07.02.07

Good Quotes

Posted in Inspiration at 10:37 am by PuneTalks

“Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake a whole relationship.”
- Sharon Stone

“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.”
- Galileo Galilei

“The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.”
- Emile Zola (1840-1902)

“I’m living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.”
-
EE Cummings (1894-1962)

“Give me a museum and I’ll fill it.”
- Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

“In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is.”
- Yogi Berra

“I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.”
- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

“In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)

“Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right.”
- Henry Ford (1863-1947)

“Do, or do not. There is no ‘try’.”
- Yoda (’The Empire Strikes Back’)

“The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.”
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

“Don’t stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.”
- George Burns (1896-1996)

“I don’t know why we are here, but I’m pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.”
- Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)

“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

“Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.”
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)

“The difference between ‘involvement’ and ‘commitment’ is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was ‘involved’ - the pig was ‘committed’.”
- unknown

“Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.”
- Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)

“I’m all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let’s start with typewriters.”
- Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)

“Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.”
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

“Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.”
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956)

“I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.”
- A. J. Liebling (1904-1963)

“People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.”
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855)

“Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.”
- Saint Augustine (354-430)

“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.”
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.”
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

“A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.”
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

“The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.”
- Edsgar Dijkstra (1930-2002)

“C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg.”
- Bjarne Stroustrup

“A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.”
- Paul Erdos (1913-1996)

“Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.”
- Paul Erdos (1913-1996)

“Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.”
- Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895)

“Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.”
- Plato (427-347 B.C.)

“The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don’t have it.”
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

“Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn.”
- Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947-)

Contributed by Priya Sarin

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