Famous Quotes

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Douglas Adams, The Guardian:

The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he, by peddling second-rate technology, who led them into it in the first place.

Anonymous:

May no portent of evil be attached to the words I say.

Graffito, reported by Herb Caen, San Francisco Chronicle, April 24, 1980:

Cogito ergo spud. - I think, therefore I yam

Will Durant:

Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul.

Stephen Vincent Benet, Litany for Dictatorships, 1935:

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Lao-Tzu:

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

Aelius Donatus:

Confound those who have said our remarks before us.

Author Unknown:

Let your friends be the friends of your deliberate choice.

Edgar Allan Poe, Tamerlane, Part II:

Scorching my seared heart with a pain, not hell shall make me fear again.

Tom Robbins:

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

Honore de Balzac:

All human power is a compound of time and patience.

Emanuel Swedenborg, From the book "Apocalypse Explained" #338:

True wisdom is seeing what is beneficial to your eternal life, and managing your life according to that. You do this when you not only know these things and grasp them with your understanding, but also will and do them.

Joan Rivers:

I succeeded by saying what everyone else is thinking.

Nancy Astor:

The first time Adam had a chance, he laid the blame on woman.

Marilyn Monroe:

A sex symbol becomes a thing. I hate being a thing.