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Law is mind without reason.

Aristotle

USA Today has come out with a new survey: Apparently three out of four people make up 75 percent of the population. David Letterman

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. Herbert George Wel

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. George Bernard Shaw

Now that women are jockeys, baseball umpires, atomic scientists, and business executives, maybe someday they can master parallel parking. Bill Vaughan

If you just set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing. Margaret Thatcher

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do. Henry Ford

Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice. Henry Ford

A good marriage is one which allows for change and growth in the individuals and in the way they express their love. Pearl S. Buck

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily.

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty. Henry Ford

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. Albert Einstein

Quit worrying about your health. It'll go away. Robert Orben

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has intended us to forget their use. Galileo Galilei

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. Mark Twain

Last words are for fools who haven't said enough. Karl Marx

There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press. Mark Twain

No woman in my time will be Prime Minister... Margaret Thatcher

To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. Elbert Hubbard

Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I was always interested in proportion and perfection. When I was fifteen, I took off my clothes and looked in the mirror. When I stared at myself naked, I realized that to be perfectly proportioned I would need twenty-inch arms to match the rest of me.

When a blind beetle crawls over the surface of a curved branch, it doesn't notice that the track it has covered is indeed curved. I was lucky enough to notice what the beetle didn't notice. Albert Einstein

People can have the Model T in any color - so long as it's black. Henry Ford

The universe is a pretty big space. It's bigger than anything anyone has ever dreamed of before. So, if it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space, right? Carl Sagan

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That's relativity. Albert Einstein

One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one. Agatha Christie

I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. Winston Churchill

Maybe this world is another planet's hell. Aldous Huxley

America is a mistake, a giant mistake. Sigmund Freud

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it. Mae West

If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time. Edith Wharton

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in. Katherine Mansfield

I don't think I've mastered anything. I'm still wrestling with the same frustrations, the same issues,the same problems as I always did. That's what life is like. Harrison Ford

Next to that kid, we all look like onions. Dustin Hoffman

A very quiet and tasteful way to be famous is to have a famous relation. Then you can not only be nothing, you can do nothing, too. P. J. O'Rourke

I often quote myself. I find it adds spice to the conversation. George Bernard Sha

What ought to be done to the man who invented the celebrating of anniversaries? Mere killing would be too light. Mark Twain

... when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do. Henry Ford

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself. Aldous Huxley

When will I learn? The answer to life's problems aren't at the bottom of a bottle, they're on TV! Homer Simpson

I'm happy about the things I've done. Not always happy about the results, but happy about the decisions, because I made them myself. And I think that's an important way to go through life. Kevin Costner

Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind. John F. Kennedy

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake. Jeannette Rankin

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. Albert Einstein

Love: A temporary insanity curable by marriage or by removal of the patient from the influences under which he incurred the disorder.

All great truths begin as blasphemies. George Bernard Shaw

I'm not feeling very well, I need a doctor immediately. Ring the nearest golf course. Groucho Marx

Everybody likes to go their own way - to choose their own time and manner of devotion. Jane Austen

When a blind beetle crawls over the surface of a curved branch, it doesn't notice that the track it has covered is indeed curved. I was lucky enough to notice what the beetle didn't notice. Albert Einstein

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher. Socrates

Last night I discovered a new form of oral contraceptive. I asked a girl to go to bed with me and she said no. Woody Allen

We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our nextdoor neighbour. Gilbert Keith Chestert

The limits of my language mean the limits of my world. Ludwig Wittgenstein

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the former. Albert Einstein

Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.

In the long run we are all dead. John Maynard Keynes

I never think of the future. It comes soon enough. Albert Einstein

I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly. Winston Churchill

We are the only animals that let our kids come back home. Bill Cosby

I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.

Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible player. Albert Einstein

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it. Stephen Leacock

The state has no business in the bedrooms of the nation. Pierre Elliott Trudeau

I grew up with six brothers. That's how I learned to dance - waiting for the bathroom. Bob Hope

I figure I'll be champ for about ten years and then I'll let my brother take over - like the Kennedys down in Washington. Muhammad Ali

Some are weatherwise, some are otherwise. Benjamin Franklin

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it. George Bernard Shaw

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. Albert Einstein

Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. Mark Twain

Ally MacLeod thinks that tactics are a new kind of mint. Billy Connolly

An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex. Aldous Huxley

A grave is a place where the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical student. Ambrose Bierce

Is he just doing a bad Elvis pout, or was he born that way? Freddie Mercury

I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me. Winston Churchill

Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it. Samuel Butler

If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough. Mario Andretti

He who can does - he who cannot, teaches. George Bernard Shaw

Sex without love is an empty experience, but as empty experiences go, it's a pretty good empty experience. Woody Allen

Order is the shape upon which beauty depends. Pearl S. Buck

Abstract art is the product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. Al Capp

Little evil would be done in the world if evil never could be done in the name of good. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in. Katherine Mansfield

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