Sunday, June 22, 2008

Quotes

1. Always go to other people's funerals, otherwise they won't come to yours. - Yogi Berra
2. Don't be so humble - you are not that great. - Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat
3. Lady Astor: "Mr. Churchill, you're drunk!" Winston Churchill: "Yes, and you, Madam, are ugly. But tomorrow, I shall be sober."
4. Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done. - Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855), while working, when informed that his wife is dying
5. A wise man washes his hands after he pees. A wiser man doesn't pee on his hands.
6. "The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault." -Henry Kissinger.
7. "The cocktail party is a device for paying off obligations to people you don't want to invite for dinner." -Charles Smith.
8. "Copy from one, it’s plagiarism; copy from two, it’s research."- Wilson Mizner (1876-1933)
9. "The object of war is not to die for your country, but to make the other bastard die for his."- General George Patton (1885-1945)
10. "It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument."- William Gibbs McAdoo (1863-1941)

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