QUOTES
QUOTES
"Life is uncertain. Eat dessert first." - Ernestine Ulmer
"I have great faith in fools. My friends call it self-confidence." - Edgar Allen Poe
The metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet." - Dave Berry
"We are better off not knowing how sausages and laws are made." - Otto Von Bismarck
"My philosophy is simple. If you see a snake, you kill it. You don't form a committee to talk about it." - Ross Perot
"When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were." - John F. Kennedy
"A leader cannot get too far in front of his troops, or he'll get shot in the arse." - Senator John Clarke
"I believe that this country's policies should be heavily biased in favor of nondiscrimination." - Bill Clinton
"Half of the American people never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half." - Gore Vidal
"Every generation of American needs to know that freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to what we like." - Pope John Paul II
"My child will be a good Catholic like me." - Madonna
"Being American is not a matter of birth. We must practice it every day, lest we become something else." - Malcolm Wallop
"Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime." - Adlai Stevenson
"I consider the world as made for me, not me for the world. It is my maxim therefore to enjoy it while I can, and let futurity shift for itself." - Tobias George Smollett
"I have an inferiority complex, it's just not a very good one." - Anonymous
"God must love the rich or he wouldn't divide so much among so few of them." - H. L. Mencken
"To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in teh mind to suffer hte slings and arrows of outrageous fortue; or to take arms against a sea of troubles, and by opposing end of them?" - William Shakespeare
"For years, Hillary Rodham Clinton has told people she was named for the first man to climb Mount Everest, Sir Edmund Hillary. But as Esquire magazine recently pointed out, Sir Edmund did not climb Mount Everest until 1953, 6 years after Hillary Clinton was born. However, the First Lady does have a good explaination for the discrepancy: She loves to lie." - Norm MacDonald
"The US brags about its political system, but the president says one thing during the election, something else when he takes office, something else during mid-term, and something else when he leaves." - Deng Xiaoping
"When a politician changes his position it's sometimes hard to tell whether he has seen the light or felt the heat." - Robert Fuoss
"German is the most extravagantly ugly language - it sounds like someone using a sick bag on a 747." - Willy Rushton
"Tell me what company thou keepest, and I'll tell thee what thou art." - Cervantes
"Man for the field and woman for the hearth:
Man for the sweod and for the needle she:
Man with the head and woman with the heart:
Man to command and woman to obey:
All else confusion." - Alfred Tennyson
"We all decry prejudice, yet we are all prejudiced." - Herbert Spencer
"Poverty is no disgrace to a man, but confoundedly inconvenient." - Sydney Smith
"The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February." - Joseph Wood Krutch
"I am a Millionaire. That is my religion." - Major Barbara
"Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability." - Burgoyne
"I believe that we are again engaged in a great civil war, a cultural way that's about to hijack your birthright to think and say what resides in your heart. I fear you no longer trust the pulsing lifeblood of liberty inside you... the stuff that made this country rise from wilderness into the miracle that it is." - Charlton Heston
"Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious; It is the source of all true art and science" - Albert Einstein
"On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good and not quite all the time." - George Orwell "To be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in 1917, implies a degree of self-absorption that would have glazed over the eyes of Narcissus." - Stoppard
"Live as if you will die tomorrow, but learn as if you will live forever" - Mahatma Gandhi
"A room without books is like a body without a soul." - Cicero
"I am nothing! I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or parcel of God." - Emerson
"The only factor becoming scarce in a world of abundance is human attention." - Kevin Kelly
"March is the month God created to show people who don't drink what a hangover is like." - Garrison Keillor
"People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for what they've done." - Cullen Hightower
"It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare." - Mark Twain
"Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it." - Rebecca Johnson
"If you can't excel with talent, triumph with effort." - Dave Weinbaum
"We come to love not by finding a perfect person but by learning to see imperfect person perfectly." - Sam Kenn
"There's nothing so dangerous for maipulators as people who think for themselves." - Meg Greenfield
"Souvenirs are perishable; fortunately, memories are not. - Susan Spano
"Morality is truth in full bloom." - Victor Hugo
"Music is the soundtrack of your life." - Dick Clark
"You have to be first, best or different." - Loretta Lynn
"Today is always here. Tomorrow, never." - Toni Morrison
"Each person's destiny is personal only insofar as it may happen to resemble what is already in his or her memory" - Eduardo Mallea
"There doth be no greater fury..than a Raven scorned..."- Unknown
"Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string." - Emerson
"I am particle of God." - Emerson
"A torch lighted in the forests of America set all Europe in conflagration." - Voltaire, 1756.
