Memorable Quotes and quotations from UnknownUnknown Quotations by unknown authorsUnknown - - It is with a word as with an arrow - once let it loose and it does not return. Unknown - - Confidence in nonsense is a requirement for the creative process. Unknown - - Courage atrophies from lack of use. Unknown - Epitaph on headstone of actor John Wayne (author unknown) - Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight, very clean. When it arrives it is perfect. It puts itself in our hands. It hopes we learned something from yesterday. Unknown - - Blessed are we who can laugh at ourselves for we shall never cease to be amused. Unknown - - Use soft words and hard arguments. Unknown - - Most people rust out due to lack of challenge. Few people rust out due to overuse. Unknown - - An Irishman is the only man in the world who will step over the bodies of a dozen naked women to get to a bottle of stout. Unknown - - It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie. Unknown - The Ultimate Law - All general statements are false. Unknown - - Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others. Unknown - - Ideals are like stars. You will not succeed in touching them with your hands. But, like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides and following them you will reach your destiny. Unknown - - If debugging is the art of removing bugs, then programming must be the art of inserting them. Unknown - quoted by Jim Horning - Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement. Unknown - - He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach. Unknown - - Usability is like oxygen -- you never notice it until it is missing... Unknown - - Every big problem was at one time a wee disturbance. Unknown - - Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers. Unknown - - Sometimes the most urgent and vital thing you can do is take a complete rest. Unknown - - Any new venture goes through the following stages: enthusiasm, complication, disillusionment, search for the guilty, punishment of the innocent, and decoration of those who did nothing. Unknown - - In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it. Unknown - Suggested book title - J.F.K.--The Man and the Airport Unknown - - True friendship is seen through the heart not through the eyes. Unknown - - If you laid all of the lawyers in the world, end to end, on the equator ---- It would be a good idea to just leave them there. Unknown - Tuskegee Airman motto during World War II - We do not hate those we fight; we do not love those we defend. Unknown - - After all is said and done, a lot more will be said than done. Unknown - - My Karma ran over your dogma. Unknown - - Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice. Unknown - - If you listened hard enough the first time, you might have heard what I meant to say. Unknown - - Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty. Unknown - - A library is an arsenal of liberty. Unknown - - To err is human, to blame the next guy even more so. Unknown - - We are drowning in information and starved for knowledge. Unknown - - A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top. Unknown - - The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt. Unknown - - A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation. Unknown - - Dedication is not what others expect of you, it is what you can give to others. Unknown - - Not all those who wonder are lost. Unknown - - Programming today is a race between software engineers stirring to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning. Unknown - - That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly. Unknown - - Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses. Unknown - - Failure to prepare is preparing to fail. Unknown - Latin Legal Phrase - He is not deemed to give consent who is under a mistake. Unknown - - A stitch in time would have confused Einstein. Unknown - - Use what talents you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang the best. Unknown - - If you make the world a little better, then you have accomplished a great deal. Unknown - - Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open. Unknown - - Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth. Unknown - - He who thinks by the inch and talks by the yard deserves to be kicked by the foot. Unknown - - I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging the future but by the past. Unknown - - Never make anything simple and efficient when a way can be found to make it complex and wonderful. Unknown - - It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are. Unknown - - Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold -- but so does a hard-boiled egg. Unknown - US Navy Wisdom - Good seamanship is recovering from an incident at sea. Great seamanship is avoiding an incident at sea. Unknown - - An Irishman is the only man in the world who will step over the bodies of a dozen naked women to get to a bottle of stout. Unknown - - A healthy family is sacred territory. Unknown - - Socrates seems to be the philosophical napkin with which the ensuing cultural thinkers of history wipe their mouths of pedantic ooze. Unknown - Popular Mechanics, March 1949 - Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vaccuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1.5 tons. Unknown - - Education is what you get from reading the fine print. Experience is what you get from not reading it. Unknown - - Blessed is the person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night. Unknown - - Fishing gives you a sense of where you fit in the sceme of things - Your place in the universe...I, mean, here I am, one small guy with a fishing pole on this vast beach and out there in the blue expanse of ocean are these hundreds of millions of fish...laughing at me. Unknown - - A diplomat is a man who says you have an open mind, instead of telling you that you have a hole in the head. Unknown - Often attributed to Abraham Lincoln - I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. . . . Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed. Unknown - - Lie: A very poor substitute for the truth, but the only one discovered to date. Unknown - - A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something. Unknown - - Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain. Unknown - - If a pessimist is always right, is he a realist? Unknown - - All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors. Unknown - - Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye. Unknown - - DISCLAIMER: A society where such disclaimers are needed is saddening. Unknown - - There are people who make things happen, those who watch what happens, and those who wonder what happened. Unknown - - May you be in heaven a half hour before the devil knows your dead Unknown - - A friend is someone who will help you move. A real friend is someone who will help you move a body. Unknown - - There is only one success- to be able to spend your life in your own way. Unknown - - Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing. Unknown - - What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things. Unknown - - "Reality" is the only word in the English language that should always be used in quotes. Unknown - - The essence of intelligence is skill in extracting meaning from everyday experience. Unknown - - Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious. Unknown - - Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional. Unknown - - This life is a test. It is only a test. Had this been an actual life, you would have received further instructions as to what to do and where to go. Unknown - - A lifetime is more than sufficiently long for people to get what there is of it wrong. Unknown - - If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater. Unknown - - The wages of sin are unreported. Unknown - - Psychiatry is the care of the id by the odd. Unknown - - I always knew i would look back on my tears and