Friday, April 29, 2005

Quotes

Hello there...
After some of my frustration has subsided, heres something interesting and thot provoking....
Mind u, these r not by me... if they were i wouldnt b here...i dunno where i would b... maybe here only...but i take the credit of having frenz who collect these.... :)

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.

Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.

If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must set yourself on fire.

Wisdom has two parts: 1) having a lot to say, and 2) not saying it.

If at first you don’t succeed, find out if the loser gets anything.

Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.

Maturity is the ability to do a job whether or not you are supervised, to carry money without spending it, and to bear an injustice without wanting to get even.

Poetry is what gets lost in translation.

You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.

I'm normally not a praying man, but if you're up there, please save me Superman.

People always think they know what truth is, like it was toilet paper and they've got a supply of it in their closet. But what you learn as you get older is that there is no truth, There's only bullsh*t. Layers of it. One layer of bullsh*t on top of another. And what you do in life is pick the layer of bullsh*t you prefer, and that's your bullsh*t.

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards.

To do just the opposite is also a form of imitation.

Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.



And finally to conclude... my personal favourites....


Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.


By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.


Anyone can do any amount of work, provided it isn't the work he is supposed be doing at that moment


A penny will hide the biggest star in the universe if you hold it close enough to your eye.


Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.

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