Quotes of the day -- 19th April 2008
Posted: Sat Apr 19, 2008 10:46 am
I took a speed reading course and read 'War and Peace' in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.
-- Woody Allen
Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.
-- Paul Valery, Tel Quel 2 (1943)
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
-- Douglas Adams, "Last Chance to See"
A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
-- Dorothy L. Sayers, Lord Peter Wimsey in "Gaudy Night"
-- Woody Allen
Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them.
-- Paul Valery, Tel Quel 2 (1943)
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
-- Douglas Adams, "Last Chance to See"
A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
-- Dorothy L. Sayers, Lord Peter Wimsey in "Gaudy Night"