Quotes
"If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars."
"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something."
"Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears."
"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use."
"Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true."
"I believe that professional wrestling is clean and everything else in the world is fixed."
"We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true."
"Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock."
"The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid."
"Never judge a book by its movie."
"Golf and sex are about the only things you can enjoy without being good at."
"Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place."
"I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on."
"Today you can go to a gas station and find the cash register open and the toilets locked. They must think toilet paper is worth more than money."
"When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right."
"Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised."
"God gave us alcohol as a social lubricant. Make men brave, make women loose."
"The main difference between a wise man and a fool is that the fool's mistakes never teach him anything."
"Life is about change, about learning to accept who you are, good or bad."
"Life is about change. Civilizations rise and fall."
"There are people I know who won't hurt me. I call them corpses."
"Out of quantity comes quality."
"You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play."
"If we were to wake up some morning and find that everyone was the same race, creed and color, we would find some other cause for prejudice by noon."
"The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything."
"Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home."
"I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens."
"Skiing consists of wearing $3,000 worth of clothes and equipment and driving 200 miles in the snow in order to stand around at a bar and drink."
"Don't knock the weather. If it didn't change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn't start a conversation."
"Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and higher education positively fortifies it."
"You can only be young once. But you can always be immature."
"Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example."
"The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible."
"Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions."
"The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting."
"Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles."
"The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good."
"Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first."
"Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading."
"Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves."
"The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault."
"I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead."
"The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything."
"An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living."
"War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military."
"Always be nice to your children because they are the ones who will choose your rest home."
"You wake me up early in the morning to tell me I am right? Please wait until I am wrong."
"There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read."
"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true."
"The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty."
"One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say."
"The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder."
"We are more ready to try the untried when what we do is inconsequential. Hence the fact that many inventions had their birth as toys."
"Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others."
"An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered."
"Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done."
"The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment."
"The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents."
"People want economy and they will pay any price to get it."
"An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today."
"The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity."
"Architecture is the art of how to waste space."
"Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see."
"The price of freedom of religion, or of speech, or of the press, is that we must put up with a good deal of rubbish."
"It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'"
"In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known."
"The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the rest willing to let them."
"Men have become the tools of their tools."
"The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky"
"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."
"Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair."
"It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important."
"Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them."
"The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously."
"Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western religion, rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of Western science."
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
"I have only one superstition. I touch all the bases when I hit a home run."
"The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it."
"The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat."
"What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to."
"Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway."
"An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought."
"Did you ever walk into a room and forget why you walked in? I think that's how dogs spend their lives."
"Bore, n.: A person who talks when you wish him to listen."
"Think twice before you speak, and then you may be able to say something more insulting than if you spoke right out at once."
"So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work."
"If people never did silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done."
"What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do."
"Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone."
"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them."
"Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite."
"It matters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose."
"Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use."
"I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life."
"Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening."
"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."
"Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content."
"I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image."
"There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking."
"The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth."
"Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful."
"Of course the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you--if you don't play, you can't win."
"When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere."
"The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting."
"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man."
"If you believe everything you read, better not read."
"It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper."
"I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves."
"Most people have seen worse things in private than they pretend to be shocked at in public."
"Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd."
"There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead."
"Eat a live toad the first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day."
"There are two types of people--those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are.'"
"It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong."
"Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired."
"When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it."
"A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized."
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
"Never answer a critic, unless he's right."
"Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything."
"Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch."
"A cult is a religion with no political power."
"If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be
that of an expert saying it can't be done."
that of an expert saying it can't be done."
"No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people
on your side that you wish were on the other."
on your side that you wish were on the other."
"The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young."
"The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget;
the wise forgive but do not forget."
the wise forgive but do not forget."
"The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him."
"The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be
pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues."
pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues."
"A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody
wants to read."
wants to read."
"First secure an independent income, then practice virtue."
"Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be
sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things."
sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things."
"Don't knock the weather. If it didn't change once in a while, nine out
of ten people couldn't start a conversation."
of ten people couldn't start a conversation."
"A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do
nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done."
nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done."
"There's always somebody who is paid too much, and taxed too little - and it's always somebody else."
"We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by."
"The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away."
"Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality."
"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time."
"You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing."
"Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all."
"Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment."
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
"It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it."
"With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion."
"In case you're worried about what's going to become of the younger generation, it's going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation."
"If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you."
"A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece."
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
"Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity."
"Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs."
"Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself."
"If you cannot convince them, confuse them."
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