Thursday, August 28, 2008

Funny (interesting) quotes

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Louis Hector Berlioz

Behind every successful man is a surprised woman.
-- Maryon Pearson

Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them. --
Samuel Palmer

Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried. --
Mae West

If at first you don't succeed, try again. Then quit. There's no use being a damn fool about it. --
W.C. Fields

Every generalization is dangerous, especially this one. --
Mark Twain

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. --
Mark Twain

We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police. --
Jeff Marder

Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach. --
Albert Einstein

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me. --
Benjamin Disraeli

I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific. --
Lily Tomlin

He had a mind so fine that no idea could violate it. --
T. S. Eliot (on Henry James)

Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them. --
Albert Einstein

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all art and science. --
Albert Einstein

Have you noticed that all the people in favour of birth control are already born? --
Benny Hill

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone. --
Robert Frost

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. --
John Lennon (from Beautiful Boy - 1980)

There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew. --
Marshall McLuhan

If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner. --
Tallulah Bankhead

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy? --
Albert Einstein

4 comments:

cybermonk said...

Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried. -- Mae West


is what you wrote out there.... den i wonder y don't u go for not tried ones urself.... better practice than copy man!!!

Anthropos said...

...:)..i found the thought interesting..it's an interesting point of view..i haven't been in this situation..don't know what i'll do!

Unknown said...

hey swati i see that the blogging has begun!! congratulations and all the best!

Anthropos said...

congratulations on blogging?;)..same to you ji..