Quotes

Quotes...dozens of quotes from people I like or at least like the quote they made!                

We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars. (Oscar Wilde)

                The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity. (Harlan Ellison)

       Speak the truth, but leave immediately after. (Slovenian Proverb)

               I sometimes think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated His ability. (Oscar  Wilde)

     I like talking to a brick wall- it’s the only thing in the world that never contradicts me! (Oscar Wilde)

                                                              No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the site of your funeral is still pretty much depend on the weather. (Michael Pritchard)

I don’t give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way. (Mark Twain)

                                                   The imaginary friend I had as a kid dropped me because their friends thought I didn’t exist. (Aaron Machado)

        My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too. (Peter De Vries)

                   I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them. (Jane Austen)

                 It is better to hide ignorance, but it is hard to do this when we relax over wine. (Heraditus)

                                                                                        It is easy to be brave from a save distance (Aesop)

                                    I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation. (George Bernard Shaw)

Always forgive your enemies, nothing annoys them so much. (Oscar Wilde)

             Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. (Mark Twain)

In heaven all the interesting people are missing. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

        Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. (Albert Einstein)

                                                             Envy is the ulcer of the soul. (Socrates)

                          So I can’t live either without you or with you. (Ovid)

                                                        Never trust a computer you can’t throw out a window. (Steve Wozniak)

Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of congress; but I repeat myself. (Mark Twain)

                                         May you live every day of your life. (Jonathan Swift)

                     He never could do anything that didn’t turn out to be by far greater than anything these new tragicians made; yes, when Schiller cut his finger nails, he was higher than these men… (Johann Wolfgang Goethe on Friedrich Schiller)