Quotes

Never explain--your friends do
not need it and your enemies
will not believe you anyway.
- Elbert Hubbard

"Truth has no special time of its
own. Its hour is now - always."
- Albert Schweitzer

"If man does find the solution for world peace
it will be the most revolutionary reversal of
his record we have ever known."
- George C. Marshall

Why torture yourself when
life will do it for you?
- Ashleigh Brilliant

If you can't do what you want, do what you can.
- Lois McMaster Bujold, "Memory", 1996

"Those who stand for nothing fall for anything."
- Alexander Hamilton

Quotes

"If at first you don't succeed,
failure may be your style."
- Quentin Crisp

"I go to nature to be soothed and healed,
and to have my senses put in order."
- John Burroughs

"All truth, in the long run, is
only common sense clarified."
- Thomas Huxley

"To be is to do."
- Immanuel Kant

"Only stupid questions create wealth."
- Gary Hamel

"The supernatural is the
natural not yet understood."
- Elbert Hubbard

Quotes

"All animals are equal but some
animals are more equal than others."
- George Orwell

Inspiration is wonderful when it happens,
but the writer must develop an approach
for the rest of the time... The wait is
simply too long.
- Leonard Bernstein

Now I know what a statesman is; he's a
dead politician. We need more statesmen.
- Bob Edwards

My wife and I were happy for
twenty years. Then we met.
- Rodney Dangerfield

The greatest mistake you can make is to
be continually fearing you will make one.
- Elbert Hubbard

My theory is that if you look confident you
can pull off anything - even if you have no
clue what you're doing.
- Jessica Alba

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

"The first rule of sustainability
is to align with natural forces,
or at least not try to defy them."
- Paul Hawken

"I can find God in nature, in animals,
in birds and the environment."
- Pat Buckley

"The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's
exactly what's right about it."
- William Gibson

Do not take life to seriously.
You'll never get out of it alive.
- Elbert Hubbard

"A single death is a tragedy;
a million deaths is a statistic."
- Joseph Stalin

"There must be more to life
than having everything."
- Maurice Sendak

Quotaria

"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man."
- Elbert Hubbard

"Solitary trees, if they
grow at all, grow strong."
- Winston Churchill

"Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center
is everywhere and the circumference nowhere."
- Blaise Pascal

"Things do not happen.
Things are made to happen."
- John F. Kennedy

"Rogues are preferable to imbeciles
because they sometimes take a rest."
- Alexandre Dumas

"The least of learning is
done in the classrooms."
- Thomas Merton

Quotaria

"Don't pray when it rains if you
don't pray when the sun shines."
- Satchel Paige

"We live in an age when pizza gets
to your home before the police."
- Jeff Marder

"Genius may have its limitations, but
stupidity is not thus handicapped."
- Elbert Hubbard

"We seem to believe it is possible to ward
off death by following rules of good grooming."
- Don Delillo

"It is possible to store the mind with a million
facts and still be entirely uneducated."
- Alec Bourne

"Pay no attention to what the critics say...
Remember, a statue has never been set up in
honor of a critic!"
- Jean Sibelius

Quotes - Oneliner

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

An ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.
- Elbert Hubbard

It's always darkest before it goes pitch black.
- Connie Winkler

"Baseball is 90% mental, the other half is physical."
- Yogi Berra

The only paradise is paradise lost.
- Marcel Proust

Modern music is as dangerous as narcotics.
- Pietro Mascagni

Quotes

"It is during our darkest moments
that we must focus to see the light."
- Aristotle Onassis

"The trouble with being poor is
that it takes up all your time."
- Willem de Kooning

"The tree that is beside the running
water is fresher and gives more fruit."
- Saint Teresa of Avila

"No man needs a vacation so much
as the man who has just had one."
- Elbert Hubbard

"Sometimes the appropriate response
to reality is to go insane."
- Philip K. Dick

The Riddler: Now who in the right
mind has bats on the brain?
- Batman Forever