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3 Time is what keeps everything from happening at once.
5 To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.
169 I've learned to pick my battles; I ask myself, Will this matter one year from now? How about one m…
265 It is necessary for us to learn from others' mistakes. You will not live long enough to make them a…
272 The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from th…
288 If you want to bake an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the Universe. <BR> -- Carl Sag…
299 Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile. …
394 Never take investment advice from someone who's working. <BR> -- B.C., Johnny Hart
413 Obstacles to sound scrutiny do not spring so much from the mind's being devoid of science as from i…
414 The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless. <BR> --…
426 Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a refund from the IRS, which lasts until you realize it was your …
435 The universe clearly operates for the benefit of humanity. This can be seen from the convenient way…
443 I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it.
474 …r than we are, no matter what we do about resources, asking us to refrain from using resources now…
480 Economics, over the years, has become more and more abstract and divorced from events in the real w…
484 Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, a…
485 … than the market, is to have a way of interpreting data that is different from other people's. <BR…
527 Copy from one its plagiarism. Copy from two its research.
570 Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the real…
602 Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by traffic from both sid…
608 The Miss Universe pageant is fixed. All the winners are from Earth.
612 The nice thing about standards is, there are so many to choose from.
651 You proceed from a false assumption: I have no ego to bruise. <BR> -- Spock, Star Trek II: The Wrat…
666 There is nothing that living things do that cannot be understood from the point of view that they a…
769 Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research. <BR> -- Wilson Mizner (1876-1933)
793 You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to …
806 The old man laughed loud and joyously, shook up the details of his anatomy from head to foot, and e…
898 The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures…
906 There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one -- keep from telling their happiness…
923 …ears from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you …
979 …ine cow, deducteth the amount showneth on Line XVLIICX-A of Schedule XIV, from the amount showneth…
981 A Health Reminder from the Bureau of Medical Alarm: Don't smoke or drink. Or eat. Or go outside. Or…
995 …he demonstrated that he could drink six of our beers and two large direct-from-the-bottle swigs of…
1019 …as filled with representatives of nations large and small, rich and poor, from all over the world;…
1023 The First Rule of Car Buying is one that I learned long ago from my father, namely: Never buy any c…
1032 English spelling is unusual because our language is a rich verbal tapestry woven together from the …
1038 My editor, Gene, can remember the complete starting lineups for the New York Yankee teams from 1960…
1039 …tyle changes such as sometimes remembering to remove the used tissue wads from his pockets before …
1050 Leif Ericson, the legendary Viking, and his hardy crew set sail from Greenland and finally, after m…
1053 And thus it was that in 1492 Christopher Columbus sailed from Spain and discovered America, which h…
1062 … decipher ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics, which turned out to be a letter from Publishers Clearing…
1064 …hen Paul Revere made his legendary "midnight ride," galloping all the way from Boston to Lexington…
1072 …cies, in which he theorized that life evolves, through natural selection, from lower and cruder to…
1073 …was finally completed, which meant that for the first time ships could go from wherever the Suez C…
1075 The U.S., determined to liberate Cuba from Spanish control, dispatched the famous "Rough Riders" in…
1084 …etches, will malfunction. In one way, this is good: Your Permanent Record from school will be eras…
1108 Second, I received a letter from a woman who chastised me for stating, in a column about the Napa V…
1135 … than he is to his own wife. But you have to consider the larger picture, from the guy's point of …
1140 Guy Memory Lapses stem from the fact that guys devote so much of their brain to remembering vital f…
1141 …that provide, in secret code (to prevent other species, such as raccoons, from stealing it), all t…
1170 Good judgment comes from bad experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.
1181 …enity; and upwards of a thousand lies. <BR> -- Mark Twain, on the Bible in "Letters from the Earth"
1182 …cture of him as he appeared afterward. <BR> -- Mark Twain, on the Bible in "Letters from the Earth"
1203 You simply MUST stop taking advice from other people. <BR> -- Melissa Timberman
1205 Abstain from beans. <BR> -- Plutarch (46-120), Greek priest and writer
1221 Boys should abstain from all use of wine until after their eighteenth year, for it is wrong to add …
1262 Never accept an invitation from a stranger unless he offers you candy. <BR> -- Linda Festa
1324 Age is not different from earlier life as long as you're sitting down. <BR> -- Malcolm Crowley, age…
1368 When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory. <BR> --…
1380 America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degene…
1404 Gentility is what is left over from rich ancestors after the money is gone. <BR> -- John Ciardi (19…
1419 …lanet. That may be. But I think there's one other thing that separates us from animals. We aren't …
1431 …re is more passing in their minds than we are aware of. It comes no doubt from their being so fami…
1483 Newfoundland dogs are good to save children from drowning, but you must have a pond of water handy …
1490 … man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipm…
1503 When you see a snake, never mind where he came from. <BR> -- W.G. Benham
1534 It is easy to be brave from a safe distance. <BR> -- Aesop (620?-560? BC), Thracian freed slave & w…
1537 I have just returned from Boston. It is the only thing to do if you find yourself up there. <BR> --…
1539 When I go abroad, I always sail from Boston because it is such a pleasant place to get away from. <…
1547 Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.…
1567 What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary. <BR> -…
1614 …le in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them, and you have …
1616 Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a str…
1622 Many a man's profanity has saved him from a nervous breakdown. <BR> -- Henry S. Haskins
1629 …r arms, their legs, their hands, their feet, and every part of their body from the top of their he…
1646 …earts, may he turn their ankles so we'll know them by their limping. <BR> --from an old Irish curse
1713 Ah, yes, divorce, from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet. <BR> …
1765 Never drink from your finger bowl -- it contains only water. <BR> -- Addison Mizner (1872-1933), U.…
1782 Why is American beer served cold? So you can tell it from urine. <BR> -- David Moulton
