Quotes that make me smile
On route up to attic:
"It's terribly cluttered and full of dust." Juliet
"I have a brain like that." Inspector Craddock
"We keep meaning to clean it out." Juliet
"So do I." Inspector Craddock
Murder Announced, Miss Marple - Agatha Chrsitie
"I love mankind, it's people I can't stand." - Charles
Schultz.
"I remember my wedding. I never thought I could be that happy.
Then I got divorced and I never thought I could be THAT happy!"
Camilla Dane
"I miss my ex-wife, but my aim is getting better" - Country song
title
"Leave the parenting to us, we get a magazine about it once a
month" - Peggie Hill
"Money can't buy love, but it makes shopping a lot easier" - Bo
Derek
"The best theology would need no advocates; it would prove
itself." - Karl Barth.
"Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high
intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution;
it represents the wise choice of many alternatives." - Willa A. Foster
"I am always prepared to recognize that there can be two
points of view, mine, and the one that's probably wrong." - John Gorton
"Of course I love you - just ask my wife" - Country song title
"How many elephants is that?" - Gregory, from his film
"It doesn't matter how good an eggs looks. If it smells,
there's something wrong." - Dieckhoff's Law
"Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep
alone." - Anthony Burgess
"If that’s his face, imagine what his scrotum looks like!" -
unknown
"A doctor can always bury his mistakes, an architect can only
advise his client plant vines." - Frank Lloyd Wright
"Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes." - Oscar
Wilde
"Look at those beautiful shoes! If only I didn't have a pair of
shoes already" - Marge Simpson
"Bluebottle: 'Are you all here?' Eccles:'I'm not all here.'" -
The Goons
"The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but
they do not know the game." - Bill Shankly
"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns
on the set, I go into the other room and read a book." - Unknown
"Life is just one damn thing after another"- Elbert Hobbard
"but legs apart, what did you think of her?" Interviewer asking
about a woman who the interviewee had just praised for her beautiful legs
"Wise men talk because they have something to say, fools talk
because they have something to say" - Plato
"Be nice to your kids ... They will pick out your nursing
home." - Unknown
"Too many people say they have an open mind when they are only
vacant." - anon
"You're the reason my children are ugly." - Country Song Title,
Unknown
"I'd rather be a failure at something I enjoy than be success
at something I hate." George Burns
"You know they've reintroduced the death penalty for insurance company
directors?"
"Really?' said Arthur. `No I didn't. For what offence?"
Trillian frowned.
"What do you mean, offence?"
"I see."
from HHGG
Selection of quotes of a more serious tone
- Albert Einstein "I
never think of the future. It comes soon enough."
- In an interview,
given on the Belgenland, December 1930
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- Douglas Adams "The first ten million years were the worst,"
said Marvin, "and the second ten million years, they were the worst too. The
third ten million I didn’t enjoy at all. After that I went into a bit of a
decline.
- Restaurant at the End of the Universe (1980) ch. 18
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- Charles Dickens
"Papa! What’s money?
- Dombey and Son (1848) ch. 8 (Paul Dombey)
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- Lewis Carroll
"It’s a poor sort of memory that only works
backwards," the Queen remarked.
- Through the Looking-Glass (1872) ch. 5
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- Winston Churchill "No one pretends that democracy is perfect or
all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of
Government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to
time."
- Speech, Hansard 11 November 1947, col. 2
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- Robert M. Pirsig "That’s the classical mind at work, runs fine
inside but looks dingy on the surface.
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle
Maintenance
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- David Brower "All technology should be assumed guilty until proven
innocent."
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- Robert X. Cringely, InfoWorld "If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside."