Sunday, January 01, 2006

GREAT QUOTES / 12

Well this is the 12th installment of "Great Quotes". I hope that you have been inspired, entertained, perplexed, astounded, etc. Please use them as you will. I'm already working on # 13. I will be posting it shortly.....................PEACE..................Scott



Fifty years ago, a young genius made a classic that
could never be re-told. Now, it must be told again,
because evil never dies, but copyrights expire!
-- Firesign Theatre


Baseball is 90% mental, the other half is physical - Yogi Berra


"It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember." - Eugene McCarthy


"Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better." - Anonymous


If you want your children to be brilliant, tell them fairy tales. If you
want them to be very brilliant, tell them even more fairy tales. -
Albert Einstein


If you dig a hole that's deep enough,
everyone will want to jump into it.
-- Firesign Theatre


"The scientific name for an animal that doesn't either run from or fight its enemies is lunch." - Michael Friedman


Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already
tomorrow in Australia - Charles Schultz


"To err is human--and to blame it on a computer is even more so." - Robert Orben


War is, at first, the hope that one will be better off; next, the
expectation that the other fellow will be worse off; then, the
satisfaction that he isn't any better off; and, finally, the surprise at
everyone's being worse off - Karl Kaus


"The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them." – Robert Frost


"Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others." - Robert Louis Stevenson


"Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong."
-- Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia


It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just, omnipotent
God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods. If such
a board actually exists it operates precisely like the board of a
corporation that is losing money. - HL Mencken


"There's a lot of people starving in this country, and we're spending $60 million on (campaign) ads." - New Jersey coffee shop owner Bill Mirrer


Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a
free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough. -Franklin D.Roosevelt


The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always
so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. -
Bertrand Russell

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