Saturday, January 10, 2009

Quote of the Day

Ok, I get "Quotes of the Day" on Google all the time, and some of them are brilliant. I just figured that it was a waste to just look at these awesome quotes once and forget about them. I don't really know what else to do with them, so I'm just going to post the quotes here.

So quotes for January 11
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
- Sir William Drummond
The scientific name for an animal that doesn't either run from or fight its enemies is lunch.
- Michael Friedman
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
- H. L. Mencken

January 12
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday. - Don Marquis
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. - Jack London

January 15
I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars. - Fred Allen
The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning. - Sir Winston Churchill
A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors. - William Ralph Inge

January 17
If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech. - W. Somerset Maugham
I don't have an English accent because this is what English sounds like when spoken properly. - James Carr
All science is either physics or stamp collecting. - Ernest Rutherford

January 19
Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other. - Honore de Balzac
One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar. - Oscar Wilde
Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad. - George Bernard Shaw

January 23
There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it? - Kin Hubbard
Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next? - Richard Feynman
The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible. - Jean Kerr

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