Quotes

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. -Douglas Adams
You live and learn. At any rate, you live. -Douglas Adams
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. -Douglas Adams
I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. -Douglas Adams
It is easy to be brave from a safe distance. -Aesop
Eighty percent of success is showing up. -Woody Allen
It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better... while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more. -Woody Allen
A friend is a second self. -Aristotle
Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them. -Aristotle
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. -Aristotle
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. -Aristotle
Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home. -Sir Francis Bacon
He of whom many are afraid ought to fear many. -Sir Francis Bacon
A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. -Sir Winston Churchill
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. -Sir Winston Churchill
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. -Sir Winston Churchill
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried. -Sir Winston Churchill
Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm. -Sir Winston Churchill
I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. -Sir Winston Churchill
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more. -Sir Winston Churchill
When you're going through Hell, keep going. -Sir Winston Churchill
It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop. -Confucius
Study the past if you would define the future. -Confucius
To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle. -Confucius
He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be called intelligent indeed. -Confucius
Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life. -Benjamin Disraeli
Drive thy business or it will drive thee. -Benjamin Franklin
Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society. -Benjamin Franklin
He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals. -Benjamin Franklin
Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sun-dial in the shade? -Benjamin Franklin
If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect. -Benjamin Franklin
So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do. -Benjamin Franklin
Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. -Mahatma Gandhi
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it. -Mahatma Gandhi
I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers. -Mahatma Gandhi
It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence. -Mahatma Gandhi
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it. -Mahatma Gandhi
Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When ideas fail, words come in very handy. -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Remember when life's path is steep to keep your mind even. -Horace
Favete Linguis (With silence favor me) -Horace
It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure. -Horace
Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero. (Seize the day, put no trust in the morrow!) -Horace
People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant. -Helen Keller
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world. -Helen Keller
The highest result of education is tolerance. -Helen Keller
I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to live. -Martin Luther King Jr.
The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. -Martin Luther King Jr.
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be. -Abraham Lincoln
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. -Abraham Lincoln
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves. -Abraham Lincoln
Whatever you are, be a good one. -Abraham Lincoln
When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion. -Abraham Lincoln
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others. -Groucho Marx
There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. -W. Somerset Maugham
He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it. -W. Somerset Maugham
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. -H. L. Mencken
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup. -H. L. Mencken
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it. -H. L. Mencken
For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe... Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end. -H. L. Mencken
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place. -H. L. Mencken
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public. -H. L. Mencken
Philosophy consists very largely of one philosopher arguing that all others are jackasses. He usually proves it, and I should add that he also usually proves that he is one himself. -H. L. Mencken
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -Nietzsche
It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them! -Nietzsche
What else is love but understanding and rejoicing in the fact that another person lives, acts, and experiences otherwise than we do…? -Nietzsche
They sicken of the calm that know the storm. -Dorothy Parker
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. -Dorothy Parker
Against logic there is no armor like ignorance. -Laurence J. Peter
Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices. -Laurence J. Peter
In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular. -Laurence J. Peter
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else. -Laurence J. Peter
Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it. -Laurence J. Peter
You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation. -Plato
You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting yourself up as a judge of the highest matters. -Plato
It is a great ability to be able to conceal one's ability. -Francois de La Rochefoucauld
To establish oneself in the world, one has to do all one can to appear established. -Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones. -Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. -Wil Rogers
Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth. -Wil Rogers
My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I requested fake. Maybe I'm paranoid, but in this day and age, I don't want something around my neck that's worth more than my head. -Rita Rudner
Judge of a man by his questions rather than by his answers. -Voltaire
Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy. -Voltaire
I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend to the death your right to say it. -Voltaire
on his deathbed, in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan: "Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies."
Practice and thought might gradually forge many an art. -Virgil
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. -Mark Twain
Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain. -Mark Twain
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. -Mark Twain
Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live. -Mark Twain
In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination. -Mark Twain
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare. -Mark Twain
The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up. -Mark Twain
The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. -Mark Twain
He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain. -Mark Twain
A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs. -Mark Twain
Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to. -Mark Twain
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. -Mark Twain
It is up to individuals to have the desire to learn what is not taught in the school system. I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. -Mark Twain
In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards. -Mark Twain
Moderation in all things. -Terence
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance. -Socrates
Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live. -Socrates
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. -George Bernard Shaw
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. -George Bernard Shaw
When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth. -George Bernard Shaw
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them. -Issac Asimov
Show me a man who doesn't understand people, and I will show you a man who doesn't understand himself. -Issac Asimov
Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in. -Issac Asimov
On his deathbed, when asked by an attendant if he had any last words: Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven't said enough. -Karl Marx
If you keep your mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish into it. -Willam Orton
When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults. -Brian Aldiss
If I could ever remember a time when the Internet was full of common sense, I'd express my desire to return to those days. -Lowtax
If it isn't broken, take it apart and find out why. -Rick Karhu
I just got out of the hospital after a speed reading accident. I hit a bookmark. -Steven Wright
Neurotics build castles in the sky, Psychotics live in them, And psychiatrists collect the rent.
Never make anything simple and efficient when a way can be found to make it complex and wonderful.
Here's to those who wish us well, and those who don't can go to hell.
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it.
Courage and stupidity are an explosive combination.
All's well that ends.
Sometimes you just want life to throw you a bone. Unfortunately, life aims for the head.
Life is like a final exam you forgot to study for.
Being original means standing in shorter lines.

A short saying oft contains much wisdom. -Sophocles