Unconstrained Quotes
General Wise-Ass and Curmudgeonly Comments:
A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up familiar with it. - Max Planck
Actions lie louder than words. - Carolyn Wells
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. - Andre Gide
Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting. - Alan Dean Foster, "To the Vanishing Point"
Hello seeker! Now don't feel alone here in the New Age, because there's a seeker born every minute. - The Firesign Theatre
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. - Douglas Adams
I wish people who have trouble communicating would just shut up. - Tom Lehrer
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear. - Dick Cavett
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady. - La Rochefoucauld
Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. - Gertrude Stein
It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy. - James Thurber
It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them! - Friedrich Nietzsche
The power of accurate observation is often called cynicism by those who don't have it. - George Bernard Shaw
The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place isn't there the second time. - Willie Tyler
Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite and furthermore always carry a small snake. - W. C. Fields
To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research. - Steven Wright
Write a profound saying and your name will live forever. - Anonymous
You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe. - Marcus Cole, Character in J. Michael Straczynski's Babylon 5
You know, it's at times like this when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young! . . . Why, what did she tell you? . . . I don't know, I didn't listen! - Douglas Adams, From The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe.
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. - Bertrand Russell
Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity. - Nick Diamos
No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it. - Charles M. Schulz
One of the symptoms of approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important. - Bertrand Russell
People will buy anything that is one to a customer. - Sinclair Lewis
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