William Ralph Inge Famous Quotes
The happiest people seem to be Those who have no particular cause for being happy Except that they are so.
"The aim of education is the knowledge not of fact, but of values."
"It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own."
What is originality Undetected plagiarism.
Worry is interest paid on trouble before it is due.
"Many people believe they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man."
It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion.
The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.
Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.
A nation is a society united by delusions about its ancestry and by common hatred of its neighbors.
"There is no law of progress. Our future is in our own hands, to make or to mar. It will be an uphill fight to the end, and would we have it otherwise Let no one suppose that evolution will ever exempt us from struggles. 'You forget,' said the Devil, with a chuckle, 'that I have been evolving too.'"
William Ralph Inge Quotations
"If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands."
Douglas Noel Adams
It is better to be envied than pitied.
Herodotus
It's not a problem that we have a problem. It's a problem if we don't deal with the problem.
Mary Kay Utech
A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
The Meaning Of Life The reason that we're all here is that it was too crowded where we were supposed to go.
Steven Wright
"If I can stop one heart from breaking, If I can ease one pain, Then my life will not have been in vain."
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson
It's easy to cry 'bug' when the truth is that you've got a complex system and sometimes it takes a while to get all the components to co-exist peacefully.
Doug Vargas
"I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.N.B. This is a paraphrase from the ancient Hindu text, the Bhagavad Gita."
J Robert Oppenheimer
"If all the year were playing holidays, To sport would be as tedious as to work."
William Shakespeare
"People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant."
Hellen Keller