Too much is never enough. [Mick Jagger]

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. [Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892]

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man,
then where ever your go for the rest of your life it stays with you,
for Paris is a movable feast. [Ernest Hemmingway - "A movable feast"]

Every man should be allowed to love two cities - his own and San Francisco. [Gene Fowler]

A ship in the harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. [John A. Shedd]

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. [Marcel Proust, 1871-1922]

The winds and waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators. [Edward Gibbon, "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"]

Opportunities multiply as they are seized. [Sun Tzu]

We become what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is NOT an act but a habit! [Aristotle]

If you sail without aim, no wind is right. [Unknown]

Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law. [Douglas R. Hofstadter, "Goedel, Escher, Bach" p.152]

If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas. [George Bernard Shaw]

Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people. [George Bernard Shaw]

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. [Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973]

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards. [Arthur Koestler]

It is hard to believe a man is telling you the truth when you know you would lie if you were in his place. [H. L. Mencken]

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. [Confucius]

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals. [Sydnes Smith]

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit by them, and strong enough to correct them. [McKenzie]

Risk more than others think is safe.
Care more than others think is wise.
Dream more than others think is practical.
Expect more than others think is possible. [Cadet maxim, US Military Academy, West Point]

Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people. [Anonymous]

There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it. [Dostoevsky]

War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the moon is likely to be dull. [Mark Twain]

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition. [Alexander Smith]

Recently, I was asked if I was going to fire an employee who made a mistake that cost the company $600,000. No, I replied, I just spent $600,000 training him. Why would I want somebody to hire his experience. [Thomas J. Watson]

Conventional people are roused to fury by departures from convention, largely because they regard such departures as a criticism of themselves. [Bertrand Russell]

A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world. [Louis Pasteur]

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. [Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)]

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher. [Socrates (470-399 B.C.)]

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. [Antoine de St. Exupery]

Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate. [Thomas Jones]

Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work. [Robert Orben]

Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first and the lessons afterwards. [Anon]

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. [Franklin P. Jones, 1887-1929]

I quote others in order to better express myself. [Michel Eyquem Montaigne (1533-1592)]

There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. [Jeremy S. Anderson]

Fast, fat computers breed slow, lazy programmers. [Robert Hummel]

If at first you don't succeed, redefine success. [Anon]

We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing, and what a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while actually producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization. [Petronius Arbiter, 210 B.C.]

If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. [Derek Bok, president of Harvard]

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,
it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness,
it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity,
it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness,
it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair,
we had everything before us, we had nothing before us,
we were all going direct to heaven, we were all doing direct the other way
-- in short, the period was so far like the present period,
that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received,
for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only. [Charles Dickens, opening lines of "A Tale of Two Cities"]

The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future. [Oscar Wilde]

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. [Oscar Wilde]

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple. [Oscar Wilde]

Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities. [Frank Lloyd Wright]

J'aime celui qui rêve l'impossible. (I love those who dream the impossible.) [Goethe]

Poor is the pupil who does not surpass their Master. [Leonardo da Vinci]

It is better to be quotable than to be honest. [Tom Stoppard]

I keep six honest serving-men, They taught me all I knew.
Their names are What and Why and When, And How and Where and Who. [Rudyard Kipling]

Woman inspires us to great things, and prevents us from achieving them. [Alexandre Dumas]

Hvis du er stærkere end din modstander, så spil svag, hvis du er svagere end din modstander, så spil uovervindelig. [Sun tzu, krigens kunst]

Forskellen mellem journalistik og litteratur er, at journalistik er ulæselig, og litteratur bliver ikke læst. [Oscar Wilde]

When I was eighteen, I thought my old man was a fool. But, by the time I reached twenty-one, I found out that he'd learned a lot in the past three years. [Mark Twain (Forældre)]

Det er meget farligt at have ret i ting, hvor store folk tog fejl. [Voltaire]

The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit. [W. Somerset Maugham]

An eye for an eye will make you blind. [At peace demonstration in New York after the terror attack.]

Variety is the spice of life! [Unknown]

Nay, let us walk from fire unto fire,
From passionate pain to deadlier delight,
I am too young to live without desire,
Too young art thou to waste this summer night.
Asking those idle questions which of old
Man sought of seer and oracle, and no reply was told. [Oscar Wilde]

Flexibility should be used when needed and not as a common way of life. [Francois Le Diberder, SLAC 7-12-00]

Good actions ennoble us, we are the sons of our own deeds. [Miguel de Cervantes]

The fundamental cause of trouble in the world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. [Bertrand Russell, "Christian Ethics" from Marriage and Morals (1950)]

There is no excuse for deceiving children. And when, as must happen in conventional families, they find that their parents have lied, they lose confidence in them and feel justified in lying to them. [Bertrand Russell]

Religion is something left over from the infancy of our intelligence, it will fade away as we adopt reason and science as our guidelines. [Bertrand Russell]

War does not determine who is right - only who is left. [Bertrand Russell]

Women are like the stars - brilliantly visible, but highly unreachable. [Unknown]

America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization. [Georges Clemenceau]

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. [Confucius]

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant. [Robert L. Stevenson]

Few things are harder to put up with than a good example. [Mark Twain (1835-1910)]

To be or not to be - that is NOT the question. It is the answer. [Physicist, Fred A. Wolf]

Time is the reef upon which all our frail mystic ships are wrecked. [Sir Noel Coward Blithe Spirit]

Time is God's way of keeping everything from happening at once. [Anon]

When all you have got is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. [Japanese proverb]

When the winds of change are blowing, some put up shelters while others put up wind mills. [Chinese proverb]

Lovers always think that other people have had their eyes put out. [Spanish Proverb]

To ask is no sin and to be refused is no calamity. [Russian Proverb]

He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good. [Yiddish Proverb]

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back. [Chinese proverb]

He who is afraid of asking is ashamed of learning. [Danish Proverb]

If you want to understand men, study women. [French Proverb]

No matter how far you have gone on the wrong road, turn back. [Turkish Proverb]

If you want your dreams to come true, don't sleep. [Yiddish Proverb]

If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one. [Russian Proverb]

Make happy those who are near and those who are far will come. [Chinese Proverb]