Sep 5, 2007

Quotes Quotes Quotes

I have a lot to write actually but today I chose to hear it from the "been-there, done-that" individuals. It's simple yet it hits the right notes.


Jerome K. Jerome:
It's always the best policy to speak the truth--unless, of course, you're an exceptionally good liar.


Anatole France:

When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it, and copy it.


George Orwell:

The quickest way to end a war is to lose it.

Side note: What would be the current Malaysia, if British didn't agreed to giving us our own independence?


Robin Morgan:

Don't accept ride from strange men, and remember all men are strange.


Ralph W. Sockman:

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.

Side note: This is indeed true. Well said.


Francois de la Rochefoucauld
We are so accustomed to disguise ourselves to others that in the end we become disguised to ourselves.

Side note: Putting on mask? I used to be so against it, but hey, this is the real world, but it's important to stay true to yourself.


Oscar Levant:
Happiness isn't something you experience, it's something you remember.

Evan Esar:
Character is what you are left when you've lost everything you can lose.

Robert Jackson:
The price of freedom, religion, or of speech, or of the press, is that we must put up with a good deal of rubbish.

Side note: The truth is being revealed. :p




Edward Gibbon:

History is indeed little more than the register of crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind.

Side note: Well, of course it's full of crap and mistakes humankind has done. It's our duty to learn it to not repeat it.


Cullen Hightower:

Laughing at ourselves can lengthen our own life. Laughing at others can shorten it.

Side note: My dad always told me that. Don't laugh at others, laugh with them instead.



Charles Caleb Colton:

We hate a person because we don't know that person. We will not know them, because we hate them.


Evan Esar:

Play- Work you enjoy doing for nothing.


Don Marquis:

If you make people think that they're thinking, they'll love you, but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.

Side note: Hmmm... There is some truth to this.. haha.



Stephen Leacock

Advertising may be described
as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

Side note: Brilliant statement!


Evan Esar:
All work and no play mak
es Jack a very dull boy and Jill a rich widow.

Side note: I'm loving Evan's quotes!!!!



Voltaire:

Anything that is too stupid to be said is sung.

Side notes: *coughs* LOL *coughs*




Sharing is caring after all. haha. Thanks for reading. :p

Cheers.

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