GREATEST QUOTES OF ALL TIME Quotes on Life “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 “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot “The best way to predict your future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln “And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln “When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.” – Alexander Graham Bell “If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves.” – Thomas A. Edison “Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma, which is living the result of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinion drowned your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition, they somehow already know what yo truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.” – Steve Jobs “Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life… Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated. Thus, everyone’s task is as unique as is his specific opportunity to implement it.” – Viktor Frankl “Your work is to discover your work and then, with all your heart, to give yourself to it.” – Buddha “We must not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time.” – T. S. Eliot “Don’t say you don’t have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresea, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.” – Life’s Little Instruction Book, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr. “If not now, then when?”
“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience” – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin “People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing.. that’s why we recommend it daily.” – Zig Ziglar “Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” – Barack Obama “Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.” – T.S. Elliot “Mediocrity is setting goals you know you can achieve. Excellence is setting goals which you might not be able to achieve. Just by striving for excellence, you will always be better than mediocrity.” “There is always room in your life for thinking bigger, pushing limits and imagining the impossible.” – Tony Robbins
Quotes on Dreams and Passion “If what you’re doing is not your passion, you have nothing to lose.” “Do what you love and the money will follow.” – Marsha Sinetar “The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.” – Richard Bach “Don’t ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who are alive.” – Howard Thurman “All our dreams can come true – if we have the courage to pursue them.” – Walt Disney “We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future.” – Robin Sharma “If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.” – Henry David Thoreau “No matter where you are in life right now, no matter who you are, no matter how old you are – it is never too late to be who you are meant to be. Unless you choose to
take action on what you want, nothing is ever going to come out of it.” – Esther & Jerry Hicks “There’s nothing capricious in nature, and the implanting of a desire indicates that its gratification is in the constitution of the creature that feels it.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson “Don’t be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality. If you can dream it, you can make it so.” – Belva Davis “The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson “Your goals are the road maps that guide you and show you what is possible for your life.” – Les Brown “Make no small plans for they have no power to stir the soul.” – Niccolo Machiavelli “No dreamer is ever too small; no dream is ever too big.” – Anonymous “Never let your memories be greater than your dreams.” – Doug Ivester “You got a dream, you gotta protect it. People can’t do something themselves, they wanna tell you you can’t do it. If you want something, go get it. Period.” – Pursuit of Happyness (Movie) “We are all functioning at a small fraction of our capacity to live fully in its total meaning of loving, caring, creating and adventuring. Consequently, the actualizing of our potential can become the most exciting adventure of our lifetime.” – Herbert Ottto “History shows us that the people who end up changing the world – the great political, social, scientific, technological, artistic, even sports revolutionaries – are always nuts, until they are right, and then they are geniuses.” – John Eliot “You will not do incredible things without an incredible dream.” – John Eliot “Instead of thinking about what you are going to do when you retire, think about how you can do that now and make a living from it.”
Quotes on Love
“To say I love you’ one must first be able to say the ‘I.’” – Ayn Rand “You, as much as anyone in the universe, deserve your love and respect.” – Buddha “If one wishes to know love, one must live love, in action.” – Leo Buscaglia “One does not fall ‘in’ or ‘out’ of love. One grows in love.” – Leo Buscaglia “There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.” – Martin Luther King, Jr
Quotes on Mindsets and Beliefs “How you think is as important as as what you think” “The only limits on your life are those that you set yourself.” “Every second you spend thinking about someone else’s dreams you take time away from your own.” – Yogi Ramen “The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your thoughts.” “Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and freedom.” – Viktor Frankl “Human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.” – William James “What the mind can conceive, it can achieve.” – Napoleon Hill “Whether you think you can or think you can’t – you are right.” – Henry Ford “A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; An optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” – Winston Churchill “Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.” —Lao-Tze
Quotes on Happiness “Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.” – Buddha “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” – Albert Schweitzer
Quotes on Courage & Fear “When you move beyond your fear, you feel free.” – Spencer Johnson, Who Moved My Cheese? “The quicker you let go of old cheese, the sooner you find new cheese.” – Spencer Johnson, Who Moved My Cheese? “Fear and uncertainty are your compasses toward growth.” “Fear is nothing more than a mental monster you have created, a negative stream of consciousness” – Robin Sharma, The Monk who sold his Ferrari “If you try, you might get exactly what you want. If you don’t, you don’t.” – Unknown “If you’re not willing to risk, you cannot grow. If you cannot grow, you cannot be your best. If you cannot be your best, you cannot be happy. If you cannot be happy, what else is there?” – Les Brown “Confidence is not a guarantee of success, but a pattern of thinking that will improve your likelihood of success, a tenacious search for ways to make things work.” – Dr. John Eliot from Overachievement “The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.” – Elbert Hubbard
