favorite Quotes

This is a list of some quotes that I really like.

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."

- Albert Einstein

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."

- Albert Einstein

"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."

- Sir Winston Churchill

"Do, or do not. There is no 'try'."

- Yoda

"C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg."

- Bjarne Stroustrup

"The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad."

- Salvador Dali

"Talent does what it can; genius does what it must."

- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

"If you are going through hell, keep going."

- Sir Winston Churchill

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."

- Oscar Wilde

"He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death."

- H. H. Munro

"When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world."

- George Washington Carver

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

- Thomas Alva Edison

"Maybe this world is another planet's Hell."

- Aldous Huxley

"Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact."

- George Eliot

"Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth."

- Sherlock Holmes

"I've had a wonderful time, but this wasn't it."

- Groucho Marx

"All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher."

- Ambrose Bierce

"You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it."

- Gilbert Keith Chesterton

"Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down."

- Jimmy Durante

"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."

- Samuel Johnson

"Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street."

- Elbert Hubbard

"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."

- Isaac Asimov

"It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts."

- G. B. Burgin

"Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours."

- Richard Bach

"A witty saying proves nothing."

- Voltaire

"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

"I'll sleep when I'm dead."

- Warren Zevon

"If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"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

"If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me."

- Alice Roosevelt Longworth

"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his."

- General George Patton

"I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking."

- Katherine Cebrian

"I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it."

- Steven Wright

"When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before."

- Mae West

"Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you."

- Carl Gustav Jung

"Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure."

- Ross MacDonald

"In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take."

- Adlai Stevenson

"Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research."

- Wilson Mizner

" The best way to predict the future is to invent it."

- Alan Kay

"Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd."

- William Congreve

"If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?" "

- Will Rogers

"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."

- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977

"Denial ain't just a river in Egypt."

- Mark Twain

"A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood."

- General George S. Patton

"The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame."

- Benjamin Franklin

"God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time."

- Robin Williams

"He would make a lovely corpse."

- Charles Dickens

"I worship the quicksand he walks in."

- Art Buchwald

"We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction."

- General Douglas MacArthur

"There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it."

- Oscar Wilde

"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