Telephone quotes and words of wisdom |  | "If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could
make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you
waiting?" | |  | Stephen Levine
| | | "It is nothing less than fantastic the way mathematical odds add up.
For instance take the possibility of making a mistake in making a
telephone call. Most local exchanges require seven digits, which is
accomplished in four or five seconds. The phone has ten digits on it. The
mathematical formula of possibilities is ten to the seventh power, which
is 10,000,000, or it is 9,999,999 to 1 that you would enter a wrong number
if you didn"t know what you were doing. Add the four digits to get a long
distance number and it becomes 100,000,000,000. Mortality, which
fortunately lasts for most of us many times that four or five seconds that
it takes to place a telephone call, is also full of chances to make
mistakes. Fortunately, too, the path through mortality is well marked, and
we can, with exercising care, get to where we all desire to be at the end
of mortality." | | | Unknown
| | | "On the telephone: That"s an amazing invention, but who would ever
want to use one of them?" | | | Rutherford B. Hayes
| | | "Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the
advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance." | | | Ambrose Bierce
| | | "TELESCOPE, n. A device having a relation to the eye similar to that
of the telephone to the ear, enabling distant objects to plague us with a
multitude of needless details. Luckily it is unprovided with a bell
summoning us to the sacrifice." | | | Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
| | | "The cell phone has transformed public places into giant
phone-a-thons in which callers exist within narcissistic cocoons of
private conversations. Like faxes, computer modems and other modern
gadgets that have clogged out lives with phony urgency, cell phones
represent the 20th Century"s escalation of imaginary need. We didn"t need
cell phones until we had them. Clearly, cell phones cause not only a
breakdown of courtesy, but the atrophy of basic skills." | | | Mary Schmich
| | | "The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to
offer them a drink." | | | Fran Lebowitz
| | | "Well if this is the wrong number, why did you answer it?" | | | James Thurber
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Interesting Quotes
My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.Henry Ford - US automobile industrialist (1863 - 1947)
The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.Carl Jung - Swiss psychologist (1875 - 1961)
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