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A. Whitney Brown
(1952 - )
Hello, I'm A. Whitney Brown. Some day, I hope to be THE Whitney Brown.
- (Comedian)
Abba Eban
(1915 - 2002)
His ignorance is encyclopedic.
Al Capone
(1899 - 1947)
I don't even know what street Canada is on.
- (gangster)
Albert Camus
(1913 - 1960)
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
Ambrose Bierce
(1842 - 1914)
Diagnosis: A physician's forecast of disease by the patient's pulse and purse.
AnonymousThe Eskimo language has 80 different words for "snow" -- probably all cuss words.
AnonymousInvariably eschew the utilization of an aggrandized word when a diminutive one suffices.
AnonymousWhat part of "NO" do you not understand?
AnonymousWhat part of "NO" do you not understand?
Anonymous"Anonymous" was never born, and will never die.
Artemus Ward
(1834 - 1867)
It ain't so much the things we don't know that get us into trouble, it's the things we do know that just ain't so.
Arthur C. Clarke
(1917 - )
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Benjamin Franklin
(1706 - 1790)
He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on.
Bertrand Russell
(1872 - 1970)
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
Beryl PfizerI write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time looking for the paper I wrote it down on.
Beryl PfizerPeople get nostalgic about a lot of things I don't think they were that crazy about the first time around.
Bill Vaughan
(1915 - 1977)
If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.
Bruce CockburnThe trouble with normal is it always gets worse.
Bumper stickerNot rich enough for a tax break.
Burt BacharachA synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
Carl ReinerA lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.
Chef Gar Fillet
(1942 - )
A pal of mine said, It ain't no joke the rush you get from snortin; coke. I said, "You think Coke gives you a rush you ought to snort an Orange Crush."
- (Always cookin' somethin' up)
Dan RatherAn intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.
Don HeroldThere is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.
Dorothy Parker
(1893 - 1967)
This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
Douglas Adams
(1952 - 2001)
It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
Dr. Samuel Johnson
(1707 - 1784)
If it rained knowledge, I'd hold out my hand; but I would not give myself the trouble to go in quest of it.
Dr. Samuel Johnson
(1707 - 1784)
To do nothing is in everyone's power.
Edward Abbey
(1927 - 1989)
Except for the scale of the operation, there was nothing unusual about Hitler's massacre of the Jews. Genocide's an old tradition, as human as mother love or cherry pie.
Eric HofferWoe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity.
Galileo Galilei
(1564 - 1642)
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
Gary StagerSince we didn't know what we couldn't do, anything was possible.
George Bernard Shaw
(1856 - 1950)
If all economists, were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
George BushI have opinions of my own -- strong opinions -- but I don't always agree with them.
Groucho Marx
(1890 - 1977)
We're fighting for this woman's honor, which is probably more than she ever did.
H. L. Mencken
(1880 - 1956)
We are here and it is now. Further than that all human knowledge is moonshine.
Harry S TrumanIt's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
- (in Observer, April 13, 1958)
Irish ProverbThe truth comes out when the spirits go in.
J. D. BernalThe full area of ignorance is not mapped: we are at present only exploring its frings.
Jack VanceWe worship the innexorable demigod know as Dangott. Strangers are automatically heretics and so are fed to the sacred apes.
James Baldwin
(1924 - 1987)
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
- (American novelist)
Joe AncisThe only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.
John Kenneth Galbraith
(1908 - )
It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled sea of thought.
John Kenneth Galbraith
(1908 - )
Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
John TudorTechnology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology.
Kin HubbardA grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one.
Laurence J. PeterAn economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.
Mark Shields
(1937 - )
The question from a presidential candidate should not be "are you better off than you were four years ago," but rather "are the strong more just and the weak more secure?"
- (political commentator)
Mark Twain
(1835 - 1910)
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.
Mark Twain
(1835 - 1910)
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.
Mark TwainThere is nothing so annoying as to have two people talking when you're busy interrupting.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
Max FrischTechnology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.
Michael WikoffThe instant that how you win becomes more important that simply winning, you are making a serious strategic mistake.
Mohandas (Mahatma) GandhiI am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
(1869 - 1948)
I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and nonviolence are as old as the hills.
Mohandas Gandhi
(1869 - 1948)
Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.
Noel CowardI don't think pornography is very harmful, but it is terribly, terribly boring.
Norman FordNever try to tell everything you know. It may take too short a time.
Peter de Vries
(1910 - 1993)
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
Phyllis Diller
(1917 - )
(Running after a garbage truck pulling away from the curb): "Am I too late?" (Truck driver): "No, jump right in!"
Pliny the ElderThere is always something new out of Africa.
Putt's LawTechnology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.
Quentin CrispTo know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
Ralph W. Sockman
(1889 - 1970)
The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
Richard FeynmanI was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.
Roald DahlA little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men.
Robert OrbenSometimes I get the feeling the whole world is against me, but deep down I know that's not true. Some smalleer countries are neutral.
Rodney DangerfieldI told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet.
Sidney J. Harris
(1917 - 1986)
Sometimes the best, and only effective, way to kill an idea is to put it into practice.
- (columnist)
Solomon ShortIgnorance is a voluntary misfortune.
Stephen Millich
(1941 - )
Things aren't like they used to be; but then again, they never were.
T.S. EliotWhere is the knowledge that is lost in information? Where is the wisdom that is lost in knowledge?
Thomas A. Edison
(1847 - 1931)
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
Thomas Carlyle
(1795 - 1881)
Teach a parrot the terms "supply and demand" and you've got an economist.
Voltaire
(1694 - 1778)
The multitude of books is making us ignorant.
Walt HaskinsTrying to close the gap between the have and have-nots by taking from the "haves" is like trying to close the ever-increasing gap between the educated and uneducated by requiring lobotomies.
- ("COMMENTS USA")
Whitney YoungThe truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self.
Will Rogers
(1879 - 1935)
An ignorant person is one who doesn't know what you have just found out.
Will Rogers
(1879 - 1935)
Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
William BurroughsA paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.
Winston Churchill
(1874 - 1965)
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.
- (British Political Leader)
Woody Allen
(1935 - )
Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it.
Zig Ziglar
(1926 - )
Every obnoxious act is a cry for help.
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