"Английские афоризмы"
A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money. Everett Dirksen
A bird in the hand will probably shit on your wrist. Anon.
A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.H. L. Mencken
A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong. Thomas Szasz
A city is a large community where people are lonesome together. Herbert Prochnow
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. Mark Twain
A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour. Elbert Hubbard
A conclusion is simply the place where you got tired of thinking. Anon.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done. Fred Allen
A conservative is a man who does not think that anything should be done for the first time. Frank Vanderlip
A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits. Woodrow Wilson
A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead. Leo C. Rosten
A critic is a legless man who teaches running. Anon.
A cynic is a person who knows the prize of everything and the value of nothing - Oscar Wilde
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. Robert Frost
A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip. Caskie Stinnett
A dress makes no sense unless it inspires men to want to take it off you. Francois Sagan
A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him. Nicolas Boileau
A fool will learn nothing from a wise man, but a wise man will learn much from a fool. Confucius
A friend is someone who will help you move; A GOOD friend is someone who will help you move a body.
A good manager is best when people barely know that he exists. Not so good when people obey and acclaim him. Worse when they despise him. Lao-Tzu
A good rest is half the work. Yugoslav Proverb
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. William James
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. Lao-Tsu, The Way of Lao-Tsu
A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. Robert Frost
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation. Anon.
A man seldom makes a mistake twice. Generally it's three times or more.
A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself. Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart.
A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights. Napoleon
A man with a briefcase can steal more money than any man with a gun.Anon.
A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure. Segal's Law
A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes. James Feibleman
A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not.Henry Fielding
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. Dwight D. Eisenhower
A person who trusts no one can't be trusted. Jerome Blattner
A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people. Peter McArthur
A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic. Joseph Stalin
A smile is a curve that can set a lot of things straight. Anon.
A succesful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A succesful woman is one who can find such a man. Lana Turner
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of. Burt Bacharach
A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward. Jean Paul Richter
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top . Anon.
A wise man's question contains half the answer. Solomon Ibn Gabirol
A witty saying proves nothing. Voltaire
A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy. Nietzsche
Ability is of little account without opportunity. Napoleon Bonaparte
Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and fans the bonfire. La Rochefoucald
Absence of proof is not proof of absence.Michael Crichton
Act quickly, think slowly. Greek Proverb
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. Benjamin Disraeli
After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations. H. L. Mencken on Shakespeare
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.Cato the Elder 234-149 BC, AKA Marcus Porcius Cato
Aldous Huxley once said that an intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.....
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others. George Orwell, Animal Farm
All general statements are false. The Ultimate Law
All happy families are alike, but an unhappy family is unhappy after its own fashion. Leo Tolstoy, opening line of Anna Karenina
All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power - Ashleigh Brilliant
All jobs are easy to the person who doesn't have to do them. Holt's Law
All of the animals except man know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing. Maurice Maeterlinck
All religions are founded on the fear of the many and the cleverness of the few. Stendhal
All science is either physics or stamp collecting. E. Rutherford
All truth passes through 3 stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. Arthur Schopenhauer
Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.Wendell Johnson
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing. Abraham Lincoln
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. Mark Twain 1835-1910
always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. Mark Twain
Always do what you are afraid to do. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Always forgive your enemies. Nothing annoys them more - Oscar Wilde
Always we like those who admire us, but we do not always like those whom we admire. Francois de la Rochefoucauld
An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country. Sir Henry Wotton (1568-1639)
An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books. Samuel Butler
An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with,insists on boring future generations. Charles de Montesquieu
An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.Alfred A. Knopf
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today. Laurence J. Peter
An egotist is a person of low taste--more interested in himself than in me. Ambrose Bierce
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field. Niels Bohr
An expert is a person who avoids small error as he sweeps on to the grand fallacy.Benjamin Stolberg
An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less. Nicholas Murray Butler
An honest politician is one who when he is bought will stay bought. Simon Cameron
An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it. Don Marquis
An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out. Will Rogers
An incompetent attorney can delay a trial for months or years. A competent attornety can delay one even longer.Evelle J. Younger
An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise. Victor Hugo, Ninetythree, 1874
An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions. Robert A. Humphrey
And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you -- ask what you can do for your country. John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1961
Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do. Dale Carnegie
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well. Samuel Butler
Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood. H. L. Mencken
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.Arthur C. Clarke, Rama. Clarke's Third Law
Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interestedand the frog dies of it. E.B. White
Anybody can start something. John A. Shedd
Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work. Al Capp
Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation. Edward R. Murrow
Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung. Voltaire 1694-1778
appointment by the corrupt few. George Bernard Shaw
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it. Frank Zappa
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. Albert Einstein
Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship. George Bernard Shaw
At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone. La Bruyere
Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work. Bette Davis
Bachelors know more about women than married men do. If they didn't, they'd be married too. H. L. Mencken
Bad artists copy. Great artists steal. Picasso from Alice Camina
Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote. George Jean Nathan
Barking dogs seldom bite. Proverb
Based on what you know about him in history books, what do you think Abraham Lincoln would be doing if he were alive today? 1. Writing his memoirs of the Civil War. 2. Advising the President. 3. Desperately clawing at the inside of his coffin. David Letterman
Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be. Kurt Vonnegut
Be the change you want to see in this world. Gandhi
Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so. Lord Chesterfield
Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Bees are not as busy as we think they are. They just can't buzz any slower.Kin Hubbard
Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, if he gets angry, he'll be a mile away--and barefoot. Sarah Jackson
Behind every great fortune there is a crime. Honore de Balzac
Behind every succesful man stand a surprised mother-in-law. Hubert Humphrey
Being human is a sin. Ryan Carlberg
Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it. Andr Gide
besurprised at how little you have. Ernest Haskins
Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. Confucius, Analects
Better keep your mouth shut and give the impression that you're stupid then open it and remove any doubt. Rami Belson
Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. Chinese Proverb
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.Jonathan Swift
By all means, let's not confuse ourselves with the facts! Anon.
