Sunday, July 22, 2007

Unknown

By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail.

Unknown

Any system that depends on reliability is unreliable.

Red O'Donnell

Sometimes the best way to convince someone he is wrong is to let him have his way.

Adlai Stevenson

It is often easier to fight for principles than to live up to them.

Steve Allen

If you can walk through life with a smile, you are probably not paying attention.

Groucho Marx

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

Chinese Proverb

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

La Rouchefoucauld

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

Oscar Wilde

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.

Olivier

Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.

Henry Ford

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.

Mark Twain

Always tell the truth. That way, you don't have to remember what you said.

Montaigne

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

Unknown

Real programmers don't write in BASIC. Actually, no programmers write in BASIC after reaching puberty.

Unknown

Cult: (n) a small, unpopular religion. Religion: (n) a large, popular cult.

Unknown

An American's a person who isn't afraid to criticize the President but is always polite to traffic cops.

Unknown

A person is just about as big as the things that make them angry.

Albanian Proverb

When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.

Unknown

You think Oedipus had a problem, Adam was Eve's mother.

Unknown

A priest advised Voltaire on his death bed to renounce the devil. Replied Voltaire, "This is no time to make new enemies."

Jewish Proverb

Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out.

Thomas Carlyle

The greatest of faults is to be conscious of none.

Unknown

Science and religion are in full accord but science and faith are in complete discord.

Irish Toast

May those who love you, love you... and those who don't, may God turn their heart, and if he cannot turn their heart, may he turn their ankle so that you will know them by their limp

Eleanor Powell

What we Are is God's gift to us. What we Become is our gift to God.

Unknown

Low Brow is the man who can fart the national anthem.
High Brow is the man who stands and puts his hand over his heart.

Thomas Szasz

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.

MIT Assasination Club

To err is human; to forgive is simply not our policy.

Unknown

Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.

Unknown

A society without religion is like a crazed psychopath without a .45.

Scandinavian Proverb

Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.

Czech proverb

Do not protect yourself by a fence, but rather by your friends.

Joseph Joubert

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.