Famous Quotes

[Diva]

"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever."
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

"Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake. "
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956)

"Don't be so humble - you are not that great. "
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat

"His ignorance is encyclopedic"
- Abba Eban (1915-)

"If a man does his best, what else is there?"
- General George S. Patton (1885-1945)

[Diva]

"I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better. "
- A. J. Liebling (1904-1963)

"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. "
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855)

"Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. "
- Saint Augustine (354-430)

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. "
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. "
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. "
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. "
- Galileo Galilei

"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. "
- Emile Zola (1840-1902)

"This book fills a much-needed gap. "
- Moses Hadas (1900-1966) in a review

"The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. "
- definition of "happiness" by John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)

"I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. "
- e e cummings (1894-1962)

[Diva]

"Give me a museum and I'll fill it. "
- Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

"Assassins!"
- Arturo Toscanini (1867-1957) to his orchestra

"I'll moider da bum. "
- Heavyweight boxer Tony Galento, when asked what he thought of William Shakespeare

"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is. "
- Jan L.A. van de Snepscheut

"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. "
- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

"Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems. "
- Rene Descartes (1596-1650), "Discours de la Methode"

"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. "
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)

"Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right. "
- Henry Ford (1863-1947)

"Do, or do not. There is no 'try'. "
- Yoda ('The Empire Strikes Back')

"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. "
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

[Diva]

"Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo."
- H. G. Wells (1866-1946)

"Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed."
- George Burns (1896-1996)

"I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves."
- Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)

"The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense."
- Edsgar Dijkstra

"C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg."
- Bjarne Stroustrup

"A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems."
- Paul Erdos

"The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad."
- Salvador Dali (1904-1989)