Quotes You Like

“Plans are one thing and fate another. When they coincide, success results. Yet success mustn't be considered the absolute. It is questionable, for that matter, whether success is an adequate response to life. Success can eliminate as many options as failure.”
― Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

"You can't have everything. Where would you keep it?"
– Steven Wright

@hakima said
“Plans are one thing and fate another. When they coincide, success results. Yet success mustn't be considered the absolute. It is questionable, for that matter, whether success is an adequate response to life. Success can eliminate as many options as failure.”
― Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues

"May the flowers remind us
why the rain was so necessary."
- Xan Oku

The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.

~ Horace Walpole
English author (1717 - 1797)

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.

~ Isaac Asimov
US science fiction novelist & scholar (1920 - 1992)

In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.'
I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.

~ Stephen Jay Gould

“Standards are always out of date. That’s what makes them standards.”
— Alan Bennett

"In America, anyone can become president. That's one of the risks you take."


-- Adlai Stevenson

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

Oscar Wilde

I think it is very healthy to spend time alone.
You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.

- Oscar Wilde

“The unspeakable in pursuit of the uneatable”
Oscar Wilde on fox hunting

Rockridge,Rockridge, splendid, splendid.

@moonbus said
"In America, anyone can become president. That's one of the risks you take."


-- Adlai Stevenson

@moonbus said
"In America, anyone can become president. That's one of the risks you take."


-- Adlai Stevenson