Curious Quotations
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- "The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us."
- Bill Watterson (Cartoonist, Calvin and Hobbs)
- "God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we can't prove it."
- Andrι Weil (French Mathematician. 19061998)
- "The more the universe appears comprehensible, the more it also appears pointless."
- Steven Weinberg (US Physicist. 1953 )
- "Einstein explained his theory to me every day, and on my arrival I was fully convinced that he understood it."
- Chaim Weizmann (First President of Israel. 18741952), speaking after a sea voyage with Einstein in 1921.
- Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.
- Mae West (US actor and playwright. 18931980)
- "Harold Wilson is going around the country stirring up apathy."
- William Whitelaw (UK Politician. 19181999)
- There are victories of the soul and spirit. Sometimes, even if you lose, you win.
- Elie Wiesel (Romanian-born US writer, Nobel Laureate and Auschwitz survivor. 1928 )
- "The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it."
- Oscar Wilde (Fingal O'Flahertie Wills; Irish writer. 18541900)
- "Charity creates a multitude of sins"
- Oscar Wilde
- "Work is the curse of the drinking classes."
- Oscar Wilde
- "I can believe anything provided it is incredible"
- Oscar Wilde
- "It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned"
- Oscar Wilde
- "I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement."
- Oscar Wilde
- "I can resist everything except temptation"
- Oscar Wilde
- "I love acting. It is so much more real than life."
- Oscar Wilde
- "Those whom the Gods love grow young"
- Oscar Wilde
- "He hadn't a single redeeming vice"
- Oscar Wilde
- "Scepticism is the beginning of faith"
- Oscar Wilde
- "Thereis only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that's not being not talked about."
- Oscar Wilde
- "A true friend stabs you in the front."
- Oscar Wilde
- "Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern. One is apt to grow old-fashioned quite suddenly."
- Oscar Wilde, An ideal husband.
- "Peccavi." (Meaning, "I have sinned.")
- Catherine Winkleworth Published in Punch magazine on 18 may 1844, this was alleged to be the single word despatched
to the HQ of the British East India company by Sir Charles Napier, announcing the success of his mission to annex the kingdom of Sind in 1843. The joke is attributed
to Catherine Winkleworth in the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations.
- "If God looked into our minds he would not have been able to see there whom we were speaking of."
- Ludwig Wittgenstein (Austrian born philosopher. 18891951)
- If you ask me to give a long speech, I can prepare it on the spot.
If you ask me for a short speech, I have to prepare it in a longer time.
- Woodrow Wilson (28th US President. 18561924)
- "OK, so what's the speed of dark ?"
- Stephen Wright (US comedian. 1955 )
- "Light travels faster than sound - isn't that why
some people appear bright until you hear them speak? "
- Stephen Wright
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