Monday, July 30, 2007

Interesting Quotes

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
- Edward Gibbon

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.
- Michel de Montaigne

Humility is the embarrassment you feel when you tell people how wonderful you are.
- Laurence J. Peter

It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.
- HL Mencken

We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
- Wernher von Braun