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| Author | Quote | E-Mail this quote |
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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. | |
| Anonymous | The Eskimo language has 80 different words for "snow" -- probably all cuss words. | |
| Anonymous | Invariably eschew the utilization of an aggrandized word when a diminutive one suffices. | |
| Anonymous | What part of "NO" do you not understand? | |
| Anonymous | What 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 Pfizer | I 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 Pfizer | People 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 Cockburn | The trouble with normal is it always gets worse. | |
| Bumper sticker | Not rich enough for a tax break. | |
| Burt Bacharach | A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of. | |
| Carl Reiner | A 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 Rather | An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger. | |
| Don Herold | There 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 Hoffer | Woe 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 Stager | Since 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 Bush | I 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 Truman | It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours. - (in Observer, April 13, 1958) | |
| Irish Proverb | The truth comes out when the spirits go in. | |
| J. D. Bernal | The full area of ignorance is not mapped: we are at present only exploring its frings. | |
| Jack Vance | We 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 Ancis | The 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 Tudor | Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology. | |
| Kin Hubbard | A grouch escapes so many little annoyances that it almost pays to be one. | |
| Laurence J. Peter | An 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 Twain | There 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 Frisch | Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it. | |
| Michael Wikoff | The instant that how you win becomes more important that simply winning, you are making a serious strategic mistake. | |
| Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi | I 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 Coward | I don't think pornography is very harmful, but it is terribly, terribly boring. | |
| Norman Ford | Never 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 Elder | There is always something new out of Africa. | |
| Putt's Law | Technology 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 Crisp | To 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 Emerson | The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons. | |
| Richard Feynman | I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there. | |
| Roald Dahl | A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men. | |
| Robert Orben | Sometimes 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 Dangerfield | I 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 Short | Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune. | |
| Stephen Millich (1941 - ) | Things aren't like they used to be; but then again, they never were. | |
| T.S. Eliot | Where 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 Haskins | Trying 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 Young | The 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 Burroughs | A 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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