As a variation on the theme running on DK the last few days:
Because the other list was about to disappear off the recommended diaries list, I'll chip in with some of my favorites for people to enjoy:
- "So he tries to live perfectly in an imperfect world, aware this his efforts will be less than perfect, yet undismayed of self-knowledge of self-failure."-Robert Heinlein in The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
- President John F. Kennedy welcomed forty-nine Nobel Prize winners to the White House in 1962, saying, "I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House, with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone."
- "If they were asked about Princeton Law School, it would appear on the top 20"
NYU President John Sexton on USNews University Rankings...please tell me someone gets this one :-)
- "Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar." - Edward R. Murrow
- "If English was good enough for Jesus Christ, it's good enough for us."
- former Texas Governor Miriam Ferguson
- "The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors, so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot."
--Carl Sagan, remarking on the pale blue dot of Earth seen by Voyager 1 from the outer solar system
- "I would have made a good Pope."
- "what we obtain too cheap we esteem too lightly."-Thomas Paine
- "The difficulty of success does not relieve one of the obligation to try."-Bill Clinton
- "Some men are born great, some achieve greatness, and some get it as a graduation gift. but that's ok."
-Robin Williams about George W. Bush
- "I could sell out Madison Square Garden masturbating."
-Mike Tyson
- "Surrender now or else our arrows will blot out the sun."- Xerxes
"Fine, then we will fight in the shade."-King Leonidas of Sparta at Thermopylae
- A set of Einstein quotes for #13
"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
"If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith."
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former"
- "This isn't right. This isn't even wrong."
-Wolfgang Pauli (on a paper submitted by a physicist colleague)
- "Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons."
-Popular Mechanics (forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949)
- "Even if you're on the right track you'll get run over if you just sit there."
-Will Rogers
- "He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I ever met."
-Abraham Lincoln
- "It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit."
-Harry S Truman
- "It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows."
-Epictetus
- "We will either find a way or make one."
-Hannibal
- "A professional is a person who can do his best at a time when he doesn't particularly feel like it."
-Alistair Cooke
- "I have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest caution."
-Werner von Braun
- "For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us."
-John Winthrop, 1630
- "The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining."
-John F. Kennedy
- "You fool. As if it matters how a man falls down."
"When the fall is all that's left, it matters a great deal." - Prince Richard to Prince Geoffrey in The Lion in Winter
- "Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination."
-Oscar Wilde
- "If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner."
-Tallulah Bankhead
- "I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in."
-George McGovern
- "How soon we forget history... Government is not reason. Government is not eloquence. It is force. And, like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master."
George Washington
And, finally...
- "A witty saying proves nothing."
Enjoy, share, pass them on, add, do what you please. I just didn't want them to disappear. Happy Holidays everyone :-)