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It's a mistake to underestimate the human capacity for self-delusion.
-- Robert Park
To err is human, to purr feline.
-- Robert Byrne
"I'm not confused, I'm just well mixed."
-- Robert Frost
Ignorance is the Mother of Devotion.
-- Robert Burton
"Fast, fat computers breed slow, lazy programmers."
-- Robert Hummel
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired
-- Robert Frost
It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.
-- Robert Bly
Let's get out of these wet clothes and into a dry martini.
-- Robert Benchley
Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.
-- Robert A. Heinlein
Moral behavior is survival behavior above the individual level.
-- Robert Heinlein
"Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them."
-- Robert Strauss (on conducting)
The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling.
-- Robert Pirsig
"A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer."
-- Robert Frost
"Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday."
-- Donald Robert Perry Marquis
"Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy."
-- Robert Anthony
The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.
-- Robert Frost
"A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity."
-- Robert Frost
Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
-- Robert A. Heinlein
"The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance."
-- Robert R. Coveyou
The meek shall inherit the earth. The rest of us are going to the stars.
-- Robert A. Heinlein
By working faithfully 8 hours a day you may eventually get to be a boss and work 12 hours a day.
-- Robert Frost
The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility. And vice versa.
-- Robert A. Heinlein
A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
-- Robert Frost
"Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at that moment."
-- Robert Benchley
"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea."
-- Robert A. Heinlein
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
-- Robertson Davies
"The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good."
-- Robert Graves
A city is a large community where people are lonesome together
-- Herbert Prochnow
"The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office."
-- Robert Frost
Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope.
-- Robert Green Ingersoll
'Love' is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
-- Robert A. Heinlein (Jubal Harshaw, Stranger in a Strange Land)
I once listed all the good things I did over the past year, and then turned them into resolution form and backdated them. That was a good feeling.
-- Robert Fulghum
Hell's afloat in lovers' tears.
-- Dorothy Parker
Brevity is the soul of lingerie.
-- Dorothy Parker
Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other 'sins' are invented nonsense. (Hurting yourself is not sinful-- just stupid.)
-- Robert A. Heinlein
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
-- Robert Hutchins ("Great Books", 1954)
You can't teach an old dogma new tricks.
-- Dorothy Parker
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.
-- Albert Camus
A popular man arouses the jealousy of the powerful.
-- Frank Herbert (Dune)
The only ism Hollywood believes in is plagiarism.
-- Dorothy Parker
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
-- Albert Einstein
His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets.
-- Dorothy Parker
If the automobile had followed the same development as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year killing everyone inside.
-- Robert Cringely ("InfoWorld")
The important thing is never to stop questioning.
-- Albert Einstein
"Tell him I've been too fucking busy - or vice versa."
-- Dorothy Parker
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
-- Albert Einstein
You don't have to flaunt technical ability in order to benefit from it. If you have the capability to play a million notes, and then you play only three notes, that lends an amazing profundity to the three notes you did choose.
-- Robert Fripp (paraphrased)
A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.
-- Elbert Hubbard
"Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them."
-- Albert Einstein
"You can lead a horticulture but you can't make her think."
-- Dorothy Parker
You see, the conditional modifers depend on certain variables like the day of the week, the number of players, chair positions, things like that. [...] There can't be more than a dozen or two that are pertinent.
-- Robert Asprin ("Little Myth Marker")
You can lead a boy to college, but you cannot make him think.
-- Elbert Hubbard
It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.
-- Albert Einstein
"The more I watch television, the more I wonder why I'm not already supreme ruler of Earth."
-- Dogbert (Dilbert)
The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.
-- Robertson Davies ("A Voice from the Attic," 1960)
Only a monomaniac gets what we commonly refer to as results.
-- Albert Einstein
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
-- Albert Einstein
"Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt."
-- Herbert Hoover
Common sense: The collection of prejudices acquired by age 18.
-- Albert Einstein
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
-- Dorothy Parker
The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
-- Albert Einstein
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
-- Albert Einstein
"Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words."
-- Dorothy Parker
Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.
-- Albert Einstein
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
-- Elbert Hubbard
Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind.
-- Albert Einstein
They sicken of the calm that know the storm.
-- Dorothy Parker ('Fair Weather,' Sunset Gun, 1928)
What is inconceivable about the universe is that it is at all conceivable.
-- Albert Einstein
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
-- Albert Einstein
"It's a small apartment, I've barely enough room to lay my hat and a few friends."
-- Dorothy Parker
"All definitions, no matter the language, should be considered probationary."
-- Frank Herbert (Whipping Star)
If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
-- Albert Einstein
This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.
-- Dorothy Parker
You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer `yes' without having asked any clear question.
-- Albert Camus