Quotes on Success, Failure & Persistence “There is no failure except in no longer trying” – Elbert Hubbard “Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.” – Dale Carnegie
“Some give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before.” – Herodotus “When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt “If you run you stand a chance of losing, but if you don’t run you’ve already lost.” – Barack Obama “Greatest success comes just one step beyond the point at which defeat overtakes you.” “Every failure brings with it the seed of an equivalent success.” – Napoleon Hill “The greatest achievement was, at first, and for a time, but a dream.” – Napoleon Hill “No one ever is defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.”- Napoleon Hill “A Quitter never wins – and – a Winner never quits.” – Napoleon Hill “Cultivate your desire for success to be greater than the fear of failure; Failure is merely a pitstop between where you stand and success. Failure allows you to learn the fastest; Failure inspires winners and defeats losers.” “Winning means being unafraid to lose.” – Fran Tarkenton “To be successful you don’t need to do extraordinary things, you just need to do ordinary things extraordinarily well.” – Jim Rohn “It’s been my observation that most people get ahead during the time that others waste.” -Henry Ford “Success is not built on success. It’s built on failure. It’s built on frustration. Sometimes it’s built on catastrophe.” – Sumner Redstone Chairman “For every failure, there’s an alternative course of action. You just have to find it. When you come to a roadblock, take a detour.” -Mary Kay Ash founder “First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.” – Mahatma Gandhi “Success is 80% attitude and 20% aptitude.” – Funmi Wale-Adegbite
“Success in life is the result of good judgment. Good judgment is usually the result of experience. Experience is usually the result of bad judgment.” – Anthony Robbins “Brick walls are there for a reason: they let us prove how badly we want things.” – Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture (Book) “You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you had to overcome to reach your goals.” – Booker T. Washington “The major difference between the big shot and the little shot is the big shot is just a little shot who kept on shooting.” – Zig Ziglar “I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.” Michael Jordan (Nike ‘Failure’ Commercial) “In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.” – Anthony J. D’Angelo “As soon as anyone starts telling you to be “realistic,” cross that person off your invitation list.” – John Eliot “I haven’t failed. I’ve found 10,000 ways that don’t work.” — Thomas Edison, when inventing the first commercial light bulb. “I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.” – Michael Jordan “I’ve always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come.” – Michael Jordan “Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.” – Michael Jordan “Men are born to succeed, not fail.” – Henry David Thoreau “One’s best success comes after their greatest disappointments.” – Henry Ward Beecher “Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit.” – Napoleon Hill “Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.” – Robert Francis Kennedy
“Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination are omnipotent. The slogan ‘press on’ has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.” – Calvin Coolidge
Quotes on People and The World “Individually, we are one drop. Together, we are an ocean.” – Ryunosuke Satoro “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” – Helen Keller “The world is perfect as it is, including my desire to change it.” -Ram Dass “Be the change that you want to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi
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Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873, British novelist, poet, playwright and polititian.) The pen is mightier than the sword.
Jesus Christ (The Bible, Matthew 26:52) He who lives by the sword, dies by the sword. (The exact wording varies with the translation referenced.)
J. P. Morgan: (1837-1913, Founder of US Steel, the first billion-dollar company in the world.) If you have to ask how much something costs, you can't afford it. I found three different sources for the origin of this quote. 1. When J. P. Morgan saw a yacht he wanted, he was reported to say something like, "I'll take it." When the salesman asked if he wanted to
know how much it cost before making a decision, Morgan uttered the famous saying. 2. When a friend mentioned he was thinking about buying a yacht and asked Mr. Morgan how much one cost to maintain, Morgan's response was the quote. 3. During a business meeting when a prospective customer inquired about the cost of something J. P. Morgan gave the quote as an answer.
Karl Marx: (1843) Religion is the opiate of the people.
Sun-Tzu: (400 BC; Chinese general and military strategist.) Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.
Lord Acton: (1834-1902; British historian, politician and educator. Considered the most learned individual of his era, unmatched in the breadth and depth of his knowledge.) Power Corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Ludwig Feuerbach: (1804-1872; German philosopher, theologian and author.) Man created God in his own image.
Fred R. Barnard (1920s): A picture is worth a thousand words. Many references mistakenly attribute this quote to Confucius. In fact it was coined around 1921 by the advertising writer Fred Barnard to market a baking product. To give the saying more credence he had it translated into Chinese and presented as an ancient proverb. Over time it became attributed to Confusius.
Francois Rabelas (French monk and satirist 1494-1553): Nature abhors a vacuum.
Alexander Pope (English poet, 1680-1744) Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. A little learning is a dangerous thing.
Roger Brinner: (Economist) The sum of anecdotes is not data.
Horace (65 - 8 BC): Carpe Diem (Seize the day. (Opportunity))
Julius Caesar: Divide and Conquer. Thanks to some help from Erik (Thank's Erik!) I was able to trace the most likely origin of this quote.
Bo Diddley: The famous musician instrumental in the creation of the early Rock and Roll sound. (Nick Pence emailed me the source for this quote. Thanks, Nick!) You can't tell a book by its cover. Correction: I've become skeptical about attributing this quote to Bo Diddley because Cary Grant uses it in the 1947 movie, The Bachelor and the Bobbysoxer. Since the movie would have been filmed in 1946, when Bo Diddley was only 18, it's doubtful he would have already established himself with such prominence to be quoted by the great and famous. I suspect that this is one of those universally used phrases that has been around so long that it would be impossible to discover who originated it.
