Owner: Great Quotes URL:http://quotemaster.blogspot.com/ Join Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 13:40:48 -0600 Rating:0 Site Description: Inspiring and thought evoking quotes from famous men Site statistics:Click here
Science fiction 2007-11-18 08:29:00 "Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today -- but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all." - Isaac Asimov Read more:Science
2007-11-15 21:27:00 The great tragedy of Science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. - Thomas H. HuxleyHistorians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them. - Leo TolstoyI can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens. - Dwight D. Eisenhower
INSPIRING QUOTES FROM INSPIRING PEOPLE 2007-11-14 00:54:00 1. IN A DAY, WHEN YOU DON'T COME ACROSS ANY PROBLEMS - YOU CAN BE SURE THAT YOU ARE TRAVELING IN A WRONG PATH - SWAMI VIVEKANANDA 2. THREE SENTENCES FOR GETTING SUCCESS a) KNOW MORE THAN OTHER b) WORK MORE THAN OTHER c) EXPECT LESS THAN OTHER - WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 3. DON'T COMPARE YOURSELF WITH ANYONE IN THIS WORLD. IF YOU DO SO, YOU ARE INSULTING YOURSELF - ALEN STRIKE 4. IF WE CANNOT LOVE THE PERSON WHOM WE SEE, HOW CAN WE LOVE GOD, WHOM WE CANNOT SEE ? - MOTHER THERESA 5. NO MAN IS RICH ENOUGH TO BUY HIS PAST - OSCAR WILDE 6. IF YOU WANT REAL PEACE DON'T TALK TO YOUR FRIENDS, TALK WITH YOUR ENEMIES - MOTHER THERESA 7. WINNING DOESN'T ALWAYS MEAN BEING FIRST, WINNING MEANS YOU'RE DOING BETTER THAN YOU'VE DONE BEFORE - BONNIE BLAIR 8. EVERYONE THINKS OF CHANGING THE WORLD, BUT NO ONE THINKS OF CHANGING HIMSELF - LEO TOLSTOY 9. I WILL NOT SAY I FAILED 1000 TIMES, I WILL SAY THAT I DISCOVERED THERE ARE 1000 WAYS THAT CAN
Chanakya's Quotes (Indian politician, strategist and writer, 350 BC-275 BC) 2007-11-11 22:51:00 "Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous." Chanakya quotes (Indian politician, strategist and writer, 350 BC-275 BC) *************************************************** A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut firstChanakya quotes (Indian politician, strategist and writer, 350 BC-275 BC) ***************************************************"The biggest guru-mantra is: Never share your secrets with anybody. ! It will destroy you." Chanakya quotes (Indian politician, strategist and writer, 350 BC-275 BC) *************************************************** "There is some self-interest behind every friendship.There is no Friendship without self-interests.This is a bitter truth." Chanakya quotes (Indian politician, strategist and writer, 350 BC-275 BC) *************************************************** "Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be an Read more:Quotes
2007-11-11 11:41:00 In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better. - Ellen DeGeneresIn literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others. - Andre MauroisMan forgives woman anything save the wit to outwit him. - Minna Thomas Antrim
2007-11-01 23:39:00 The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously. - Nicholas ButlerThere are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers. - Richard FeynmanThe first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it. - Abbie Hoffman
2007-10-31 23:09:00 Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you're a consultant. - Scott AdamsOne can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation. - Oscar WildeIt's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper. - Jerry Seinfeld
2007-10-29 23:59:00 There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there's only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there's no reason why you shouldn't have a fairly good time. - Edith WhartonLife is a zoo in a jungle. - Peter De VriesCNN is one of the participants in the war. I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected president but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power. - Arthur C. Clarke
All quotes by Albert Einstein 2007-10-27 02:21:00 "If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?" "The must incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible." "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new." "Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value." "Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love." "You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother." "The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat." "When asked how World War III would be fought, Einstein
replied that he didn't know. But he knew how World War IV would be fought: With sticks and stones!" "Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S RELATIVITY." "Som Read more:Albert
, Albert Einstein
2007-10-26 10:48:00 If not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled. - PG WodehouseIt only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea. - Robert Anton WilsonHow hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality. - Norman Douglas
2007-10-24 01:52:00 When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package. - John RuskinThe only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders. - Foster's LawProcrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. - Don Marquis
2007-10-21 05:11:00 Only the shallow know themselves. - Oscar WildeTelevision is a new medium. It's called a medium because nothing is well-done. - Fred AllenIf one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim". - Lyndon B. Johnson
2007-10-19 01:01:00 Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them. - Bill VaughanLack of money is the root of all evil. - George Bernard ShawAddresses are given to us to conceal our whereabouts. - Saki
Jane Wagner Quotes 2007-10-16 12:14:00 A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential? All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific. Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself. I bet the worst part about dying is the part where your whole life passes before you. I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain. Our ability to delude ourselves may be an important survival tool. The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool. The hardest part about being a kid is knowing you have got your whole life ahead of you. When we talk to God, we're praying. When God talks to us, we're schizophrenic. Read more:Quotes
