Favorite Quotes

[Turtle]

but every error is due to extraneous factors (such as emotion & education); reason itself does not err. ~ kurt gödel

[lemit]

All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.

 

--Voltaire

[lemit]

Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.

 

--Voltaire

[lemit]

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

 

--Voltaire

[lemit]

Such is the human race, often it seems a pity that Noah... didn't miss the boat.

 

--Mark Twain

[lemit]

I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.

 

--Mark Twain

[lemit]

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know.

 

--Mark Twain

[lemit]

After an author has been dead for some time, it becomes increasingly difficult for his publishers to get a new book out of him each year.

 

--Robert Benchley

[lemit]

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms agains himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.

 

--Ambrose Bierce

[lemit]

Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke.

 

Ambrose Bierce

[lemit]

Women in love are less ashamed than men. They have less to be ashamed of.

 

--Ambrose Bierce

[lemit]

I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.

 

--Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

[lemit]

Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.

 

--Thomas Berger

[lemit]

Gravity is a contributing factor in nearly 73 percent of all accidents involving falling objects.

 

--Dave Barry

[lemit]

Hobbies of any kind are boring except to people who have the same hobby. This is also true of religion, although you will not find me saying so in print.

 

--Dave Barry

[lemit]

No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.

 

--H. L. Mencken

[lemit]

Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.

 

--Voltaire