Quotations (A)

    Douglas Adams
  A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

  In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

  There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarrely inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.

  Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

  Man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much... the wheel, New York, wars, and so on, whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely the dolphins believed themselves to be more intelligent than man for precisely the same reasons.

  It's no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase "As pretty as an airport" appear.

  The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.

  Dennis Hutch had stepped up into the top seat when its founder had died of a lethal overdose of brick wall, taken while under the influence of a Ferrari and a bottle of tequila.

  Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so.

  I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.

  Komodo dragons sleep headfirst in large burrows. It is a very, very, very bad idea to even think of pulling its tail.

  You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

    Herm Albright
  A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.

    Neil Armstrong
  That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind

    Mario Andretti
  If everything's under control, you're going too slow

    Marcel Archard
  Women like silent men. They think they're listening.

    Aristotle(384 BC - 322 BC)
  We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time.

  To the query, "What is a friend?" his reply was "A single soul dwelling in two bodies."

  If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

  No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

  All men by nature desire knowledge.

  The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

  The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.

  For as the interposition of a rivulet, however small, will occasion the line of the phalanx to fluctuate, so any trifling disagreement will be the cause of seditions; but they will not so soon flow from anything else as from the disagreement between virtue and vice, and next to that between poverty and riches.

  Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

  What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

  Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth.

  The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

  Wit is educated insolence.

  If a child looks like his father, that's heredity. If he looks like a neighbor, that's environment