Quote (#556)

"If one sticks too rigidly to
one's principles, one would
hardly see anybody."
- Agatha Christie

"The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do
not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean
that if you are happy you will be good."
- Bertrand Russell

"The smaller the mind the
greater the conceit."
- Aesop

"A person is never happy except at
the price of some ignorance."
- Anatole France

"I grew up with six brothers. That's
how I learned to dance - waiting
for the bathroom."
- Bob Hope

"If God had wanted us to vote, he
would have given us candidates."
- Jay Leno

Quotes

"If there were in the world today any large number
of people who desired their own happiness more than
they desired the unhappiness of others, we could
have paradise in a few years."
- Bertrand Russell

A place for everything,
everything in its place.
- Benjamin Franklin

Good advice is something a man gives when
he is too old to set a bad example.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.
- Martin Luther King

Personally, I don't think there's intelligent
life on other planets. Why should other planets
be any different from this one?
- Bob Monkhouse

Children are remarkable for their intelligence and
ardour, for their curiosity and tolerance of shams,
the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision.
- Aldous Huxley

Quotaria - Favorites

"The pine stays green in
winter... wisdom in hardship."
- Norman Douglas

Change is the constant,
the signal for rebirth,
the egg of the phoenix.
- Christina Baldwin

"Science may set limits to knowledge, but
should not set limits to imagination."
- Bertrand Russell

"When you have a dream, you've got
to grab it and never let go."
- Carol Burnett

If you are planning for a year, sow rice;
if you are planning for a decade, plant trees;
if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.
- Chinese Proverb

"You know you've read a good book
when you turn the last page and
feel as if you've lost a friend."
- Anonymous

Quotes - Favorites

"A poem is no place for an idea."
- Edgar Watson Howe

"The whole problem with the world is that fools
and fanatics are always so certain of themselves,
but wiser people so full of doubts."
- Bertrand Russell

"It's easy to make a buck. It's a
lot tougher to make a difference."
- Tom Brokaw

There's only one way to
fail, and that is to quit.
- [no attribution]

Knowing others is intelligence.
Knowing yourself is true wisdom.
- Lao Tse

Perfect is achieved, not when there is
nothing left to add, but when there is
nothing left to take away.
- Antoine de St. Exupery

Quotaria

"I don't feel old. I don't feel
anything till noon. That's when
it's time for my nap."
- Bob Hope

"I would never die for my beliefs
because I might be wrong."
- Bertrand Russell

"Absolute faith corrupts as
absolutely as absolute power."
- Eric Hoffer

"How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the
evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly
the mind consents to reality."
- Norman Douglas

"Just because your voice reaches halfway around
the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when
it reached only to the end of the bar."
- Edward R. Murrow

"This is the sixth book I've
written, which isn't bad for
a guy who's only read two."
- George Burns

Quotaria - Favorites

"Turn your face to the sun and
the shadows fall behind you."
- Charlotte Whitton

"God used beautiful mathematics
in creating the world."
- Paul Dirac

"Be less curious about people
and more curious about ideas."
- Marie Curie

War doesn't determine who's
right - only who's left.
- Bertrand Russell

To avoid criticism do nothing,
say nothing, be nothing.
- Elbert Hubbard

Amor ordinem nescit
Love does not know order.
- St. Jerome

Quotaria - Bertrand Russell

It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there
is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true.
- Bertrand Russell

One of the symptoms of an approaching
nervous breakdown is the belief that
one's work is terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell

Most people would sooner die than
think; in fact, they do so.
- Bertrand Russel

"Man is a credulous animal, and must believe
something; in the absence of good grounds for
belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones."
- Bertrand Russell

"To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the
last product of civilization, and at present very
few people have reached this level."
- Bertrand Russell

"Everything is vague to a degree
you do not realize till you have
tried to make it precise."
- Bertrand Russell

Quotaria

"My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I requested fake.
Maybe I'm paranoid, but in this day and age, I don't want
something around my neck that's worth more than my head."
- Rita Rudner

"The most savage controversies are those about matters
as to which there is no good evidence either way."
- Bertrand Russell

"No problem can stand the assault
of sustained thinking."
- Voltaire

"Genius is 1% inspiration
and 99% perspiration."
- Thomas Edison

"Enjoying life isn't about finding
the answers, but living the questions."
- Sue Margolis

"See how the masses of men worry themselves into
nameless graves, while here and there a great
unselfish soul forgets himself into immortality."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quotes

"Food is an important part
of a balanced diet."
- Fran Lebowitz

"Study nature, love nature, stay close
to nature. It will never fail you."
- Frank Lloyd Wright

"Miracles do not, in fact,
break the laws of nature."
- C. S. Lewis

"I have lost friends, some by death... others
through sheer inability to cross the street."
- Virginia Woolf

"No one gossips about other
people's secret virtues."
- Bertrand Russell

"A high-brow is someone who looks
at a sausage and thinks of Picasso."
- A. P. Herbert

Quotes - Bertrand Russell

Mathematics may be defined as the subject
in which we never know what we are talking
about, nor whether what we are saying is true.
- Bertrand Russell

A sense of duty is useful in work, but offensive in
personal relations. People wish to be liked, not be
endured with patient resignation. - Bertrand Russell

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now
and then to hang a question mark on the
things you have long taken for granted.
- Bertrand Russell

The main things which seem to me important on their
own account, and not merely as means to other things,
are knowledge, art, instinctive happiness, and relations
of friendship or affection.
- Bertrand Russell

"If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way."
- Bertrand Russell

"Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed
by a cloud of comforting convictions, which
move with him like flies on a summer day."
- Bertrand Russell