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Quote-o-Matic

Here's a collection of quotes that popped up randomly in the previous site design.

In America, first you get the sugar, then you get the power, then you get the women.
-- Homer J. Simpson

Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.
-- Mark Twain

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
-- Albert Einstein

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions
of social contacts.
-- Clare Booth Luce

We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those
we don't like?
-- Jean Cocteau

We all are born mad. Some remain so.
-- Samuel Beckett

Envy is the basis of democracy.
-- Bertrand Russell

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
-- Oscar Wilde

I have made good judgements in the Past. I have made good judgements in the Future.
-- Dan Quayle

He's just a little shy because I've tried to kill him so many times.
-- Sideshow Bob

He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.
-- William Shakespeare

Conservative: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from
the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others.
-- Ambrose Bierce

I'm thirty years old, but I read at the thirty-four-year-old level.
-- Dana Carvey

There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes.
-- Doctor Who

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This
is the principle difference between a dog and a man.
-- Mark Twain

Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
-- Lily Tomlin

I see dumb people... walking around like regular people. They don't see each other.
They only see what they wanna see. They don't know they're dumb.
-- Anonymous

Outside every fat man there is an even fatter man trying to close in.
-- Kingsley Amis

It seems that I have spent my entire time trying to make life more rational and that
it was all wasted effort.
-- A. J. Ayer

The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
-- Robert Benchley

Hey, who has better vacation ideas than AAA? According to the publisher of this AAA
guidebook, no one!
-- Milhouse Van Houten

I do most of my work sitting down; that's where I shine.
-- Robert Benchley

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to
a political career.
-- George Bernard Shaw

We could have saved sixpence. We have saved fivepence... But at what cost?
-- Samuel Beckett

I ran the paper purely for propaganda, and with no other purpose.
-- Lord Beaverbrook

Egotist: A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.
-- Ambrose Bierce

What is robbing a bank compared with founding a bank?
-- Bertolt Brecht

She believed in nothing; only her scepticism kept her from being an atheist.
-- Jean-Paul Sartre

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It is that they can't see the problem.
-- G. K. Chesterton

Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have
mediocrity thrust upon them.
-- Joseph Heller

You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
-- Ronald Reagan

In the factory we make cosmetics; in the store we sell hope.
-- Charles Revson

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and
at present very few people have reached this level.
-- Bertrand Russell

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.
-- Hector Hugh Munro

The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
-- Jean-Paul Sartre

I'm only a beer teetotaller, not a champagne teetotaller.
-- George Bernard Shaw

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.
-- Mae West

Hello, I'm Julian and this is my friend, Sandy.
-- Barry Took and Marty Feldman

Wherever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
-- Harry S. Truman

Put all your eggs in the one basket, and -- WATCH THAT BASKET.
-- Mark Twain

The answers to life's problems aren't at the bottom of a bottle. They're on TV!
-- Homer J. Simpson

A critic is a man who knows the way but can't drive the car.
-- Kenneth Tynan

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
-- Gore Vidal

Punctuality is the virtue of the bored.
-- Evelyn Waugh

I used to be Snow White... but I drifted.
-- Mae West

Journalism -- an abiliity to meet the challenge of filling the space.
-- Dame Rebecca West

You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.
-- Norman Douglas

My specialty is being right when other people are wrong.
-- George Bernard Shaw

A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
-- Oscar Wilde

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good
grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.
-- Bertrand Russell

When I die, I want to die like my grandmother who died peacefully in her sleep.
Not screaming like all the passengers in her car.
-- Anonymous