By means of shrewd lies, unremittingly repeated, it is possible to make people believe that heaven is hell -- and hell heaven. The greater the lie, the more readily it will be believed. Adolph Hitler, Mein Kampf
By the time we've made it, we've had it. Malcolm Forbes
Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings. Oliver Herford
Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question. Albert Camus
Choosing the lesser of two evils, is still choosing evil. Christopher Hampton
Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum I think that I think, therefore I think that I am. Ambrose Bierce
Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success. Henry Ford
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. Albert Einstein
Complete equality means universal irresponsibility. T. S. Elliot
Computers aren't intelligent, they only think they are.
Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking. H. L. Mencken
Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives. John Stuart Mill
Continental people have sex-lives; the English have hot-water bottles.George Mikes
Continually strive to improve yourself. Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
Conversation is the slowest form of human communication.
Copmuters are useless. They can only give you answers. Pablo Picasso
Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research. Wilson Mizner (1876-1933)
Crash programs fail because they are based on theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby a month. Wernher von Braun
Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life. George Bernard Shaw
Cyanobacteria were once the dominant life form on Earth - oxygen was their toxic waste product.from Anthony E Smart
Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth. Lillian Hellman, The Little Foxes
Cynics regarded everybody as equally corrupt... Idealists regarded everybody as equally corrupt, except themselves. Robert Anton Wilson
Data is not information, Information is not knowledge, Knowledge is not understanding, Understanding is not wisdom. Cliff Stoll & Gary Schubert
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. George Bernard Shaw
Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses. H. L. Mencken
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage. H. L. Mencken
Democracy: The substitution of election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. George Bernard Shaw
Der Drache lehrt: Wer hoch steigen will, muss es gegen den Wind tun. Chinesisch Schprichwort
Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow. Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
Diplomacy is the art of saying: Nice Doggie! till you can find a rock. Wynn Catlin
Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought. Albert Szent-Gyorgi
Do not fear your enemies. The worst they can do is kill you. Do not fear friends. At worst, they may betray you. Fear those who do not care; they neither kill nor betray, but betrayal and murder exists because of their silent consent. Bruno Jasienski Yasensky
Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few. Pythagoras (BC 582-507)
Do what you can with what you have where you are. Theodore Roosevelt
Do what's right. Do it right. Do it right now. Barry Forbes
Do your job and demand your compensation – but in that order. Cary Grant
Do, or do not. There is no 'try'.Yoda,The Empire Strikes Back
do. Olin Miller
Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very good; and when it is bad, it is better than nothing. Dick Brandon
Dogs believe they are humans. Cats believe they are God. Anon.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated; you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps. David Lloyd George
Don't be so humble - you are not that great. Golda Meir
Don't count your chickens before they cross the road.from Larry Burgess
Don't tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results. George Patton
Don’t use your conscious past. Use your creative imagination to create a past that belongs to your characters. Stella Adler
Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend. Albert Camus
Dream as if you'll live forever... Live as if you'll die today.James Dean
Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems. Rene Descartes
Eat a live frog, every morning, and nothing worse will happen to you all day. Anon.
Eat SHIT! -- ten billion flies can't be wrong. Quoted from a USENET argument about the popularity of Microsoft products
Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists. John Kenneth Galbraith
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. Will Durant
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. W. B. Yeats
Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. B.F. Skinner
Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern but impossible to enslave. Baron Henry Peter Brougham
England expects every man to do his duty. Lord Nelson
Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree. Martin Luther
Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to? Clarence Darrow
Even if youre on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. Will Rogers 1879-1935
Even the longest journey begins with a single step. Confucius
Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.W. R. Inge
Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right. Arthur Schopenhauer
Everybody knows good counsel except him, that has need of it. German Proverb
Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow. Goethe
Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die. Joe Louis
Everyone complains of his lack of memory, but nobody of his want of judgment. La Rochefoucauld
Everyone has a right to be stupid. Some just abuse the priviledge. from James T. Hammond
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow that talent to the dark place where it leads. Erica Jong
Everyone rises to their level of incompetence. The Peter Principle, Dr. Lawrence J. Peter
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.Leo Tolstoy
Everyone wants to see justice done, to somebody else. Anon.
Everything is funny as long as it is happening to someone else. Will Rogers
Everything may happen. (Omnio fieri possent.-latin.) Seneca, Epistuloe ad Lucilium, Epis. LXX, 9
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. Albert Einstein
Everything you can imagine is real. Picasso
Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope. Arnold Glasow
Experience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other. Benjamin Franklin
Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it. Jimmy Connors
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward. Anon.
Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes. Oscar Wilde
Failure to prepare is preparing to fail. Anon.
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week. George Bernard Shaw
Few rich men own their own property. The property owns them. Robert G. Ingersoll
Fiction is the truth inside the lie. Stephen King
First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.Greek saying
Focus 90% of your time on solutions and only 10% of your time on problems. Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
For economists, the real world is often a special case. Anon.
For every action there is an equal and opposite government program. Bob Wells
For every human problem, there is a neat, simple solution; and it is always wrong - Mencken's Metalaw
For every problem there is a solution which is simple, clean and wrong. Henry Louis Mencken
For most folks, no news is good news; for the press, good news is not news.Gloria Borger
For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: 'It might have been!' John Greenleaf Whittier
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. John F. Kennedy
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate. Thomas Jones
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept. Samuel Butler
From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs. Karl Marx
From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step. Napoleon
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. Thomas Edison
Genius is the talent of a person who is dead. Anon.
Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. Mark Twain 1835-1910
Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do. Zsa Zsa Gabor
Give me a museum and I'll fill it. Pablo Picasso
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. Saint Augustine
Give more than take. Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
Given a choice between two theories, take the one which is funnier. Blore's Razor
God gave us a penis and a brain, but not enough blood to use both at the same time. Robin Williams
God help those who do not help themselves. Wilson Mizner
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. Voltaire
God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through. Paul Valery
God will forgive me. It's his job. Heinrich Heine
God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. Reinhold Niebuhr, The Serenity Prayer 1934
Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example. La Rouchefoucauld
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment. Barry LePatner
Good questions outrank easy answers. Paul A. Samuelson
Good teaching is one-forth preparation and three-fourths theater. Gail Godwin
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other. Ronald Reagan
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors. Francious de la Rochefoucauld
Great things can be reduced to small things, and small things to nothing. Chinese proverb
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. Gore Vidal
Happiness is not doing what you want. It's wanting what you do. Leo Tolstoy
Hard work has a future payoff. Laziness pays off NOW! from Rex Nall
He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.Abraham Lincoln
He hasn't an enemy in the world - but all his friends hate him.Eddie Cantor
he knows. Laurence Lee
The quality of an organization can never exceed the quality of the minds that make it up. Harold R. McAlindon
He that has no children brings then up well. Proverb
He that has one eye is a prince among those that have none. Thomas Fuller
He that will not reason is a bigot, He that cannot reason is a fool, He that dares not reason is a slave. William Drummond
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever. Chinese proverb
He who does not hope to win has already lost. Anon.
