- Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.
Samuel Clemens(Mark Twain)
- Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrranize their teachers.
Socrates (470-399 BC)
- The covers of this book are too far apart.
Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?)
- It's not the mountain that we conquer, but ourselves.
Sir Edmund Hillary
- I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages.
William H. Maudlin
- Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
James Thurber
- The person who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Woodrow Wilson
- I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I am in a cabinet meeting.
Ronald Reagan
- I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not Gary Cooper.
Gary Cooper on his decision not to take the leading role in Gone With the Wind
- A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, market research indicates America likes crispy cookies, not soft and chewy ones.
Response to Debbie Fields' idea of starting Mrs. Fields' Cookies
- We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
Decca Recording Company rejecting the Beatles, 1962
- I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943
- If you talk to God, it's called prayer. If God talks to you it's schizophrenia.
Lily Tomlin
- I disapprove of what you say, but i will defend to the death your right to say it.
Voltaire
- A happy person is not a person in a cetain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.
Hugh Downs
- Always do what's right. It will gratify half of humankind and astound the other.
Mark Twain
- Go away. I'm all right
Last Words of H. G. Wells
- If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
Will Rogers
- Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
Groucho Marx
- If you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce, they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does.
Groucho Marx
- A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere.
Groucho Marx
- A day without laughter is a day wasted.
Groucho Marx
- Behind an able man there are always other able men.
Chinese Proverb
- Ability is of little account without opportunity
Napoleon Bonaparte
- Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
Thomas Haynes Bayly-Isle of Beauty
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- When an actor has money, he doesn't send letters but telegrams.
Anton Chekhov
- The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved--loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo
- It was supposed to frazzle their nerves. Maybe it did; it certainly frazzled mine. Kinder to shoot a man.
Robert A. Heinlein-Starship Troopers
- But, if there ever was a time in history when "peace" meant that there was no fighting going on, I have been unable to find out about it.
Robert A. Heinlein-Starship Troopers
- Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.
John Milton-Paradise Lost
- Noble ancestry makes for a poor dish at table
Italian Proverb
- All that glisters is not gold.
Anthony Cervantes-Don Quixote
- Sacred cows make the best hamburger.
Mark Twain
- Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.
Groucho Marx
- It ain't over till it's over.
Yogi Berra
- You got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
Yogi Berra
- Necessity, who is the mother of invention.
Plato-The Republic Book II. 369C
- Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so.
Bertrand Russell
- Money often costs too much.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Democracy: The substitution of election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
George Bernard Shaw
- An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
Victor Hugo-Ninetythree,
- I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.
Jimi Hendrix
- A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
Robert Frost
- A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
Napoleon Bonaparte
- A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
- An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
Niels Bohr
- And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
John F. Kennedy
- Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.
Leonardo Da Vinci
- Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.
Will Rogers
- Call it what you will, incentives are what get people to work harder.
Nikita Krushchev
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- "Contrariwise", continued Tweedledee, "If it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic."
Lewis Carroll-Through the Looking Glass
- Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Pablo Picasso
- Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.
Will Rogers
- As we acquire more knowldege, things do not become more comprehensible, but more mysterious .
Albert Schweitzer
- We don`t know a millionth of one percent about anything .
Thomas Alva Edison
- One should never put on one's best trousers to go out to battle for freedom and truth.
Henrik Ibsen
- Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep-herding .
Ezra Loomis Pound
- Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing.
George Orwell
- The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher regard those who think alike than those who think differently.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzche
- Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
David Lloyd George
- Perhaps I know why it is man alone who laughs: He alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
- When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong."
Richard Buckminster Fuller
- The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book -- it makes a very poor doorstop.
Alfred Hitchcock
- The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchill
- Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.
Steve Wozniak
- There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.
William J. Clinton
- Sudden money is going from zero to two hundred dollars a week. The rest doesn't count.
Neil Simon
- Laughter is nothing else but a sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly.
