Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Famous Quotations by famous People.....12

"Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions." - Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)
"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)
"He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death." - H. H. Munro (Saki) (1870-1916)
"I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter." - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them." - Ian L. Fleming (1908-1964)
"If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars." - J. Paul Getty (1892-1976)
"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)
"How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself." - Anais Nin (1903-1977)
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." - Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)
"I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right." - Frederick (II) the Great
"Maybe this world is another planet's Hell." - Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)
"Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact." - George Eliot (1819-1880)
"Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth." - Sherlock Holmes (by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859-1930)
"Black holes are where God divided by zero." - Steven Wright
"I've had a wonderful time, but this wasn't it." - Groucho Marx (1895-1977)
"It's kind of fun to do the impossible." - Walt Disney (1901-1966)
"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
"A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship." - John D. Rockefeller (1874-1960)
"All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher." - Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
"You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it." - Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936)
"An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered." - Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936)
"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)

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