aichholzer » Quotes

Aichholzer — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 12:06:31 +0000

To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.

- GK Chesterton

Aichholzer — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 13:54:04 +0000

The good psychic would pick up the phone before it rang. Of course it is possible there was none on the other line. Once she said “God Bless you” I said, “I didn’t sneeze” She looked deep into my eyes and said, “You will, eventually.” And damn it if she wasn’t right. Two days later I sneezed.

- Ellen DeGeneres

Aichholzer — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 06:04:56 +0000

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

- Samuel Butler

Aichholzer — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 06:03:54 +0000

A great many people think they are thinking when they are really rearranging their prejudices.

- William James

Aichholzer — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 11:20:09 +0000

Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.

- Rene Descartes

Aichholzer — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 14:31:51 +0000

Where facts are few, experts are many.

- Donald R. Gannon

Aichholzer — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 08:12:07 +0000

Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.

- Jef Raskin

Aichholzer — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 07:16:37 +0000

First there is a time when we believe everything, then for a little while we believe with discrimination, then we believe nothing whatever, and then we believe everything again – and, moreover, give reasons why we believe.

- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Aichholzer — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 09:02:00 +0000

Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it’s a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.

- Al Franken

Aichholzer — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 08:44:02 +0000

Give a man a fish, and you’ll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he’ll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you’re a consultant.

- Scott Adams

Aichholzer — Wed, 31 Oct 2007 08:43:57 +0000

It’s amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.

- Jerry Seinfeld

Aichholzer — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 22:11:54 +0000

An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear person.

- Joseph Addison

Aichholzer — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 08:58:01 +0000

Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.

- Clarence Thomas

Aichholzer — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 22:41:56 +0000

It’s also helpful to realize that this very body that we have, that’s sitting right here right now… with its aches and it pleasures… is exactly what we need to be fully human, fully awake, fully alive.

- Pema Chodron

Aichholzer — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 14:06:44 +0000

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

- Ben Stein