"Whoso be a man must be a nonconformist" - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The less government we have, the better---the fewer laws, and the less confided power." - Emerson
"To be great is to be misunderstood" - Emerson
"Every hero becomes a bore at last" - Emerson
"Shallow men believe in luck" - Emerson
"When you strike a king, you must kill him" - Emerson
"Every creature is better alive than dead, Men and Moose and Pine Trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destory it." -Henry Thoreau
"Sometimes life is a mystery, an intertwining place where only those that see the light can pass through." -?
"To know that even one life has beneathed easier because you have lived, that is to have succeeded."-Emerson
"God is in our hearts so lets keep him alive."-?
"An eye for an eye leaves everyone blind" -Martin L. King Jr.
"Never try to be a great man, just be a man. Let history make it's own judgements." - Zeferem Cochrane
"All Women are Beautiful" - Gianni Versace
"I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well. Unfortunately, I am confined to this theme by the narrowness of my experience." - H.D. Thoreau, Walden
"Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done." - Calvin Ellis Stowe
"A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing." - Oscar Wilde
"The more original the discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards." - Arthur Koestler
"Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work so most people don't recognize them." - Ann Landers
"A pun is the lowest form of humor-when you don't think it first." - Oscar Levant
"It's possible to own too much. A man with one watch knows the time; a man with two watches is never quite sure." - Lee Segall
"The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything." - Theodore Roosevelt
"Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you do well." - Josh Billings
"Men are marked from the moment of birth to rule or be ruled." - Aristotle
"Man is the only animal that blushes-or ought to." - Mark Twain
"I'm no afraid of death. I just don't want to be there when it happens." - Woody Allen
"Under capitalism, man exploits man; under socialism, the reverse is true." - Polish Proverb
"To rule is easy, to govern is difficult." - Goethe
"The genius of modern technology lies in making things to last fifty years and making them obsolete in three." - Anonymous
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." - Abraham Lincoln
"I am a great believer of luck, and find the harder I work the more I have it." - Stephen Leacock
"A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it." - Alister Cook
"The man who questions opinions is wise; the man who quarrels with facts is a fool." - Frank A. Garbutt
"When you get to the end of your rope, tie a know and hang on." - Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow." - Mark Twain
"Start every day with a smile-and get it over with." - W.C. Fields
"Instead of loving your enemies, treat your friends a little better." - Edgar Howe
"Be nice to people on your way up, because you'll meet them on your way down." - Wilson Mizner
"Character is what God and the angels know of us; reputation is what men and women think of us." - Horace Mann
"From the moment I picked your book up until the moment I put it down, I could not stop laughing. Someday I hope to read it." - Groucho Marx
"The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was teh founder of civilization." - Sigmund Freud
"The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them." - Mark Twain
"The world is divided into two classes; those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable." - Oscar Wilde
"If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you'll be fired with enthusiasm." - Vince Lombardi
"If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be." - Anonymous
"Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true." - Francis Bacon
"The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around." - Thomas Edison
"The world does not owe men a living, but business, if it to fulfill its ideal, owes men a opportunity to earn a living." - Owen D. Young
"Being grown up means we can have our own way-at our own expense." - Hal Rogers
"I don't want to belong to any club that would accept me as a member." - Groucho Marx
"Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking." - H.L. Mencken
"Every crowd has a silver lining." - P.T. Barnum
"Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint." - Mark Twain
"My own business bores me to death. I prefer other people's." - Oscar Wilde
"Perserverance is not a long race: it is many short races, one after another." - Walter Elliott
"When a person with experience meets a person with money, the person with experience will get the money. The person with money will get some experience." - Leonard Lauder
"Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion." - C.N. Parkinson
"My God defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies." - Voltaire
"Genius is 1 percent inspiration, and 99 percent perspiration." - Thomas Edison
"It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live many more lives." - S.I. Hayakawa
"Success is getting where you want, and happiness is wanting what you get." - Dave Gardener
"I pay attention only to what people do or say. I never pay attention to what they think." - Napoleon Bonaparte
