名人名言 - 17-01-2016_120001

No. 0. Quote:
Are you making all this up as you go along?

No. 1. Quote:
The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
-- Mark Twain

No. 2. Quote:
There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by
ridicule, howsoever poor and witless. Observe the ass, for instance: his
character is about perfect, he is the choicest spirit among all the humbler
animals, yet see what ridicule has brought him to. Instead of feeling
complimented when we are called an ass, we are left in doubt.
-- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"

No. 3. Quote:
You work very hard. Don't try to think as well.

No. 4. Quote:
There will be big changes for you but you will be happy.

No. 5. Quote:
Q: How many IBM 370's does it take to execute a job?
A: Four, three to hold it down, and one to rip its head off.

No. 6. Quote:
This night methinks is but the daylight sick.
-- William Shakespeare, "The Merchant of Venice"

No. 7. Quote:
Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is
nothing but cabbage with a college education.
-- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"

No. 8. Quote:
Your temporary financial embarrassment will be relieved in a surprising manner.

No. 9. Quote:
Celebrate Hannibal Day this year. Take an elephant to lunch.

No. 10. Quote:
No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of
absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream.
Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness
within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more.
Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and
doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone
of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.
-- Shirley Jackson, "The Haunting of Hill House"

No. 11. Quote:
You will obey or molten silver will be poured into your ears.

No. 12. Quote:
Your analyst has you mixed up with another patient. Don't believe a
thing he tells you.

No. 13. Quote:
Sometimes I wonder if I'm in my right mind. Then it passes off and I'm
as intelligent as ever.
-- Samuel Beckett, "Endgame"

No. 14. Quote:
Q: Why is Poland just like the United States?
A: In the United States you can't buy anything for zlotys and in
Poland you can't either, while in the U.S. you can get whatever
you want for dollars, just as you can in Poland.
-- being told in Poland, 1987

No. 15. Quote:
A kind of Batman of contemporary letters.
-- Philip Larkin on Anthony Burgess

No. 16. Quote:
Q: What's the difference between a duck and an elephant?
A: You can't get down off an elephant.

No. 17. Quote:
You mentioned your name as if I should recognize it, but beyond the
obvious facts that you are a bachelor, a solicitor, a freemason, and
an asthmatic, I know nothing whatever about you.
-- Sherlock Holmes, "The Norwood Builder"

No. 18. Quote:
You will be reincarnated as a toad; and you will be much happier.

No. 19. Quote:
You're currently going through a difficult transition period called "Life."

No. 20. Quote:
I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a
week sometimes to make it up.
-- Mark Twain, "The Innocents Abroad"

No. 21. Quote:
Truth is the most valuable thing we have -- so let us economize it.
-- Mark Twain

No. 22. Quote:
Questionable day.

Ask somebody something.

No. 23. Quote:
Don't relax! It's only your tension that's holding you together.

No. 24. Quote:
You're currently going through a difficult transition period called "Life."