laugh but i never tought i would look back on the laughter and cry Unknown - - If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater. Unknown - - May the road rise to meet you, May the wind be always at your back, May the sun shine warm upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again may god hold you in the palm of his hand Unknown - - On Thanksgiving Day all over America, families sit down to dinner at the same moment - halftime. Unknown - - Perhaps one day this too will be pleasant to remember. Unknown - - The whole world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going. Unknown - - What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy. Unknown - - Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell. Unknown - - Beware of the half truth. You may have gotten hold of the wrong half. Unknown - - Love is not blind, it sees more not less; But because it sees more it chooses to see less. Unknown - - Mahatma Gandi was what wives wish their husbands were: thin, tan and moral. Unknown - - The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television. Unknown - UNESCO Constitution - Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defence of peace must be constructed. Unknown - - Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege. Unknown - - Take only pictures, steal only time, leave only footprints. Unknown - - The worst prison would be a closed heart. Unknown - - Life has no rehearsals, only performances. Unknown - - The only difference between genius and stupidity is that genius is limited. Unknown - - Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy. Unknown - - Fashion is something that goes in one year and out the other. Unknown - - Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many. Unknown - - Adolescence is the stage between infancy and adultery. Unknown - - Words lead to deeds.... They prepare the soul, make it ready, and move it to tenderness. Unknown - - Man is a gregarious creature, more so in mind than in body. He may like to go alone for a walk but he hates to stand alone in his opinion. Unknown - - The words you speak today should be soft and tender. . . for tomorrow you may have to eat them. Unknown - - If you fear nothing, you love nothing. If you love nothing, what joy can there be in life? Unknown - - Fools rush in where fools have been before. Unknown - Buckaroo Banzai, from the film - And remember, no matter where you go, there you are. Unknown - - Those who stare at the past have their backs turned to the future. Unknown - - An effective way to deal with predators is to taste terrible. Unknown - - The wages of sin are unreported. Unknown - Army Magazine of Preventive Maintenance - A slipping gear in your M203 grenade launcher can cause it to fire when you least expect it. This could make you very unpopular with what is left of your unit. Unknown - - Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function. Unknown - The Bhagavad Gita - For the uncontrolled there is no wisdom. For the uncontrolled there is no concentration, and for him without concentration, there is no peace. And for the unpeaceful how can there ever be happiness? Unknown - - What I said never changed anyone. What they understood did. Unknown - - Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity. Unknown - - The atom, being for all practical purposes the stable unit of the physical plane, is a constantly changing vortex of reactions. Unknown - - Eat a live toad the first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day. Unknown - Sign on a restaurant tip jar - If you fear change, leave it here. Unknown - - It is difficult for sorrow to intrude on a busy life. Unknown - - A life spent making mistakes is not only most honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. Unknown - - All power corrupts, but we need the electricity. Unknown - - How to win a case in court: If the law is on your side, pound on the law; if the facts are on your side, pound on the facts; if neither is on your side, pound on the table. Unknown - - He who hesitates is not only lost, but miles from the next exit. Unknown - - Life is like a piano... what you get out of it depends on how you play it. Unknown - - Never deprive someone of hope -- it may be all they have. Unknown - - Every oak tree started out as a couple of nuts who decided to stand their ground. Unknown - - The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television. Unknown - - The really happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery when on a detour. Unknown - - Politicians are like diapers. They both need changing regularly and for the same reason. Unknown - - A chinese philosopher once had a dream that he was a butterfly. From that day on, he was never quite certain that he was not a butterfly, dreaming that he was a man. Unknown - - Feelings are real and legitimate; children behave and misbehave for a reason, even if adults cannot figure it out. Unknown - - The greatest oak was once a little nut who held its ground.... Unknown - - Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up. Unknown - - Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward. Unknown - - The heart is wiser than the intellect. Unknown - - Accident, n.: A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body is better. Unknown - - The more you run over a dead cat, the flatter it gets. Unknown - - Women remember the first kiss, men remember the last. Unknown - - Everything you do or say is public relations. Unknown - - All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors. Unknown - Legal Maxim - An act against my will is not my act. Unknown - - The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. Unknown - epitaph for a loved one - Love is my Sword, Goodness my Armor, And Humor my Shield. Unknown - - Teach children to be polite and courteous in the home, and, when he grows up, he will never be able to edge his car onto a freeway. Unknown - - The one whose judgment counts most in your life is the one staring back in the glass. Unknown - Polish Slogan - Never lose hope. Unknown - - Between the wish and the thing life lies waiting. Unknown - - Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it. Unknown - - Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered -- either by themselves or by others. Unknown - - Success always occurs in private and failure in full public view. Unknown - - The human brain is like a railroad freight car -- guaranteed to have a certain capacity but often running empty. Unknown - - A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top . Unknown - - In every fat book there is a thin book trying to get out. Unknown - - In the sixties, the world was normal and people took acid to make it weird. Nowadays the world is weird and people take prozac to make it normal. Unknown - - If it is to be, it is up to me. Unknown - - Practice Random Acts of Kindness and Senseless Beauty. Unknown - - The only real failure in life is the failure to try. Unknown - - After all is said and done, a lot more will have been said than done. Unknown - - A novel is a piece of prose of a certain length with something wrong with it. Unknown - - A friend is one to whom you can pour out the contents of your heart, chaff and grain alike. Knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping and with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away. Unknown - - Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of. Unknown - - Immortality lies not in the things you leave behind, but in the people your life has touched. Unknown - - Use the talents you possess -- for the woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except for the best. Unknown - - If you begin the day with love in your heart, peace in your nerves, and truth in your mind, you not only benefit by their presence but also bring them to others, to your family and friends, and to all those whose destiny draws across your path that day. |
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