Thomas Hobbes
- Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
Henry Kissinger
- You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can get with a kind word.
Al Capone
- What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
Bob Dylan
- Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its labourers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
Dwight D. Eisenhower-Speech
- We must become the change we want to see.
Mahatma Gandhi
- The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than a small one.
Adolf Hitler-Mein Kampf
- Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.
Herbert Hoover
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- The Organization of American States couldn't pour piss out of a boot if the instructions were written on the heel.
Lyndon Johnson
- As good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself.
John Milton-Areopagitica
- Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Will Rogers
- To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
Marylin vos Savant
- To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
Sun Tzu
- Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Thomas Edison
- The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing.
Thomas Aquinas
- The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.
Benjamin Franklin
- A jury is twelve persons who are to decide which party has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost
- An armed society is a polite society.
Robert A. Heinlein
- We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
Rudyard Kipling
- Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge where there is no river.
Nikita Khrushchev
- Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
General Douglas MacArthur
- Everything that used to be a sin is now a disease.
Bill Maher
- Close doesn't count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades.
Frank Robinson
- A little caution outflanks a large cavalry.
Otto von Bismarck
- If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.
Voltaire
- Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.
Robert Frost
- Only two things are infinite, the Universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
Albert Einstein
- Common sense is genius dressed in working clothes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
- You're saying that the Antichrist was born, but he's only three years old? Ah. Then I will leave the problem for my successor to deal with.
Pope Benedict XIV
- A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
W.C. Fields
- I'm opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.
Mark Twain
- If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
Woodrow Wilson
- It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
Walt Disney
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- Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others.
Groucho Marx
- A classic is a book which people praise and don't read.
Samuel Langhornne Clemens
- It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
Samuel Langhornne Clemens
- Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
- And another thing -- Hanson blows.
Donald Trump
- Handel is only fourth rate. He is not even interesting.
Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky
- Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
Lily Tomlin
- Do you know what a pessimist is? A pessimist is a person who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself and hates them for it.
George Bernard Shaw
- An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... The truly wise person is color blind.
Albert Schweitser
- Don't be humble. You're not that great.
Golda Meir
- The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- A woman is a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
Rudyard Kipling
- Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot.
Groucho Marx
- If you owe the bank $100, that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.
John Paul Getty
- Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.
H.G. Wells
- Morality is the weakness of the mind.
Arthur Rimbaud
- Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
H.L. Mencken
- Though I am always in haste, I am never in a hurry.
John Wesley
- Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
Igor Stravinsky
- Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
Mark Twain
- Never play cards with a man named Doc, and never eat at a place called Mom's.
John O'Hara
- The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
Niels Bohr
- I believe everyody in the world should have guns. Citizens should have bazookas and rocket launchers too. I believe that all citizens should have their weapons of choice. However, I also believe that only I should have the ammunition. Because frankly, I wouldn't trust the rest of the goobers with anything more dangerous than string.
Scott Adams
- It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!
Emiliano Zapata
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- Knowledge is power.
Francis Bacon
- The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
Mark Twain
- Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent trevolution inevitable.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
- Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.
Spiro T. Agnew
- Time is the fire in which we burn.
Gene Roddenberry
- If it [technology] keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
Frank Lloyd Wright
- Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Arthur C. Clarke
- If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
John Paul Getty
- I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.
Pablo Picasso
- I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
Confucius
- In the long-run, we are all dead.
John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946)
- I am a passenger on the spaceship Earth.
R. Buckminster Fuller
- The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
Charles de Gaulle
- It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.
Nicolo Machiavelli
- The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not Eureka! I found it!, but, That's funny....
Isaac Asimov
- When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.
Niccolo Machiavelli
- From each, according to his ability; to each, according to his need.
Karl Marx
- The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Sir Winston Churchill
- Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Napoleon
- Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.
Aldous Huxley
- A lie told often enough becomes truth.
Vladimir Lenin
- 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
- You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
Aldous Huxley