He who is not busy being born is busy dying.- Bob Dylan from John Huber
He who laughs last thinks slowest! from Rex Nall
Heaven never helps the man who will not act. Sophocles
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950
Hello, I must be going. Groucho Marx
Hi! I'm a shareware signature! Send $5 if you use me, send $10 for manual! from Bruce Graham
Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that noone has asked them. Leo Tolstoy
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. Napoleon Bonaparte 1769-1821
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. Abba Eban
Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.Mark Twain
Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper. Francis Bacon
How long a minute is depends upon which side of the bathroom door you're on. Anon.
How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children. Book title by Lewis B. Frumkes 1983
How you get so big, eating food of this kind? Yoda
Human beings were invented by water as a means of transporting itself from one place to another. Tom Robbins from Randy Keck
Hypocrisy is the lubricant of society. David Hull
I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words bother me. A. A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
I am a deeply superficial person. Andy Warhol 1928-1987
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. Albert Einstein
I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally. W.C. Fields
I am not young enough to know everything. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. Winston Churchill
I can explain it to them, but I can't understand it for them. Dan Rather
I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want. Mark Twain
I cannot afford to waste my time making money. Jean Louis Agassiz
I cannot be bought... but I can be rented. Don O'Shaughnessy
I cannot control the direction of the winds, but I can always adjust my sails to reach my destination. Anon.
I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better. G. C. Lichtenberg
I can't understand it. I can't even understand the people who can understand it. Queen Juliana of the Netherlands
I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.John Cage
I could prove God statistically. George Gallup
I didn't think; I experimented. Wilhelm Roentgen
I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it. Voltaire
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. Galileo Galilei
I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man. Chang-tzu
I don't believe in the afterlife but I am taking along a change of underwear just in case.- Woody Allen
I don't care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members. Groucho Marx
I don't have any solution, but I certainly admire the problem. Ashleigh Brilliant
I don't have time to distinguish between the unfortunate and the incompetent. General Curtis Le May
I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. Elvis Presley 1935-1977
I don't know if God exists, but it would be better for His reputation if He didn't. Jules Renard
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. Bill Cosby
I don't know why I did it, I don't know why I enjoyed it, and I don't know why I'll do it again. Burt Simpson
I don't measure a man's success by how high he climps but how high he bounces when he hits bottom. General Patton
I don't mind where people make love, so long as they don't do it in the street and frighten the horses.Mrs. Patrick Campbell
I don't necessarily agree with everything I say. Marshall McLuhan
I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.Eddie Vedder
I don't want any "yes-men" around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their jobs. Samuel Goldwyn
I give myself sometimes admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it. Mary Wortley Montagu
I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way. Franklin P. Adams
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.President Thomas Jefferson
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts. John Locke
I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room. Blaise Pascal
I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buysomething. Jackie Mason
I have given two cousins to war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's brother.Artemus Ward
I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter. Blaise Pascal
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: O Lord,make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it. Voltaire
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. Thomas Edison
I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me. Winston Churchill
I have the simplest of tastes. I am always satisfied with the best. Oscar Wilde
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. Confucius
I just bought a microwave fireplace. You can spend an evening in front of it in only eight minutes. Groucho Marx
I know Kung Fu, Karate, and 47 other dangerous words. Jo Ramos
I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. Albert Einstein 1879-1955
I like a man who grins when he fights. Winston Churchill
I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. Winston Churchill
I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves. August Strindberg
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.Rita Rudner
I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known. Walt Disney
I may not be totally perfect, but parts of me are excellent. Ashleigh Brilliant
I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want tomeet them. H. L. Mencken
I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television. Gore Vidal
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. Albert Einstein
I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train. Oscar Wilde
I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated Hisability. Oscar Wilde
I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there. Herb Caen
I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability. Oscar Wilde
I think; therefore I am. Rene Descartes
I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few. Adolph Hitler
I want to know all Gods thoughts...all the rest are just details. Albert Einstein
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself. Aldous Huxley
I was born not knowing and have only had a little time to change that here and there. Richard Feynman
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know. Mark Twain
I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. Isaac Newton
I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me. Woody Allen
I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong. Bertrand Russell
I wouldn't belong to any club that would have someone like me as a member.Groucho Marx
If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer. Alfred North Whitehead
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. Francis Bacon
If a pessimist is always right, is he a realist? Anon.
If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world. Blaise Pascal
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then give up. no use being a damned fool about it. W.C. Fields
If everybody's thinking alike, somebody isn't thinking. Anon.
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. Anatole France
If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him. Voltaire 1694-1778
If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when? Rabbi Hillel, 12th Century
If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants. Isaac Newton
If it can't be expressed in figures, it is not science; it is opinion. Lazarus Long
If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable. Seneca (the Younger)
If one has not given everything, one has given nothing. Georges Guynemer
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: PRESIDENT CAN'T SWIM. Lyndon B. Johnson
If people really liked to work, we'd still be plowing the land with sticks and transporting goods on our backs. Eilliam Feather
If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts. Albert Einstein
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problemas a nail. Abraham Maslow
If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than aconformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform tothe prevailing standard of nonconformity. Bill Vaughan
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Frederick Douglass
If we judge of love by its usual effects, it resembles hatred more than friendship. La Rochefoucauld
If you are going to do something wrong at least enjoy it. Leo Rosten
If you believe everything you read, better not read. Japanese proverb
If you believe that discrimination exists, it will. Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars. J. Paul Getty
If you can read this, thank a teacher. Anonymous teacher
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one. Mother Teresa
If you can't learn to do it well, learn to enjoy doing it badly. Ashleigh Brilliant
If you don't believe in something, you'll fall for anything. Anon.
