Memorable Quotes

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
- Jean Rostand
She had an unequalled gift... of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
- Henry James
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
- Totie Fields
 
A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.
- Jerry Seinfeld
You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.
- Robert Frost
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
- Dylan Thomas
A Hospital is no place to be sick.
- Samuel Goldwyn
 
It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.
- Peter Ustinov
I hate television. I hate it as much as I hate peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.
- Orson Welles
If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.
- Fran Lebowitz
 
"He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed. To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science. Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. "

--Albert Einstein

FYI............most of the time the last two lines are what are quoted.
 
Adventure is just bad planning.
- Roald Amundsen
I went into a McDonald's yesterday and said, 'I'd like some fries.' The girl at the counter said, 'Would you like some fries with that?'
- Jay Leno
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
- John Kenneth Galbraith
He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
- Abraham Lincoln
 
Ever heard Victoria's REAL secret? Too much support hurts.
- R. Stevens
Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.
- Albert Schweitzer
They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.
- Emily Dickinson
Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
- Mark Twain
 
I think your out classing my quotes Jim...


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"You can eat DDT! :eek: "

MBz 80-2008
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a true classic
 
Hi Heinz, Jim and all early risers? - - Thunderstorms forecast for SEQ (Brisbane region) today.... (Quoted from "Sunrise" on ch7 fta TV)
 
I don't care what it is, when it has an LCD screen, it makes it better.
- Kevin Rose
If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.
- George C. Marshall
One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
- Oscar Wilde
There are only two ways of telling the complete truth--anonymously and posthumously.
- Thomas Sowell
 
I don't own a cell phone or a pager. I just hang around everyone I know, all the time. If someone wants to get a hold of me, they just say 'Mitch,' and I say 'what?' and turn my head slightly.
- Mitch Hedberg
The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.
- Daniel Webster
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.
- Christopher Hampton
To my embarrassment I was born in bed with a lady.
- Wilson Mizner
 
If your worried about wind Mas lay off the beans man!
 
Look out there in the lee...... Pissssssssssing
 
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