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Good Quotes From Famous People

Posted by: Harsha • Mar 29th, 2009

I have been enjoying the quotes on this page collected by Professor Gabriel Robins for sometime now. Many of these are quite funny and insightful.

Here are just a few that I like. Go to the link below for more.

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

“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)

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

“Don’t stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.”
- George Burns (1896-1996)

“In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is.”
- Yogi Berra

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

“Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.”
- Plato (427-347 B.C.)

I’ve had a wonderful time, but this wasn’t it.”
- Groucho Marx (1895-1977)

“The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it’s their fault.”
- Henry Kissinger (1923-)

“Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.”
- Voltaire (1694-1778)

“Where are we going, and why am I in this hand basket?”
- Bumper Sticker

http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/quotes.html

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