bill gates quotes on work

The... patient should be made to understand that he or she must take charge of his own life. Don't take your body to the doctor as if he were a repair shop. ~Quentin Regestein



We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the same sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart. ~H.L. Mencken



And when will there be an end of marrying? I suppose, when there is an end of living! ~Tertullian



For instance, the bicycle is the most efficient machine ever created: Converting calories into gas, a bicycle gets the equivalent of three thousand miles per gallon. ~Bill Strickland, The Quotable Cyclist



A light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning have often made a hero of the same man who by indigestion, a restless night, and a rainy morning, would have proved a coward. ~Earl of Chesterfield



There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them. ~Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar



Sex relieves tension - love causes it. ~Woody Allen



People haven't time to learn anything. They buy things ready-made in stores. But since there are no stores where you can buy friends, people no longer have friends. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince, 1943, translated from French by Richard Howard



We are all manufacturers - some make good, others make trouble, and still others make excuses. ~Author Unknown



We understand nature by resisting it. ~Gaston Bachelard, La Formation de l'esprit scientifique, 1938



The movie The Graduate was talking about that moment in time when you have this world of possibilities, all these expectations, and you don't know who it is you're supposed to be. And you choose this one path, Mrs. Robinson, and it turns out to be bleak, but it's part of your initiation, your trial by fire. And then, by choosing the wrong path, you find your way onto the right path, but you've created this mess. Fight Club is the Nineties inverse of that: a guy who does not have a world of possibilities in front of him, he has no possibilities, he literally cannot imagine a way to change his life. ~David Fincher, director of Fight Club, interview with Gavin Smith, "Inside Out," Film Comment, Sep/Oct 1999



My husband is a human pincushion. ~Author Unknown



Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it - even if I have said it - unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense. ~Buddha



Sisters are blossoms in the garden of life. ~Author Unknown



Wives of ballplayers, when they teach their children their prayers, should instruct them how to say: "God bless Mommy, God bless Daddy, God bless Babe Ruth. Babe Ruth has upped Daddy's paycheck by fifteen to forty percent." ~Waite Hoyt



Describing the Internet as the Network of Networks is like calling the Space Shuttle a thing that flies. ~John Lester



Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self? ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



You are fastened to them and cannot understand how, because they are not fastened to you. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



Those who can, do. Those who can do more, volunteer. ~Author Unknown



What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us! ~James Russell Lowell