QUOTES,
Famous and Infamous

That I think, say something important

Collected short quotes, Vincent Van Gogh, Stephen Juan, Steven Wright, Albrecht von Haller, George S. Patton, African, Samuel Butler, Benjamin Franklin, H.L. Mencken, Rita Rudner, Jim Belushi, Jonathan Kratz, Desmond Morris, Albert Einstein, Leon Lederman .

• “Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.” – Vincent Van Gogh
  
  
• In an average day, according to Stephen Juan, author of “The Odd Body,” the human brain produces roughly 70,000 thoughts.
  
  

• In a study of 1,586 hospitalized patients age 70 and older at two Ohio hospitals, researchers found that almost one-quarter of the patients were given urinary catheters, even though they had no medical condition indicating the need. Among patients 85 or older, the rate of unnecessary catheterization was 32 percent.
  
  
• Smoking cures weight problems. Eventually. >– Steven Wright
  
  
• The noted Swiss physician Albrecht von Haller (1708-77) never stopped working, even on his deathbed, where he continued to monitor his condition. “It's beating, beating, beating,” he said one day, taking his own pulse.

  “Stopped.”

  And with that, Haller died.
  
  

• "Courage is fear holding on a minute longer" - George S. Patton (1885-1945)
  
  
• "Do not look where you fell, but look where you slipped." - Old African proverb
  
  
• "Friendships are like money, more easily made then kept", economic differences can add yet another obstacle to maintaining them. - Samuel Butler
  
  
• "Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment." - Benjamin Franklin
  
  
• "Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule -- and both commonly succeed, and are right." H.L. Mencken
  
  
• "I beleive in the well-worn proposition that bad officials are elected by good people who don't vote.
  
  
• I was a vegetarian until I started leaning toward sunlight. – Rita Rudner
  
  
• "Some comedians love their characters. I don't fall in love with mine. In fact, I get tired of them very fast. You have to be willing to throw it all away." - Jim Belushi (Actor)
  
  
• "Societies idea of beautiful has much to much to do with thin. My feeling is that when you can actually see a woman digesting, she's too thin." - Jonathan Kratz
  
  

• Biologically speaking, if something bites you, it's more likely to be female. – Desmond Morris
  
  

• “The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.”
  – Albert Einstein, on the nature of time
  
  
• Physics is not a religion. If it were, we'd have a much easier time raising money.
  – Nobel laureate physicist Leon Lederman
  
  

 

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