and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself.
The larger the denominator the smaller the fraction."
- Leo Tolstoy
"I have no faith in political arithmetic."
- Adam Smith
"An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject, and how to avoid them."
- Werner Heisenberg
"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."
- Albert Einstein
"I've lived a long life and known many troubles - most of which never happened."
- Mark Twain
"Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment."
"A closed mouth gathers no feet."
"The only difference between a rut and a grave is the depth."
"Eventually everyone realized the Information Superhighway is just CB radio, only with more typing."
- Dave Barry
"It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in the air and water that are doing it."
- Dan Quayle
"Things are the way they are because they got that way."
- Gerald Weinberg
"Altitude has no effect on validity.
Bullshit cannot be converted to truth simply by
dropping it from a greater height."
"The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating,
and end up with something so paradoxical than no one will believe it."
- Bertrand Russell
"Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking."
- H.L. Mencken
"If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want."
- Oscar Wilde
"Never to talk to oneself is a form of hypocrisy."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
"There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man.
The true nobility is in being superior to
your previous self."
- Samuel Johnson
"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare;
it is because we do not dare that they are difficult."
- Seneca
"Almost anything you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it."
- Gandhi
"The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind."
- William Blake
"Nothing worse could happen to one than to be completely understood."
- Carl Jung
"Try not to become a man of success. Rather become a man of value."
- Albert Einstein
"There are two equally dangerous extremes - to shut reason out, and to let nothing else in."
- Blaise Pascal
"Why shouldn't things be largely absurd, futile and transitory?
They are so, and we are so, and they and we go very well together."
- George Santayana
"It's a question of whether we are going to go forward into the future, or back into the past."
- Dan Quayle
"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid."
- Kierkegaard
"Steal a little and they throw you in prison; steal a lot and they make you King."
- Bob Dylan
"To suppress minority thinking and minority expression would tend
to freeze society and prevent progress..Now more than ever we
must keep in the forefront of our minds the fact that whenever we
take away the liberties of those we hate, we are opening the way to
loss of liberty for those we love."
- Wendell Wilkie (Republican candidate for President, 1940)
"I may have my faults, but being wrong ain't one of them."
- Jimmy Hoffa
"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?"
- Abraham Lincoln
"It is easier to obtain forgiveness than to get permission."
- Adm. Grace Hopper
"The second programmer on the first computer ever built."
"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've
always worked for me."
- Hunter S. Thompson
"I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy."
- Tom Waits
"I have sworn upon the altar of God, eternal hostility against every
form of tyranny over the mind of man."
- Thomas Jefferson
"Great powers of observation are often called cynicism by those who do not have them."
- anon
"One who has no curiosity to investigate the unknown is neither a dogmatist nor a sceptic, but stupid."
- David Hume
"The mind of the bigot is like the pupil of the eye;
the more light you pour upon it, the more it will contract."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