If you don't control your mind, someone else will. John Allston
If you had your life to live over again--you'd need more money. Construction Digest
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them. Henry David Thoreau
If you judge someone, you have no time to love them.Mother Teresa
If you read in the bathroom, is that multitasking? from Carl Saathoff
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. Derek Bok
If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments. Earl Wilson
If you want something said, ask a man; if you want something done, ask a woman. Margaret Thatcher
If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing. Napoleon
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either. Dick Cavett
If your plan is for a year, plant rice. If your plan is for a decade, plant trees. If your plan is for a lifetime, educate children. Confucius
I'll come up and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late, start without me. Tallulah Bankhead
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters. Solomon Short
I'm not afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens. Woody Allen
I'm not against the police; I'm just afraid of them. Alfred Hitchcock
I'm still an atheist, thank God. Luis Bunuel
I'm writing a book. I have the page numbers down...I just have to fill in the rest. Groucho Marx
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Albert Einstein
Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality. Jules de Gaultier
imagine that they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by. Franz Schubert
Immature love says, "I love you because I need you." Mature love says, "I need you because I love you." Erich Fromm
In a country as big as the United States, you can find fifty examples of anything. Jeffery F. Chamberlain
In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. Laurence Peter
In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time. Edward P. Tryon
In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known.Thomas Pickering
In between lies art. John A. Locke
In great attempts it is glorious even to fail. Vince Lombardi
In politics stupidity is not a handicap. Napoleon
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable. Dwight D. Eisenhower
In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be. Hubert H. Humphrey 1911-78
In science as in love, too much concentration on technique can often lead to impotence. P. L. Berger
In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. Paul Dirac (1902-1984)
In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs. William Osler
In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular. Kathy Norris
In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back. Charlie Brown
In the constant confrontation between the rock and the water, the water wins finally, not by strength, but by perseverance. Anon.
In the early days all I hoped was to make a living out of what I did best. But, since there's no real market for masturbation I had to fall back on my bass playing abilities. Les Claypool
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. Martin Luther King Jr. 1929-1968
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity. Albert Einstein
In times like these, it is helpful to remember that there have always been times like these. Paul Harvey
In war there is no substitute for victory. General Douglas MacArthur
In youth we learn; in age we understand. M. Ebner-Eschenbach
Indecision is the key to flexibility. from Terry Beck
Is there life before death? Belfast Graffito
Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists? Kelvin Throop, III
It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop. Confucius
It doesn't matter what temperature the room is; it's always room-temperature.Groucho Marx
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking aboutthem. Dame Rose Macaulay
It is a sin to believe evil of others, but seldom a mistake -H. L. Mencken
It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome
It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies. Arthur Calwell
It is better to be quotable than to be honest. Tom Stoppard
It is better to deserve honours and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them. Mark Twain Samuel Clemens
It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees! Emiliano Zapata
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation. Herman Melville
It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. Oscar Wilde
It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness. Old Chinese Proverb
It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.Charles Baudelaire
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950
It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time. Honore de Balzac, "The Physiology of Marriage" 1829
It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. Alfred Adler
It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. William Blake
It is easier to get forgiveness than permission. Stewart's Law of Retroaction, Murphy's Law, Book Two
It is easier to stay out than get out. Mark Twain
It is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it. Ben Franklin
It is easy to bear misfortunes of others. Proverb
It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations. Walter Bagehot, Biographical Studies 1863
It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering myreasons for them! Nietzsche
It is hard to be brave, when you're only a Very Small Animal. Piglet, Pooh's Little Instruction Book, inspired by A. A. Milne
It is impossible to design a system so perfect that no one needs to be good. T. S. Eliot
It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off. Woody Allen
It is much easier to apologize than to ask permission.- Grace Murray
It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.Benjamin Disraeli
It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved. Niccolo Machiavelli
It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that things are difficult. Seneca
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and impossible to find it elsewhere. Agnes Repplier
It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.Ren? Descartes 1596-1650
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail. Gore Vidal
It is not of importance where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. Anon.
It is only the wisest and the stupidest that cannot change. Confucius Analects
It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once. David Hume
It is true that liberty is precious - so precious that it must be rationed. Vladimir Lenin
It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it. La Rochefoucauld
It matters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose. Darrin Weinberg
It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God, but to create him. Arthur C. Clarke
It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious. Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947)
It takes less time to do a thing right than explain why you did it wrong. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous. Robert Benchley
It usually takes a long time to find a shorter way. Anon.
It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. Mark Twain
It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.W. Somerset Maugham
It's a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Winston Churchill
It's all very well in practice, but it will never work in theory. French management saying
It's amazing how nice people are to you when they know you're going away. Michael Arlen
It's hard to be nostalgic when you can't remember anything. Anon.
It's not enough to succeed. Others must fail. Gore Vidal
It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens. Woody Allen
It's only words . . . unless they're true. David Mamet
I've been trying for some time to develop a lifestyle that doesn't require my presence. Gary Trudeau
J. Frank Dobie, "A Texan in England" 1945
Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless. Thomas Alva Edison
Just because you're smart does not mean that the other guy is stupid. Anon.
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. Mother Theresa
Knowledge is of two kinds: we know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. Samuel Johnson
Knowledge is power.(Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est-latin.). Francis Bacon
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle. Ken Hakuta
Lady Astor:Mr. Churchill, you're drunk! Winston Churchill:Yes, and you, Madam, are ugly. But tomorrow, I shall be sober.
Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking. Humphrey Davy
Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.Karl Marx
Laughter is the closest distance between two people. Victor Borge
Laws were made to be broken. Christopher North
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. Jules Renard
Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself. Alfred Sheinwold
Learn to obey before you command. Solon
Learning is finding out what you already know. Richard Bach
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. Soren Kierkegaard
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than itceases to be serious when people laugh. George Bernard Shaw
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Life is a shit sandwich & everyday you take another bite. Anon.
