Great Quotes

Gonzo

Gonzo

Infinitesimally Outrageous
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The ideal Islamic society is a theocracy (religious dictatorship) run primarily by clerics. We have seen this before in the West—it was called the Dark Ages
 
I can never seem to commit quotes to memory, I always screw them up and they have a completely new meaning.

That's a goodie, Gonz.
 
"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."
 
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
 
"Foxes 'ave holes an' birds of the air 'ave nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay 'is head"
 
"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. "
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

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

"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. "
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
 
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. "
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. "
- Emile Zola (1840-1902)

"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. "
- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
 
"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. "
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)

"Do, or do not. There is no 'try'. "
- Yoda ('The Empire Strikes Back')

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

"If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance."
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

"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)

"Talent does what it can; genius does what it must."
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)

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


"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)


"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh."
- Voltaire (1694-1778)
 
"Facts are the enemy of truth."
- Don Quixote - "Man of La Mancha"

"When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world."
- George Washington Carver (1864-1943)

"Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth."
- Sherlock Holmes (by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859-1930)
 
"We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time."
- Vince Lombardi

"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true."
- James Branch Cabell

"All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher."
- Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
 
"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth."
- Umberto Eco

"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 (1709-1784)
 
"There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life."
- Frank Zappa

"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
- Antoine de Saint Exupery

"Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action."
- Auric Goldfinger, in "Goldfinger" by Ian L. Fleming (1908-1964)
 
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