Tuesday, 29 May 2012

COLLECTION - 30


I don’t deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don’t deserve that either.
-Jack Benny


I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.
-Jackie Mason


It’s no longer a question of staying healthy. It’s a question of finding a sickness you like.
-Jackie Mason


The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation.
-Jacob Bronowski


Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today.
-James Dean


Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
-James F. Byrnes

COLLECTION - 29



If the doctor told me I had six minutes to live, I’d type a little faster.
-Isaac Asimov


Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
-Isaac Asimov


If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
-Isaac Newton


Once the game is over, the King and the pawn go back in the same box.

COLLECTION - 28


Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better
-Hermann Hesse


If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.
-Hermann Hesse


The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well.
-Horace Walpole

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
-Immanuel Kant

COLLECTION - 27


Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
-Henri Bergson


Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science.
-Henri Poincare


Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
-Henrik Tikkanen


Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
-Henry David Thoreau


A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
-Henry David Thoreau

Whether you think you can or think you can’t — you are right.
-Henry Ford

COLLECTION - 26


There is no truth. There is only perception.
-Gustave Flaubert


All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
-H. L. Mencken


There is a great difference between worry and concern. A worried person sees a problem, and a concerned person solves a problem.
-Harold Stephens


I once wanted to become an atheist, but I gave up – they have no holidays.
-Henny Youngman


My Grandmother is over eighty and still doesn’t need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.
-Henny Youngman