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Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast. --Oscar Wilde
Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy. --Edgar Bergen
A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled. --Sir Barnett Cocks
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. --Philip K. Dick
Basic research is what I am doing when I don't know what I am doing. --Wernher von Braun
Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught. --Sir Winston Churchill
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it. --Mary Wilson Little
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no point in being a damn fool about it. --W. C. Fields
An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex. --Aldous Huxley
One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards. --Oscar Wilde
Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything. --Blaise Pascal
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in. --Leonardo da Vinci
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. --Aristotle
Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway. --Elbert Hubbard
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it. --Terry Pratchett
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. --Aldous Huxley
Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others. --Jules Renard
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. --Albert Einstein
All things are difficult before they are easy. --Dr. Thomas Fuller
Hindsight is always twenty-twenty. --Billy Wilder
Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion. --Robertson Davies
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. --Galileo Galilei
All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy. --Spike Milligan
Life is hard. After all, it kills you. --Katharine Hepburn
It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.' --Sam Levenson
If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going. --Professor Irwin Corey
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; In practice, there is. --Chuck Reid
I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it. --Pablo Picasso
Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something. --Robert Heinlein
Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps. --Emo Phillips
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play. --Warren Beatty
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something. --Plato
Try to learn something about everything and everything about something. --Thomas H. Huxley
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
I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're going and hook up with them later. --Mitch Hedberg
He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks. --Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see. --Arthur Schopenhauer
Never eat more than you can lift. --Miss Piggy
The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on. --Joseph Heller
If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day. --John A. Wheeler
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle. --Ken Hakuta
Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know a little about everything. --Blaise Pascal
You know you've achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away. --Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. --Abraham Lincoln
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. --Bill Cosby
The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.' --Ronald Reagan
I like life. It's something to do. --Ronnie Shakes
Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad. --Norm Papernick
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up. --G. K. Chesterton
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities. --Aldous Huxley
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty. --John Adams
Those willing to give up a little liberty for a little security deserve neither security nor liberty. --Benjamin Franklin
An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions. --Robert A. Humphrey
Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something. --Robert Heinlein
If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going. --Professor Irwin Corey
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. --Jules Renard
Time sneaks up on you like a windshield on a bug. --Jon Lithgow
Getting caught is the mother of invention. --Robert Byrne
...whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government...when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. -- Declaration of Independence
There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it. --Mary Wilson Little
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction. --E. F. Schumacher
Computer games don't affect kids, I mean if Pac Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive music. --Kristian Wilson
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic. --Dan Rather
I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I've ever known. --Walt Disney
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. --Napoleon Bonaparte
If there were no God, there would be no Atheists. --G. K. Chesterton
When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion. --Abraham Lincoln
Quit worrying about your health. It'll go away. --Robert Orben
If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you. --Don Marquis
Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless. --Thomas A. Edison
It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. --Krishnamurti
while getting arrested over a nonexistent law might be interesting, i doubt it would do anything to change the law. plus it can be hard to defend yourself against laws that don't exist, unless you happen to know a good nonexistent lawyer. it would probably be better (and also interesting) to lobby your representatives to change this nonexistent law. -- Posted by: scott reynen (blog comment)
Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come. --Matt Groening
The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents. --Nathaniel Borenstein
It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that. -- G. H. Hardy
When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it. -- Anatole France
I'm not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break loose... it'll be much harder to detect. -- George Carlin
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. -- Thomas A. Edison
Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own. -- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so. -- Gore Vidal
The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them. -- Albert Einstein
The thing that impresses me the most about America is the way parents obey their children. -- King Edward VIII
All general statements are false. -- Unknown, The Ultimate Law
If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't.
Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool.
Now I know what a statesman is; he's a dead politician. We need more statesmen. -- Bob Edwards
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. -- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
Sometimes when you look in his eyes you get the feeling that someone else is driving. -- David Letterman
Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more. -- Mark Twain
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper. -- Robert Frost
An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger. -- Dan Rather
An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today. -- Laurence J. Peter
The only thing worse than a man you can't control is a man you can. -- Margo Kaufman
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought. -- Simon Cameron
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch. -- Lily Tomlin
Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word 'safe' that I wasn't previously aware of. -- Douglas Adams, Arthur Dent in "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy"
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up. -- Eve Babitz
The prospect of a long day at the beach makes me panic. There is no harder work I can think of than taking myself off to somewhere pleasant, where I am forced to stay for hours and 'have fun'. -- Phillip Lopate
Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep. -- Fran Lebowitz
I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either. -- Jack Benny
I live in my own little world, but it's ok... they know me here.
If sometimes you feel yourself little, useless, offended and depressed, always remember that you were once the fastest and most victorious sperm out of hundreds of millions.
Only drug dealers and software companies call their customers 'users.'-- Anon.
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored. -- Evelyn Waugh
Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything. -- Floyd Dell

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