Life is a tragedy for those who feel, but a comedy to those who think. Horace Walpole
Life is God's way of preserving meat. from Fred Reichart
Life IS pain...anyone who says differently is selling something. Westley in The Princess Bride Contributed by: Keith Browning
Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep. Fran Lebowitz
Life is too important to be taken seriously. Oscar Wilde
Life is what's happening when you're busy making plans. John Lennon
Life takes its toll. Bring change. Anon.
Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late. Benjamin Franklin
Live every day as if it were your last and then some day you'll be right. Anon.
Live so that your friends can defend you but never have to. Arnold H. Glasgow
Love and a cough cannot be hid. George Herbert
Love ceases to be a pleasure, when it ceases to be a secret. Aphra Behn
Love is a matter of chemistry, but Sex is a matter of physics. Anon.
Love is like pi -- natural, irrational, and VERY important. Lisa Hoffman
Love is only the dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. W. Somerset Maugham, "A Writer's Notebook" 1949
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. H. L. Mencken
Love many, trust few, learn to paddle your own canoe. Anon.
Love thy neighbor as yourself, but choose your neighborhood. Louise Beal
Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity. Seneca
Malform follows malfunction.from R. Lee Duvlea
Man errs so long as he strives. J.W. Goethe
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain. Lily Tomlin
Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to. Mark Twain
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.Samuel Butler
Many a young lady does not realize just how strong her love for a young man is until he fails to pass the approval test with her parents. Anon.
Many candles can be kindled from one candle without diminishing it. The Midrash
Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time. Winston Churchill
Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other never forgets them. Ogden Nash
Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.Anon.
Maybe I'm lucky to be going so slowly, because I may be going in the wrong direction. Ashleigh Brilliant
Men need some kind of external activity, because they are inactive within. Arthur Schopenhauer
Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance. Oscar Wilde
Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else. Ogden Nash
Money often costs too much. Ralph Waldo Emerson
Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did. James Baldwin, Nobody Knows My Name
Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual. Nietzsche
Most of the time I don't have much fun. The rest of the time I don't have any fun at all.Woody Allen
Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch. Robert Orben
Most things, except agriculture, can wait. Jawaharlal Nehru
Mummy, mummy, what's an orgasm? I dunno. Ask your father. Anon.
My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock, should find the time in my face. Ralph Waldo Emerson
My friend asked me how long I was going to be gone on this tour. I said, The whole time Groucho Marx
My goal is simple. It is complete understanding of the universe, why it as it is and why it exists as all.
My play was a complete success. The audience was a failure. Ashleigh Brilliant
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed. Christopher Morley
My watch is three hours fast and I can't fix it, so I'm going to move to New York.Groucho Marx 1890-1977
Never argue with a fool. Someone watching may not be able to tell the difference. Anonymous
Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity. Nick Diamos
Never believe anything until it has been officially denied. Claud Cockburn
Never deprive someone of hope -- it may be all they have. Anon.
Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it. Albert Einstein
Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow.Mathew Browne
Never drive faster than your guardian angel can fly. Anon.
Never fear shadows. They simply mean that there's a light somewhere nearby. Ruth E. Renkei
Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway. Anon.
Never judge a book by its movie.J. W. Eagan
Never mistake motion for action. Ernest Hemingway
Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance. Sam Brown,Washington Post, 1977
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow. Mark Twain
Never speak ill of yourself; your friends will always say enough on that subject. Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity. Anon.
No good deed goes unpunished. Clare Boothe Luce
No Man is fit to command another that cannot command himself -William Penn
No matter what, no matter where, it's always home, if love is there. Anon.
No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People
Nobody believes the official spokesman... but everybody trusts an unidentified source. Ron Nesen
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal. Albert Camus
Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday. Woody Allen 1935-
Nothing can be made foolproof because fools are so ingenious. Anon.
Nothing endures but change. Heraclitus
Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it. Montaigne
Nothing happens unless first a dream. Carl Sandburg
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. Marie Curie
Nothing in this world is so powerful as an idea whose time has come. Victor Hugo
Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself. A. H. Weiler
Nothing is more useful than silence. Menander
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. Henry Ford
Nothing is said that has not been said before. Terence 185-159 B.C.
Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know. Michel de Montaigne
Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure. Ross MacDonald 1915-1983
Now that I have it all, can I give some of it back? Anon.
Numbers are like people; torture them enough and they'll tell you anything. Anon.
Of those who say nothing, few are silent. Thomas Neill
Often the test of courage is not to die but to live. Vittorio Alfieri
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too. Lichty & Wagner
OK, so you've got a Ph.D. Now, don't touch anything. Anon.
Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives. Maurice Chevalier
On the whole human beings want to be good, but not to good and not quite all the time. George Orwell
Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results. Willie Nelson
Once you've accumulated sufficient knowledge to get by, you're too old to remember it. Anon.
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.Oscar Wilde
One good turn gets most of the blanket.Anon.
One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done... Marie Curie
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. Bertrand Russell
One should dies proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Friedrich Nietzsche
One who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints. Proverb
Only little people pay taxes. Leona Helmsley
Only the winners decide what were war crimes. Gary Wills
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. Robert F. Kennedy
opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. Flannery O'Connor 1925-1964
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. Thomas Edison
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid. Heinrich Heine
Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds. Biochemistry is the study of carbon compounds that crawl. Mike Adams
Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it. Laurance Peter
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now, only much, much better. Laurie Anderson
Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel. Samuel Johnson
People ask for criticism, but they only want praise. Somerset Maugham
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. Kierkegaard
People forget how fast you did a job -- but they remember how well you did it. Howard W. Newton
People who can keep their heads while everyone else around them is losing theirs, probably aren't grasping the situation. Anon.
People, like nails, lose their effectiveness when they lose direction and begin to bend. Walter Savage Landor
Philosophy is a game with objectives and no rules. Mathematics is a game with rules and no objectives.
