Quotes

Here are some quotes that I've found and liked. Enjoy them or whatever.

John Vance Cheney: "The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears."
Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes, that way, when they get mad at you, you are a mile away from them, and they have no shoes. - Author Unknown
Truly great madness can not be achieved without significant intelligence. – Author Unknown
Truth exists; it is falsehood that has to be invented. - Author Unknown
If you don’t defend your honor pretty soon people are going to believe you have none. – Author Unknown
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. –Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Feed your faith and your fears will starve to death.
Andre Gide: "Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it."
Not a thought or word is independent of the circumstances under which it is uttered –Alfred North Whitehead
Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listed to us are the ones we move toward, and we want to sit in their radius. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand –Karl Menninger
The strongest human instinct is to impart information, the second is to resist it. –Kenneth Graham
A man has honor if he holds himself to an idea of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable or dangerous to do so –Walter Lippmann
Frederick L Collins: "There are two types of people--those who come into a room and say, "Well, here I am!" and those who come in and say, "Ah, there you are."
If you treat men the way they are you never improve them. If you treat them the way you want them to be, you do. –Goethe
Silence is not always tact, and it is tact that is golden, not silence. –Samuel Butler
We all can be only who we are, no more, no less.
Nothing improves your memory like trying to forget.
"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. " - Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
"Don't be so humble - you are not that great. " - Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat
"Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake. " - Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956)
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."
Give me chastity and continence, but don not give it yet. " - Saint Augustine (354-430)
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. " - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. " - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems. " - Rene Descartes (1596-1650), "Discours de la Methode"
"Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right. " - Henry Ford (1863-1947)
"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. " - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
Niels Bohr: "The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth."
"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws." - Plato (427-347 B.C.)
Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'." - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
"Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)
"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)
"There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life." - Frank Zappa
"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." - Antoine de Saint Exupery
"If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe." - Carl Sagan
"I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means." - Clarence Darrow, Scopes trial, 1925.
"If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
Kurt Vonnegut: "Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be."
"Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so. " - Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
"My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher. " - Socrates (470-399 B.C.)
"Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them. " - Samuel Palmer (1805-80)
Kurt Vonnegut: "I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center."
"When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong. " - Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983)
"In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. " - Paul Dirac (1902-1984)
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. " - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Henry Louis Mencken: "The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore."
"A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation. " - H. H. Munro (Saki) (1870-1916)
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler. " - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"What do you take me for, an idiot?" General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy
Alexander Solzhenitsyn: "You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power - he's free again."
"Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. " - Martin Fraquhar Tupper
"When ideas fail, words come in very handy. " - Goethe (1749-1832)
"He who hesitates is a damned fool. " - Mae West (1892-1980)
"You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty. " - Sacha Guitry (1885-1957)
"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. " - General George Patton (1885-1945)
"When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before. " - Mae West (1892-1980)
"Few things are harder to put up with than a good example. " - Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"I am become death, shatterer of worlds. " - Robert J. Oppenheimer (1904-1967) (citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear explosion)
"You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone. " - Al Capone (1899-1947)
"Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday. " - Woody Allen (1935-)
"Men have become the tools of their tools. " - Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. " - Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me. " - Charles William Stubbs
Aldous Huxley: "Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored"
Mahatma Gandhi: "An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind."
Harry S Truman: "When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship."
"In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take. " - Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965)
"Opportunities multiply as they are seized. " - Sun Tzu
"Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd. " - William Congreve (1670-1729)
"I think it would be a good idea. " - Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948), when asked what he thought of Western civilization
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. " - Edmund Burke (1729-1797)
"If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?" " - Will Rogers (1879-1935)
"Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity. " - Irving Kristol
"Denial ain't just a river in Egypt. " - Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one. " - Cato the Elder (234-149 BC, AKA Marcus Porcius Cato)
"Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something. " - last words of Pancho Villa (1877-1923)
"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense. " - Tom Clancy
"Woman was God's second mistake." - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
"For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing." - Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)
Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats." - Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)
"A poem is never finished, only abandoned. " - Paul Valery (1871-1945)
We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction." - General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964)
"I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need. " - Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues
"Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. " - Wernher Von Braun (1912-1977)
"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. " - Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. " - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
"You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her." -Anon.
"You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection." -Buddha
"In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two." -Erich Fromm
"Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'" -Erich Fromm
"Perfect love is rare indeed - for to be a lover will require that you continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the sensitivity of the artist, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar and the fortitude of the certain." -Leo Buscaglia
"Perhaps I know why it is man alone who laughs: He alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter." -Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"There are no facts, only interpretations." -Friedrich Nietzsche
And be on they guard against the good and the just! They would fain curcify those who devise their own virtue -- they hate the lonesome ones." -Friedrich Nietzsche
"The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude." -Friedrich Nietzsche
"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do." -Goethe
"The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit - this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden." -Goethe
"No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible." --George Burns
"The best way to become boring is to say everything." --Voltaire