Quotes (#489)

"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to
be understood. Now is the time to understand
more, so that we may fear less."
- Marie Curie

"Love is composed of a single
soul inhabiting two bodies."
- Aristotle

"There it was, hidden
in alphabetical order."
- Rita Holt

"Honor is not the exclusive property
of any political party."
- Herbert Hoover

"Some books are to be tasted,
others to be swallowed, and some
few to be chewed and digested."
- Francis Bacon

"Waters are distilled out of Herbs,
Flowers, Fruits, and Roots."
- Nicholas Culpeper

Quotaria - Favorites

"I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals.
I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants."
- A. Whitney Brown

"If at first you don't succeed, find
out if the loser gets anything."
- Bill Lyon

"There is no abstract art. You must always
start with something. Afterward you can
remove all traces of reality."
- Pablo Picasso

"Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for
a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a
jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit."
- Aristotle

"In a mad world only the mad are sane."
- Akira Kurosawa

"An expert is a person who has made
all the mistakes that can be made
in a very narrow field."
- Niels Bohr

Theme: Aristotle

Pleasure in the job puts
perfection in the work.
- Aristotle

"The roots of education are
bitter, but the fruit is sweet."
- Aristotle

"Man is by nature
a political animal."
- Aristotle

To love someone is to
identify with them.
- Aristotle

"If one way be better than another,
that you may be sure is nature's way."
- Aristotle

All paid jobs absorb
and degrade the mind.
- Aristotle

Quotaria

You can tell more about a person by
what he says about others than you
can by what others say about him.
- Leo Aikman

People of mediocre ability sometimes
achieve outstanding success because
they don't know when to quit. Most men
succeed because they are determined to.
- George Allen

There are many persons ready to do what is right because
in their hearts they know it is right. But they hesitate,
waiting for the other fellow to make the make the first
move -- and he, in turn, waits for you.
- Marian Anderson

The future is disorder. A door like this has cracked open five or six
times since we got up on our hind legs. It's the best possible time
to be alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong.
- Arcadia

We are what we repeatedly
do. Excellence, then, is
not an act, but a habit.
- Aristotle

"Pity the meek, for they
shall inherit the earth."
- Don Marquis

Quotes

We should behave to our friends as we
would wish our friends to behave to us.
- Aristotle

You've got to get to the stage in
life where going for it is more
important than winning or losing.
- Arthur Ashe

Don't cross your bridges until you get to
them. We spend our lives defeating ourselves
crossing bridges we never get to.
- Bob Bales

It is easy to take notice. What is difficult
is getting up and taking action.
- Al Batt

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

I have a new philosophy. I'm only
going to dread one day at a time.
- Charles M. Schulz

Quotaria

"A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but
a bad novel tells us the truth about its author."
- G. K. Chesterton

"Fish is the only food that is considered
spoiled once it smells like what it is."
- P. J. O'Rourke

"The future is here. It's just
not widely distributed yet."
- William Gibson

"The denunciation of the young is a necessary
part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly
assists in the circulation of their blood."
- Logan Pearsall Smith

"I believe that banking institutions are more
dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. "
- Thomas Jefferson

Wit is educated insolence.
- Aristotle

Quotaria

The whole is more than
the sum of its parts.
- Aristotle

"Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred
Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels."
- Bob Thaves

"Nobody in the game of football should be called a
genius. A genius is somebody like Norman Einstein."
- Joe Theismann

"Don't you wish there was a knob on the TV
to turn up the intelligence? There's one
marked 'Brightness,' but it doesn't work."
- Gallagher

"I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be
writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I
don't do any thing. Not one single thing. I used to
bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more."
- Dorothy Parker

"Washington is no place for
a good actor. The competition
from bad actors is too great."
- Fred Allen