Wednesday 25 February 2009

Quotations

Another installment of quotes that I like enough to write down and refer to every now and again.

1. "Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant." - Cary Grant.

2. "Always remember that you are absolutley unique. Just like everyone else." - Margaret Mead.

3. "Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak, courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen." - Winston Churchill.

4. "If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years." - Bertrand Russell.

5. "You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred." - Woody Allen.

6. "The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one." - George Bernard Shaw.

7. "I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound - if I can remember any of the damn things." - Dorothy Parker.

8. "If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

9. "If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater, suggest that he wear a tail." - Fran Lebowitz.

10. "I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." - Douglas Adams.

2 comments:

Gemma said...

1, 3 and 9 are my favourites :) All great quotes though.

Naoise said...

1, 9 and 10 are my favourites.