(Collected from Various Websites)

 

"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. "

- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

"If a man does his best, what else is there?"

- General George S. Patton (1885-1945)

"I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better. "

- A. J. Liebling (1904-1963)

"Give me chastity and continence, but not 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)

 

"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

 

"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. "

- Emile Zola (1840-1902)

 

"The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. "

- definition of "happiness" by John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)

 

"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is. "

- Jan L.A. van de Snepscheut

 

"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have. "

- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

 

"Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems. "

- Rene Descartes (1596-1650), "Discours de la Methode"

 

"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')

 

"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. "

- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

 

"Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo."

- H. G. Wells (1866-1946)

 

 

"A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems."

- Paul Erdos

 

"The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad."

- Salvador Dali (1904-1989)

 

"If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance."

- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

 

"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)

 

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."

- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

 

"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."

- H. G. Wells (1866-1946)

 

"Talent does what it can; genius does what it must."

- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)

 

"The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'."

- unknown

 

"If you are going through hell, keep going."

- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

 

"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)

 

"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh."

- Voltaire (1694-1778)

 

"If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars."

- J. Paul Getty (1892-1976)

 

"Facts are the enemy of truth."

- Don Quixote - "Man of La Mancha"

 

"Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth."

- Sherlock Holmes (by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859-1930)

 

"Black holes are where God divided by zero."

- Steven Wright

 

"I've had a wonderful time, but this wasn't it."

- Groucho Marx (1895-1977)

 

"The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true."

- James Branch Cabell

 

"A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship."

- John D. Rockefeller (1874-1960)

 

"You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it."

- G. K. Chesterfield

 

"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth."

- Umberto Eco

 

"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)

 

"Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working."

- Albert Giacometti (sculptor)

 

"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)

 

"Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street."

- Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915)

 

"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

 

"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

 

"It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts."

- G. B. Burgin

 

"Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action."

- Auric Goldfinger, in "Goldfinger" by Ian L. Fleming (1908-1964)

 

"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance"

- - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

 

"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."

- Jimi Hendrix

 

"A clever man commits no minor blunders."

- Goethe (1749-1832)

 

"Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours."

- Richard Bach

 

"A witty saying proves nothing."

- Voltaire (1694-1778)

 

"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."

- Will Durant

 

"I have often regretted my speech, never my silence."

- Xenocrates (396-314 B.C.)

 

"It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion."

- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

 

"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.

 

"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."

- Henry Ford (1863-1947)

 

"I'll sleep when I'm dead."

- Warren Zevon

 

"There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread."

- Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

 

"If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."

- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

 

"The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head."

- Jean Cocteau (1889-1963)

 

"Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together."

- Georg Lichtenberg (1742-1799)

 

"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it"

- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

 

"While we are postponing, life speeds by."

- Seneca (3BC - 65AD)

 

"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."

- Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

 

"Wit is educated insolence. "

- Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)

 

"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.)

 

"Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me. "

- Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)

 

"A narcissist is someone better looking than you are. "

- Gore Vidal

 

"Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them. "

- Samuel Palmer (1805-80)

 

"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. "

- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

 

"The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows. "

- Aristotle Onassis (1906-1975)

 

"Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny. "

- Guy Davenport

 

"When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite. "

- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

 

"Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains. "

- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

 

"It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. "

- Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)

 

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. "

- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

 

"Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler. "

- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

 

 

"Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do. "

- Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)

 

"A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines. "

- Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959 )

 

"It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. "

- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

 

"If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me. "

- Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884-1980)

 

"A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies. "

- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

 

"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names. "

- John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)

 

"Logic is in the eye of the logician. "

- Gloria Steinem

 

"Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech. "

- Martin Fraquhar Tupper

 

"You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there. "

- Yogi Berra

 

"He who hesitates is a damned fool. "

- Mae West (1892-1980)

 

"Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater. "

- Gail Godwin

 

"You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty. "

- Sacha Guitry (1885-1957)

 

"Behind every great fortune there is a crime. "

- Honore de Balzac (1799-1850)

 

"If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning. "

- Aristotle Onassis (1906-1975)

 

"I am not young enough to know everything. "

- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

 

"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)

 

"Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis. "

- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

 

"There is no sincerer love than the love of food. "

- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

 

"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)

 

"Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate. "

- Thomas Jones

 

"You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone. "

- Al Capone (1899-1947)

 

"The gods too are fond of a joke. "

- Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)

"Men have become the tools of their tools. "

- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

 

"It is now possible for a flight attendant to get a pilot pregnant. "

- Richard J. Ferris, president of United Airlines

 

"I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television. "

- Gore Vidal

 

"Imitation is the sincerest form of television. "

- Fred Allen (1894-1956)

 

"Why don't you write books people can read?"

- Nora Joyce to her husband James (1882-1941)

 

"Well done is better than well said. "

- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

 

"If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?" "

- Will Rogers (1879-1935)

 

"The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy. "

- Von Clausewitz (1780-1831)

 

"640K ought to be enough for anybody. "

- Bill Gates (1955-), in 1981

 

"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense. "

- Tom Clancy

 

"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. "

- Mark Twain (1835-1910)

 

"It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both. "

- Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527), "The Prince"

 

"Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. "

- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

 

"Woman was God's second mistake."

- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

"Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies."

- Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan.

 

"Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run."

- Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)

 

"He would make a lovely corpse."

- Charles Dickens (1812-1870)

 

"I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial."

- Irvin S. Cobb

 

"I worship the quicksand he walks in."

- Art Buchwald

 

"A poem is never finished, only abandoned. "

- Paul Valery (1871-1945)

 

"The truth is more important than the facts. "

- Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)

 

"Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing. "

- Wernher Von Braun (1912-1977)

 

"There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. "

- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

 

"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. "

- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

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