The question of whether computers can think is just like the question of whether submarines can swim.
~quote about Computers by Edsger W. Dijkstra
A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are.
~quotes on Women by Chauncey Mitchell Depew
There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.
~sayings on Writing by Walter Wellesley Red Smith
Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it
~quotations on Mothers Day by Haim Ginott
If con is the opposite of pro, is Congress the opposite of progress?
~movie quotes ringer by Author Unknown
Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground floor.
~saying about movie ringer by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Poet at the Breakfast-Table, 1872
We have been god-like in the planned breeding of our domesticated plants, but rabbit-like in the unplanned breeding of ourselves.
~quote about Environment by Arnold Toynbee
Photographs that transcend but do not deny their literal situation appeal to me.
~quotes on Photography by Sam Abbel
You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.
~sayings on Time by James Matthew Barrie
Life has been reduced to getting food out of cans.
~quotations on Society by Martin H. Fischer
This is how humans are: we question all our beliefs, except for the ones we really believe, and those we never think to question.
~movie quotes ringer by Orson Scott Card
Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beerOh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza
~saying about movie ringer by Dave Barry
Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had....
~quote about Nostalgia by Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960
Learn as if you were going to live forever. Live as if you were going to die tomorrow
~quotes on Death by Mahatma Gandhi
But the fruit that can fall without shaking,Indeed is too mellow for me.
~sayings on Boldness by Mary Wortley Montagu, The Answer
American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's-license age than at voting age.
~quotations on Politics by Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man, 1964
The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war.
~movie quotes ringer by Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.
~saying about movie ringer by Horace Smith
If you come to a fork in the road, take it.
~quote about Hawww by Yogi Berra
The average man will bristle if you say his father was dishonest, but he will brag a little if he discovers that his great-grandfather was a pirate.
~quotes on Perspective by Bern Williams
To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs, not only of goodness of heart, but of strength of mind.
~sayings on Friendship by William Hazlitt
Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding.
~quotations on Clothing by Philip Dormer Stanhope
When I study philosophical works I feel I am swallowing something which I don't have in my mouth.
~movie quotes ringer by Albert Einstein
Men are too unstable to be just; they are crabbed because they have not passed water at the usual time, or testy because they have not been stroked or praised.
~saying about movie ringer by Edward Dahlberg, The Sorrows of Priapus, 1957
Bittersweet October. The mellow, messy, leaf-kicking, perfect pause between the opposing miseries of summer and winter.
~quote about Autumn by Carol Bishop Hipps
The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war
~quotes on Veterans Day by Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.
~sayings on Attitude by Buddha
Make yourself do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain. Face fears fiercely and they’ll flee. He who battles with us strengths us.
~quotations on Personality by
There are no perfect men in this world, only perfect intentions.
~movie quotes ringer by Pen Densham, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
I do not participate in any sport with ambulances at the bottom of the hill.
~saying about movie ringer by Erma Bombeck
A great many people think that polysyllables are a sign of intelligence.
~quote about Intelligence by Barbara Walters
Like a lot of fellows around here, I have a furniture problem. My chest has fallen into my drawers.
~quotes on Age by Billy Casper, about golf's Senior Tour
Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.
~sayings on Curiosity by James Stephens, The Crock of Gold
We are inclined that if we watch a football game or baseball game, we have taken part in it.
~quotations on Sports by John F. Kennedy, 1961
The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you just learned this morning.
~movie quotes ringer by Author Unknown
I am more afraid of an army of one hundred sheep led by a lion than an army of one hundred lions led by a sheep.
~saying about movie ringer by Charles Maurice, Prince de Talleyrand-Périgord
Its avowed purpose is to excite sexual desire, which, I should have thought, is unnecessary in the case of the young, inconvenient in the case of the middle aged, and unseemly in the old. Malcolm Muggeridge, on pornography, Tread Softly For You Tread On My Jokes, 1966
~quote about Sex by
Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
~quotes on People by Benjamin Franklin
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