Gates

I find television very educating. Everytime somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. -- Groucho Marx

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. -- Antoine de aint-Exupery

As long as you're going to be thinking anyway, think big. -- Donald Trump

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying. -- Woody Allen

It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others. -- John Andrew Holmes

Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them. -- Suzanne Necker

Trust in Allah, but tie your camel. -- Arabian Proverb

Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance. -- Sam Brown

He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence. -- Henry Blake

I'm desperately trying to figure out why kamikaze pilots wore helmets. -- David Edison

When I was told to the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?' -- Quentin Crisp

There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there. -- Indira Gandhi

Time is on my side. My bad side. -- Space Ghost

There is no idea so good it can't be ruined by a few well-placed idiots. -- Scott Adams, Dilbert creator

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one. -- Elbert Hubbard

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day. Wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit. -- Elbert Hubbard

The story you are about to hear is true, and by true I mean false. It's lies, all of it. But they are entertaining lies, and in the end isn't that what's important? The answer is no. -- Leonard Nimoy, 'The Simpsons'

Gender affects how teenagers develop sexually, according to a new study. -- The Daily Utah Chronicle, 1-10-1997

We are all born originals - why is it so many of us die copies? -- Edward Young

The urge to destroy is a creative urge. -- M. Bakunin

The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school. -- George Bernard Shaw

The friend of a fool is a fool. The friend of a wise person is another wise person. -- Husia proverb

Television - a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done. -- Ernie Kovacs

In times like these, it is helpful to remember that there have always been times like these. -- Paul Harvey

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. -- Chinese proverb

Whether you believe you can or believe you can't, either way you're right. -- Henry Ford

Tell the American people never to lose their guns. As long as they keep their guns in their hands, what happened here will never happen there. -- 1990, a student from Beijing, China, describes the last words of her parents, killed at Tiananmen Square

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