Quotes found within the Weird Wild World
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The fact that there's a Highway to Hell but only a
Stairway to Heaven says a lot about anticipated traffic
volume.

Scientists say the world is made up of Protons, Neutrons and Electrons.
They forgot to mention Morons. -- Unknown


"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with 
 no loss of enthusiasm." --Winston Churchill

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
-- John Lennon

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail Again. Fail better.
-- Samuel Beckett 

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day;
wisdom consists of not exceeding that limit. - Elbert Hubbard

Your ego is a failed API for a system that doesn't need your
input. -- Dave Hayes

It will not break if you know what you are doing.
-- Bjoern A. Zeeb

Be careful what you wish for you just might get it.
-- unknown

Never be afraid to try something new.
Remember, amateurs built the ark.
Professionals built the Titanic. -- unknown


I am only one, but I am one.  I cannot do everything, but I can do
something.  And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what
I can do.
                        -- Edward Everett Hale, (1822 - 1909)



In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is. -- Yogi Berra

In theory, theory is better than practice, but in practice, it never is.
-- unknown

"If you can't see the forest through the trees, cut the trees 
 and you'll see there is no forest"
-- unknown

Statistics are like a bikini. 
What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-Aaron Levenstein

"Given a fish, eat for a day; learn to fish, eat for a lifetime."
-- unknown

"Free time?  There's no such thing.  It just comes in varying prices..."
-- unknown

Pain is inevitable.  Suffering is optional.  ~M. Kathleen Casey

If you keep your mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish 
into it.  ---William Orton

Objects in calendar are closer than they appear.  
-- Jim Duncan 

Any philosophy that can be put in a nutshell belongs there.  
-- Sydney J. Harris 

"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
 Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote." 
-- Benjamin Franklin, 1759

"They that give up essential liberty to obtain temporary safety, deserve
neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin

"The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases."
-- Thomas Jefferson

You may delay, but time will not.
-- Benjamin Franklin

There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full. 
-- Henry Kissinger

The American people have now spoken, but it's going to take 
a little while to determine exactly what they said. 
-- Bill Clinton (waiting for results of the 2000 presidential election)

An optimist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds.  
A pessimist is sure of it!

"Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence."
Napoleon

"It doesn't matter who votes, it matters who counts the votes"- Joe Stalin

"This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously 
considered as a means of communication. 
The device is inherently of no value to us."
                 Western Union internal memo, 1876


"Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily
available, they will create their own problems. Normal people don't
understand this concept; they believe that if it ain't broke, don't
fix it.  Engineers believe that if ain't broke, it doesn't have enough
features yet." - S.  Adams

A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.
-- Albert Einstein

Any sufficiently advanced technology is undistinguishable from magic.
- Arthur Clarke

Parents complain that "kids don't do anything for themselves anymore."
Then they write letters to the board demanding that the schools do
something about it. -- Arnold Lapiner

This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. 
It should be thrown with great force. -- Dorothy Parker

The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly 
being either proven right or pleasantly surprised. -- George F. Will

"A scientist once wrote that all truth passes through three stages:
 first it is ridiculed, then violently opposed and eventually,
 accepted as self-evident." -- Schopenhauer

One trend that bothers me is the glorification of stupidity, that the
media is reassuring people it's all right not to know anything. That 
to me is far more dangerous than a little pornography on the Internet.
- Carl Sagan

"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens." -- Jimi Hendrix

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There is an old joke, which I think is immensely informative. Somebody
comes across a man in the middle of the night and he is grovelling around
under a streetlight looking for something and the man says: What, have
you lost something, and the man says: I lost my car keys. Where are
they? And the man points way over in the darkness and he says: Why aren't
you looking there? The man says: The light's better here.

That is almost all of the activity of science and engineering. It's a
combination, you look right under the center of a streetlight, you don't
find anything that wasn't known before. If you look out into the darkness,
you don't discover anything, cause you can't see anything. So you're
always working at the edge of the streetlight, trying to find your keys.

Whitfield Diffie on science while interviewed in 1992
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Taking material from one source is copying, taking material from two sources
is plagiarism, and taking material from many sources is research.
-- Rob Slade in Risks-23.47

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What's the difference between ignorance and apathy? 
I don't know and I don't care. 

Give me ambiguity or give me something else.

I'm not a complete idiot, some parts are missing!

I don't suffer from insanity. I enjoy every minute of it.

All generalizations are false, including this one.

This still is not heaven; but it is outside hell.

The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.

What goes around comes around.

