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Incarnadine

Believe half of what you see and none of what you hear

Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.

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As I pondered potential themes for this, my latest contribution to the (ugh) "blogosphere," I suddenly thought to myself, "You know, it's about time we had a little bit of levity around here." Exact words! To be honest, though, I really don't have it in me right now, and I know better than to try and force humor - the results are generally quite disastrous. So, I'm afraid we'll have to make do with what I promise will be the last batch of famous quotes for a while. Enjoy...

"The superfluous is very necessary." - Voltaire

"I really didn't say everything I said." - Yogi Berra

"He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt." - J. Heller

"The surest way to be late is to have plenty of time." - Leo Kennedy

"Procrastination gives you something to look forward to." - Joan Konner

"If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the Up button." - Sam Levenson

"I couldn't wait for success, so I went ahead without it." - Jonathan Winters

"If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing." - Kingsley Amis

"The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit." - Somerset Maugham

"The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources." - Albert Einstein

"Whenever people agree with me, I always think I must be wrong." - Oscar Wilde

"When having my portrait painted I don't want justice, I want mercy." - Billy Hughes

"Ever wonder if illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup?" - John Mendosa

"If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error." - John Galbraith

"It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it." - Henry Allen

"All my life I wanted to be someone; I guess I should have been more specific." - Jane Wagner

"Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation." - Henry Kissinger

"If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure?" - Harry Shearer

"Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia." - Charles Schultz

"An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field." - Niels Bohr

"Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he is supposed to be doing at the moment." - Robert Benchley

"Every morning, 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

Life in moderationRecently liberated from the shackles of self-confinement

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