Saturday, February 9, 2008
Some interesting quotes by various people
"My only remaining ambition is to win the NOBLE PEACE PRIZE and I will fight as hard as I could for it."
- Ronaldo
George Bush on Terrorists...
"We won't rest until we have eliminated them all.We know they have got money,so do we.We know they have got manpower, so do we.We know they are looking for new ways to HURT OUR COUNTRY, SO ARE WE."
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Thursday, February 7, 2008
G.B. Shaw.
1) A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.
2) A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
3) A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
4) A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
5) Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.
6) Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.
7) Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
8) England and America are two countries separated by a common language.
9) Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
10) 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.
11) Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich--something for nothing.
12) Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
13) I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
14) If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
15) If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
16) If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a footrule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved.
17) If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
18) Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
19) Lack of money is the root of all evil.
20) Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
21) Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
22) Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
23) Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.
24) Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.
25) 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.
26) The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed but that he cannot believe anyone else.
27) The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
28) The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
29) 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.
30) When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.
31) You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.
32) Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
33) My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.
34) You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, "Why not?"
35) There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.
36) The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
37) You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
38) People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.
39) There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses.
40) Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another.
41) One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
42) The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.
43) We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.
44) "Do you know what a pessimist is?" "A man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it."
45) All great truths begin as blasphemies.
46) Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
47) He who has never hoped can never despair.
48) When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
49) Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true.
50) We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
51) Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.
52) My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world.
Mark Twain
Some of the most famous quotes by MARK TWAIN.
1)Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
2) All generalizations are false, including this one.
3) As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always
been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.
4) But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?
5) Buy land, they're not making it anymore.
6) Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
7) Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
8) Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.
9) I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.
10) I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
11) I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know.
12) If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.
13) If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.
14) It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
15) Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
16) It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.
17) Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.
18) Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat
19) One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives.
20)Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.
21)The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.
22)The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.
23)The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.
24)The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.
25)The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
26)There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce.
27)To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal.
28)What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce.
29)When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.
30)Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more.