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De - Pt| Proverbs, aphorisms, quotations (English) | by Linux fortune |
| If built in great numbers, motels will be used for nothing but illegal purposes. -- J. Edgar Hoover | |
| Romance, like alcohol, should be enjoyed, but should not be allowed to become necessary. -- Edgar Friedenberg | |
| Ask five economists and you'll get five different explanations (six if one went to Harvard). -- Edgar R. Fiedler | |
| Economists state their GNP growth projections to the nearest tenth of a percentage point to prove they have a sense of humor. -- Edgar R. Fiedler | |
| If a camel is a horse designed by a committee, then a consensus forecast is a camel's behind. -- Edgar R. Fiedler | |
| When you know absolutely nothing about the topic, make your forecast by asking a carefully selected probability sample of 300 others who don't know the answer either. -- Edgar R. Fiedler | |
| Science! true daughter of Old Time thou art! Who alterest all things with thy peering eyes. Why preyest thou thus upon the poet's heart, Vulture, whose wings are dull realities? How should he love thee? or how deem thee wise? Who wouldst not leave him in his wandering To seek for treasure in the jewelled skies, Albeit he soared with an undaunted wing? Hast thou not dragged Diana from her car? And driven the Hamadryad from the wood To seek a shelter in some happier star? Hast thou not torn the Naiad from her flood, The Elfin from the green grass, and from me The summer dream beneath the tamarind tree? -- Edgar Allen Poe, "Science, a Sonnet" | |
| While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. -- Edgar Allan Poe, "The Raven" [Quoted in "VMS Internals and Data Structures", V4.4, when referring to hardware interrupts.] And now I see with eye serene The very pulse of the machine. -- William Wordsworth, "She Was a Phantom of Delight" [Quoted in "VMS Internals and Data Structures", V4.4, when referring to software interrupts.] | |
| A cynic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern. -- Edgar A. Shoaff | |
| I have great faith in fools -- self confidence my friends call it. -- Edgar Allan Poe | |
| Immortality -- a fate worse than death. -- Edgar A. Shoaff | |
| Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better. -- Edgar W. Howe | |