There are two rules for success in life:
Rule 1: Don't tell people everything you know.

Of course I'm sane.  The voices told me so.

The only truly safe embedded system is one with an axe embedded in it.

Very funny, Scotty.  Now beam down my clothes.

If you want to know about paranoids, follow them around.

"Mr. Worf, scan that ship."  "Aye, Captain... 300 DPI?

When new students arrive, they are called freshers. That's because they
don't smell like the others yet.

How come wrong numbers are never busy?

Friends help you move.  Real friends help you move bodies.

I'm being held prisoner in a chocolate factory.  Don't send help.

The worst thing about censorship is

Me...a skeptic?  I trust you can prove that.

Don't take life too seriously, you won't get out alive.

Asking if computers can think is like asking if submarines can swim.

My train of thought derailed.

The buck doesn't even slow down here.

Do radioactive cats have 18 half-lives?

Help Wanted: Telepath.  You know where to apply.

I used to be indecisive - now I'm not so sure.

If it's tourist season, where do I get a license?

If it ain't broke yet, let me have a shot at it.

Few problems cannot be solved by proper application of high explosives.

We are born naked, wet and hungry.  Then things get worse.

I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it.

Okay, I pulled the pin.  Now what?  Hey, wait!  Where are you going?

If you can't beat your computer at chess, try kickboxing.


The trouble with troubleshooting is that trouble shoots back.

You've got to hand it to the Inland Revenue.  
If not, they'll come and take it.

If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

Do not disturb - already quite disturbed.

Be consistent - but don't do it all the time.

Most lectures have a happy ending. Everyone's glad when they're over.

STATUS QUO is Latin for "the mess we're in."

I live in a quiet neighborhood - they use silencers.

We must believe in free will.  We have no choice.

I had a caffeine hangover... 
my head was clear, but clearly asleep.  -- jjap2

Is there a lawyer in the house?  *BLAM* Any more?

I have a grip on reality, just not this particular one.

Life in Cambridge is normal. That is to say, it's at 90 degrees to
everybody else's plane of reality. -- Kelpie

And I was thinking to myself, "This rain is going UP. What the hell am I 
doing here??!?"  -- ajtr2, recounting ridge-walking in Scotland

I thought about being born again, but my mother refused.

Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do.

What if there were no hypothetical situations?

If you believe in telekinesis, raise my hand.

If you can read this, we wasted 32 billion bucks.
-- bumper sticker on stealth bomber

Insanity is hereditary. You get it from your kids.

I have never let reality get in my way in the past.  
And I don't intend to start now.  -- amk31

The propeller is just a big fan in the front of the plane to keep the
pilot cool.  Want proof?  Make it stop, then watch the pilot break out
into a sweat.

You know you've landed with the wheels up when it takes full power to taxi.

Helicopters can't really fly - they're just so ugly that the earth
immediately repels them.

helicopter (n): 30,000 parts in tight orbit around a hydraulic
fluid leak, waiting for metal fatigue to set in.

Personally, I like to defiantly split my infinitives. :-)  -- Larry Wall

There's some entertainment value in watching people juggle nitroglycerin.
-- Larry Wall

Y'know, there are other possibilities if we assume that filenames
are UTF-8...yikes...wait, put down that meat cleaver!  Aieeee!!!
-- Larry Wall

Psychotics are consistently inconsistent.  The essence of sanity is
to be inconsistently inconsistent.  -- Larry Wall 

"Interwoven alignment preambles are not allowed."
If you have been so devious as to get this message, you will understand 
it, and you deserve no sympathy.  -- Knuth, _The TeXbook_

At first, I read 'barbazqux' and thought it was some sort of Satanic
chant and that you were a Cthulhu-worshipper.  -- ajtr2

Why is it that love letters, business contracts and money due you always
arrive three weeks late, whereas junk mail arrives the day it was sent?

You do not need a parachute to skydive. You only need a parachute to
skydive twice.

A seminar on time-travel will be held two weeks ago.

Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time.  I think I've
forgotten this before.

"Sure, when..." -- OINK FLAP OINK FLAP -- "Well I'll be darned!"

Whoa. Exchange is a scary place. I can ride a tightrope between NT and Mac
OS and Win98 and Linux on a unicycle while juggling chainsaws, but I don't
touch Exchange (except when I have to to get my mail).  -- Dr. Lart

Warning: Do not look directly into laser with remaining eye.

Warning: Do not attempt to stop blade with hands.

Maintain thine airspeed, lest the ground come up and smite thee.

