Chet > Chet's Quotes

Showing 1-11 of 11
sort by

  • #1
    Umberto Eco
    “I felt like poisoning a monk.”
    Umberto Eco, Postscript to the Name of the Rose

  • #2
    Benjamin Franklin
    “In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is Freedom, in water there is bacteria.”
    Benjamin Franklin

  • #3
    Albert Einstein
    “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #4
    Allen Saunders
    “Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
    Allen Saunders

  • #5
    Albert Einstein
    “If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #6
    Albert Einstein
    “Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.”
    Albert Einstein

  • #7
    Ken Kesey
    “But it's the truth even if it didn't happen.”
    Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

  • #8
    Charles J. Sykes
    “Be nice to nerds. You may end up working for them. We all could.”
    Charles J. Sykes, Dumbing Down Our Kids: Why American Children Feel Good About Themselves But Can't Read, Write or Add

  • #9
    Umberto Eco
    “We live for books.”
    Umberto Eco

  • #10
    Umberto Eco
    “What is love? There is nothing in the world, neither man nor Devil nor any thing, that I hold as suspect as love, for it penetrates the soul more than any other thing. Nothing exists that so fills and binds the heart as love does. Therefore, unless you have those weapons that subdue it, the soul plunges through love into an immense abyss.”
    Umberto Eco, The Name of the Rose

  • #12
    Terry Pratchett
    “It is said that whomsoever the gods wish to destroy, they first make mad. In fact, whomsoever the gods wish to destroy, they first hand the equivalent of a stick with a fizzing fuse and Acme Dynamite Company written on the side. It's more interesting, and doesn't take so long.”
    Terry Pratchett, Soul Music



Rss