"Leadership is the ability to get men to do what they don't want to do, and like it." - Harry S. Truman
"If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it." - William Arthur Ward
"A little learning is a dangerous thing, but not all is fatal." - Viscount Samuel
"If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success." - John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?" - Abraham Lincoln
"A man can succeed at almost anything for which he has unlimited enthusiasm." - Charles Schwab
"If you want a place in the sun you've got to put up with a few blisters." - Abigail Van Buren
"The only limits are, as always, those of vision." - James Broughton
"If you see a bandwagon, it's too late." - Sir James Goldsmith
"I wash everything on the gentle cycle. It's much more humane." - Unknown
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on." - Robert Frost
"There is a time in the life of every problem when it is big enough to see, yet small enough to solve." - Mike Leavitt
"Everything comes to those who hustle while he waits." - Thomas A. Edison
"Accept that some days you're the pigeon, and some days you're the statue." - Roger C. Anderson
"Better to be occasionally cheated than perpetually suspicious." - B.C. Forbes
"All the things I really like to do are either immoral, illegal or fattening." - Alexander Woollcott
"To get something done a committee should consist of no more than three people, two of whom are absent." - Robert Copeland
"A consultant is someone who saves his client almost enough to pay his fee." - Arnold H. Glasgow
"Everybody should believe in something. I believe I'll have another drink." - Unknown
"The absolute fundamental aim is to make money out of satisfying customers." - Sir John Egan
"Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art of all." - Andy Warhol
"I wear my wife's eyeglasses because she wants me to see things her way." - Jayson Feinburg
"The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect." - Sam Ewing
"Good friends are good for your health." - Irwin Sarason
"Wealth is something you acquire so you can share it, not keep it." - LaDonna Harris
"Without music, life is a journey through a desert." - Pat Conroy
"Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures." - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
"Heredity is what sets the parents of a teenager wondering about each other." - Laurence J. Peter
"Success is how high you can bounce when you hit bottom." - General George Patton
"The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour." - Japanese proverb
"The manner in which it is given is worth more than the gift." - Pierre Corneille
"If only God would give me a clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank." - Woody Allen
"If you want to test your memory, try to remember what you were worrying about one year ago today." - E. Joseph Cossman
"Budget: a mathematical cofirmation of your suspiscions." - A. A. Latimer
"Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; and love by love." - Thomas Szasz
"If it weren't for the last minute, a lot of things wouldn't get done." - Michael S. Traylor
"Two important things are to have a genuine interest in people and to be kind to them. Kindness, I've discovered, is everything." - Isaac Bashevis Singer
"Once you get people laughing, they're listening and you can tell them almost anything." - Herb Gardner
"I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions." - Lou Holtz
"Learn a new language and get a new soul." - Czech proverb
"I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio." - Joan Rivers
"A man's greatest strength develops at the point where he overcomes his greatest weakness." - Elmer G. Letterman
"It's hard to detect good luck-it looks so much like something you've earned." - Fred A. Clark
"Babies are always more trouble than you thought - and more wonderful." - Charles Osgood
"Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you." - Elbert Hubbard
"There's nothing to match curling up with a good book when there's a repair job to be done around the house." - Joe Ryan
"The nice thing about meditation is that it makes doing nothing quite respectable." - Paul Dean
"The best bridge between despair and hope is a good night's sleep." - E. Joseph Cossman
"Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before." - Mae West
"Those who agree with us may not be right but we admire their astuteness." - Cullen Hightower
"What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork." - Pearl Bailey
"A cloudy day is no match for a sunny disposition." - William Arthur Ward
"If Noah had been truly wise, he would have swatted those two flies." - Helen Caste
"If you want to truly understand something, try to change it." - Kurt Lewis
"A stumble may prevent a fall." - English proverb
"The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else." - Martina Navratilova
"Whoever says that money can't buy you happiness doesn't know where to shop." - Telegraph Magazine
"Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons." - Woody Allen
"The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards." - Arthur Koestler
"Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another." - Walter Elliott
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Last Updated: 01/09/02