1806 In all the four corners of the earth one of these three names is given to him who steals from his n…
1852 If you can learn from hard knocks, you can also learn from soft touches. <BR> -- Carolyn Kenmore, M…
1933 Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet. <BR> -- Chinese proverb
1938 God save me from my friends; I can take care of my enemies. <BR> -- English proverb, ca. 1477
1986 I have suffered from being misunderstood, but I would have suffered a lot more if I had been unders…
2018 …ever forget it, the Russians never make it, and the Americans never learn from it. <BR> -- Bishop …
2022 We learn from history that we learn nothing from history. <BR> -- George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1…
2070 Human beings were invented by water as a device of transporting itself from one place to another. <…
2077 I haven't much doubt that man sprang from the monkey, but where did the monkey spring from? <BR> -…
2257 I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages. <BR> -- William H. Mauldin (1921--), U.S. cartooni…
2319 Take it from me -- marriage isn't a word -- it's a sentence. <BR> -- King Vidor, (1894-1982), U.S. …
2345 I'm from Indiana, the home of more first-rate second-class men than any other state in the union. <…
2389 Don't accept rides from strange men -- and remember that all men are as strange as hell. <BR> -- Ro…
2447 Everything good in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and compos…
2451 The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of me…
2462 Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself. <BR> -- Ma…
2473 I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries. <BR> -- Jules Renar…
2493 The rich are different from you and me because they have more credit. <BR> -- John Leonard, U.S. jo…
2494 There is a very easy way to return from a casino with a small fortune: go there with a large one. <…
2566 There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge. <BR> -- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
2592 I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound …
2603 She runs the gamut of emotions from A to B. <BR> -- Dorothy Parker (1893 - 1967), speaking of Katha…
2613 Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from hist…
2618 … and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience. <BR> --…
2697 It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man. <BR> -- H. L. Menc…
2704 …ong and the brave. It also makes for beauty, for lesser men try to escape from a hopeless and into…
2752 America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. …
2753 Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. <BR> -- Oscar Wilde (1854 -…
2755 …hout loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets. <BR> -- …
2814 Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives. <BR> -- Oscar…
2826 Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children i…
2836 The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government and I'm here t…
2893 If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try…
2940 …. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only …
2948 Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothi…
2951 One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do th…
2953 Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. <BR> -- Sir Wi…
2963 …orst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. <BR> …
3015 Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a…
3103 …t to work properly is no more complicated than building a nuclear reactor from wristwatch parts in…
3113 Eugene is located in western Oregon, approximately 278 billion miles from anything. <BR> -- Dave Ba…
3132 I regularly read Internet user groups filled with messages from people trying to solve software inc…
3141 …u their blood types, but every last one of them would know the theme song from The Beverly Hillbil…
3149 It is a scientific fact that your body will not absorb cholesterol if you take it from another pers…
3153 Magnetism, as you recall from physics class, is a powerful force that causes certain items to be at…
3156 …coming out in fiercely protective packaging designed to prevent consumers from consuming them. The…
3157 Mother Nature clearly intended for us to get our food from the "patty" group, which includes hambur…
3188 The primary function of the government is - and here I am quoting directly from the U.S. Constituti…
3216 You can use the Internet to find out, from anywhere on the planet: exactly how much coffee is in a …
3217 Your modern teenager is not about to listen to advice from an old person, defined as a person who r…
3221 Never accept a drink from a urologist. <BR> -- The Law of Common Sense
3238 An expert is anyone from out of town. <BR> -- Mars Rule
3263 In any series of calculations, errors tend to occur at the opposite end from the end at which you b…
3283 … breeze when you leave the dock, once you have reached the furthest point from shore, the wind wil…
3288 The one drill bit you need will be the one missing from the tool chest. <BR> -- First Law of the Wo…
3416 Vital papers will demonstrate their vitality by spontaneously moving from where you left them to wh…
3449 At any event, the people whose seats are furthest from the aisle arrive last. <BR> -- Breda's Rule
3479 Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. <BR> -- Clarke's Third Law
3483 The accessibility during recovery of small parts that fall from the work bench, varies directly wit…
3487 That quantity which, when multiplied by, divided by, added to or subtracted from the answer you got…
3503 Attila the Hun came from a broken home. <BR> -- Andrew's Deduction
3536 A Singapore Airways flight from Singapore to London carrying 178 passengers made an emergency landi…
3540 Bill Gates is a monocle and a Persian cat away from being the villain in a James Bond movie. <BR> -…
3548 …no readily apparent reason at regular intervals and need to be re-started from scratch twice a day…
3549 …crosoft Network, Mr. Gates has tried dozens of different business models, from Internet access to …
3550 …pect of Microsoft Windows Vista which scales well is the price. <BR> -- (adapted from) Need To Know
3574 …ack velvet clown painting. It's a rectangle of carets surrounding a quote from a literary giant of…
3734 I am willing to make the mistakes if someone else is willing to learn from them.
3814 Learn from my parent's mistake. Don't have kids!
3815 Learn from your parents' mistakes - use birth control.
3816 Learning from your mistakes is smart, learning from the mistakes of others is wise.
3817 Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse.
3843 Never call a man a fool. Borrow from him.
3847 Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right.
3936 To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.
4010 Insanity is hereditary: you get it from your children.
4083 The purpose of the office of the president is not to wield power, but to draw attention away from i…
4097 Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in…
4131 Oh, my baby, when you're cryin' Never hide your face from me I have conquered hell and driven out t…
4159 …compatible with everyone else's, you WILL use top-to-bottom order. <BR> --from the IJG JPEG librar…
4200 This girl said she recognized me from the vegetarian club, but I never met herbivore.