A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.
-- Jerry Seinfield
A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book.
-- Ernest Hemingway
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
-- Mark Twain
Once you've put one of his books down, you simply can't pick it up again.
-- Mark Twain (talking about Henry James)
A good novel tells us the truth about it's hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
-- G. K. Chesterton
There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.
-- Charles Dickens
The question of whether computers can think is like the question of whether submarines can swim.
-- Edsgar Dijkstra
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
-- Pablo Picasso
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
-- Issac Asimov
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
-- (Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892 - Oscar Wilde )
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.
Oscar Wilde
Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde
A pessimist is one who, when he has a choice of two evils, chooses both.
Oscar Wilde
We don't stop playing because we grow old; We grow old because we stop playing.
George Bernard Show
Dancing: The vertical expression of a horizontal desire legalized by music.
George Bernard Show
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
Winston Churchill
Yes, madam, I am drunk. But in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
(replying to Lady Astor's comment 'Sir, you're drunk!') - Winston Churchill)
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
Winston Churchill
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
Winston Churchill
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
Issac Asimov
The first law of dietetics seems to be: if it tastes good, it's bad for you.
Issac Asimov
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not Eureka! (I found it!) but 'That's funny...’
Issac Asimov
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
Issac Asimov
