January 28, 2010

Quotes 1/28/10

No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
Voltaire

I am ready to meet my maker, but whether my maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
Winston Churchill

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
Mark Twain

There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
Douglas Adams

January 11, 2010

Quotes 1/11/10

I wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence. There's a knob called 'brightness', but it doesn't work.
"Gallagher"

A psychiatrist is a fellow who asks you a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing.
Joey Adams

It's a recession when your neighbour loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
Harry S. Truman

January 8, 2010

Quotes 1/8/10

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Henry Ford

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
George Bernard Shaw

Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.
Mark Twain

Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are part of nature and therefore part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.
Max Planck