Summer 2001
Volume III, Issue II
 

Quotes

Every day four quotations show up on my computer from qotd@starlingtech.com. I enjoy them and thought I’d share 10 of my favorites with 'Well' readers.

  1. A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled. — Sir Barnett Cocks
  2. Constant attention to health is a great hindrance to life, and taken to excess becomes a form of sickness. — Plato
  3. Never knock on death’s door: ring the bell and run away. Death hates that. — Matt Frewer
  4. I took a speed reading course and read ‘War and Peace’ in 20 minutes. It’s about Russia. — Woody Allen
  5. Life is a good play with a badly written third act. — Truman Capote
  6. Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious. — Brendan Gill
  7. As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of life — so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls. — M. Cartmill
  8. Time is a great healer, but a lousy beautician. — Unknown
  9. Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result is a form of insanity. — Unknown
  10. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know. — Ralph Waldo Emerson