CosmoBC.com Quotes

Science

Paul — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 01:59:08 +0000

“I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.”

Isaac Newton
English mathematician & physicist (1642 – 1727)

Cynical

Paul — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 01:56:33 +0000

“How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?”

Charles De Gaulle, in “Les Mots du General”, 1962
French general & politician (1890 – 1970)

Politics

Paul — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 18:54:02 +0000

“Too bad the only people who know how to run the country are busy driving cabs and cutting hair.”

George Burns
US actor & comedian (1896 – 1996)

Cynical

Paul — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 01:53:08 +0000

“I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.”

W. C. Fields
US actor (1880 – 1946)

Impossible

Paul — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 18:13:19 +0000

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

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

Desire

Paul — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 18:01:23 +0000

“A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.”

Mark Twain, Following the Equator
US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 – 1910)

Computers and Business

Paul — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 18:28:54 +0000

“In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear.”

John C. Dvorak

Opinion

Paul — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:52:24 +0000

“An opinion should be the result of thought, not a substitute for it.”

Jef Mallett
Frazz, 04-04-07

Cynical

Paul — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 18:20:47 +0000

“Criminal: A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.”

Howard Scott
(1926 – )

Success

Paul — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 19:46:18 +0000

“You’ve achieved success in your field when you don’t know whether what you’re doing is work or play.”

Warren Beatty
US movie actor, director, & producer (1937 – )

Cynical

Paul — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 17:25:31 +0000

“Realism…has no more to do with reality than anything else.”

Hob Broun

Happiness

Paul — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 18:33:34 +0000

“I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.”

E. V. Lucas

Cynical

Paul — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 17:11:45 +0000

“Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.”

George Bernard Shaw
Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 – 1950)

Humor

Paul — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 18:16:39 +0000

“Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.”

Robert Benchley
US actor, author, & humorist (1889 – 1945)

Celebrity

Paul — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 02:15:36 +0000

“A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.”

Fred Allen
US radio comedian (1894 – 1956)

Finance

Paul — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 02:04:31 +0000

“Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.”

Robert W. Sarnoff

Past

Paul — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 01:50:20 +0000

“I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.”

Herb Caen

Repairs

Paul — Sat, 31 Jul 2010 21:51:45 +0000

“After the last of 16 mounting screws has been removed from an access cover, it will be discovered that the wrong access cover has been removed.”

De La Lastra’s Law

Songs

Paul — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 23:23:32 +0000

“Anything too stupid to be said is sung.”

Voltaire
French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 – 1778)

Democracy

Paul — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 18:04:53 +0000

“It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.”

Sir Winston Churchill
British politician (1874 – 1965)

The Future

Paul — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 20:52:41 +0000

“The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.”

John Sladek

Reading

Paul — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 15:22:13 +0000

“Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.”

Sir Richard Steele

Computers

Paul — Sun, 13 Jun 2010 15:19:33 +0000

“Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don’t need to be done.”

Andy Rooney
US news commentator (1919 – )

Democracy

Paul — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 15:18:45 +0000

“Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.”

George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903) “Maxims for Revolutionists”
Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 – 1950)

Opportunity

Paul — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 17:14:19 +0000

“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”

Thomas A. Edison
US inventor (1847 – 1931)

Politics Humor

Paul — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 17:48:22 +0000

“I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I’m in a cabinet meeting.”

Ronald Reagan
40th president of US (1911 – 2004)

Politics

Paul — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 17:19:28 +0000

“Get all the fools on your side and you can be elected to anything.”

Frank Dane

Cynical

Paul — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 17:17:50 +0000

“Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.”

Russell Baker
US columnist & journalist (1925 – )

Life

Paul — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 17:16:26 +0000

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”

Soren Kierkegaard
Danish philosopher (1813 – 1855)

Cynical

Paul — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 17:13:15 +0000

“Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.”

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

Freedom

Paul — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 02:12:16 +0000

“When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.”

Eric Hoffer
(1902 – 1983)

Wisdom

Paul — Tue, 25 May 2010 14:12:41 +0000

“If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.”

Sir Francis Bacon
English author, courtier, & philosopher (1561 – 1626)

Cynical

Paul — Tue, 25 May 2010 01:46:15 +0000

“The whole world is in revolt. Soon there will be only five Kings left–the King of England, the King of Spades, The King of Clubs, the King of Hearts, and the King of Diamonds.”

King Farouk of Egypt, 1948
king of Egypt 1936-1952 (1920 – 1965)

Love

Paul — Wed, 19 May 2010 19:35:27 +0000

“The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned.”

Somerset Maugham

Insanity & Science

Paul — Sun, 16 May 2010 17:29:45 +0000

“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”

Albert Einstein, (attributed)
US (German-born) physicist (1879 – 1955)

Cynical

Paul — Fri, 14 May 2010 16:09:06 +0000

“All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.”

Benjamin Franklin
US author, diplomat, inventor, physicist, politician, & printer (1706 – 1790)

Forgiveness

Paul — Tue, 04 May 2010 15:45:55 +0000

“It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.”

William Blake
English engraver, illustrator, & poet (1757 – 1827)

Cynical

Paul — Mon, 03 May 2010 14:37:15 +0000

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

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

Funny

Paul — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 15:23:56 +0000

“The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.”

John Ciardi
US poet (1916 – 1986)

Funny

Paul — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 17:08:40 +0000

“If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?”

Laurence J. Peter
US educator & writer (1919 – 1988)

Intellectual

Paul — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 17:05:13 +0000

“An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.”

Dwight D. Eisenhower
34th president of US 1953-1961 (1890 – 1969)

Travel

Paul — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 17:02:57 +0000

“Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything.”

Charles Kuralt

Love & Happiness

Paul — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 21:58:46 +0000

“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”

Bertrand Russell, Conquest of Happiness (1930) ch. 12
British author, mathematician, & philosopher (1872 – 1970)

Humor

Paul — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 21:56:26 +0000

“Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.”

Aristotle
Greek critic, philosopher, physicist, & zoologist (384 BC – 322 BC)

Peace

Paul — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 21:53:26 +0000

“If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known.”

George C. Marshall
US general (1880 – 1959)

Imagination

Paul — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 15:31:51 +0000

“Everything you can imagine is real.”

Pablo Picasso
Spanish Cubist painter (1881 – 1973)

Technology

Paul — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 15:31:08 +0000

“Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.”

Putt’s Law

Committees

Paul — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 17:33:18 +0000

“To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent.”

Robert Copeland

Life

Paul — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 22:11:24 +0000

“The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.”

David Russell

Life

Paul — Sat, 17 Apr 2010 13:30:23 +0000

“The difference between great people and everyone else is that great people create their lives actively, while everyone else is created by their lives, passively waiting to see where life takes them next. The difference between the two is the difference between living fully and just existing.”

Michael E. Gerber