Murphy's Law: "If anything can go wrong, it will." In popular use for over half a century, controversy abounds as to the origins of this adage. The philosophy behind the phrase, if not this exact wording, has been around since before written history. These earlier forms are used
referred to as Sod's Law or Finagle's Corollary. ("Sod" refers to any poor "sod.") Most experts attribute the modern Murphy's Law to USAF Captain Edward Murphy, a research engineer at Edwards Air Force Base in 1949. Upon learning that a rocket sled test failed because a technician wired the sensors wrong, Murphy is reported to have exclaimed, "If there is any way to do it wrong, he'll do it." For some reason the phrase caught on and began evolving. The press got a hold of it when during a press conference the man who eventually rode the sled commented that the reason he survived is that everyone on the project paid close attention to "Murphy's Law." When asked to explain he used the form we're familiar with today.
Napolean Bonaparte (1769 - 1821): Never interrupt your enemy when he's making a mistake.
Thomas Edison (1846 - 1931): I haven't failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Albert Signorella DDS., or Franklin P. Jones (among possible others - I couldn't find a definitive source for this one, only suggested sources): You are what you eat.
The following is usually credited to Aesop, the Greek fabulist of around 600 B.C., but one source listed the Roman Philosopher Apuleis (124-170 A.D.) as the originator: Familiarity breeds contempt.
Eugene McCarthy: The only thing that saves us from bureaucracy is its inefficiency.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900):
A man can't be too careful in his choice of enemies.
Howard Ruff: It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.
Stewart's Law of Retroaction from Murphy's Law, Book Two: It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.
(Quote first, then the author... for effect) Children today are tyrants. They contradict thier parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.
Socrates (470-399 B.C.)
David T. Wolf: Idealism is what precedes experience.
Ernest Hemmingway (1889-1961): Never mistake motion for action. (This concept was pushed hard while I was an officer in the USAF, where the version used was "Being busy isn't the same as accomplishing something.")
(Can you guess who said the following and why?)) Come quickly! I am tasting stars!
Dom Perignon (1638-1715) at the moment of his discovering champagne.
Winston Churchill (1874-1965): The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes. He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government, except all the others that have been tried.
Teddy Roosevelt: Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far. The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it. No man is justified in doing evil on the grounds of expediency.
Martin Luther King, Jr.: If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause and say, "Here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well."
Vince Lombardi: The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor. It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.
The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will. Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
Abraham Lincoln: No man has a good enough memory to make a successful liar. Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.
Norman Vincent Peale: Believe that you are defeated, believe it long enough, and it is likely to become a fact.
We tend to get what we expect.
Ray Kroc: The quality of an individual is reflected in the standards they set for themselves.
Albert Schweitzer: Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.
Thomas Jefferson: The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do. He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it easier to do it a second time.
A mind always employed is always happy. Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself. Whenever you do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you, and act accordingly.
Andrew Carnegie: As I grow older I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. There is no use whatsoever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he is willing to climb himself.
Benjamin Franklin: Love your neighbor - but don't pull down your hedge. The best way to see Faith is to shut the eye of Reason. Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days. (Note: this is actually a paraphrasing of an earlier quote by John Lyly (1554-1606) "After three days, fish and guests stink.") There are no gains without pains.
Confucius: Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. When prosperity comes, do not use all of it. The journey of a thousand miles begins with but a single step.
Harry S. Truman: If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
The buck stops here.
George Washington: Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace.
Aristotle: We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends to behave to us.
Well begun is half done.
Franklin D. Roosevelt: When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Margaret Thatcher: You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.
John F. Kennedy: The time to repair a roof is when the sun is shining.
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
Charles De Gaulle: The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
John Wooden: Failure to prepare is preparing to fail
Henry Ford: Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Booker T. Washington: I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed. You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
George S. Patton, Jr.: Always do more than is required of you
Dwight D. Eisenhower: Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you're a thousand miles from the corn field.
George Carlin: Some people see the glass half full. Others see it half empty. I see a glass that's twice as big as it needs to be.
Will Rogers: (The genius of his quotes are that they need to be read twice: the first time for their humor, a second to pick out the practical advice hidden behind the joke.)
Don't squat with your spurs on. Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment. Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier'n puttin' it back in. If you're ridin' ahead of the herd, take a look back every now and then to make sure it's still there. If you get to thinkin' you're a person of some influence, try orderin' somebody else's dog around. After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good he started roaring. He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him. The moral: When you're full of bull, keep your mouth shut. There's two theories to arguin' with a woman. Neither one works. When you give a lesson in meanness to a critter or a person, don't be surprised if they learn their lesson. The quickest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it back in your pocket. Never miss a good chance to shut up.
Lazarus Long (From the author Robert Heinlein): Never appeal to a man's better nature - he might not have one. Invoking his self interest gives you more leverage. Natural laws have no pity. Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done and why. Then go do it. Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes. Animals can be driven crazy by placing too many in too small a pen. Homo Sapiens is the only animal that voluntarily does this to himself.
Delusions are often functional. A mother's opinions about her children's beauty, goodness, et cetera ad nauseam, keeps her from drowning them at birth. A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits. Formal courtesy between husband and wife is even more important than it is between strangers. An elephant: A mouse built to government specifications. Place your clothes and weapons where you can find them in the dark. A committee is a life form with six or more legs and no brain. "I came, I saw, SHE conquered." (The original Latin seems to have been garbled.) In handling a stinging insect, move slowly. A skunk is better company than a person who prides himself on being "frank." Anything free is worth what you pay for it. Never underestimate the power of human stupidity. Rub her feet. Everybody lies about sex. Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors - and miss. When the need arises - and it does - you must be able to shoot your own dog. Don't try to have the last word. You might get it. Avoid making irrevocable decisions while tired or hungry. Do not handicap your children by making their lives too easy. "If you don't git while the gittin's good, you're gunna get got."
