名人名言 - 13-02-2016_120001

No. 0. Quote:
Alas, how love can trifle with itself!
-- William Shakespeare, "The Two Gentlemen of Verona"

No. 1. Quote:
"You have heard me speak of Professor Moriarty?"
"The famous scientific criminal, as famous among crooks as --"
"My blushes, Watson," Holmes murmured, in a deprecating voice.
"I was about to say 'as he is unknown to the public.'"
-- A. Conan Doyle, "The Valley of Fear"

No. 2. Quote:
Many a writer seems to think he is never profound except when he can't
understand his own meaning.
-- George D. Prentice

No. 3. Quote:
Everything will be just tickety-boo today.

No. 4. Quote:
A tall, dark stranger will have more fun than you.

No. 5. Quote:
Give him an evasive answer.

No. 6. Quote:
A is for Apple.
-- Hester Pryne

No. 7. Quote:
Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not
original and the part that is original is not good.
-- Samuel Johnson

No. 8. Quote:
For there are moments when one can neither think nor feel. And if one can
neither think nor feel, she thought, where is one?
-- Virginia Woolf, "To the Lighthouse"

[Quoted in "VMS Internals and Data Structures", V4.4, when
referring to powerfail recovery.]

No. 9. Quote:
You have had a long-term stimulation relative to business.

No. 10. Quote:
Life is to you a dashing and bold adventure.

No. 11. Quote:
While you recently had your problems on the run, they've regrouped and
are making another attack.

No. 12. Quote:
FORTUNE PROVIDES QUESTIONS FOR THE GREAT ANSWERS: #4
A: Go west, young man, go west!
Q: What do wabbits do when they get tiwed of wunning awound?

No. 13. Quote:
The Least Perceptive Literary Critic
The most important critic in our field of study is Lord Halifax. A
most individual judge of poetry, he once invited Alexander Pope round to
give a public reading of his latest poem.
Pope, the leading poet of his day, was greatly surprised when Lord
Halifax stopped him four or five times and said, "I beg your pardon, Mr.
Pope, but there is something in that passage that does not quite please me."
Pope was rendered speechless, as this fine critic suggested sizeable
and unwise emendations to his latest masterpiece. "Be so good as to mark
the place and consider at your leisure. I'm sure you can give it a better
turn."
After the reading, a good friend of Lord Halifax, a certain Dr.
Garth, took the stunned Pope to one side. "There is no need to touch the
lines," he said. "All you need do is leave them just as they are, call on
Lord Halifax two or three months hence, thank him for his kind observation
on those passages, and then read them to him as altered. I have known him
much longer than you have, and will be answerable for the event."
Pope took his advice, called on Lord Halifax and read the poem
exactly as it was before. His unique critical faculties had lost none of
their edge. "Ay", he commented, "now they are perfectly right. Nothing can
be better."
-- Stephen Pile, "The Book of Heroic Failures"

No. 14. Quote:
You can create your own opportunities this week. Blackmail a senior executive.

No. 15. Quote:
Don't relax! It's only your tension that's holding you together.

No. 16. Quote:
You will hear good news from one you thought unfriendly to you.

No. 17. Quote:
This was the most unkindest cut of all.
-- William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar"

No. 18. Quote:
Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed
down-stairs a step at a time.
-- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar

No. 19. Quote:
FORTUNE PROVIDES QUESTIONS FOR THE GREAT ANSWERS: #19
A: To be or not to be.
Q: What is the square root of 4b^2?

No. 20. Quote:
Don't worry. Life's too long.
-- Vincent Sardi, Jr.

No. 21. Quote:
Tuesday is the Wednesday of the rest of your life.

No. 22. Quote:
You may be infinitely smaller than some things, but you're infinitely
larger than others.

No. 23. Quote:
You display the wonderful traits of charm and courtesy.

No. 24. Quote:
For years a secret shame destroyed my peace--
I'd not read Eliot, Auden or MacNiece.
But now I think a thought that brings me hope:
Neither had Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Pope.
-- Justin Richardson.