A collection of cool qoutes, no trademark infringement intended :-)
Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.
- Milton Friedman
In the long run we are all dead
- John Maynard Keynes
Hell is where the police are German, the chefs British, the mechanics French, the lovers Swiss and it is all organised by the Italians!
Women are like elephants to me: nice to look at, but I wouldn't want to own one.
- W.C. Fields
If at first you don't succeed, try again. Then quit. There's no use being a damn fool about it.
- W.C. Fields
"That's great, tell him he's Pele, and get him back on".
John Lambie, Partick Thistle Manager, when told his concussed striker did not know who he was.
An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.
- Nicholas Chamfort
An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible.
- Alfred A. Knopf
I want a one-armed economist so that the guy could never make a statement and then say 'on the other hand…'"
- Harry Truman
"On the one hand, we'll never experience childbirth. On the other hand, we can open all our own jars."
-Bruce Willis on the difference between men and women
Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.
- Milton Friedman
US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld:
"Reports that say something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns - the ones we don't know we don't know.
"What we do in in life... echo's in eternity."
Maximus Decimus Meridius
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
- Rich Cook
To err is human - and to blame it on a computer is even more so.
- Robert Orben
Another victory like that and we are done for.
- Pyrrhus
The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.
- Mark Russell
Sociology is the study of people who do not need to be studied by people who do.
- ES Turner
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein
Michael Jackson was a poor black boy who grew up to be a rich white woman.
- Molly Ivins
Frasier: "her lips said no, but her eyes said 'read my lips'"
"Never interupt your enemy while he is making a mistake"
Napoleon Bonaparte
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. - Isaac Asimov
Paranoia is just good sense if people are actually out to get you
World War II: Told by both Germans and British soldiers..
" When we bomb, they hide. When they bomb, we hide. When the Americans bomb , everyone hides..."
"You can prove anything with statistics, even the truth"
- Winston Churchill
Freedom isn't free
" True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing"
"And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all. " – Socrates
"We have a saying in germany. It's better to have loved and lost, than to engage in land warfare with Russia in the middle of winter"
- Heidi Klum to Michael Flaherty (Spin City)
Churchill is at an upper upper class party and is, as usual, a little sloshed.
He then has an argument with an old stuffy upperclass woman.
-Shame, mr Churchill... You're drunk!
-Yes, and you my Lady is ugly...but tomorrow I will be sober
"A war is not lost until you consider it lost"
-Field Marshall Erich von Manstein
"Freedom has many difficulties and democracy is not perfect, but we never had to put up a wall to keep our people in."
- John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life."
- Winston Churchill
Murphy's rules of war
- No battle plan has ever survived contact with the enemy.
- Friendly fire...isn't.
- If it's stupid but works, it isn't stupid.
- You needn't concern yourself about the one with your name on it, it's the one inscribed "to whom it may concern" that you should be worried about.
- If your offensive is going well, it's a trap.
- Never share a foxhole with anyone braver than you.
- Remember, your weapon was made by the lowest bidder.
- The only thing more accurate than incoming enemy fire is incoming friendly fire
"How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin."
- Ronald Reagan