Famous Quotations

Famous Quotations

Neils Bohr 

An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.

Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.

Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future.

 

Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true.

Bertrand Russell

A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, because every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

Socrates

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he uses it.

Bad men live so they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink so they may live.

Mark Twain

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

Be careful about reading health books. You may die because of a misprint.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Education is that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

The person who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the person who can't read them.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure.

Woody Allen

It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and certainly not desirable, because one's hat keeps blowing off.

Most of the time I don't have much fun. The rest of the time I don't have any fun at all.

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.

I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government.

I'm very proud of my gold wristwatch. My grandfather, on his death bed, sold me this watch.

What if everything is an illusion and nothing really exists? In that case, I definitely paid too much for my sofa.

You can live to be a hundred if you can forego all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

            Anonymous

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

Good friends are hard to find, harder to leave, and impossible to forget.

Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice.

We are like angels with just one wing. We can only fly by embracing each other.

Want to make your computer go really fast? Throw it out a window!

Consultants get paid to tell clients what they already know.

Don't tell me the sky is the limit when there are footsteps on the moon.

Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color. Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense, and choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable.

An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less, until eventually he knows everything about nothing.

A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

I want to be remembered as the girl who always smiles even when her heart is broken. And the one that could always brighten up your day even if she couldn't brighten her own day.

Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of.

The only thing bad about a holiday is it is followed by a non-holiday.

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.

You don't love a woman because she is beautiful. She is beautiful because you love her.

We do not stop playing because we grow old. We grow old because we stop playing.

The world is moving so fast that there are days when the person who says it can't be done is interrupted by the person who is already doing it.

To the World you might be one person, but to one person you might be the World.

Every time you wake up and ask yourself, "What good things am I going to do today?", remember that when the sun goes down at sunset, it will take a part of your life with it.

Mahatma Ghandi

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. 

Live as if you were going to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were going to live forever.

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.

Oscar Wilde

A cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Some people cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

I am not young enough to know everything.

   G. K. Chesterton

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.

Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

It is not bigotry to be certain we are right; but it is bigotry to be unable to imagine how we might possibly be wrong.

The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.

Other quotations

"There are two ways of making a software program: one way is to make it so

simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it

so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far

more difficult."

- C. A. R. Hoare

"Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler."

- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth."

- Niels Bohr (1885-1962)

"Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die."

- Mel Brooks

"I have often regretted my speech, never my silence."

- Xenocrates (396-314 B.C.)

"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."

- Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)

"Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down."

- Jimmy Durante

"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true."

- James Branch Cabell

"We didn't lose the game, we just ran out of time."

- Vince Lombardi

"Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something."

- last words of Pancho Villa (1877-1923)

"He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know."

- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

"If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?" "

- Will Rogers (1879-1935)

"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."

- Alan Kay

"Copy from one person, it's plagiarism; copy from two people, it's research."

- Wilson Mizner (1876-1933)

MURPHY'S LAWS

1. Nothing is as easy as it looks.

2. Everything takes longer than you think it will.

3. Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.

4. If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the

most damage will be the one to go wrong. Corollary: If there is a worse time for

something to go wrong, it will happen then.

5. If anything simply cannot go wrong, it will anyway.

6. If you perceive that there are four possible ways in which a procedure can go

wrong, and circumvent these, then a fifth way, unprepared for, will promptly

develop.

7. Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse.

8. If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.

9. Nature always sides with the hidden flaw.

11. It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.

12. Whenever you want to do something, something else must be done first.

13. Every solution breeds new problems.