Physics is becoming so unbelievably complex that it is taking longer and longer to train a physicist. It is taking so long, in fact, to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them. Eugene Wigner
Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do. But beautiful women don't need to know about men. It's the men who have to know about beautiful women. Katherine Hepburn
Plans are nothing, planning is everything. Dwight D. Eisenhower
Please don't ask me what the score is, I'm not even sure what the game is. Ashleigh Brilliant
Poetry begins in delight and ends in wisdom. Robert Frost
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers. Nikita Khruschev
Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book. Ronald Reagan
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.Lester B. Pearson
Programming today is a race between software engineers stirring to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning. Anon.
Push to test. <click> Release to detonate. from Bruce Graham
Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. Albert Einstein 1879-1955
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. Immanuel Kant
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. Oscar Wilde
Sex alleviates tension. Love causes it. Woody Allen
Sex is an emotion in motion. Mae West
Sex is not the answer. Sex is the question. "Yes" is the answer. Swami X
Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as meaningless experiences go its pretty good. Woody Allen
She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit. W. Somerset Maugham
Show my head to the people, it is worth seeing. Georges Danton, to his executioner
Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn. George Bernard Shaw
Since the house is on fire let us warm ourselves. Italian Proverb
Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink. Lady Astor to Winston Churchill Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it. His reply
Sir Stafford Cripps has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. Winston Churchill
So far as modern science is concerned, we have to abandon completely the idea that by going into the realm of the small we shall reach the ultimate foundations of the universe. I believe we can abandon this idea without any regret. The universe is infinite in all directions, not only above us in the large but also below us in the small. Emil Wiechert
So many books...So little time. Anon.
So you think *I'm* the murderer? What do I have to do to convince you that I'm not, be the next victim? - Well that would be a start. Cary Grant & Audrey Hepburn in Charade, 1963
Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not. George Bernard Shaw
Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon. Alexander Pope
Someday is not a day of the week. Anon.
Someone who thinks logically is a nice contrast to the real world. from Sonja Monsen
Sometimes democracy must be bathed in blood. Augusto Pinochet
Sometimes I need what only you can provide -- your absence. Ashleigh Brilliant
Sometimes i sit and think. and sometimes i just sit.David B. Newberry
Sometimes it's useful to know how large your zero is. Anon.
Somewhere in the world there's somebody better than me....But I haven't met him yet.- Arthur Hobson from CSLP
Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped. Sam Levenson 1911-1980
Speak the truth, but leave immediately after. Slovenian Proverb
Stoop and you'll be stepped on; stand tall and you'll be shot at. Carlos A. Urbizo
Strength lies not in defense but in attack. Adolf Hitler
Success folows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successfull. Malcolm Forbes
Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success. Dr. Joyce Brothers
Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong. Adolf Hitler
Sure, everyone always said 'Socrates what is the meaning of life?' or 'Socrates how can I find happiness?', did anyone ever say 'Socrates hemlock is poison.'????? -Socrates minutes before death
Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway. Othal Brand, member of a Texas pesticide review board, on chlordane
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. Abraham Lincoln
Talk low, talk slow, and don’t say too much. John Wayne
Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand. Putt's Law
Television - a medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well-done. Ernie Kovacs
Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want. Clive Barnes
Television: chewing gum for the eyes.Frank Lloyd Wright 1869-1959
Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent. Napoleon I
Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it. Moses Hadas
That government is best which governs least. Thomas Jefferson
That which does not kill me makes me stronger. Friedrich Wilheim Nietzsche
That which is dynamic and random is confusing. That which is static and repetitive is boring.
That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. Neil Armstrong
The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while naturecures the disease. Voltaire
The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing but a transference of bones from one graveyard to another. Anon.
The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line. H. L. Mencken
The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter. Winston Churchill
The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust. Josh Billings
The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas. Dr. Linus Pauling
The best way to keep one's word is not to give it. Napoleon Bonaparte 1769-1821
The best way to predict the future is to invent it. Alan Kay
The big thieves hang the little ones.Czech proverb
The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it.Doug Larson
The central problem of politics: Do you paint simplistic pictures that make people act and leave them with too simplistic a view of the world or do you paint baffingly shaded and contingent scenes that leave people paralysed by indecision? Brian Eno
The condition upon which God has given liberty to man is eternal vigilance. John Philpot Curran, in a speech July 10, 1790
The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he usesa base ten counting system and likes round numbers.Scott Adams
The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universeseems to be missing. William J. Broad
The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.Victor Borge
The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense. Tom Clancy
The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits. Anon.
The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism isunreadable and literature is not read. Oscar Wilde
The doctors X-rayed my head and found nothing. Dizzy Dean explaining how he felt after being hit in the head by a ball in the 1934 World Series.
The earth laughs in flowers. E.E. Cummings
The easiest way for your children to learn about money is for you not to have any. Katharine Whitehorn
The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on. Joseph Heller, Catch-22
The engineer's first problem in any design situation is to discover what the problem really is. Anon.
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.George Bernard Shaw
The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children. Clarence Darrow
The future belongs to those who dare. Anon.
The future is like heaven - everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now. James Baldwin
The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance. Robert R. Coveyou
The good die young - because they see it's no use living if you've got to be good. Anon.
The great masses of the people... will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one. Adolph Hitler
The great tragedy of Science -- the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact. Thomas Henry Huxley
The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes. Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.Walter Bagehot
The highest compliment one can be paid by another human being is to be told : 'Because of what you are, you are essential to my happiness'. Nathaniel Branden
The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread. Mother Teresa
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer. Henry Kissinger
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn. Alvin Toffler
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Albert Einstein
The intermediate stage between socialism and capitalism is alcoholism. Norman Brenner
The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided. Casey Stengel
The little I know I owe to my ignorance. Sacha Guitry
The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time. George Bernard Shaw
The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. Anonymous
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances; if there is any reaction, both are transformed. Carl G. Jung
The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself. Sir Richard F. Burton
The more opinions you have, the less you see. Wim Wenders
The more you know, the less you need to show. Anonymous
The more you say, the less people remember. The fewer the words, the greater the profit. Felelon
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I've found it!), but "That's funny..." Isaac Asimov
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible. Albert Einstein
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. Nathaniel Borenstein
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything. Oscar Wilde
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. H. L. Mencken
The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.David Brinkley
The only difference between graffiti & philosophy is the word fuck...Anon.
