Some Favorite Quotes

Apr 20, 2008 | Blog, Literary | 0 comments

I was just cleaning out some of my computer files and came across this gem from a few years ago. It’s a collection of some great quotes.

Anybody who works is a fool. I don’t work, I merely inflict myself upon the public.
– Robert Morley

Canadians shouldn’t come down to Southern California and take jobs away from our Mexicans.
– Stanley Ralph Ross

There ain’t no rules around here! We’re trying to accomplish something!
– Thomas Edison

Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
– Elie Wiesel

Men of genius are admired. Men of wealth are envied. Men of power are feared. But only men of character are trusted.
– Arthur Friedman

The important thing is not to stop questioning.
– Albert Einstein

Most of all, perhaps, we need an intimate knowlege of the past. Not that the past has anything magical about it, but we cannot study the future.
– C.S. Lewis

We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.
– Kurt Vonnegut

Truth is eternal. Knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them.
– Madeleine L’Engle

Education is a sexual disease, it makes you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you have the urge to pass it on.
– Terry Pratchett

A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
-George Bernard Shaw

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