August 2008
70 posts
The average person thinks he isn’t.
– Father Larry Lorenzoni
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
– Walter Bagehot
You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have...
– John J.Plomp
Maturity is knowing you were an idiot in the past. Wisdom is knowing that you...
– Anon
One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper...
– Oscar Wilde
There are only two ways of telling the complete truth—anonymously and...
– Thomas Sowell
I went into a McDonald’s yesterday and said, ‘I’d like some...
– Jay Leno
Life is something that happens when you can’t get to sleep.
– Fran Lebowitz
A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still...
– Jerry Seinfeld
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Why do phone companies give you a number to call if your phone doesn’t...
– iGoogle
Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be...
– Charles de Gaulle
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the...
– Jean Rostand
She had an unequalled gift… of squeezing big mistakes into small...
– Henry James
I’ve been on a diet for two weeks and all I’ve lost is two weeks.
– Totie Fields
I am a Marxist—of the Groucho tendency.
– Anon
There are two kinds of people, those who finish what they start and so on.
– Robert Byrne
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the...
– Russell Green
No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them...
– Michel de Montaigne
By all means let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains...
– Richard Dawkins
If God had wanted man to play soccer, he wouldn’t have given us arms.
– Mike Ditka
There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
On your marks, get set, Lego! The Olympics where... →
Men who never get carried away should be.
– Malcolm Forbes
What if this weren’t a hypothetical question?
– iGoogle
Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing...
– Samuel Johnson
Procrastination isn’t the problem, it’s the solution. So...
– Ellen DeGeneres
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The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance.
– Robert R. Covevou
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry...
– Peter Drucker
My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people’s.
– Oscar Wilde
A hypocrite is a person who—but who isn’t?
– Don Marquis
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
– George Bernard Shaw
I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back.
– Richard Lewis
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody...
– Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
Every man serves a useful purpose: A miser, for example, makes a wonderful...
– Laurence J.Peter
Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he...
– Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Q: Why is it so difficult to find men who are caring, sensitive, and good-looking?
A: They already have boyfriends.
When everyone is somebody, then no one’s anybody.
– W.S.Gilbert