The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything. Theodore Roosevelt
The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well. Joe Ancis
The only place where success comes before work is in a dictionary.Vidal Sassoon
The only reward for love is the experience of loving. John LeCarre, The Secret Pilgrim
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. Edmund Burke
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.Eugene McCarthy
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about. Oscar Wilde
The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever. Herb Caen
The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible. Arthur C. Clarke, Technology and the Future
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Oscar Wilde
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may
well be another profound truth. Niels Bohr
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they cant find them, make them. George Bernard Shaw
The person who knows how will always have a job. The person who knows why will always be his boss. Diane Ravitch, quoted in "Quotable Business," by Louis E. Boone
The police are not here to create disorder; they're here to preserve disorder. Former Mayor of Chicago Daly
The price for independance is often isolation and solitude. Steve Schmidt
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.Oscar Wilde
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple. Oscar Wilde
The purpose of a liberal education is to make you philisophical enough to accept the fact that you will never make much money. Anon.
The purpose of life is to fight maturity. Dick Werthimer
The quality of an organization can never exceed the quality of the minds that make it up. Harold R. McAlindon
The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money. Anon.
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. George Bernard Shaw
The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated. Mark Twain
The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously. Hubert H. Humphrey
The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins. Oliver Wendell Holmes 1841-1935
The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows. Aristotle Onassis 1906-1975
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. Albert Einstein
The shortest distance between two points is under construction. Noelie Altito
The sooner you make your first five thousand mistakes the sooner you will be able to correct them. Anon.
The streets are safe in Philadelphia, it's only the people that make them unsafe. Frank Rizzo, former Mayor and Police Chief of Philadelphia
The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal. Erich Fromm
The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universeis that it has never tried to contact us. Calvin and Hobbes Bill Watterson
The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools. Doug Larson
The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. Anon.
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. Thomas Jefferson
The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it. Franklin P. Jones
The trouble with the dictionary is you have to know how the word is spelled before you can look it up to see how it is spelled. Will Cuppy
The trouble with the rat-race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. Lily Tomlin
The Truth is Out There. So what are you doing Here! Anon.
The victor will never be asked if he told the truth. Adolf Hitler
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking. Albert Einstein, Physics and Reality [1936]
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. Bertrand Russell
The will to do, the soul to dare. Sir Walter Scott
The will to win is nothing - everyone has the will to win. The will to prepare to win is what counts. Bobby Knight
The world began without man, and it will complete itself without him. Claude Levi-Strauss
The world cares very little about what a man or woman know; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts. Booker T. Washington
The world does not pay for what a person knows. But it pays for what a person does with what
The world is full of willing people, some willing to work, the restwilling to let them. Robert Frost
There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380SL convertible. P. J. O'Rouke
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy. William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act I, Scene 5
There are no accidents. God's just trying to remain anonymous. Brett Butler's unnamed friend
There are no facts, only interpretations. Friedrich Nietzsche
There are only two truly infinite things, the universe and stupidity. And I am unsure about the universe. Albert Einstein
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. Albert Einstein
There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them. Werner Heisenberg
There are three kinds of people in thisworld: Those who make things happen; Those who watch things happen; And those that wonder what happen. Anon.
There are three roads to ruin; women, gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women, the quickest is with gambling, but the surest is with technicians. Georges Pompidou
There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. Jeremy S. Anderson
There are two perfectly good men, one dead, and the other unborn. Chinese Proverb contributed by: Nader Shureih
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.' Anon.
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.Andre Gide
There are two ways to be rich --, make more or need less. Kimo's Rules
There are, of course, several things in Ontario that are more dangerous than wolves. For instance, the step-ladder. J.W. Curran
There is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous. Napoleon I
There is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror. W. Somerset Maugham
There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the real labor of thinking. Anon.
There is no God. But it does not matter. Man is enough. Edna St. Vincent Milay, Conversation at Midnight
There is no monument dedicated to the memory of a committee. Lester J. Pourciau
There is no shame in not knowing; the shame lies in not finding out. Russian proverb
There is no such things as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or bady written. That is all. Oscar Wilde, "The Picture of Dorian Gray"
There is nothing in this world constant but inconstancy. Swift
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince (1532)
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action. Goethe
There is nothing permanent except change. Heraclitus
There is nothing quite so good as burial at sea. It is simple, tidy, and not very incriminating. Alfred Hitchcock
There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it. Cicero
There is nothing that can be said by mathematical symbols and relations which cannot also be said by words. The converse, however, is false. Much that can be and is said by words cannot successfully be put into equations, because it is nonsense. C. Truesdell, "Six Lectures on Modern Natural Philosophy"
There is only one blasphemy, and that is the refusal to experience joy. Paul Rudnick
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.William James
There's a difference between beauty and charm. A beautiful woman is one I notice. A charming woman is one who notices me. John Erskine
There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself. Johann Sebastian Bach
They are able because they think they are able. Vergil
Things always look better when you can't see them. Craig Bruce
THINK -- it gives you something to do while the computer is down. Anon.
Thinking is the best way to travel. Michael Pinder from Doug & Lesley Moody
This is my happening baby, and it freaks me out! Austin Powers
This isn't right. This isn't even wrong! Wolfgang Pauli
Those that can, do. Those who can't, don't. Anon.
Those who are absend are always wrong. English Proverb
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. George Santayana (1863-1952)
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. John F. Kennedy
Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. Bertrand Russell, Autobiography
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils. Hector Berlioz
Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt. Abraham Lincoln
To achive great things we must live as though we were never going to die. Luc de Vauvenargues
To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep. Joan Klempner
To be loved, be lovable. Ovid
To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.Gustave Flaubert
to discover them. Galileo Galilei
To do is to be. Plato To be is to do. Kant Do be do be do.Sinatra from Bruce Graham
To escape criticism - Do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. Elbert Hubbard
To obtain a man's opinion of you, make him mad. Oliver Wendell Holmes
To philosophize is to doubt. Montaigne
To secure peace is to prepare for war. Carl von Clausewitz
To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered. Voltaire
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death. James F. Byrnes
True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable. David Tyson Gentry
True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost. Charles Caleb Colton
Trust in Allah, but tie your camel. Old Muslim Proverb
Truth fears no questions. Anon.