Never forget: The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
So tread hard on good intentions. -- rjd4

Now if Bill Gates had a nickel for every time Windows crashed.....
Oh. He does.

Ah, nostalgia ain't what it used to be.

Plane: Uhh, Tower, that pressure altitude puts us 6 feet below sea level.
Tower: Well then, up periscope and taxi to the ramp!

I could go in for some therapy... 
but I don't fancy the chances of the therapist.   -- ajtr2

How inappropriate to call this planet `Earth'
when it is quite clearly `Ocean'.  -- Arthur C Clarke

Two of my imaginary friends reproduced once.... with negative results.

When languishing for solutions, don't ask "Have I got the correct answer?"
The correct question is "Have I got the correct question?"

To solve an interesting problem, 
first find a problem that is interesting to you.

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, 
then you win.  -- Mahatma Ghandi

Why is "abbreviation" such a long word?

For people who like peace and quiet: a phoneless cord.

Enter any 11-digit prime number to continue.

"The third person passive," said the style manual, "is to be avoided."

Fight organised crime... abolish the Inland Revenue.

This channel is currently not broadcasting. See Channel Guide 
(channel 59) for details of transmission times.    (Seen on Channel 59)

Correctly English in 100 Days
-- allegedly, a real book title 

This statement contains an error.

computeri non cogitant, ergo non sunt

This is one of the single most offensive paragraphs I have ever 
read on ucam.chat (possibly because it contains an element of 
truth, but..). -- rrw1000

Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali.  He was using a dotted line.
He caught every other fish.

I have a stupid show. I don't want to be remembered for that.
 -- Jerry Springer

quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur.
(Whatever is said in Latin sounds profound.)

Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your mind.
-- Knuth, _The TeXbook_

Travel broadens the mind ... and the waistline, at this rate.
-- IH, in cafe in Texas

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"Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and instead of bleeding,
he sings." -- Ed Gardner 

"A Meltdown? One of those annoying buzzwords. We prefer to think of it
as an unrequested fission surplus!"
  -- Monty Burns

"Television is a medium because it is neither rare nor well done." 
  -- Fred Friendly

_I_ think we have not had visitors from other planets because they have
tried to decode our character encoding, and concluded that it wouldn't
be worth it.
  -- Erik Naggum 

"A witty saying proves nothing." 
  -- Voltaire 

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. 
  -- Douglas Adams 

Marketing is the science of convincing us that What You Get Is What You
Want. 
  -- John Carter

"We stand behind all of our products, except for the manure spreader."
 -- Corporate motto of an equipment manufacturer

Once I thought I was wrong, but I was mistaken.

My reality check just bounced.

All generalizations are false.

Psychic Dwarf Escapes Jail...Small Medium At Large...

You ever notice how fast Windows runs? Neither did I.

Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like pears.

Eschew Obfuscation!

Life is full of contradictions.... No it isn't.

Sentio aliquos togatos contra me conspirare.

We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilisation.
-- Voltaire

I hereby declare this meeting finished. Nobody is interested in
anything other than my wooden lemon! -- iwj10

Nothing excites a magical particle like meeting itself coming the other way.
-- _The Science of Discworld_

A rock has no detectable opinion about gravity.
-- _The Science of Discworld_

intaxification (n): Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you
realize it was your money to start with.

reintarnation (n):  Coming back to life as a hillbilly.

giraffiti (n): Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.

sarchasm (n): The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person
who doesn't get it.

inoculatte (v): To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.

People who make no mistakes do not usually make anything.

A little inaccuracy can save tons of explanation.   -- Saki

Never criticise somebody until you have walked a mile in their shoes.
That way, they're a mile away, and you have their shoes.

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 other
forms that have been tried from time to time.   -- Churchill

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the 
opportunity in every difficulty.  -- Churchill

We'll give you your money back if not satisfied, but we do suspect that
we will be quite satisfied with your money.

There is no more cooperative group of people than a gang of boys who have been
offered the chance to help legally destroy something.
-- http://www.toxiccustard.com/vcr/03.html

Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind.
-- Terry Pratchett _Reaper Man_

withdrawl (n): The feeling you get when removed from people who speak
your native language and placed in the Deep South.

The Romans made their bridge-builders stand under their bridges.
Is there a good reason why the software engineers of today don't have to
entrust their lives to their code?

At least when humans go to casualty, they generally haven't gone into the
Control Panel and messed with the settings...

Psst! Viral marketing works! Tell everyone you know!

A good landing is one you can walk away from.
A great landing is one from which the plane can take off again.

