Famous Quotes Name G

Nothing fails like success.

War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.

I shot an arrow into the air, and it stuck.

The one way of tolerating existence is to lose oneself in literature as in a perpetual orgy.

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth.

That man has missed something who has never left a brothel at sunrise feeling like throwing himself into the river out of pure disgust.

Our ignorance of history makes us libel to our own times. People have always been like this.

One must not always think that feeling is everything. Art is nothing without form.

Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times.

Human speech is a cracked cauldron on which we knock out tunes for dancing bears, when we wish to conjure pity from the stars.

...exaggerated turns of speech conceal mediocre affections: as if the fulness of the soul might not sometimes overflow in the emptiest of metaphors, since no one, ever, can give the exact measurements of his needs, nor of his conceptions, nor of his sufferings, and the human word is like a cracked cauldron upon which we beat out melodies fit for making bears dance when we are trying to move the stars to pity.

That man has missed something who has never left a brothel at sunrise feeling like throwing himself into the river out of pure disgust.

For none of us can ever express the exact measure of his needs or his thoughts or his sorrows; and human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars.

The human language is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out a tune for a dancing bear, when we hope with our music to move the stars.

Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.

Many a man wishes he were strong enough to tear a telephone book in half-especially if he has a teenage daughter.

Sometimes when reading Goethe I have a paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.

Spend everyday casual, but industrious Every moment alert, but relaxed.

If you don't leap, you'll never know what it's like to fly.

We are the total of our longings.

Celibacy is not hereditary.

A crash is when your competitor's program dies. When your program dies, it is an 'idiosyncrasy'. Frequently, crashes are followed with a message like 'ID 02'. 'ID' is an abbreviation for idiosyncrasy and the number that follows indicates how many more months of testing the product should have had.

If the programmer can simulate a construct faster then the compiler can implement the construct itself, then the compiler writer has blown it badly.

Years later, people look back upon their darkest day and say -- as Churchill said of London's war years -- 'This was our finest hour.' In a tough spot right now You may be on the very edge of winning

To be in love Is to touch with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.

Each body has its art...

Each body has its art...

Each body has its art...

To be in love Is to touch with a lighter hand. In yourself you stretch, you are well.

Perhaps of all the creations of man, language is the most astonishing.

May you have a lawsuit in which you know you are in the right

God is love, but get it in writing.

God is love, but get it in writing.

You save an old man and you save a unit; but save a boy, and you save a multiplication table.