, Wagner
2007-10-15 12:55:00 For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. - Virginia WoolfIf you don't know what to do, call the media and at least give the appearance of doing something. - David PetersonA friend is someone who will help you move. A real friend is someone who will help you move a body. - Unknown
2007-10-15 02:00:00 Facts are the enemy of truth. - Miguel de CervantesFor the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency. - Eric AmblerAnd that's the world in a nutshell, an appropriate receptacle. - Stan Dunn
2007-10-12 04:00:00 An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person. - Joseph AddisonYou can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well. - Carrie FisherWell, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone? - James Thurber
2007-10-11 11:54:00 None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear. - Ferdinand FochPuritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. - HL MenckenI was walking down the street wearing glasses when the prescription ran out. - Steven Wright
2007-10-10 11:45:00 Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand - Kurt VonnegutWithout the aid of prejudice and custom I should not be able to find my way across the room. - William HazlittYou get fifteen democrats in a room, and you get twenty opinions. - Senator Patrick Leahy
2007-10-09 09:42:00 There is no passion like that of a functionary for his function. - Georges ClemenceauThe world is round; it has no point. - Adrienne E. GusoffThe cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it. - Doug Larson
2007-10-09 01:56:00 Biography lends to death a new terror. - Oscar WildeAt my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote. - Emo PhillipsIn the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is stoned to death. - Joan D. Vinge
2007-10-07 17:33:00 In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is stoned to death. - Joan D. VingeOriginality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it. - Laurence J. PeterWhy be a man when you can be a success? - Bertolt Brecht
2007-10-05 03:53:00 Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death. - James F. ByrnesMost turkeys taste better the day after; my mother's tasted better the day before. - Rita RudnerFiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't. - Mark Twain
2007-10-02 13:10:00 Society, my dear, is like salt water, good to swim in but hard to swallow. - Arthur StringerIt is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it. - Henry AllenLate to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes. - Aaron McGruder
2007-11-22 22:58:00 All the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway. - Harry S TrumanThose who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality. - George SantayanaTo disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity. - Oscar Wilde
Quotes about dogs 2007-12-03 03:13:00 The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of his tongue. - AnonymousThere is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face. - Ben WilliamsA dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than heloves himself. - Josh BillingsThe average dog is a nicer person than the average person. - Andy RooneyDogs love their friends & bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable ofpure love & always have to mix love & hate.- AnonymousAnybody who doesn't know what soap tastes like never washed a dog.- Franklin P. JonesIf your dog is fat, you aren't getting enough exercise- Unknown My dog is worried about the economy because Alpo is up to $3.00 a can.That's almost $21.00 in dog money.- Joe Weinstein Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax andget used to the idea. - Robert A. HeinleinIf you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you;that is the principal difference between a Read more:Quotes
2007-12-02 23:34:00 There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers. - William JamesLast night I dreamed I ate a ten-pound marshmallow, and when I woke up the pillow was gone. - Tommy CooperReality is nothing but a collective hunch. - Jane Wagner
Humor from Great Minds 2007-12-15 04:29:00 "As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two... "Sir Norman Wisdom" One of the most difficult things in the world is to convince a woman that even a bargain costs money."Edgar Watson Howe"A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success! "Doug Larson"A harmful truth is always better then...a useful lie! "Eric Bolton" When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bike. Then I realized that The Lord doesn't work that way, so I stole one and asked him to forgive me."Erno Philips" I only go to work on days that don't end in a 'y'. "Robert Paul"We spend the first twelve months of our children's liv! es teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up. "Phyllis Diller" Laughter is the closest distance between two people."Victor Borge"Start every day with a smile and get it over with."W.C. Fields"Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody Read more:Humor
, Great
Selected favourites 2007-12-13 02:58:00 "My mother said to me, "If you become a soldier, you'll be a general; if you become a monk, you'll end up as the Pope." Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso." - Pablo Picasso "'the doer' is merely a fiction added to the deed " the deed is everything." - Friedrich Nietzsche "In the theory of gender I began from zero. There is no masculine power or privilege I did not covet. But slowly, step by step, decade by decade, I was forced to acknowledge that even a woman of abnormal will cannot escape her hormonal identity." - Camille Paglia "Sir, a man may be so much of everything, that he is nothing of anything." - Samuel Johnson "There comes a point in many people's lives when they can no longer play the role they have chosen for themselves. When that happens, we are like actors finding that someone has changed the play." - Brian Moore (Irish novelist, 1921-...) "Each of us is something of a schizophrenic personality, tragically divided against ourselves." - Martin Luthe
Recommend Site To A Friend