With the Number Field Sieve, you're just arguing with the laws of
mathematics until they give in.   -- IH
Or you wave notation at them until they get confused.  -- [mdw]

The answer gets stuck and you have to do some more maths to pull it out,
screaming.  -- [mdw]

/Star Trek/, which people in Europe had been picking up from UK satellite
broadcasts for years, was suddenly encrypted in 1993. This motivated a lot of
keen young computer science and engineering students to look for
vulnerabilities.  -- Ross Anderson, _Security Engineering_


Flying is not dangerous; crashing is dangerous.

It's better to be down here wishing you were up there, than up there wishing
you were down here.

The only time you have too much fuel is when you're on fire.

Aviation is not so much a profession as it is a disease.

There are three simple rules for making a smooth landing.
Unfortunately, no pilot knows what they are.

Gravity never loses - the best you can hope for is a draw!

Pilot: "...Tower, please call me a fuel truck."
Tower: "Roger. You are a fuel truck."


Cats regard people as warm-blooded furniture.  --Jacquelyn Mitchard

Forget Bernoulli's Theorem.
-- Wolfgang Langewiesche, _Stick and Rudder_

Most of the time, the airplane flies not _because_ of the pilot's activity
on the controls, but _despite_ it!
-- Wolfgang Langewiesche, _Stick and Rudder_

Flying is a fine balance between trusting your instincts and nailing them
screaming into a trunk.

Actually liking any of the bands [at Glastonbury] is almost a problem [because
there's so many other things to do]. -- map36

Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.  H. L. Mencken

Never have children, only grandchildren. Gore Vidal

It is fun to be in the same decade with you. Franklin D. Roosevelt

Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster. Quentin Crisp

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The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith; and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety. - George Muller.

Islam is a religion in which Allah demands you send your son to die for him; Christianity is the faith in which God sent his son to die for you.
- John Ashcroft

The beginning is the most important part of the work.
- Plato

Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
- Geri Weitzman

Don't argue about the difficulties. The difficulties will argue for themselves.
- Winston Churchill

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

Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
- Phyllis Diller

Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.
- Slovenian proverb

Imagination is more important than knowledge.
- Albert Einstein

Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well. Think about it.
- Elias Schwartz

Everything you can imagine is real.
- Picasso

Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.
- W. Edwards Deming

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
- Winston Churchill

No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
- Abraham Lincoln

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
- Malcolm S. Forbes

If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done.
- Anonymous

What does not kill me makes me stronger.
- Goethe

Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other.
- Ann Landers

If one has not given everything, one has given nothing.
- Georges Guynemer

If you choose not to decide - you still have made a choice!
- Neil Peart

Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?
- Kelvin Throop

The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give to others.
- Anonymous

The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.
- Oscar Wilde

Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.
- Woody Allen

If you can't convince them, confuse them.
- Harry S Truman

It usually takes a long time to find a shorter way.
- Anonymous

Some day my boat will come in, and with my luck I'll be at the airport.
- Anonymous

Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
- Appius Claudius

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.
- Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

There are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.
- Thomas A. Edison
	

	

To prophesy is extremely difficult - especially with regard to the future.
- Chinese proverb

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
- Shakespeare

When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom,
the gentlest gamester is the soonest winner.
- Shakespeare

There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
- Henry Kissinger

It is not the horse that draws the cart, but the oats.
- Russian proverb

I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
- George Burns

All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.
- Samuel Butler

Your true value depends entirely on what you are compared with.
- Bob Wells

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
- Albert Einstein

"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?"
- Albert Einstein

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.
- Bob Edwards

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
- Derek Bok

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
- Will Rogers

It's not that I'm so smart , it's just that I stay with problems longer.
- Albert Einstein

The more you know, the less you need to show.
- Anonymous

For every action there is an equal and opposite government program.
- Bob Wells

To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have.
- Anonymous

You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
- Henry Ford

Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night.
- Anonymous

Confidence in nonsense is a requirement for the creative process.
- Anonymous

Democracy is the worst system devised by with of man, except for all the others.
- Winston Churchill

The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
- Anonymous

If everything is coming your way then you're in the wrong lane.
- Anonymous

Use soft words and hard arguments.
- Anonymous

The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits
- Anonymous

The quality of an organization can never exceed the quality of the minds that make it up.
- Harold R. McAlindon

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
- Will Durant

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
- William Saroyan

With stupidity the gods themselves struggle in vain.
- Friedrich von Schiller

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
- John Locke

The first rule to tinkering is to save all the parts.
- Paul Erlich

Wine is bottled poetry.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

He who cannot agree with his enemies is controlled by them.
- Chinese proverb

"Reality" is the only word in the English language that should always be used in quotes.
- Anonymous

I think; therefore I am.
- Rene Descartes

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
- Greek proverb

It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.
- Voltaire

The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.
- Casey Stengal

Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
- W. C. Fields
		

Lady Nancy Astor: Winston, if you were my husband, I'd put arsenic in your morning coffee.
Churchill: Madam, if you were my wife, I'd drink it.

