Ah, but I've been collecting for years. I'd have to upload my quotes collection as a file, it'd be too much for a message.
So, what are you looking for? Literary quotes? Political quotes? Humor quotes? Science quotes?
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
-- H. L. Mencken
For every human problem, there is a neat, simple solution; and it is always wrong.
-- H. L. Mencken
Conscience is the inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.
-- H. L. Mencken
"I will not let school stand in the way of my education."
-- Mark Twain
"Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please."
-- Mark Twain
"Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform."
-- Mark Twain
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. -- Samuel Johnson
Fascists divide in two categories: the fascists and the anti-fascists. -- Ennio Flaiano
All I know is that I am not a Marxist. -- Karl Marx
A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
-- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin
If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.
-- Joseph Goebbels, Nazi Minister of Propaganda
The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.
-- Adolf Hitler
"The jawbone of an *** is just as dangerous a weapon today as in Samson's time." -- Richard Nixon
"Television is to news what bumper stickers are to philosophy." -- Richard Nixon
"Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first." -- Ronald Reagan
"There's a whiff of the lynch mob or the lemming migration about any overlarge concentration of like-thinking individuals, no matter how virtuous their cause."
-- P. J. O'Rourke, Parliament of Whores (1991)
"A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them."
-- P. J. O'Rourke
If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free.
-- P.J. O'Rourke
Giving money and power to politicians is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
-- P.J. O'Rourke
"Government is the Entertainment Division of the military-industrial complex."
-- Frank Zappa
"The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced."
-- Frank Zappa
Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.
-- Karl Popper (b. 1902), Quoted in: Observer (London, 1 Aug. 1982).
"An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field." -- Niels Bohr (1885-1962)
"The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth." -- Niels Bohr (1885-1962)
"This isn't right. This isn't even wrong."
-- Wolfgang Pauli, on a paper submitted by a physicist colleague
I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.
-- Richard Feynman, "The Value of Science"
"A sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." -- Arthur C. Clarke
"Any technology, no matter how primitive, is magic to those who don't understand it" - Florence Ambrose
“My own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we CAN suppose." -- J. B. S. Haldane in "Possible Worlds: And Other Essays" [1927], Chatto and Windus: London, 1932, reprint, p.286. Emphasis in the original.
Science has “explained” nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.
-- Aldous Huxley (1894–1963), Along the Road, pt. 2, “Views of Holland” (1925).
"The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown." -- Carl Sagan (Cosmos, p. 31)
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