"No one, I think, is in my tree.": authors

Showing posts with label authors. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 19, 2011

Ok, I wasn't done yet...

Happy 202th Birthday, Edgar Allan Poe!

Definitely signing out now (nevermore :P),
Elise

Favourite quotes

"Anything too stupid to be said is sung." - Voltaire
"If the wind will not serve, take to the oars." - Latin proverb
"The unexamined life is not worth living." - Socrates
"The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing - to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts..." - John Keats
"A little nonsense now and then is cherished by the wisest men." - Willie Wonka
"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." - Martin Luther King, Jr.
"The first and greatest commandment is: Don't let them scare you." - Elmer Davis
"An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex." - Aldous Huxley
"It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously." - Sir Peter Ustinov
"Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious." - Sir Peter Ustinov
"We're not lost. We're locationally challenged." - John M. Ford
"There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear." - 1 John v. 18
"Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room." - Sir Winston Churchill
"From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put." - Sir Winston Churchill
"I could prove God statistically." - George Gallup
"I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much." - Mother Teresa
"I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal." - Jane Austen
"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife." - Jane Austen
"What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?" - Irv Kupcinet