Wayne M. Schmidt: (1951-?) Humanity's behavior suggests intelligence is an evolutionary dead end.
A little abuse keeps the joints loose.
The price for having rights is the responisibility of exercising them with consideration for others. (I'm certain someone has already said this but I have yet to find it.)
Fight Entropy: organize! (This is more of a bumper sticker than a quote.)
New Quote!!! Desires are never tempered by practicalities.
On a more serious note, the following story is worthy of careful consideration:
An old Cherokee was teaching his grandchildren about life. He said to them, "A battle is raging inside me ... it is a terrible fight between two wolves. One wolf represents fear, anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority and ego. The other stands for joy, peace, love, hope, sharing, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, friendship, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith." The old man fixed the children with a firm stare. "This same fight is going on inside you, and inside every other person, too." They thought about it for a minute and then one child asked his grandfather, "Which wolf will win?" The old Cherokee replied: "The one you feed."
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"Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo." - H. G. Wells (1866-1946) "Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever." - Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) "Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake." - Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) "Don't be so humble - you are not that great." - Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat "His ignorance is encyclopedic" - Abba Eban (1915-2002) "If a man does his best, what else is there?" - General George S. Patton (1885-1945) "Political correctness is tyranny with manners." - Charlton Heston (1924-) "You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality." - Ayn Rand (1905-1982)
"When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity; when many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion." - Robert Pirsig (1948-) "Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer." - Saint Thomas Moore (1478-1535) "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) "People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid." - Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855) "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) "You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you." - Leon Trotsky (1879-1940) "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) "We are all atheists about most of the gods humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further." - Richard Dawkins (1941-) "The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work." - Emile Zola (1840-1902) "This book fills a much-needed gap." - Moses Hadas (1900-1966) in a review "The full use of your powers along lines of excellence." - definition of "happiness" by John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) "I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart." - e e cummings (1894-1962)
"Give me a museum and I'll fill it." - Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) "Assassins!" - Arturo Toscanini (1867-1957) to his orchestra "I'll moider da bum." - Heavyweight boxer Tony Galento, when asked what he thought of William Shakespeare "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) "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) "Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed." - George Burns (1896-1996) "I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves." - Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) "There are no facts, only interpretations." - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) "Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." - Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968) "The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense." - Edsgar Dijkstra (1930-2002)
"C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg." - Bjarne Stroustrup "A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." - Paul Erdos (1913-1996) "Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back." - Paul Erdos (1913-1996) "Try to learn something about everything and everything about something." - Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895) "Dancing is silent poetry." - Simonides (556-468bc) "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) "But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near." - Andrew Marvell (1621-1678) "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.) "The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it." - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) "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-) "Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain." - Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805) "We have art to save ourselves from the truth." - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." - Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) "I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it." - John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) when asked what is his favorite song "I have nothing to declare except my genius." - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) upon arriving at U.S. customs 1882
"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 "Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake a whole relationship." - Sharon Stone "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) "Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions." - Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959) "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) "I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them." - Ian L. Fleming (1908-1964) "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" "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)
"How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself." - Anais Nin (1903-1977) "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." - Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931) "I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right." - Frederick (II) the Great "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) "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)
"It's kind of fun to do the impossible." - Walt Disney (1901-1966) "We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time." - Vince Lombardi "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) "All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher." - Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) "You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it." - Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) "An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered." - Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) "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) "There's a limit to how many times you can read how great you are and what an inspiration you are, but I'm not there yet." - Randy Pausch (1960-2008) "It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring." - Carl Sagan (1934-1996)
"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 (1934-1996) "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) "Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera." - James Stephens (1882-1950) "The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault." - Henry Kissinger (1923-) "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) "If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough." - Mario Andretti "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 (1947-2003) "There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread." - Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) "When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes 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, they 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) "Where are we going, and why am I in this handbasket?" - Bumper Sticker "God, please save me from your followers!" - Bumper Sticker "Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches." - the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." - Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) "Luck is the residue of design." - Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team "Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die." - Mel Brooks "Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so." - Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) "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 no heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains." - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) "The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth." - Niels Bohr (1885-1962) "We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?" - Niels Bohr (1885-1962)
"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) "I would have made a good Pope." - Richard M. Nixon (1913-1994) "In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience." - W.B. Prescott "Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin." - John von Neumann (1903-1957) "The mistakes are all waiting to be made." - chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position "It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims." - Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)
"Grove giveth and Gates taketh away." - Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep up with software demands "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." - Albert Einstein (1879-1955) "One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important." - Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) "A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation." - H. H. Munro (Saki) (1870-1916) "There are two ways of constructing a software design; one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C. A. R. Hoare "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 "I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon." - Bill Hirst "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 "No one can earn a million dollars honestly." - William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925) "Everything has been figured out, except how to live." - Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) "Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech." - Martin Fraquhar Tupper "Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it." - Moses Hadas (1900-1966) "From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it." - Groucho Marx (1895-1977) "It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating." - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) "When ideas fail, words come in very handy." - Goethe (1749-1832) "In the end, everything is a gag." - Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977) "The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people."
