posted December 17, 2000 11:33 PM               

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
- Thomas Alva Edison

"I've had a wonderful time, but this wasn't it."
- Groucho Marx

"It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts."
- G. B. Burgin

"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."
- Jimi Hendrix

"A witty saying proves nothing."
- Voltaire

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."
- Henry Ford

"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it"
- Henry David Thoreau

"Wit is educated insolence. "
- Aristotle

"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. "
- John F. Kennedy

"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. "
- General George Patton

"I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. "
- Elvis Presley

"I am become death, shatterer of worlds. "
- Robert J. Oppenheimer, (on seeing the A-bomb, i think)

"You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone. "
- Al Capone

"Always do right- this will gratify some and astonish the rest. "
- Mark Twain

"Well done is better than well said. "
- Benjamin Franklin

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. "
- Edmund Burke

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. "
- Mark Twain

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. "
- Albert Einstein

"Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed."
- George Burns

"The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad."
- Salvador Dali

"I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right."
- Frederick (II) the Great

Long list, i know, but my faves are the one from elvis, which reminds me of most of the bands that are out there right now, the one from Al Capone, who i think had a pretty damn good way of getting what he wanted, and finally Frederick the Great, who also had a pretty damned good way of getting what he wanted.

posted December 18, 2000 05:18 PM               

there are others but i'll have to find them
/me goes to peruse quote pages