Friday, February 09, 2007

Ten great quotes and proverbs

1.Those who talk on the razor-edge of double-meanings pluck the rarest blooms from the precipice on either side.-Logan Pearsall Smith
2.Marriage isn't a word--it's a sentence.-King Vidor,caption from his silent film,THE CROWD,1926.
3.We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing.Action always generates inspiration.Inspiration seldom generates action.-Frank Tibolt
4.It's clear that a high IQ alone probably won't get you very far in life---unless you find a job taking intelligence tests.-Steve Sampson
5.It is lack of confidence more than anything else that kills civilization.-Sir Kenneth Clark
6.The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument,not a suppression of ideas.-Carl Sagan
7.There are three ingredients to the good life:learning,earning,and yearning.-Christopher Morley.
8.Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge:fitter to bruise than polish.-Poet Anne Bradstreet(1612-1672)
9.Gray hair is God's graffiti.-Bill Cosby
10.There is only one cure for gray hair.It was invented by a Frenchman.It is called the guillotine.-P.G.Wodehouse

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