Great Quotes #2

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More great quotes: for inspiration, for life, for laughs…

  • “If you think that it is expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur.” – Paul N. (Red) Adair
  • “When trouble arises and things look bad, there is always one individual who sees a solution and is willing to take command. Very often, that person is crazy.” – Dave Barry
  • “Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.” – Abraham Lincoln
  • “The main difference between genius and stupidity is that genius knows its limits.” – Unknown
  • “Be sincere; be brief; be seated.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • “Rudeness is the weak man’s imitation of strength.” – Eric Hoffer
  • “The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” – Alan Kay
  • “1. Never tell everything at once.” – Ken Venturi
  • “To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.” – Thomas Edison
  • “Judge a man by his questions rather than by his answers.” – Voltaire
  • “Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.” – Albert Einstein
  • “I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to us as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone.” - Bjarne Stroustrup
  • “People often write me and ask how I keep my wood floors so clean when I live with a child and a dog, and my answer is that I use a technique called Suffering From a Mental Illness.” – Heather Armstrong
  • “Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.” – Stephen Leacock
  • “Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.” – Mark Twain
  • “If you trust Google more than your doctor maybe it’s time to switch doctors.” – Jadelr and Cristina Cordova
  • “Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of witnesses.” – Margaret Millar
  • “Horse sense is the thing a horse has that keeps it from betting on people.” – W. C. Fields
  • “It’s a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them.” – Dame Rose Macaulay
  • “Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.” – George Santayana
  • “Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.” – Oscar Wilde
  • “So much of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to work.” – Peter Drucker
  • “In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • “Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.” – Peter Borden
  • “The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.” – E. E. Cummings
  • “The only normal people are the ones you don’t know very well.” – Joe Ancis
  • “I have never met a man so ignorant I couldn’t learn something from him.” – Galileo Galilei
  • “Never tell anyone that you’re: writing a book, going on a diet, exercising, taking a course, or quitting smoking. They’ll encourage you to death.” – Lynn Johnston
  • “The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.” – Robert Heinlein
  • “It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in an argument.” – William G. McAdoo
  • “If you shoot at mimes, should you use a silencer?” – Steven Wright
  • “Take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then say it with the utmost levity.” – George Bernard Shaw
  • “Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion.” – Robertson Davies
  • “Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.” – Alfred Hitchcock
  • “The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.” – Terry Pratchett
  • “A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.” – William James
  • “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.” – Aldous Huxley

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2 Responses to “Great Quotes #2”

  1. Bobon Dec 31st 1969 at 6:00 pm

    Thanks for the great addition, Ann. But for a moment there, I thought you were going to quote your dog! :-)

  2. Ann Handleyon Dec 31st 1969 at 6:00 pm

    Robert,

    Great list here. But you need a dog quote….so I’ll offer up my favorite:

    “Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.” — Roger Caras

    : )

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