Quotes That Deserve a Second Look




It's not an optical illusion, it just looks like one.

--Phil White


When you arrive at a fork in the road, take it.

--Yogi Berra


I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

--Mark Twain


It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

--Woody Allen


All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.

--George Orwell


Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.

--Charlie McCarthy


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

--Douglas Adams


The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.

--Jean Giraudoux


If you don't find it in the index, look very carefully through the entire catalogue.

--Sears, Roebuck, and Co., Consumer's Guide, 1897


The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

--Oscar Wilde


You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.

--Yogi Berra


I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.

--Woody Allen


Do not worry about your difficulties in mathematics: I can assure you that mine are still greater.

--Albert Einstein


Everything that can be invented has been invented.

--Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899


Celibacy is not hereditary.

--First Law of Socio-Genetics


Smoking kills, and if you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life.

--Anti-smoking spokesperson Brooke Shields


The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.

--Clinton aide George Stephanopolous, speaking on Larry King Live


We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees.

--Jason Kidd, upon his drafting to the Dallas Mavericks


China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese.

--Former French President Charles De Gaulle


Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.

--Former U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower


Half this game is ninety percent mental.

--Philadelphia Phillies Manager Danny Ozark


It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.

--Former U.S. Vice-President Dan Quayle


This book fills a much-needed gap.

--Moses Hadas, in a review


I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.

--Irvin S. Cobb


I'll moider da bum.

--Heavyweight boxer Tony Galento, when asked what he thought of William Shakespeare


I am not young enough to know everything.

--Oscar Wilde


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