Friday, May 1, 2009

Some more quotes

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity.

Example isn't another way to teach, it is the only way to teach.

Human beings, vegetables, or comic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible player.

 Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

Once you've put one of his books down, you simply can't pick it up again. 

Its not the size of the dog in the fight, its the size of the fight in the dog.

A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain.

Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

 There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

Everything is changing. People are taking the comedians seriously and the politicians as a joke.

You can't say civilization isn't advancing; in every war they kill you in a new way.

One may go a long way after one is tired.

Don’t be discouraged. It’s often the last key in the bunch that opens the lock.

Everyone stamps his own value on himself. 

To wish you were someone else is to waste the person you are.

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

I am neither an optimist nor pessimist,  but a possibilist.

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