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Humor from Great Minds
2007-12-15 11:29:00
"As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two... "Sir Norman Wisdom" One of the most difficult things in the world is to convince a woman that even a bargain costs money."Edgar Watson Howe"A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success! "Doug Larson"A harmful truth is always better then...a useful lie! "Eric Bolton" When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bike. Then I realized that The Lord doesn't work that way, so I stole one and asked him to forgive me."Erno Philips" I only go to work on days that don't end in a 'y'. "Robert Paul"We spend the first twelve months of our children's liv! es teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up. "Phyllis Diller" Laughter is the closest distance between two people."Victor Borge"Start every day with a smile and get it over with."W.C. Fields"Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebo...
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Selected favourites
2007-12-13 09:58:00
"My mother said to me, "If you become a soldier, you'll be a general; if you become a monk, you'll end up as the Pope." Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso." - Pablo Picasso "'the doer' is merely a fiction added to the deed “ the deed is everything." - Friedrich Nietzsche "In the theory of gender I began from zero. There is no masculine power or privilege I did not covet. But slowly, step by step, decade by decade, I was forced to acknowledge that even a woman of abnormal will cannot escape her hormonal identity." - Camille Paglia "Sir, a man may be so much of everything, that he is nothing of anything." - Samuel Johnson "There comes a point in many people's lives when they can no longer play the role they have chosen for themselves. When that happens, we are like actors finding that someone has changed the play." - Brian Moore (Irish novelist, 1921-...) "Each of us is something of a schizophrenic personality, tragically divided against ourselves." - Martin Lu...
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Quotes about dogs
2007-12-03 10:13:00
The reason a dog has so many friends is that he wags his tail instead of his tongue. - AnonymousThere is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face. - Ben WilliamsA dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than heloves himself. - Josh BillingsThe average dog is a nicer person than the average person. - Andy RooneyDogs love their friends & bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable ofpure love & always have to mix love & hate.- AnonymousAnybody who doesn't know what soap tastes like never washed a dog.- Franklin P. JonesIf your dog is fat, you aren't getting enough exercise- Unknown My dog is worried about the economy because Alpo is up to $3.00 a can.That's almost $21.00 in dog money.- Joe Weinstein Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax andget used to the idea. - Robert A. HeinleinIf you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you;that is the principal difference betwee...
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Science fiction
2007-11-18 15:29:00
"Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today -- but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all." - Isaac Asimov
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INSPIRING QUOTES FROM INSPIRING PEOPLE
2007-11-14 07:54:00
1. IN A DAY, WHEN YOU DON'T COME ACROSS ANY PROBLEMS - YOU CAN BE SURE THAT YOU ARE TRAVELING IN A WRONG PATH - SWAMI VIVEKANANDA 2. THREE SENTENCES FOR GETTING SUCCESS a) KNOW MORE THAN OTHER b) WORK MORE THAN OTHER c) EXPECT LESS THAN OTHER - WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE 3. DON'T COMPARE YOURSELF WITH ANYONE IN THIS WORLD. IF YOU DO SO, YOU ARE INSULTING YOURSELF - ALEN STRIKE 4. IF WE CANNOT LOVE THE PERSON WHOM WE SEE, HOW CAN WE LOVE GOD, WHOM WE CANNOT SEE ? - MOTHER THERESA 5. NO MAN IS RICH ENOUGH TO BUY HIS PAST - OSCAR WILDE 6. IF YOU WANT REAL PEACE DON'T TALK TO YOUR FRIENDS, TALK WITH YOUR ENEMIES - MOTHER THERESA 7. WINNING DOESN'T ALWAYS MEAN BEING FIRST, WINNING MEANS YOU'RE DOING BETTER THAN YOU'VE DONE BEFORE - BONNIE BLAIR 8. EVERYONE THINKS OF CHANGING THE WORLD, BUT NO ONE THINKS OF CHANGING HIMSELF - LEO TOLSTOY 9. I WILL NOT SAY I FAILED 1000 TIMES, I WILL SAY THAT I DISCOVERED THERE ARE 1000 WAYS THAT CA...
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Chanakya's Quotes (Indian politician, strategist and writer, 350 BC-275 BC)
2007-11-12 05:51:00
"Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous." Chanakya quotes (Indian politician, strategist and writer, 350 BC-275 BC) ***************************************** ********** A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut firstChanakya quotes (Indian politician, strategist and writer, 350 BC-275 BC) ***************************************** **********"The biggest guru-mantra is: Never share your secrets with anybody. ! It will destroy you." Chanakya quotes (Indian politician, strategist and writer, 350 BC-275 BC) ***************************************** ********** "There is some self-interest behind every friendship.There is no Friendship without self-interests.This is a bitter truth." Chanakya quotes (Indian politician, strategist and writer, 350 BC-275 BC) ***************************************** ********** "Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be a...
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All quotes by Albert Einstein
2007-10-27 09:21:00
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?" "The must incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible." "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new." "Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value." "Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love." "You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother." "The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat." "When asked how World War III would be fought, Einstein replied that he didn't know. But he knew how World War IV would be fought: With sticks and stones!" "Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S RELATIVITY." "...
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Jane Wagner Quotes
2007-10-16 19:14:00
A sobering thought: what if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential? All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific. Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself. I bet the worst part about dying is the part where your whole life passes before you. I personally think we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain. Our ability to delude ourselves may be an important survival tool. The ability to delude yourself may be an important survival tool. The hardest part about being a kid is knowing you have got your whole life ahead of you. When we talk to God, we're praying. When God talks to us, we're schizophrenic.
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