300. "That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise." --Abraham Lincoln
301. "I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top."
anon. English professor, Ohio U.
302. "Only when you are moved by a painting should you buy it." -
Walter Annenberg
303. " ' Critic' is a six letter word for a four letter concept." -
Piers Anthony
304. "A smart person knows all the rules so he can break them wisely." -
Lubna Azmi
305. "No one does anything uncharacteristic of who they are." -
Richard Bach, The Bridge Across Forever
306. "Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. NOTHING is the worst thing that can happen to us." -
Richard Bach, One
*307. "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise: seek what they sought." -
Basho
308. "There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between." -
Sir Thomas Beecham
309. "Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings." -
Richard Benchley
310. "My life has a superb cast but I can't figure out the plot." -
Ashleigh Brilliant
311. "I'll be glad to either reply to or dodge your questions, whichever I think will help our election most." -
George Bush, 1980
312. "I am amazed at radio DJ's today. I am firmly convinced that AM on my radio stands for Absolute Moron. I will not begin to tell you what FM stands for." -
Jasper Carrott
313. "Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots." -
Frank A. Clark
314. "Any teacher that can be replaced by a machine should be!" -
Arthur C. Clarke, "Electronic Tutors"
315. "When you have nothing to say, say nothing." -
Charles Caleb Colton
316. "When you believe a thing, believe it all the way..." -
Walt Disney
317. "The best way to accelerate a Macintosh is at 9.8m per second per second." -
Marcus Dolengo
318. "My name is only an anagram of toilets." -
T. S. Eliot
*319. "Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote the freedom to err." -
Mahatma Gandhi
*320. "I just saw Titanic, which is a $200 million film about a real-life disaster at sea, but according to Hollywood logic, none of the actual passengers were interesting enough, so the writer-director had to invent a Romeo and Juliet-style fictional couple to heat up the catastrophe. This seems a tiny bit like giving Anne Frank a wacky best friend to perk up that attic." -
Libby Gelman-Waxner
*321. "There are only two places in our world where time takes precedence over the job to be done: school and prison." -
William Glasser
322. "[When I feel bad], I tell myself that there are people worse off than I am, but that just makes me feel worse." -
Maryam Hafizi,
323. "A book of quotations... can never be complete." -
Robert M. Hamilton - Preface, Canadian Quotations and Phrases: Literary and Historical
324. "...A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly..." -
Robert A. Heinlein
325. "There's only one woman I know of who could not be a symphony conductor, and that's the Venus de Milo!" -
Margaret Hillis
326. "Love is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important." -
Lisa Hoffman
327. "One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man." -
Elbert Hubbard
328. "Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two has the grander view?" -
Victor Hugo
329. "Rabbi Zusya said that on the Day of Judgment, God would ask him, not why he had not been Moses, but why he had not been Zusya." -
Walter Kaufmann
330. "Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent."
--Jean Kerr
331. "No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible." -
Stanislaw Jerzy Lee
332. "...In all that the people can individually do for themselves, the government ought not to interfere." -
Abraham Lincoln, 1854
333. "The following statement of the Heisenberg Certainty Principle is dedicated to the U.S. Congress: If your position is everywhere, your momentum is zero." -
William Lipscomb, 1976 Chemistry Nobel Laureate
334. If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too."-
W. Somerset Maugham
335. "Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish." -
Michelangelo
336. "I respect faith but doubt is what gets you an education." -
Wilson Mizner
337. "Any fundamental theory of physics is beautiful. If it isn't, it's probably wrong." -
John Moffat
338. "If triangles made a god, they would give him three sides." -
Montesquieu
339. "Not to know is bad; not to wish to know is worse." -
Nigerian Proverb
340. "The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity." -
Ellen Parr
341. "Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." -
Pablo Picasso
342. The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been." -
Alan Ashley Pitt
343. "Inviting Socrates to join in an argument is like inviting the cavalry to battle on an open plain." -
Plato
344. "If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right." -
Jules Renard
345. "Politics has got so expensive that it takes lots of money even to get beat with." -
Will Rogers
346. "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt." -
Bertrand Russell
347. "What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though." -
J. D. Salinger
348. "I'm not indecisive. Am I indecisive?" -
Jim Scheibel, mayor of St. Paul, Minnesota
349. "If a great man could make us understand him, we should hang him." -
George Bernard Shaw
350. "Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud." -
Sophocles
351. "A fool will ask more questions than the wisest can answer." -
Jonathan Swift
352. "Two paradoxes are better than one; they may even suggest a solution." -
Edward Teller
353. "A man's wealth is measured by what he doesn't need." -
Henry David Thoreau
354. "Any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it." -
Henry David Thoreau
355. "I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific." -
Lily Tomlin
356. "Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem." -
Bill Vaughan
357. "Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for president. One hopes it is the same half." -
Gore Vidal
358. "Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings." -
George Will
359. "Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win."
--Jonathan Kozol
360. If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the third, place. -
Marcus Tullius Cicero
361. "It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts." -Burgin, G.B.-
*362. "In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite." -Paul Dirac
363. "Thank you for sending me a copy of your book-I'll waste no time reading it." -, Moses Hadas
364. "The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it." - Oscar Wilde,
365. "There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head." --Teddy Roosevelt
366. Life may have no meaning. Or even worse, it may have a meaning of which I disapprove. -- Ashleigh Brilliant
367. "My country, right or wrong" is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober." -- GK Chesterton
368. If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex?
369. People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election. - Otto von Bismarck
370. Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but unlike charity, it should end there. - Clare Boothe Luce
371. A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience. - Miguel de Cervantes
372. America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization. - Georges Clemenceau
373. Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it. - Andr Gide
374. Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers. - Nikita Khruschev
375. There is a terrible war coming, and these young men who have never seen war cannot wait for it to happen, but I tell you, I wish that I owned every slave in the South, for I would free them all to avoid this war. - Robert E. Lee
376. We are living in a world today where lemonade is made from artificial flavors and furniture polish is made from real lemons... - Alfred E. Newman
377. A ship is always referred to as "she" because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder. -
Chester Nimitz
378. Democracy is a process by which the people are free to choose the man who will get the blame. -
Laurance Peter
379. Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous. - William Proxmire
380. A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world. - George Santayana
381. Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship. - Harry S Truman
382. We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. - Oscar Wilde
383. "The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest."
- Kilgore Trout (Kurt Vonnegut)
384. "A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving."
- Lao Tzu (570-490 B.C.)
385. "If you are going to walk on thin ice, you might as well dance."
- Anonymous
386. "It's all true. We are space aliens. I'm amazed that it's taken you so long to find out." -
Sen. Phil Gramm, on a claim in a tabloid
387. I went for a walk last night, and she asked me "How long are you going to be gone?" I said, "The whole time." -- Stephen Wright
388. We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and'.
389. Writing about music is like dancing about architecture
390. Help stamp out and abolish redundancy
391. There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets? -- Dick Cavett
392. I sprinkled some baking powder over a couple of potatoes but it didn't work.
393. When this sign is under water, this road is impassable. -- sign on a Tennessee highway
394. When he dies. Maybe. - Kat Walsh (in response to when the Clinton scandals will be over)
395. Bureaucrats do not change the course of the ship of state. They merely adjust the compass.
396. They say it's never too late to learn to play the piano, but at 2 am, I really wish my roommate would quit and go to bed. -- Nathan Hansar
397. "No one is so generous as he who has nothing to give."
-French Proverb
398. "Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program"-
Milton Friedman
399. "A society that puts equality ahead of freedom will end up with neither" -
Milton Friedman
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