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I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
- Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
You can observe a lot by just watching.
- Yogi Berra


Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat

Everyone has a right to be stupid. Some just abuse the privilege.


The Next Time You Think You're Perfect, Try Walking On Water


"Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo."
- H. G. Wells (1866-1946)

"His ignorance is encyclopedic"
- Abba Eban (1915-2002)


Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws."
- Plato (427-347 B.C.)


Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)


"The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'."
- unknown

"Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake a whole relationship."
- Sharon Stone

"If you are going through hell, keep going."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'."
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)


"He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death."
- H. H. Munro (Saki) (1870-1916)

"Maybe this world is another planet's Hell."
- Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true."
- James Branch Cabell
"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."
- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street."
- Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915)
"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."
- Jimi Hendrix
"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."
- Will Durant
"I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means."
- Clarence Darrow, Scopes trial, 1925
"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."
- Henry Ford (1863-1947)
"The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head."
- Jean Cocteau (1889-1963)
"God, please save me from your followers!"
- Bumper Sticker
"Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so."
- Bertrand Russell (1872-1970
"Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me."
- Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity."
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon."
- Bill Hirst
"The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people."
- Lucille S. Harper
"I am not young enough to know everything."
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
Men are not disturbed by things, but the view they take of things."
- Epictetus (55-135 A.D.)
"Criticism is prejudice made plausible."
- Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)



"Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?"
- H. M. Warner (1881-1958), founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927
"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out."
- Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962
"Everything that can be invented has been invented."
- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899


"He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know."
- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)


The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841-1935)



"I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial."
- Irvin S. Cobb
"I worship the quicksand he walks in."

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