Hippocrates Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Water boarding: Is that like snowboarding?! 12.
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...next time you rake up those leaves realize you're about to jump into a pile of tree shit. 19.
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Those who think the information brought out at a criminal trial is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth are fools. Prosecuting or defending a case is nothing more than getting to those people who will talk for your side, who will say what you want said.
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It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.
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Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.
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The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
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All generalizations are false, including this one.
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Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled.
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We have the best government that money can buy.
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No sinner is ever saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon.
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When red-haired people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn.
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Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
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Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.
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All emotion is involuntary when genuine.
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When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.
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There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress.
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It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.
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Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it.
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To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil.
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Now it is done. Now the story ends. And there is no way to tell it. The art of fiction is dead. Reality has strangled invention.
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In survey after survey, people report that the greatest dangers they face are, in this order: terrorist attack, plane crashes and nuclear accidents. This despite the fact that these three combined have killed fewer people in the past half-century than car accidents do in any given year.
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I watched Arsenal in the Champions League the other week playing some of the best football I've ever seen and yet they couldn't have scored in a brothel with two grand in their pockets!
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The art is long, life is short.
