Friday, February 29, 2008

The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it.
-- Patrick Young

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

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
-- Abraham Lincoln

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.
-- Benjamin Disraeli, Speech at the House of Commons, January 24, 1860

Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long.
-- Leonard Bernstein

If the fans don't wanna come out to the ballpark, no one can stop 'em.
-- Yogi Berra, as quoted by Joe Garagiola on the Jack Paar show, NBC 1963

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton, Letter to Robert Hooke, February 5, 1675

Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
-- Anonymous

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
-- Herm Albright

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.
-- Dorothy Nevill

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