- Lucille S. Harper "You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there." - Yogi Berra "I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known." - Walt Disney (1901-1966) "He who hesitates is a damned fool." - Mae West (1892-1980) "Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater." - Gail Godwin "University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small." - Henry Kissinger (1923-) "The graveyards are full of indispensable men." - Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970) "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) "Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same." - 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) "I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking." - Katherine Cebrian "I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it." - Steven Wright "Mr. Wagner has beautiful moments but bad quarters of an hour." - Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868) "Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure."
- Oliver Herford (1863-1935) "I have read your book and much like it." - Moses Hadas (1900-1966) "The covers of this book are too far apart." - Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) "Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them." - Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964) "Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end." - Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) "Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung." - Voltaire (1694-1778) "When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before." - Mae West (1892-1980) "I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to." - Elvis Presley (1935-1977) "No Sane man will dance." - Cicero (106-43 B.C.)
"Hell is a half-filled auditorium." - Robert Frost (1874-1963) "Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you." - Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) "Vote early and vote often." - Al Capone (1899-1947) "If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?" - Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) "Few things are harder to put up with than a good example." - Mark Twain (1835-1910) "Hell is other people." - Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) "Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds." - Robert J. Oppenheimer (1904-1967) (citing from the Bhagavad Gita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear explosion) "Happiness is good health and a bad memory." - Ingrid Bergman (1917-1982) "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.) "Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes." - Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) "The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting." - Gloria Leonard "It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man." - Professor Scott Elledge on his retirement from Cornell "Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work." - Robert Orben "The cynics are right nine times out of ten." - Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) "There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem." - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
"And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him." - Revelation 6:8
"Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance." - Plato (427-347 B.C.) "Plato was a bore." - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) "Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal." - Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) "I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy." - Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) "Hemingway was a jerk." - Harold Robbins
"Men are not disturbed by things, but the view they take of things." - Epictetus (55-135 A.D.)
"What about things like bullets?" - Herb Kimmel, Behavioralist, Professor of Psychology, upon hearing the above quote (1981)
"How can I lose to such an idiot?" - A shout from chessmaster Aaron Nimzovich (1886-1935) "Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday." - Woody Allen (1935-) "I don't feel good." - The last words of Luther Burbank (1849-1926) "Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure." - Ross MacDonald (1915-1983) "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) "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 "I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying." - Woody Allen (1935-) "Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives." - Abba Eban (1915-2002) "A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually." - Abba Eban (1915-2002) "To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me." - Charles William Stubbs "Sanity is a madness put to good uses." - George Santayana (1863-1952) "Imitation is the sincerest form of television." - Fred Allen (1894-1956) "Always do right- this will gratify some and astonish the rest." - Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take." - Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965) "Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research." - Wilson Mizner (1876-1933) "Why don't you write books people can read?" - Nora Joyce to her husband James (1882-1941) "Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers." - T. S. Eliot (1888-1965) "Criticism is prejudice made plausible." - Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) "It is better to be quotable than to be honest." - Tom Stoppard "Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting." - Karl Wallenda "Opportunities multiply as they are seized." - Sun Tzu "A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar." - Lao-Tzu (570?-490? BC)
" The best way to predict the future is to invent it." - Alan Kay "Never mistake motion for action." - Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) "I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours." - Sir Stephen Henry Roberts (1901-1971) "Hell is paved with good samaritans." - William M. Holden "The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time." - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) "Silence is argument carried out by other means." - Ernesto"Che"Guevara (1928-1967) "Well done is better than well said." - Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) "The average person thinks he isn't."
- Father Larry Lorenzoni "Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd." - William Congreve (1670-1729) "A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted." - Helen Rowland (1876-1950) "Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century." - Lewis Perelman "Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency." - Lewis Perelman "Sometimes it is not enough to do our best; we must do what is required." - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) "The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready." - Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) "There is a country in Europe where multiple-choice tests are illegal." - Sigfried Hulzer "Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done."
- Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855), while working, when informed that his wife is dying "A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." - Thomas Watson (1874-1956), Chairman of IBM, 1943 "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) "I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!" - Will Rogers (1879-1935) "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)
"Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity." - Irving Kristol "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." - Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 "The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible." - A Yale University management professor in response to student Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service (Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.) "Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?" - H. M. Warner (1881-1958), founder of Warner Brothers, in 1927 "We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out." - Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962 "Everything that can be invented has been invented." - Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 "Denial ain't just a river in Egypt." - Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"A pint of sweat saves a gallon of blood." - General George S. Patton (1885-1945) "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) "He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know." - Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) "Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something." - last words of Pancho Villa (1877-1923) "The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins." - Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841-1935) "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)
"The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep." - Clinton aide George Stephanopolous speaking on Larry King Live "We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees." - Jason Kidd, upon his drafting to the Dallas Mavericks "Half this game is ninety percent mental." - Yogi Berra "There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend the whole." - Bill Wulf "There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher." - Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964) "He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire." - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) "Write drunk; edit sober." - Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) "I criticize by creation - not by finding fault." - Cicero (106-43 B.C.)
