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

"I want to put a ding in the universe."
- Steve Jobs

"Knowledge is power."
- Francis Bacon

"Love is the only force capable of
transforming an enemy into friend."
- Martin Luther King Jr.

"I can picture in my mind a world without war, a
world without hate. And I can picture us attacking
that world, because they'd never expect it."
- Jack Handey

"The sea complains upon a thousand shores."
- Alexander Smith

"I love to go to Washington - if
only to be near my money."
- Bob Hope

Quotaria

"Winners never quit and
quitters never win."
- Vince Lombardi

"The whole point of getting things done
is knowing what to leave undone."
- Oswald Chambers

"Nothing but heaven itself is better
than a friend who is really a friend."
- Plautus

"None are so busy as
the fool and knave."
- John Dryden

"In Hollywood a marriage is a
success if it outlasts milk."
- Rita Rudner

"You know you are getting old when
the candles cost more than the cake."
- Bob Hope

Quotaria

‘The trouble with life isn't that there is no
answer, it's that there are so many answers.’
- Ruth Benedict

"The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this
notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be
fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any."
- Russell Baker

"I don't make jokes. I just watch the
government and report the facts."
- Will Rogers

"A James Cagney love scene is one
where he lets the other guy live."
- Bob Hope

"I know I am getting better at golf because
I am hitting fewer spectators."
- Gerald R. Ford

Even he, to whom most things that most
people would think were pretty smart were
pretty dumb, thought it was pretty smart.
- Douglas Adams

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

Quotes

"A committee is a cul-de-sac
down which ideas are lured
and then quietly strangled."
- Sir Barnett Cocks

"If you watch a game, it's fun.
If you play at it, it's recreation.
If you work at it, it's golf."
- Bob Hope

"Furious activity is no
substitute for understanding."
- H. H. Williams

"Technology is a way of organizing the
universe so that man doesn't have to
experience it."
- Max Frisch

"At least half the mystery novels
published violate the law that the
solution, once revealed, must seem
to be inevitable."
- Raymond Chandler

"Everything of importance has been said before
by somebody who did not discover it."
- Alfred North Whitehead