CosmoBC.com Quotes

A Serbian Proverb

Paul — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 20:23:10 +0000

“Be humble for you are made of earth.
Be noble for you are made of stars.”

Serbian proverb

Geniuses

Paul — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:42:55 +0000

“The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.”

Carl Sagan
US astronomer & popularizer of astronomy (1934 – 1996)

Truth

Paul — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:39:50 +0000

“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”

George Orwell
English essayist, novelist, & satirist (1903 – 1950)

Books

Paul — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:47:24 +0000

“Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.”

Paul Valery
French critic & poet (1871 – 1945)

Ideas

Paul — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 16:45:15 +0000

“The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.”

P. B. Medawar
British (Brazilian-born) anatomist (1915 – )

Truth

Paul — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:19:42 +0000

“When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (Sherlock Holmes)
British mystery author & physician (1859 – 1930)

Funny but True!

Paul — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:45:12 +0000

“The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.”

H. L. Mencken
US editor (1880 – 1956)

Kindness

Paul — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:22:59 +0000

“Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.”

Annie Lennox

Work

Paul — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 15:11:58 +0000

“Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn’t have to do it himself.”

A. H. Weiler (1909 – 2002)

Science

Paul — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 20:37:38 +0000

“Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.”

Peter Borden

Technology

Paul — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 15:17:57 +0000

“Machines take me by surprise with great frequency.”

Alan Turing
English logician & mathematician (1912 – 1954)

Cynical

Paul — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 17:11:09 +0000

“The word ‘meaningful’ when used today is nearly always meaningless.”
Paul Johnson

Funny

Paul — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:51:25 +0000

“The two most common elements in the universe are Hydrogen and stupidity.”

Harlan Ellison
US science fiction author & screenwriter (1934 – )

Age

Paul — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 14:49:18 +0000

“I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find – at the age of fifty, say – that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about…It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.”

Agatha Christie, An Autobiography, 1977
English mystery author (1890 – 1976)

Liberty & Learning

Paul — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:45:06 +0000

“Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain.”

John F. Kennedy
35th president of US 1961-1963 (1917 – 1963)

Life

Paul — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:53:16 +0000

“There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.”

Annie Dillard, The Writing Life

Archaeology vs. Diplomacy

Paul — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:52:47 +0000

“In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known.”

Thomas Pickering
US diplomat (1931 – )

Judging

Paul — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:49:48 +0000

“Beware so long as you live, of judging people by appearances.”

La Fontaine

Funny & Cynical

Paul — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 22:53:00 +0000

“A camel is a horse designed by a committee”

Sir Alec Issigonis

Life & Education

Paul — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 17:39:10 +0000

“We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.”

Sharon Salzberg, O Magazine, The Power of Intention, January 2004

Cynical

Paul — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 17:37:17 +0000

“People ask for criticism, but they only want praise.”

W. Somerset Maugham
English dramatist & novelist (1874 – 1965)

Success

Paul — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 16:58:44 +0000

“You don’t need to win every medal to be successful.”

Jason Fried, Signal Vs. Noise

Science

Paul — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 16:56:45 +0000

“A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective.”

Edward Teller
US (Hungarian-born) physicist (1908 – 2003)

Life & Love

Paul — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 16:47:32 +0000

“I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.”

Arthur Rubinstein
US (Polish-born) composer & pianist (1886 – 1982)

Politics

Paul — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 16:42:11 +0000

“Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.”

Paul Valery, Tel Quel 2 (1943)
French critic & poet (1871 – 1945)

Humor

Paul — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:17:46 +0000

“Humor is also a way of saying something serious.”

T. S. Eliot
British (US-born) critic, dramatist & poet (1888 – 1965)

Children

Paul — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:14:01 +0000

“One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.”

Randall Jarrell
US author & poet (1914 – 1965)

Art & Creativity

Paul — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:22:24 +0000

“Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found.”

James Russell Lowell
US diplomat, essayist, & poet (1819 – 1891)

Cynical

Paul — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:20:19 +0000

“It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.”

William G. McAdoo
US industrialist, lawyer, & politician (1863 – 1941)

Science

Paul — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 16:17:51 +0000

“I have learned to use the word impossible with the greatest caution.”

Wernher von Braun
US (German-born) rocket engineer (1912 – 1977)

Quotations

Paul — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:08:10 +0000

“I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.”

Marlene Dietrich
German movie actress (1901 – 1992)

Friendship

Paul — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:32:03 +0000

“The only way to have a friend is to be one.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Friendship

Paul — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:29:22 +0000

“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”

Walter Winchell

Politics

Paul — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 15:25:03 +0000

“It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.”

Eugene McCarthy
US politician (1916 – 2005)

Truth

Paul — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:44:34 +0000

“Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself.”

Richard Bach

Wisdom

Paul — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:43:01 +0000

“All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, a light from the shadows shall spring; renewed shall be blade that was broken, the crown less again shall be king.”

J.R.R Tolkien

Character

Paul — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:35:09 +0000

“A temptation resisted is a true measure of character.”

Pappilon

Freedom & Security

Paul — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 23:06:22 +0000

“He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.”

Benjamin Franklin

Dreams

Paul — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 15:12:22 +0000

“If you don’t follow through on your dreams, you might as well be a vegetable.”

Burt Munro

Children

Paul — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 15:08:15 +0000

“Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.”

Antoine de Saint-Exupery, “The Little Prince”, 1943
French writer (1900 – 1944)

Life Wisdom

Paul — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 14:27:15 +0000

“It’s not the critic that counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena.”

Theodor Roosevelt

Kindness

Paul — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 14:19:29 +0000

“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”

Aesop

Success

Paul — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:40:35 +0000

“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.”

Maria Robinson

Character

Paul — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:39:16 +0000

“A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”

Ernest Hemingway

What Is Man?

Paul — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:35:02 +0000

“The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.”

Mark Twain, What Is Man? (1906)
US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 – 1910)

Courage & Persistence

Paul — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 15:01:17 +0000

“Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Dogs & Cats

Paul — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 14:07:41 +0000

“If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.”

Alfred North Whitehead
English mathematician & philosopher (1861 – 1947)

Success

Paul — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 22:33:57 +0000

“Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.”

Les Brown

Laughter

Paul — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 20:17:10 +0000

“Shared laughter creates a bond of friendships. When people laugh together, they cease to be young and old, teacher and pupils, worker and boss. They become a single group of human beings.”

W. Lee Grant

Cynical Quote

Paul — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 13:45:22 +0000

“The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.”

George F. Will
US editor, commentator, & columnist (1941 – )