Tuesday, February 16, 2010
QUOTATIONS
a.. Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten
b.. There are two things to aim at in life. First, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
c.. My definition of free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
d.. The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but not forget.
e.. It's a recession when your neighbour looses his job, it's a depression when you loose your's.
f.. Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
g.. There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
h.. Question:What are the desirable qualifications for any young man who wants to become a politician?
Answer : It is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen.
i.. The quickest way to end a war is to loose it.
j.. It takes two to make a marriage a success and only one a failure.
k.. The marvelous thing about a joke with a double meaning is that it can only mean one thing.
l.. Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
m.. Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.
n.. If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
o.. If the government is big enough to give you everything you want, it is big enough to take away everything you have.
p.. Opera is when a guy get stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.
q.. An exaggeration is a truth that has lost its temper.
r.. An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject and how to avoid them.
s.. It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
t.. The innocent and beautiful have no enemy but time.
u.. It is always easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
v.. Committee - a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
w.. It takes great deal of history to produce a little literature.
x.. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
y.. Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
z.. A memorandum is written not to inform the reader but to protect the writer.
aa.. Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.
ab.. A friend in power is a friend lost.
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