QUOTES,
Famous and Infamous

That I think, say something important

Collected short quotes, John Stuart Mill, President Jimmy Carter, Robert Peary, Voltaire, Francois-Marie Arouet, Richard Feynman, Abraham Lincoln, Johanna Fantova, A. Sachs, Tennessee Williams, Hearsay, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Hippocrates, Don Herold, Humphrey Bogart .

• "A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury."
  -John Stuart Mill
  
  
• "The right of a human being to live in peace, to have decent shelter at night and some education and health care is also a human right."
  -President Jimmy Carter, on his efforts to eradicate disease and improve lives in Third World countries
  
  

• I knew immediately when I had reached the North Pole, because in one step the north wind became a south wind.
  – Robert Peary
  
  
• On his deathbed, the famous French writer and philosopher Voltaire (Francois-Marie Arouet, 1694-1778) was asked to renounce the devil. His last words: “This is no time to be making new enemies.”
  
  
• I have invented an antigravity machine. It's called a chair.
  – Richard Feynman
  
  
• When someone asked Abraham Lincoln, after he was elected president, what he was going to do about his enemies, he replied: “I am going to destroy them. I am going to make them my friends.”
  -Abraham Lincoln
  
  
• I'm not a carpenter but I can build some pretty useful things even though a true carpenter could point out what was wrong. Doesn't make what I build any less useful or desirable. I can appreciate those who wish nothing but valid code, but I'm not a huge fan of those who insist I be a "carpenter" or what I build is junk because I'm not.
  -anonymous
  
  
• “Einstein’s health began to fail, but he continued to indulge in what remained his favorite of all pastimes, sailing. Seldom did I see him so gay and in so light a mood as in this strangely primitive little boat,”
  —Johanna Fantova
  
  
• "Death is more universal than life; everyone dies but not everyone lives
  - A. Sachs
  
  
• I gave up visiting my psychoanalyst because he was meddling too much in my private life.
  - Tennessee Williams
  
  
• The Dutch poet Gerrit Achterberg (1938-1962) had just finished parking his car, when his wife asked: “Shall I bake some potatoes?” Achterberg answered, “Yes, but not too much.” Then he suffered a fatal heart attack.
  -Hearsay
  
  
• Do the thing you fear, and the death of fear is certain.
  -Ralph Waldo Emerson
  
  
• Work keeps us from three great evils; boredom, vice, and poverty...
  -Voltaire
  
  
• "Life is short, the art long, opportunity fleeting, experiment treacherous, judgment difficult"
  -Hippocrates
  
  
• Doctors think a lot of patients are cured who have simply quit in disgust.
  – Don Herold
  
  
• “I should never have switched from scotch to martinis.”
  – Humphrey Bogart (1899-1957)
  
  

 

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