Illustrious Aphorisms
- "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. "
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
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- "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. "
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
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- "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. "
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- "I'll moider da bum. "
- Heavyweight boxer Tony Galento, when asked what he thought of William Shakespeare
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- "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
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- "I've had a wonderful time, but this wasn't it."
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- "What do you take me for, an idiot?"
- General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy
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- "Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it. "
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- "From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it. "
- "I am not young enough to know everything. "
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- "I have read your book and much like it. "
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- "I don't feel good. "
- The last words of Luther Burbank (1849-1926)
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- "Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure. "
- Ross MacDonald (1915-1983)
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- "I think it would be a good idea. "
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948), when asked what he thought of Western civilization
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- "If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?" "
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- "This isn't right, this isn't even wrong."
- Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper
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- "Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies."
- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan.
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- "What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death."
- Dave Barry
"A bore is a man who, when you ask him how he is, tells you."
- Bert Leston Taylor