Bessie Braddock: Winston, you are drunk!
Churchill: And Madam, you are ugly. And tomorrow, I'll be sober, and you will still be ugly.

Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.
- H. L. Mencken

My wife dresses to kill. She cooks the same way.
- Henny Youngman

The greatest risk is to risk nothing at all.
- Leo Buscaglia

God does not play dice with the universe.
- Albert Einstein

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
- Albert Einstein

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo.
- James Klass

Not all those who wonder are lost.
- Anonymous

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
- Lao-Tsu

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.
- Gilbert Highet

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.
- E. F. Schumacher

If a person feels he can't communicate, the least he can do is shut up about it.
-Tom Lehrer

That's the difference between me and the rest of the world! Happiness isn't good enough for me! I demand euphoria!
-Calvin

No pressure, no diamonds.
- Mary Case

You can't be truly rude until you understand good manners.
- Rita Mae Brown

Good judgement comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgement.
- Rita Mae Brown

Don't be afraid to take one large step because you can't cross a chasm in two small leaps.
- Anonymous

Failure to prepare is preparing to fail.
- Anonymous

If everybody's thinking alike, somebody isn't thinking.
- Anonymous

Don't let people drive you crazy when you know it's in walking distance.
- Anonymous

Never argue with a fool. Someone watching may not be able to tell the difference.
- Anonymous

If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.
- Dorothy Parker

Nothing endures but change.
- Heraclitus

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates

All jobs are easy to the person who doesn't have to do them.
- Holt's Law

Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
- Chinese proverb

A picture is worth a thousand words
is not an old proverb
- 1921 ad copy by Fred R Barnard

Wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous.
- Lucius Accius

'Tis better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
- Samuel Johnson

Necessity is the mother of invention.
- Plato

A free society is a place where it's safe to be unpopular.
- Adlai Stevenson

Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion.
- Ovid

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson

It's better to be quotable than to be honest.
- Tom Stoppard

"All that is necessary for evil to succeed is that good men do nothing."
                                             -- Edmund Burke

When the cat's away the mice will play.
- unknown

"If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy all her friends?"
- unknown

Fools and their money are soon parted...
- unknown


Benjamin Franklin Quotes from 
http://www.quotationspage.com/quotes/Benjamin_Franklin/

   A good conscience is a continual Christmas.
          Benjamin Franklin

   A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the
   tongue you may never get over.
          Benjamin Franklin

   All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those
   of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; 
   and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, 
   and frequently for the worse.
          Benjamin Franklin

   All would live long, but none would be old.
          Benjamin Franklin

   An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
          Benjamin Franklin

   Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
          Benjamin Franklin

   At 20 years of age the will reigns, at 30 the wit, at 40 the judgment. 
          Benjamin Franklin

   Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend
          to one; enemy to none.
          Benjamin Franklin

   Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing. 
          Benjamin Franklin

   Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.
          Benjamin Franklin

   Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. 
   Keep in the sunlight.
          Benjamin Franklin

   Drive thy business or it will drive thee.
          Benjamin Franklin

   Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
          Benjamin Franklin

   Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion 
   and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning 
   will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and
   crimes from society.
          Benjamin Franklin

   Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to get leisure.
          Benjamin Franklin

   Energy and persistence conquer all things.
          Benjamin Franklin

   Genius without education is like silver in the mine.
          Benjamin Franklin

   Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never well mended. 
          Benjamin Franklin

   God heals, and the doctor takes the fees.
          Benjamin Franklin

   Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is.
          Benjamin Franklin

   He is ill clothed that is bare of virtue. 
          Benjamin Franklin

   He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, 
   has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face.
          Benjamin Franklin

   He that can have patience can have what he will. 
          Benjamin Franklin

   He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
          Benjamin Franklin

   He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.
          Benjamin Franklin

   He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well
   be suspected of doing everything for money.
          Benjamin Franklin

   He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
          Benjamin Franklin

   He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows 
   nor judge all he sees. 
          Benjamin Franklin