Friday, April 24, 2009

Famous Quotations by famous People.....15

"Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo." - H. G. Wells (1866-1946)
"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever." - Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
"Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake." - Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956)
"Don't be so humble - you are not that great." - Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat
"His ignorance is encyclopedic" - Abba Eban (1915-2002)
"If a man does his best, what else is there?" - General George S. Patton (1885-1945)
"Political correctness is tyranny with manners." - Charlton Heston (1924-)
"You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality." - Ayn Rand (1905-1982)
"When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity; when many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion." - Robert Pirsig (1948-)
"I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better." - A. J. Liebling (1904-1963)
"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid." - Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
"Give me chastity and continence, but not yet." - Saint Augustine (354-430)
"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on." - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
"You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you." - Leon Trotsky (1879-1940)
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." - Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)

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