"Love is friendship set on fire." - Jeremy Taylor "God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately not enough blood supply to run both at the same time." - Robin Williams, commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair "My occupation now, I suppose, is jail inmate." - Unibomber Theodore Kaczynski, when asked in court what his current profession was "Woman was God's second mistake." - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) "This isn't right, this isn't even wrong." - Wolfgang Pauli (1900-1958), upon reading a young physicist's paper "For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing." - Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) "Pray, v.: To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy." - Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)
"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) "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 "Wagner's music is better than it sounds." - Mark Twain (1835-1910) "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) "If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?" - Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing "#3 pencils and quadrille pads." - Seymoure Cray (1925-1996) when asked what CAD tools he used to design the Cray I supercomputer; he also recommended using the back side of the pages so that the grid lines were not so dominant. "Interesting - I use a Mac to help me design the next Cray." - Seymoure Cray (1925-1996) when he was told that Apple Inc. had recently bought a Cray supercomputer to help them design the next Mac. "Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis." - Pierre Laplace (1749-1827), to Napoleon on why his works on celestial mechanics make no mention of God. "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 "The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them."
- Mark Twain (1835-1910) "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)
GREATEST LOVE QUOTES OF ALL TIME
1. "A kiss is a lovely trick, designed by nature, to stop words when speech becomes superfluous." --Ingrid Bergmen
2. Love is a temporary madness. It erupts like an earthquake and then subsides. And when it subsides you have to make a decision. You have to work out whether your roots have become so entwined together that it is inconceivable that you should ever part. Because this is what love is. Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being "in love" which any of us can convince ourselves we are.
Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two. - Captain Corelli's Mandolin6. "Love is the beauty of the soul." --St. Augustine
3. "My night has become a sunny dawn because of you." --Ibn Abbad
4. "In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person." --Margaret Anderson
5. "In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities." --Janos Arnay 7. "Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies." --Aristotle
8. "Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life." --Aphra Behn
9. "Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me." --Sarah Bernhardt
10. "In my wildest dreams, you always play the hero. In my darkest hour of night, you rescue me, you save my life." --Bliss and Cerney
11. "Come live with me and be my love, and we will some new pleasures prove, of golden sands, and crystal beaches, with silken lines and silver hooks..." --John Dunne
12. "What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes..." --Elizabeth Barret Browning
13. "I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach..." --Elizabeth Barrett Browning
14. "Take away love, and our earth is a tomb." --Robert Browning 15. "But to see her was to love her, love but her, and love her forever." --Robert Burns
16. "She walks in Beauty, like the night Of cloudness climes and starry skies, And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes..." --Lord Byron
17. "Like music on the waters is they sweet voice to me." --Lord Byron
18. "I love you, not only for what you are, But for what I am when I am with you." --Roy Croft 19. "You're nothing short of my everything." --Ralph Block
20. "The only true gift is a portion of yourself." --Ralph Waldo Emerson
21. "Thou art to me a delicious torment." --Ralph Waldo Emerson
22. "Love distills desire upon the eyes, love brings bewitching grace into the heart." --Euripides
23. "I love her and that's the beginning of everything." --F. Scott Fitzgerald
24. "I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in
hand, along a sun-warmed, flower-bordered path." --Andre Gide
25. "Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own." --Robert Heinlein
26. "Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts." --Oliver Wendell Holmes
27. "What I feel for you seems less of earth and more of a cloudless heaven." --Victor Hugo
28. "It's so easy, To think about Love, To Talk about Love, To wish for Love, But it's not always easy, To recognize Love, Even when we hold it.... In our hands." --Jaka
29. "Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one." --John Keats
30. "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart." --Helen Keller
31. "... See there's this place in me where your fingerprints still rest, your kisses still linger, and your whispers softly echo. It's the place where a part of you will forever be a part of me." --Gretchen Kemp
32. "When you came, you were like red wine and honey, and the taste of you burnt my mouth with its sweetness." --Amy Lowell
33. "Make me immortal with a kiss." --Christopher Marlowe
34. "Oh, thou art fairer than the evening air Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars." --Christopher Marlowe
35. "Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart." --Alphonse Marie de la Martine
36. "In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing." --Mignon McLaughlin
37. "We came by night to the Fortunate Isles, And lay like fish Under the net of our kisses." --Pablo Neruda
38. "The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain signing to it...you and you alone make me feel that I am alive...Other men, it is said, have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough." --George Moore
39. "In love there are two things: bodies and words." --Joyce Carol Oates
40. "I become a waterwheel, turning and tasting you, as long as water moves." --Rumi
41. "I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal." --Vita Sackville-West
42. "Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction." --Antoine de Saint-Exupery
43. "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to
the eye." --Antoine de Saint-Exupery
44. "There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved." --George Sand
45. "Sometimes your nearness takes my breath away; and all the things I want to say can find no voice. Then, in silence, I can only hope my eyes will speak my heart." --Robert Sexton
46. "My heart is ever at your service." --William Shakespeare
47. "The more I give to thee, the more I have, for both are infinite." --William Shakespeare
48. "Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition." --Alexander Smith
49. "I am my beloved, and my beloved is me." --Song of Solomon
50. "Her breath is like honey spiced with cloves, Her mouth delicious as a ripened mango." --Srzgarakarika
51. "To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven." --Karen Sunde
52. "Love, till dawn sunder night from day with fire Dividing my delight and my desire..." --A. C. Swinburne
53. "Love is friendship set on fire." --Jeremy Taylor
