Selected Quotes
“You know
you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better
than your dreams.” - Dr. Seuss
"His
ignorance is encyclopedic" - Abba Eban (1915-2002)
"You
can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding
reality."
- Ayn Rand (1905-1982)
"Not
everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be
counted." - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"A lie
gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants
on."
- Sir Winston Churchill
(1874-1965)
"I do
not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense,
reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." - Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
"In
theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice,
there is." - Yogi Berra
"I find
that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."
- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
"In the
End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our
friends." - Martin Luther King Jr.
(1929-1968)
"Whether
you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right."
- Henry Ford (1863-1947)
"Do, or
do not. There is no 'try'." - Yoda ('The Empire Strikes
Back')
"There
are no facts, only interpretations." - Friedrich Nietzsche
(1844-1900)
"Dancing
is silent poetry." - Simonides (556-468bc)
"Whenever
I climb, I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'." - Friedrich Nietzsche
(1844-1900)
"Everybody
pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn." - Arnold Schwarzenegger
(1947-)
"Never
interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
- Napoleon Bonaparte
(1769-1821)
I have
nothing to declare except my genius."
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) upon
arriving at U.S. customs 1882
"Talent
does what it can; genius does what it must."
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
(1803-1873)
"If you
are going through hell, keep going." - Sir Winston Churchill
(1874-1965)
"He who
has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'."
- Friedrich Nietzsche
(1844-1900)
"I'm
all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's
start with typewriters." - Frank Lloyd Wright
(1868-1959)
"Some
cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"God is
a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh." - Voltaire (1694-1778)
"He is
one of those people who would be enormously improved by death."
- H. H. Munro (Saki)
(1870-1916)
"I am
ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of
meeting me is another matter." - Sir Winston Churchill
(1874-1965)
"When
you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the
attention of the world." - George Washington Carver
(1864-1943)
"I have
not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
- Thomas Alva Edison
(1847-1931)
"Maybe
this world is another planet's Hell." - Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)
"Blessed
is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of
the fact." - George Eliot (1819-1880)
"I've
had a wonderful time, but this wasn't it." - Groucho Marx (1895-1977)
"A
friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on
friendship."
- John D. Rockefeller
(1874-1960)
"An
inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an
inconvenience rightly considered." - Gilbert Keith Chesterton
(1874-1936)
"Be
nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down."
- Jimmy Durante
"The
true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no
good." - Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
"A
people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
(1890-1969), Inaugural Address, January 20, 1953
"The
significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we
were at when we created them." - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"All
truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is
violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." - Arthur Schopenhauer
(1788-1860)
"Perfection
is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing
left to take away." - Antoine de Saint Exupery
"Life
is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."
- Isaac Asimov
"If you
want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the
universe."
- Carl Sagan (1934-1996)
"To
love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance" - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"Knowledge
speaks, but wisdom listens." - Jimi Hendrix
"The
nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's
their fault." - Henry Kissinger (1923-)
"If
everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough." - Mario Andretti
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them. - Mark Twain
Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.
- Peter F. Drucker