Try a thing you haven't done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time, to figure out whether you like it or not. Virgil Thomson Advice given at age 93
Try to relax and enjoy the crisis. Ashleigh Brilliant
Usability is like oxygen -- you never notice it until it is missing... Anon.
Use soft words and hard arguments. Anon.
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. Salvor Hardin
Wagner's music is better than it sounds. Mark Twain
War is much too serious a matter to be entrusted to the military. Georges Clemenceau
Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack. George S. Patton
We adore chaos because we love to produce order. M. C. Escher
We always admire the other person more after we've tried to do his job. William Feather
We always love those who admire us, but we do not always love those whom we admire. Anon.
We are drowning in information, but starved for knowledge. John Naisbilt
We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it. Dwight D.Eisenhower
We are, each of us angels with only one wing; and we can only fly by embracing one another. -Luciano de Crescenzo
We can do no great things; only small things with great love. Mother Teresa
We can't all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clapas they go by. Will Rogers
We give nothing so freely as advice. Francois de la Rochefoucauld
We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones. L. Rochefoucauld
We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak. Epictetus
We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.Phyllis Diller
We too often love things and use people when we should USE things and LOVE people. Anon.
We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified. Aesop
Well done is better than well said. Benjamin Franklin
We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog. Dwight D. Eisenhower
What does not destroy me, makes me strong. Friedrich Nietzsche
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death. Dave Barry
What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies. Aristotle
What is a true gift? One for which nothing is expected in return. Chinese proverb
What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.Vilhjalmur Stefansson
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure. Samuel Johnson
What luck for the rulers that men do not think.Adolf Hitler
What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window. Burton Rascoe
What we call human nature, is actually human habit. Jewel
What we call 'Progress' is the exchange of one nuisance for anothernuisance. Henry Havelock Ellis
What we do not understand, we do not possess. J.W. Goethe
What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos. Kerry Thornley, Principia Discordia, 5th edition
What we need, gentlemen, is a completely brand new idea that has been thoroughly tested. New Yorker Cartoon
Whatever advice you give, be brief. Horace
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When a Banker jumps out of a window, jump after him -- that's where the money is. Robespierre
When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong. Clarke's First Law
When a fellow says it ain't the money but the principle of the thing, it's the money. Kin Hubbard
When a husband acts like a child he forces his wife to act like his mother. Promise Keepers
When a man points finger at someone else, he should remember that three of his fingers are pointing at himself. Anon.
When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of putting it into practice. Bismarck
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her. Sacha Guitry
When a man wants to murder a tiger, it's called sport; when the tiger wants to murder him it's called ferocity. George Bernard Shaw
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty. George Bernard Shaw
When a thing has been said, and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it. Anatole France
When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in a confederacy against him. Swift
When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself. Peter O'Toole, The Ruling Class
When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. Richard Buckminster Fuller
When it's a question of money, everybody is of the same religion. Voltaire
When money talks, nobody notices what grammar it uses. Anon.
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. Eric Hoffer
When science finally locates the center of the universe, some people will be surprised to learn they're not it. Anon.
When the effective leader is finished with his work, the people say it happened naturally. Lao Tse
When the president does it, that's means it is not illegal. Richard Nixon
When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship. Harry S Truman
When you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however improbable, must be the truth. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
When you're away, I'm restless, lonely, wretched, bored, dejected; only here's the rub, my darling dear, I feel the same when you're near. Samuel Hoffenstein
Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried. Mae West
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong. Oscar Wilde
Where facts are few, experts are many. Donald R. Gannon
Where shall I begin, please your Majesty? He asked. Begin at the beginning, the King said, very gravely, and go on till you come to the end: then stop. - Lewis Carroll, Alice In Wonderland
Which is it, is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's? Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
While we are postponing, life speeds by. Seneca
Who begins too much accomplishes little. German proverb
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. George Orwell
Who's more foolish: the fool, or the fool who follows him? -Obi Wan, Star Wars
Why be a man when you can be a success? Bertold Brecht
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married? Barbra Streisand
Why was I born with such contemporaries? Oscar Wilde
Wine is bottled poetry. Robert Louis Stevenson
Wisdom is the reward for a lifetime of listening ... when you'd have preferred to talk.D.J. Kaufman
Wise men don't need advice. Fools don't take it. Benjamin Franklin
Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them. Samuel Palmer 1805-80
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something. -Plato
With love and patience, nothing is impossible. Daisaku Ikeda
With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain. Friedrich von Schiller
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom. Anonymous (Greek Proverb)
You are better off not knowing how sausages and laws are made. Anon.
You are here: X Anon.
You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. Anon.
you are, you are essential to my happiness'. Nathaniel Branden
You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. Plato
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you. Eric Hoffer
You can do no great things -- only small things with great love. Mother Teresa
You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time. Abraham Lincoln
You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone. Al Capone
You can outdistance that which is running after you, but not what is running inside you. Rwandan proverb
You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty. Sacha Guitry 1885-1957
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself. Galileo
You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners. Rita Mae Brown
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. Henry Ford
You can't do anything about the length of your life, but you can do something about its width and depth. Shira Tehrani
You can't have everything...where would you put it? Groucho Marx
You can't hold a man down without staying down with him. Booker T. Washington
You can't shake hands with a clenched fist. Indira Gandhi
You do not destroy an idea by killing people; you replace it with a better one. Edward Keating
You enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Keep this in mind, it may offer a way to make him your friend. If not, you can kill him without hate and quickly. Lazarus Long
You must do the thing you think you cannot do. Eleanor Roosvelt
You must first have a lot of patience to learn to have patience.Stanislaw Lec
You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do. Olin Miller
You will never find time for anything. If you want time you must make it. Charles Buxton
You'll see it when you believe it. Anon.
Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true. Niels Bohr
Your true value depends entirely on what you are compared with. Bob Wells