Monday, June 25, 2012

Quotes


"Live life fully while you’re here. Experience everything. Take care of yourself and your friends. Have fun, be crazy, be weird. Go out and screw up! You’re going to anyway, so you might as well enjoy the process. Take the opportunity to learn from your mistakes: find the cause of your problem and eliminate it. Don’t try to be perfect; just be an excellent example of being human." - Tony Robbins

"Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity." - Unknown

"The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear." - Herbert Agar

"Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us." - Henrik Tikkanen

"There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible." Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)

"The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it" - Franklin P. Jones

"There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line." Oscar Levant

"If at first you don't succeed, find out if the loser gets anything." - Bill Lyon

"We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys." - William Arthur Ward

"Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm." Publilius Syrus

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear." Mark Twain

"Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric." Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)

"We are not in the commodities business, we are in the shareholder returns business" - Marius Kloppers (BHP)

"A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice" - Bill Cosby

"The reason there are two senators for each state is so that one can be the designated driver." - Jay Leno

"Interestingly, according to modern astronomers, space is finite. This is a very comforting thought -- particularly for people who can never remember where they have left things." - Woody Allen

"He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever" - Chinese Proverb

"You may delay, but time will not" Benjamin Franklin

"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." Will Rogers

"How many people here have telekenetic powers? Raise my hand." - Emo Philips

"When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators." - P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )

"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened." Winston Churchill

"Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday." - Don Marquis





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