Quotes - Favorites

If you can't convince them, confuse them.
- Harry S. Truman

"Truly great madness cannot be achieved
without significant intelligence."
- Henrik Tikkanen

There is no mistaking a real book when one
meets it. It is like falling in love.
- Christopher Morley

Remember tonight... for it
is the beginning of always.
- Dante Alighieri

Time is an illusion.
Lunchtime doubly so.
- Douglas Adams

If knowledge can create problems, it is not
through ignorance that we can solve them.
- Isaac Asimov

Quotes

Yesterday I was a dog. Today I'm a dog. Tomorrow
I'll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There's so
little hope for advancement.
- Charles M. Schulz

Whenever you have an efficient
government you have a dictatorship.
- Harry S Truman

You know that children are growing
up when they start asking questions
that have answers.
- John J. Plomp

Consider your origins: you were
not made to live as brutes, but
to follow virtue and knowledge.
- Dante Alighieri

The future belongs to those who believe
in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for
you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if
you do, and damned if you don't.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Quotaria

"When we ask for advice, we are
usually looking for an accomplice."
- Marquis de la Grange

"The sad truth is that excellence
makes people nervous."
- Shana Alexander

"My grandmother started walking five miles a day
when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and
we don't know where the hell she is."
- Ellen DeGeneres

Be as a tower firmly set; Shakes not
its top for any blast that blows.
- Dante Alighieri

Art is a collaboration between
God and the artist, and the
less the artist does the better.
- Andre Gide

When I was born I was so surprised
I didn't talk for a year and a half.
- Gracie Allen

Quotes

For where the instrument of intelligence
is added to brute power and evil will,
mankind is powerless in its own defense.
- Dante Alighieri

"Why does the Air Force need expensive new
bombers? Have the people we've been bombing
over the years been complaining?"
- George Wallace

The first law of dietetics seems to be:
if it tastes good, it's bad for you.
- Isaac Asimov

An amateur is someone who supports himself
with outside jobs which enable him to paint.
A professional is someone whose wife works
to enable him to paint.
- Ben Shahn

In times of rapid change, experience
could be your worst enemy.
- Jean Paul Getty

"The things we know best are the
things we haven't been taught."
- Marquis de Vauvenargues

Quotes - Dante Alighieri

Small projects need much more help than great.
- Dante Alighieri

The customs and fashions of men
change like leaves on the bough,
some of which go and others come.
- Dante Alighieri

The darkest places in hell are reserved
for those who maintain their neutrality
in times of moral crisis.
- Dante Alighieri

The secret of getting things done is to act!
- Dante Alighieri

We must overact our part in some measure,
in order to produce any effect at all.
- Dante Alighieri