| "There are two great rules in life, the one general and the other particular. The first is that every one can in the end get what he wants if he only tries. This is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is more or less of an exception to the general rule." »Samuel Butler |
| "I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions -- adding that no general proposition is worth a damn." »Oliver Wendell Holmes |
| "If the many allegations made to this date are true, then the burglars who broke into the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate were, in effect, breaking into the home of every citizen." »Sam James Ervin, Jr. |
| "The preamble to the Constitution states We, the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquillity, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare... It doesn't say guarantee the general welfare. And it certainly doesn't say give welfare benefits to all the people in the country who aren't doing so well even if the reason they aren't doing so well is because they're sitting on their butts in front of the TV." »P. J. O'Rourke |
| "I do not mean to suggest that our handsome, newly enlarged library is to be a headquarters of busy bookworms, old and young, routinely absorbing knowledge by the hour while birds sing outside and the Mets fight it out for last place in the National League. On the contrary, a good library is a joyful place where the imagination roams free, and life is actively enriched." »John K. Hutchens |
| "In general we are least aware of what our minds do best." »Marvin Minsky |
| "All general statements are false." »Unknown |
| "general Failure's Fault. Not Yours." »Anonymous |
| "Men, in general, are but great children." »Napoleon Bonaparte |
| "You can never underestimate the stupidity of the general public." »Scott Adams |
| "The grave is the general meeting place." »Thomas Fuller |
| "Crime, like disease, is not interesting it is something to be done away with by general consent, and that is all about it." »Anonymous |
| "In general, in poetry and literature, I am among those people who believe that too much is indispensable." »Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko |
| "What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure." »Samuel Johnson |
| "Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had." »Aristotle |
| "general principles should not be based on exceptional cases." »Robert J. Sawyer |
| "The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular." »Edward Gibbon |
| "Who's general Failure and why's he reading my disk" »Anonymous |
| "Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people." »John Adams |
| "For peace of mind, we need to resign as general manager of the universe." »Larry Eisenberg |
| "In a general way, we try to anticipate some of your questions so that I can respond no comment with some degree of knowledge." »William Baker |
| "When I was a child, my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk you'll end up as the pope. 'Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso." »Pablo Picasso |
| "Who are you going to shoot joking with Attorney general Richard Kleindienst about creating an opening on the Supreme court" »Richard Milhous Nixon |
| "The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other." »Francis Bacon |
| "The theoretical broadening which comes from having many humanities subjects on the campus is offset by the general dopiness of the people who study these things..." »Richard Phillips Feynman |
| "Find out what whiskey he drinks and send all of my generals a case, if it will get the same results. - in reply to comments about general Grant's drinking problems" »Abraham Lincoln |
| "He is neither a strategist nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general. Other than that he's a great military man. (describing Saddam Hussein of Iraq, 1991)" »Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf |
| "I had an immense advantage over many others dealing with the problem inasmuch as I had no fixed ideas derived from long-established practice to control and bias my mind, and did not suffer from the general belief that whatever is, is right." »Henry Bessemer |
| "general Grant had a simple, childlike recipe for meeting life ... I am terribly afraid, but the other fellow is afraid, too." »Sherwood Anderson |
| "I believe in general in a dualism between facts and the ideas of those facts in human heads." »George Santayana |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
