augmentedfourth's Quote Board, page 4
Boasting 109 quotes!
-
When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues.
Speaker: Honore de BalzacPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 12:55 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.
Speaker: SocratesPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 12:55 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.
Speaker: Charles Evans HughesPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 12:54 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Speaker: Alan KayPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 12:54 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Black holes are where God divided by zero.
Speaker: Steven WrightPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 12:50 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Speaker: Carl JungPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 12:49 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
In science it often happens that scientists say, “You know that’s a really good argument; my position is mistaken,” and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn’t happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
Speaker: Carl SaganPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 12:49 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The penalty that good men pay for not being interested in politics is to be governed by men worse than themselves.
Speaker: PlatoPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 12:48 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn’t seem to be working.
Speaker: AnonymousPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 12:48 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.
Speaker: Eric HofferPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 12:48 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.
Speaker: Bill CosbyPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 12:47 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.
Speaker: Dennis WholeyPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 12:47 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
One of the greatest joys in life is to be in search of one thing and to discover another.
Speaker: Anne Wilson SchaefPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 12:46 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.
Speaker: Max EhrmannPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 12:46 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Technical skill is mastery of complexity while creativity is mastery of simplicity.
Speaker: E. C. ZeemanPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 12:45 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.
Speaker: Bertrand RussellPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 12:44 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
Speaker: René DescartesPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 12:44 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Marriage: a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters written in prose.
Speaker: Beverly NicholsPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 12:44 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Like most computer techie people, I’ll happily spend 6 hours trying to figure out how to do a 3 hour job in 10 minutes.
Speaker: Rev. James CortPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 12:43 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
In the end, you’re measured not by how much you undertake but by what you finally accomplish.
Speaker: Donald TrumpPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 12:43 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!