Famous Quotations Update

Today's Famous Quotations:

Author Unknown


It is a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it.

Douglas Adams, alt.fan.douglas-adams, 1 Dec 1993


Cyberspace is - or can be - a good, friendly and egalitarian place to meet.

Author Unknown


It never occurs to some politicians that Lincoln is worth imitating as well as quoting.

Judith Viorst


But it's hard to be hip over thirty When everyone else is nineteen, When the last dance we learned was the Lindy, And the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbra Streisand Were trying to do something about it.

Jerry Garcia


Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.

Ben J. Wattenberg


The plural of anecdote is data.

Sheila Graham


Food is the most primitive form of comfort.

Brendan Behan


When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

Sir Thomas Browne


Sure there is music even in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument. For there is music wherever there is harmony, order and proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres; for those well ordered motions, and regular paces, though they give no sound unto the ear, yet to the understanding they strike a note most full of harmony.

Florida Scott-Maxwell, O Magazine, October 2003


I grow more intense as I age.

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