Favorite quotes

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I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
-Sir Edward Appleton

'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
-Abraham Lincoln

I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do any thing. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more.
-Dorothy Parker

Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up.
-James Magary

A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
 
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
-Sir Edward Appleton

'Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.
-Abraham Lincoln[/B]

That first one is funny, BD! I'm not an opera fan so I agree.

The second quote has long been one of my favorites, but I wasn't aware that it was attributed to ol' Abe.
 

There was a similar quote in the film The Ghost And The Darkness spoken by Michael Douglas.
Remington-"We have a sayin' in prizefightin' that everybody has a plan until they get hit. Well, my friend, you've just been hit. The gettin' up is up to you."
The film was made in '96. Mike Tyson was a champion up until '88 or '89(I think. He suffered his first defeat from a newcomer).
 
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"Whom the gods destroy, they first make mad."

"Such tricks hath strong imagination..."

Quotes by William Shakespeare
 
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