54. "Within you I lose myself. Without you I find myself wanting to become lost again." --Unknown
55. "Somewhere there's someone who dreams of your smile..." --Unknown
56. "I see my fated stars in your eyes. They melt me like the sun does snow." --Unknown
57. "The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart." --Unknown
58. "To be your friend was all I ever wanted; to be your lover was all I ever dreamed." --Unknown
59. "If I could reach up and hold a star for every time you made me smile, I would have the whole night sky in the palm of my hand." --Unknown
60. "If you love me only in my dreams, let me be asleep forever." --Unknown
61. "Kiss me and you will see stars; love me and I will give them to you." --Unknown
62. "Love is a dream that comes alive when we meet." --Unknown
63. "The soul that can speak with its eyes can also kiss with a gaze." --Unknown
64. "Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essense." --Vincent van Gogh
65. "Harmony is pure love, for love is a concerto." --Lope de Vega
66. "Here are fruits, flowers, leaves, and branches, And here is my heart which beats only for you." --Paul Verlaine
67. "When a heart finds another, what's a cloud more or less in the sky?" --Wolf and Page
68. "The most precious possession that ever comes to a man in this world is a woman's heart. --Josiah G. Holland
69. "From every human being there rises a light that reaches straight to heaven. And when two souls that are destined to be together find each other, their streams of light flow together, and a single brighter light goes forth from their united being." --Unknown
70. "The most wonderful of all things in life is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a growing depth, beauty and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvelous thing; it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is a sort of divine accident, and the most wonderful of all things in life." --Sir Hugh Walpole
71. "Love means to commit oneself without guarantee, to give oneself completely in the hope that our love will produce love in the loved person. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love." --Erich Fromm
72. "You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly." --Sam Keen
73. "The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable." --Victor Hugo
74. "True love begins when nothing is looked for in return." --Antoine De Saint-Exupery
75. "Love is the emblem of eternity: it confounds all notion of time: effaces all memory of a beginning, all fear of an end." --Germaine De Stael
76. "The life and love we create is the life and love we live." --Leo Buscaglia
77. "For every beauty there is an eye somewhere to see it. For every truth there is an ear somewhere to hear it. For every love there is a heart somewhere to receive it." --Ivan Panin
78. "Listening is an attitude of the heart, a genuine desire to be with another which both attracts and heals." --J. Isham
79. "Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage." --Lao Tzu
80. "The most eloquent silence; that of two mouths meeting in a kiss." --Unknown
81. "Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul." --St. Augustine
82. "Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it." --Thomas Fuller
83. "Paradise is always where love dwells." --Jean Paul F. Richter
84. "True love is eternal, infinite, and always like itself. It is equal and pure, without violent demonstrations: it is seen with white hairs and is always young in the heart." --Honore de Balzac
85. "We are all born for love... it is the principle existence and it's only end." --Benjamin Disraeli
86. "Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness." --Oliver Wendell Holmes
87. "Love doesn't make the world go round, love is what makes the ride worthwhile." --Elizabeth Browning
88. " When you are in Love you can't fall asleep because reality is better than your dreams. " -- Dr Suese
89. "If I know what love is, it is because of you." --Herman Hesse
90. "So dear I love him that with him, All deaths I could endure. Without him, live no life." -- William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
91. "Love is like a friendship caught on fire: In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable." --Bruce Lee
92. "She walks in beauty, Like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes." --Byron
93. "....A simple I love you means more than money...." --Frank Sinatra
94. "How delicious is the winning of a kiss at love's beginning." --Thomas Campbell
95. "One word frees us of all the weight and pain in life. That word is Love." --Sophocles
96. "Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired." --Mark Twain
97. " Find a guy who calls you beautiful instead of hot, who calls you back when you hang up on him, who will lie under the stars and listen to your heartbeat, or will stay awake just to watch you sleep... wait for the boy who kisses your forehead, who wants to show you off to the world when you are in sweats, who holds your hand in front of his friends, who thinks you' re just as pretty without makeup on. One who is constantly reminding you of how much he cares and how lucky he is to have YOU... The one who turns to his friends and says, thats her... " -- Unknown
98. "There is no remedy for love but to love more." --Henry David Thoreau
99. "If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever." --Alfred Lord Tennyson
100. "All love is sweet, given or returned." --Percy Bysshe Shelley
GREATEST QUOTES OF ALL TIME-4
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly. - Sam Keen, from To Love and Be Loved
"The spaces between your fingers were created so that another's could fill them in." Have you ever wondered which hurts the most: saying something and wishing you had not, or saying nothing, and wishing you had? 10th grade As I sat there in English class, I stared at the girl next to me. She was my so called "best friend". I stared at her long, silky hair, and wished she was mine. But she didn't notice me like that, and I knew it. After class, she walked up to me and asked me for the notes she had missed the day before and handed them to her. She said "thanks" and gave me a kiss on the cheek. I wanted to tell her, I want her to know
that I don't want to be just friends, I love her but I'm just too shy, and I don't know why. 11th grade The phone rang. On the other end, it was her. She was in tears, mumbling on and on about how her love had broke her heart. She asked me to come over because she didn't want to be alone, so I did. As I sat next to her on the sofa, I stared at her soft eyes, wishing she was mine. After 2 hours, one Drew Barrymore movie, and three bags of chips, she decided to go to sleep. She looked at me, said "thanks" and gave me a kiss on the cheek. I want to tell her, I want her to know that I don't want to be just friends, I love her but I'm just too shy, and I don't know why. Senior year The day before prom she walked to my locker. My date is sick" she said; he's not going to go well, I didn't have a date, and in 7th grade, we made a promise that if neither of us had dates, we would go together just as "best friends". So we did. Prom night, after everything was over, I was standing at her front door step. I stared at her as she smiled at me and stared at me with her crystal eyes. I want her to be mine, but she isn't think of me like that, and I know it. Then she said "I had the best time, thanks!" and gave me a kiss on the cheek. I want to tell her, I want her to know that I don't want to be just friends, I love her but I'm just too shy, and
I don't know why.
