Ben Bova Famous Quotes
Feeding the starving poor only increases their number.
The problem is that Americans would like to be independent of the rest of the world ... Except the world ain't that way. Trying to be independent of the rest of the world is to commit suicide.
Ben Bova Quotations
"I am an old man and have a great many troubles, But most of them never happened."
Mark Twain
"Death, so called, is a thing which makes men weep, And yet a third of life is passed in sleep."
George Gordon Byron
"I can't stand cheap people. It makes me real mad when someone says something like 'Hey, when are you going to pay me that hundred dollars you owe me' or 'Do you have that fifty dollars you borrowed' Man, quit being so cheap"
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
Fanatic. One who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
Sir Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
"Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light."
Jennie Jerome Churchill
"A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be endured with patient resignation."
Bertrand Russell
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
George Washington
"Ferris Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in awhile, you could miss it."
Ferris Bueller s Day Off
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
Truman Capote
A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.
Sydney Smith