Post by cuttingedge on Jun 2, 2005 17:28:31 GMT -5
Quote of the Moment collection 
"Who wills can, who tries does,who loves lives."
Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey
"There is a theory which states that if ever anybody 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
I can resist everything except temptation.
Oscar Wilde
"Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage, Minds innocent and quiet take that for an hermitage. - To Althea, from Prison."
Richard Lovelace
"A smart man learns from his mistakes, a Wise man learns from other people's mistakes."
Anon
"Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right."
Henry Ford
"USA Today has come out with a new survey: Apparently three out of four people make up 75 percent of the population."
David Letterman
"I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to."
Elvis Presley
Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing. - Dave Barry
The best victory is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord before there are any actual hostilities...It is best to win without fighting."
Sun-tzu, The Art of War.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. -- Will Rogers
"The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few...or the one."
Spock
"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm."
Sir Winston Churchill
"If you can't convince them, confuse them."
Harry S. Truman
"Fools rush in where other fools have rushed before". Annon
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
Albert Einstein
"What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself."
Abraham Lincoln
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
G. K. Chesterton
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him - Voltaire
"I ain't had a drink since breakfast!!"
John Wayne
Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds"
J. Robert Oppenheimer (quoting the Bhagavad Gita) after witnessing the first nuclear explosion
"The big corporations are suddenly taking notice of the web, and their reactions have been slow. Even the computer industry failed to see the importance of the Internet, but that's not saying much. Let's face it, the computer industry failed to see that the century would end."
--Douglas Adams
"There is a theory which states that if ever anybody 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
"A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." - Douglas Adams
"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."
- Douglas Adams
"Moving parts in rubbing contact require lubrication to avoid excessive wear."
- Robert A. Heinlein
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him - Voltaire
"Anchovies, anchovies, you're so delicious, I love you more than all the other fishes."
Dawn Summers
"You live and you learn. At any rate, you live"
Douglas Adams
"The truth lies in between the first and the fortieth drink." -Tori Amos
"Man is not the natural enemy of Man but by the instrument of a false government."
Hobbes
"I ain't had a drink since breakfast!!"
John Wayne
"Music is the best means we have of digesting time."
W. H. Auden
"It's not having what you want, it's wanting what you've got"
Sheryl Crow
"The secret of genius is to know how to conceal your sources"
Albert Einstein
"There are only three sports: mountain climbing, bull fighting, and motor racing. All the rest are merely games."
Ernest Hemingway
"My goal is simple. It is complete understanding of the Universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all." Stephen Hawking
"I hate to advocate drugs, guns or violence to anybody - but they've always worked for for me"
Hunter S. Thomson
Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing. - Dave Barry
"To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live, to be lulled into security is to die." Oscar Wilde
"You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to cough."
Pearl Williams
"Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right."
Henry Ford
"What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself."
Abraham Lincoln
"Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler."
Albert Einstein
"Never judge a book by its movie."
J. W. Eagan
"If you can't convince them, confuse them."
Harry S. Truman
"If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut."
Albert Einstein
"Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up."
Robert Frost
"Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes. "
Brendan Hills
"Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest."
Mark Twain
A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
John Ciardi
A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
James Reston
I can resist everything except temptation.
Oscar Wilde
Light thinks it is the fastest thing in the Universe. It is wrong -- For wherever light goes, darkness is already there to greet it.
-Anon
I have seen in any great undertaking it is not enough for a man to depend simply upon himself.
Lone Man Teton Sioux
It's a hole
Dale Earnhardt Jr.
We will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail.
George W. Bush
Talk low, talk slow, and don't talk too much.
John Wayne
Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.
John Wayne
Imagination is more important than knowledge...
Albert Einstein
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
Albert Einstein
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
Elvis Presley
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
G. K. Chesterton
Military Intelligence is a contradiction in terms.
Groucho Marx
I see further because I stand on the shoulders of giants.
Isaac Newton.(added by Tennents)
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." Albert Einstein (submitted by Tennents)
"A smart man learns from his mistakes, a Wise man learns from other people's mistakes." Anon (Submitted by Tennents)
"Military Intelligence is a contradiction in terms."
Groucho Marx (Submitted by Tennents)
"I see further because I stand on the shoulders of giants."
Isaac Newton (Submitted by Tennents)
"They are in prison only in their own minds. Yet they are in that prison, and so afraid to be taken in that they cannot be taken out." C. S. Lewis - The Cronicles of Narnia.
"Who wills can, who tries does,who loves lives."
Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey
"There is a theory which states that if ever anybody 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
I can resist everything except temptation.
Oscar Wilde
"Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage, Minds innocent and quiet take that for an hermitage. - To Althea, from Prison."
Richard Lovelace
"A smart man learns from his mistakes, a Wise man learns from other people's mistakes."
Anon
"Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right."
Henry Ford
"USA Today has come out with a new survey: Apparently three out of four people make up 75 percent of the population."
David Letterman
"I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to."
Elvis Presley
Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing. - Dave Barry
The best victory is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord before there are any actual hostilities...It is best to win without fighting."
Sun-tzu, The Art of War.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. -- Will Rogers
"The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few...or the one."
Spock
"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm."
Sir Winston Churchill
"If you can't convince them, confuse them."
Harry S. Truman
"Fools rush in where other fools have rushed before". Annon
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
Albert Einstein
"What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself."
Abraham Lincoln
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
G. K. Chesterton
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him - Voltaire
"I ain't had a drink since breakfast!!"
John Wayne
Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds"
J. Robert Oppenheimer (quoting the Bhagavad Gita) after witnessing the first nuclear explosion
"The big corporations are suddenly taking notice of the web, and their reactions have been slow. Even the computer industry failed to see the importance of the Internet, but that's not saying much. Let's face it, the computer industry failed to see that the century would end."
--Douglas Adams
"There is a theory which states that if ever anybody 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
"A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." - Douglas Adams
"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."
- Douglas Adams
"Moving parts in rubbing contact require lubrication to avoid excessive wear."
- Robert A. Heinlein
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him - Voltaire
"Anchovies, anchovies, you're so delicious, I love you more than all the other fishes."
Dawn Summers
"You live and you learn. At any rate, you live"
Douglas Adams
"The truth lies in between the first and the fortieth drink." -Tori Amos
"Man is not the natural enemy of Man but by the instrument of a false government."
Hobbes
"I ain't had a drink since breakfast!!"
John Wayne
"Music is the best means we have of digesting time."
W. H. Auden
"It's not having what you want, it's wanting what you've got"
Sheryl Crow
"The secret of genius is to know how to conceal your sources"
Albert Einstein
"There are only three sports: mountain climbing, bull fighting, and motor racing. All the rest are merely games."
Ernest Hemingway
"My goal is simple. It is complete understanding of the Universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all." Stephen Hawking
"I hate to advocate drugs, guns or violence to anybody - but they've always worked for for me"
Hunter S. Thomson
Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing. - Dave Barry
"To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live, to be lulled into security is to die." Oscar Wilde
"You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax--tomorrow you'll be afraid to cough."
Pearl Williams
"Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right."
Henry Ford
"What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself."
Abraham Lincoln
"Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler."
Albert Einstein
"Never judge a book by its movie."
J. W. Eagan
"If you can't convince them, confuse them."
Harry S. Truman
"If A equals success, then the formula is: A = X + Y + Z, X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut."
Albert Einstein
"Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up."
Robert Frost
"Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes. "
Brendan Hills
"Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest."
Mark Twain
A dollar saved is a quarter earned.
John Ciardi
A government is the only known vessel that leaks from the top.
James Reston
I can resist everything except temptation.
Oscar Wilde
Light thinks it is the fastest thing in the Universe. It is wrong -- For wherever light goes, darkness is already there to greet it.
-Anon
I have seen in any great undertaking it is not enough for a man to depend simply upon himself.
Lone Man Teton Sioux
It's a hole
Dale Earnhardt Jr.
We will not tire, we will not falter, and we will not fail.
George W. Bush
Talk low, talk slow, and don't talk too much.
John Wayne
Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.
John Wayne
Imagination is more important than knowledge...
Albert Einstein
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
Albert Einstein
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.
Elvis Presley
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
G. K. Chesterton
Military Intelligence is a contradiction in terms.
Groucho Marx
I see further because I stand on the shoulders of giants.
Isaac Newton.(added by Tennents)
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." Albert Einstein (submitted by Tennents)
"A smart man learns from his mistakes, a Wise man learns from other people's mistakes." Anon (Submitted by Tennents)
"Military Intelligence is a contradiction in terms."
Groucho Marx (Submitted by Tennents)
"I see further because I stand on the shoulders of giants."
Isaac Newton (Submitted by Tennents)
"They are in prison only in their own minds. Yet they are in that prison, and so afraid to be taken in that they cannot be taken out." C. S. Lewis - The Cronicles of Narnia.