Graduation Day A day passed, then a week, then a month. Before I could blink, it was graduation day. I watched as her perfect body floated like an angel up on stage to get her diploma. I wanted her to be mine, but she didn't notice me like that, and I knew it. Before everyone went home, she came to me in her smock and hat, and cried as I hugged her. Then she lifted her head from my shoulder and said, "you're my best friend, thanks" and gave me a kiss on the cheek. I want to tell her, I want her to know that I don't want to be just friends, I love her but I'm just too shy, and I don't know why. A Few Years Later Now I sit in the pews of the church. That girl is getting married now. I watched her say "I do" and drive off to her new life, married to another man. I wanted her to be mine, but she didn't see me like that, and I knew it. But before she drove away, she came to me and said "you came!". She said "thanks" and kissed me on the cheek. I want to tell her, I want her to know that I don't want to be just friends, I love her but I'm just too shy, and I don't know why. Funeral
Years passed, I looked down at the coffin of a girl who used to be my "best friend". At the service, they read a diary entry she had wrote in her high school years. This is what it read: I stare at him wishing he was mine, but he doesn't notice me like that, and I know it. I want to tell him, I want him to know that I don't want to be just friends, I love him but I'm just too shy, and I don't know why. I wish he would tell me he loved me! `I wish I did too...` I thought to my self, and I cried.
9 Things I Hate About Everyone 1. People who point at their wrist asking for the time... I know where my watch is pal, where the hell is yours? Do I point at my crotch when I ask where the toilet is? 2. People who are willing to get off their a** to search the entire room for the TV remote because they refuse to walk to the TV and change the channel manually. 3. When people say "Oh you just want to have your cake and eat it too". Damn Right! What good is cake if you can't eat it? 4. When people say "it's always the last place you look". Of course it is. Why the hell would
you keep looking after you've found it? Do people do this? Who and where are they? 5. When people say while watching a film, "did ya see that?" No Loser, I paid $12 to come to the cinema and stare at the damn floor! 6. People who ask "Can I ask you a question?"... Didn't give me a choice there, did ya sunshine? 7. When something is 'new and improved'. Which is it? If it's new, then there has never been anything before it. If it's an improvement, then there must have been something before it, couldn't be new. 8. When people say "life is short". What the hell??? Life is the longest damn thing anyone ever does!!! What can you do thats longer? 9. When you are waiting for the bus and someone asks "Has the bus come yet?" If the bus came, would I be standing here???
In the end, it's not going to matter how many breaths you took, but how many moments took your breath away
Someday your prince charming will come. Mine just took a wrong turn, got lost, and is too stubborn to ask for directions.
"Meeting you was fate, becoming your friend was a choice, but falling in love with you was beyond my control." "Find a guy who calls you beautiful instead of hot, who calls you back when you hang up on him, who will lie under the stars and listen to your heartbeat, or will stay awake just to watch you sleep... wait for the boy who kisses your forehead, who wants to show you off to the world when you are in sweats, who holds your hand in front of his friends, who thinks you' re just as pretty without makeup on. One who is constantly reminding you of how much he cares and how lucky he is to have YOU... The one who turns to his friends and says, "thats her".... Annoying
Things
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1) CRACK open your briefcase or handbag, peer Inside and ask "Got enough air in there?" 2) STAND silent and motionless in the corner facing the wall without getting off. 3) WHEN arriving at your floor, grunt and strain to yank the doors open, then act as if you're embarrassed when they open themselves.
4) GREET everyone with a warm handshake and ask him or her to call you Admiral. 5) MEOW occasionally. 6) STARE At another passenger for a while. Then announce in horror: "You're one of THEM" and back away slowly 7) SAY -DING at each floor. 8) SAY "I wonder what all these do?" And push all the red buttons. 9) MAKE explosion noises when anyone presses a button. 10) STARE, grinning at another passenger for a while, then announce: "I have new socks on." 11) WHEN the elevator is silent, look around and ask: "Is that your beeper?" 12) TRY to make personal calls on the emergency phone. 13) DRAW a little square on the floor with chalk and announce to the other passengers: "This is my personal space." 14) WHEN there's only one other person in the elevator, tap them on the shoulder, then pretend it wasn't you. 15) PUSH the buttons and pretend they give you a shock. Smile, and go back for more. 16) ASK if you can push the button for other people but push the wrong ones. 17) HOLD the doors open and say you're waiting for your friend. After a while, let the doors close and say "Hi Greg, How's your day been?" 18) DROP a pen and wail until someone
reaches to help pick it up, then scream: "That's mine!" 19) BRING a camera and take pictures of everyone in the lift. 20) PRETEND you're a flight attendant and review emergency procedures and exits with the Passengers. 21) SWAT at flies that don't exist. 22) CALL out "Group hug" then enforce it.
Grant S. Kawo
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