Sunday, August 31, 2008

Too many Quotes

Here is list of list of Quotes in my collection..some are pointless...some are too good...bu I like most of them so just posting it so that I have them somewhere safe :)

*"Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length."- Robert Frost

*"Courage isn't having the strength to go on- it is going on when you don't have the strength."- Napoleon Bonaparte

*"There are some times when silence has the loudest voice."

*"Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain- and most fools do."

*"A fool in love makes no sense to me. I only think you are a fool if you do not love."

*"The best way to realise your dream: Wake Up!"

*"Dont let your tongue cut your throat."

*"God gave us our faces. We gave ourselves our expressions."

*"If you cannot win, make the fellow ahead of you exert himself to the utmost!"

*"Bad times are good times to prepare for better times."

*"When you do common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world."

*"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."

"Two things are infinite: universe and human stupidity. I have my doubts about the universe."- Albert Einstein

"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education."- Mark Twain

"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened."-Winston Churchill

"People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news."

"The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time."

"Education: something you pay for, but hope you don't get it"

"The only thing experience teaches us is that experience teaches us nothing."

"No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it."

"We are torn between the craving to know and the despair of having known."

"The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth."

"Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading."

"People want economy and they will pay any price to get it."

"My interest in the future is because I am going to spend the rest of my life there."

"An honest politician is one who when he's bought, stays bought."

"The longer I live, the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time." -- George Bernard Shaw

"If you must choose between two evils, pick the one you've never tried before."

"I love you, not for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you."

"After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box."

"Nothing is permanent in this wicked world- not even our troubles."

"If you don't have courage, have strong legs."

"Avoid long speeches. The less a man knows, the longer he takes to tell it."

"Try loving your enemies. If nothing else, you'll confuse them."

"Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do." Issac Asimov

"He is a dogmatic; because his dogmas are different from mine."

"All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it."- Samuel Butler

"When everything's coming your way, you're in the wrong lane"

"If u fail the first time, remove all evidence that u tried..........."

"War doesn't determine who is right, it determines who is left."

"Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity."

"Attack life, it's going to kill you anyway."

"Tell me what you need and I'll tell you how to get along without it."

"Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."

"In a World without boundaries Gates and Windows are Useless."

"Two lefts don't make a right... But two Wrights do make a plane..."

"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning."

"UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand that simplicity."

"The real problem is not whether machines think, but whether men do?"

"Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level."

"Experience is what enables people to commit new errors instead of old ones."

"From the perspective of a lazy lion every leopard is hyperactive."

"The chief obstacle to the progress of human race is the human race."

"There are three kind of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics."

"We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain
the success of those we don't like?"

"Complex problems have simple, easy to understand wrong answers."

"It is not exactly cheating, I prefer to consider it creative problem solving."

"Alcohol doesn't solve any problems, but then again, neither does milk."

"Don't worry that the world ends today, it's already tomorrow in Australia!"

"Low expectations and short term goals can do wonders in improving your confidence."

"Never explain- Your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe it anyway."

"The young man who has not wept is a savage and the old man who will not laugh is a fool."

"A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears."

"The wise speak because they have something to say. The fools speak because they have to say something."

"It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried."- Winston Churchill

"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."

"Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater."- Albert Einstein

"God I want patience, and I want it now!"

"Age dosen't always come with wisdom. Age sometimes come alone."

"I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours." -Stephen Roberts

"Where is there room in all this for God?" Napoleon asked LaPlace to which he replied "I have no need for that hypothesis."

"We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another." -Jonathan Swift

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