Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Famous Quotations by famous People....5

"Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers." - T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)
"Criticism is prejudice made plausible." - Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)
"It is better to be quotable than to be honest." - Tom Stoppard
"Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting." - Karl Wallenda
"Opportunities multiply as they are seized." - Sun Tzu
"A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar." - Lao-Tzu (570?-490? BC)
" The best way to predict the future is to invent it." - Alan Kay
"Never mistake motion for action." - Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
"I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours." - Sir Stephen Henry Roberts (1901-1971)
"Hell is paved with good samaritans." - William M. Holden
"The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time." - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"Silence is argument carried out by other means." - Ernesto"Che"Guevara (1928-1967)
"Well done is better than well said." - Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
"The average person thinks he isn't." - Father Larry Lorenzoni
"Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd." - William Congreve (1670-1729)
"A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted." - Helen Rowland (1876-1950)

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