September 19, 2009

Quotes 9/19/09

When in doubt tell the truth.
Mark Twain

Experience teaches only the teachable.
Aldous Huxley

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
Oscar Wilde

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Winston Churchill

Life is hard. After all, it kills you.
Katharine Hepburn

Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.
P. J. O'Rourke

September 14, 2009

Quotes 9/14/09

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
Mark Twain

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
Galileo Galilei

If you're going through hell, keep going.
Winston Churchill

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your tricks of war.
Napoleon

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.
Rich Cook

A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.
Patrick Murray

September 12, 2009

Quotes 9/12/09

I don't want to know what the law is, I want to know who the judge is.
Roy M. Cohn

Juries scare me. I don't want to put my faith in 12 people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.
Monica Piper

You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
Mahatma Gandhi

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
Robert Frost

All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.
Aldous Huxley

The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
Aristotle

September 6, 2009

Quotes 9/6/09

I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
Albert Einstein

Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
Aldous Huxley

We all are worms, but I do believe I am a glowworm.
Winston Churchill

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.
Orson Welles

One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time.
Lady Nancy Astor