From: Amara Graps (Amara.Graps@mpi-hd.mpg.de)
Date: Mon Jun 26 2000 - 10:02:22 MDT
From: "scerir@libero.it" <scerir@libero.it>, Mon, 26 Jun 2000
Nice quotes. Here are some more related quotes.
-------------------------
"When anger rises, think of the consequences. "
--Confucius
"If you wish to drown, do not torture yourself with shallow water."
--A Bulgarian proverb
"Thou frothy clay-brained jolthead" --Shakespearean Insult
"The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of the wise
man is in his heart."
--Benjamin Franklin
"Never underestimate the power of human stupidity." --Lazarus Long
"Never appeal to a man's 'better nature.' He may not have one.
Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage."
--Lazarus Long
"Gentlemen! You can't fight here! This is the War Room!"
-Dr Strangelove
"Nature abhors a vacuum, and if I can only walk with sufficient
carelessness I am sure to be filled." --Henry David Thoreau
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm
not sure about the the universe. " --Albert Einstein
-------------------------
And one of my alltime favorites (but it has nothing to do with this
topic)
"I see the correlation but just because I work for the federal
government doesn't mean I'm an expert on cockroaches."
--Agent Mulder (The X-Files)
:-)
Amara
P.S. I put a bunch of my favorite quotes at
http://www.amara.com/aboutme/favquotes.html
--
***************************************************************
Amara Graps | Max-Planck-Institut fuer Kernphysik
Interplanetary Dust Group | Saupfercheckweg 1
+49-6221-516-543 | 69117 Heidelberg, GERMANY
Amara.Graps@mpi-hd.mpg.de * http://galileo.mpi-hd.mpg.de/~graps
***************************************************************
"Never fight an inanimate object." - P. J. O'Rourke
This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.5 : Fri Nov 01 2002 - 15:29:31 MST