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Quotes of the Day for 3 March 2005 - Telephones

Alexander Graham Bell was born at Edinburgh, Scotland on this day in 1847, his American Telephone and Telegraph was incorporated on this day in 1885, and I'm behind on my phone bill. Today's theme is Telephones.

We listen too much to the telephone and too little to nature. The wind is one of my sounds. A lonely sound, perhaps, but soothing.
     - André Kostelanetz, 1901 - 1980

Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - and paradise is when you have none.
     - Doug Larson

Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
     - Fran Lebowitz

People who are funny and smart and return phone calls get much better press than people who are just funny and smart.
     - Howard Simons

The telephone is the greatest nuisance among conveniences, the greatest convenience among nuisances.
     - Robert Staughton Lynd, 1892 - 1970

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

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