Thursday, April 23, 2009

Famous Quotations by famous People.....13

"A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." - Paul Erdos (1913-1996)
"Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back." - Paul Erdos (1913-1996)
"Try to learn something about everything and everything about something." - Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895)
"Dancing is silent poetry." - Simonides (556-468bc)
"The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad." - Salvador Dali (1904-1989)
"If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance." - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
”But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near." - Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)
"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.)
"The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it." - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'." - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
"Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn." - Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947-)
"Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain." - Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805)
"We have art to save ourselves from the truth." - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." - Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
"I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it." - John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) when asked what is his favorite song
"I have nothing to declare except my genius." - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) upon arriving at U.S. customs 1882
"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe." - H. G. Wells (1866-1946)
"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
"Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake a whole relationship." - Sharon Stone
"If you are going through hell, keep going." - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'." - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

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