David P > David's Quotes

“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― Groucho Marx, The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx

“We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.”
― T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets

“A good newspaper is never good enough, but a lousy newspaper is a joy forever.”
― Garrison Keillor

“Eating grapes with a knife and fork is not what one would call refined. It is what one would call ludicrous.”
― Judith Martin

“When people you greatly admire appear to be thinking deep thoughts, they probably are thinking about lunch.”
― Douglas Adams

“Order or disorder depends on organisation; courage or cowardice on circumstances; strength or weakness on dispositions.”
― Sun Tzu

“All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake up in the day to find it was vanity, but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.”
― T.E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom: A Triumph

“Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws.”
― Zarathustra

“Magnificent phrases like 'inductive reactance' flow effortlessly from the lips of guys who can't cook hot dogs or find the flashing blue light in a K-Mart store.”
― Kenn Amdahl

“Headbangers' are people who like heavy-metal music, which is performed by skinny men with huge hair who stomp around the stage, striking their instruments and shrieking angrily, apparently because somebody has stolen all their shirts.”
― Dave Barry

“Entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity.”
― William of Ockham, Ockham's theory of terms, part I of the Summa logicae

“Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!”
― John Anster, The First Part Of Goethe's Faust

“I don't like it, and I'm sorry I ever had anything to do with it.”
― Erwin Schrödinger