Quote (#555)

The only fool bigger than the person who knows
it all is the person who argues with him.
- Anonymous

"Management is doing things right;
leadership is doing the right things."
- Peter Drucker

"By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition
that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is
unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece."
- G. K. Chesterton

The truly educated man is that rare individual
who can separate reality from illusion.
- Anonymous

"I hate women because they
always know where things are."
- James Thurber

"An opinion should be the result of
thought, not a substitute for it."
- Jef Mallett

Quotaria

"One lives in the hope
of becoming a memory."
- Antonio Porchia

Leadership is a quality of those who
earn the respect of others through the
wisdom of the combination of their words
and their actions.
~ Walter Grant IV

Knowledge of the world is only to be acquired
in the world, and not in a closet.
- Lord Chesterfield

"An adventure is only an inconvenience
rightly considered. An inconvenience
is an adventure wrongly considered."
- G. K. Chesterton

"The best way to keep one's
word is not to give it."
- Napoleon Bonaparte

"We lie loudest when
we lie to ourselves."
- Eric Hoffer

Quotes

"I cook with wine, sometimes
I even add it to the food."
- W. C. Fields

"I'm willing to admit that I may not
always be right, but I am never wrong."
- Samuel Goldwyn

"I hate mankind, for I think myself one of
the best of them, and I know how bad I am."
- Joseph Baretti

"There are no wise few. Every aristocracy
that has ever existed has behaved, in all
essential points, exactly like a small mob."
- G. K. Chesterton

"I've been trying for some time to develop a
lifestyle that doesn't require my presence."
- Garry Trudeau

"Statistics: The only science that enables
different experts using the same figures
to draw different conclusions."
- Evan Esar

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

Quotes

"The right to be heard does not
automatically include the right
to be taken seriously."
- Hubert H. Humphrey

"Painting: The art of protecting
flat surfaces from the weather
and exposing them to the critic."
- Ambrose Bierce

"Bureaucracy defends the status
quo long past the time when the
quo has lost its status."
- Laurence J. Peter

If we were to wake up some morning and
find that everyone was the same race,
creed and color, we would find some
other cause for prejudice by noon.
- George Aiken

An author is a fool who, not content with boring those
he lives with, insists on boring future generations.
- Charles de Montesquieu

If there were no God, there
would be no Atheists.
- G. K. Chesterton

Quotaria

Programming today is a race between software engineers
striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs,
and the universe trying to build bigger and better idiots.
So far, the universe is winning.
- Robert Cringley

Be nice to people on your way up because
you'll meet 'em on your way down.
- Wilson Mizner

A bus station is where buses stop.
A train station is where trains stop.
On my desk, I have a workstation.
- Jon Wätte

The characteristic of scientific progress
is our knowing that we did not know.
- Gaston Bachelard

Knowing you'll have something
good to read before bed is among
the most pleasurable of sensations.
- Vladimir Nabokov

We make our friends; we make our enemies;
but God makes our next-door neighbour.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Quotaria

"What is important in life is life,
and not the result of life."
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Freedom of the press is guaranteed
only to those who own one."
- AJ Liebling

"If you would be a real seeker after truth, it
is necessary that at least once in your life
you doubt, as far as possible, all things."
- Rene Descartes

"You're never too old
to become younger."
- Mae West

Fate is not an eagle,
it creeps like a rat.
- Elizabeth Bowen

Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction,
for fiction is the creation of the human mind and
therefore congenial to it.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

Quotaria

"If you cut down a forest, it doesn't matter how
many sawmills you have if there are no more trees."
- Susan George

"Even in winter an isolated patch
of snow has a special quality."
- Andy Goldsworthy

"God is not dead but alive and well and
working on a much less ambitious project."
- Anonymous

"Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV,
you can only be one of two kinds of human
beings, either a liberal or a conservative."
- Kurt Vonnegut

"Middle age is when you've met so many
people that every new person you meet
reminds you of someone else."
- Ogden Nash

"Thieves respect property. They merely wish
the property to become their property that
they may more perfectly respect it."
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Quotes

When we got into office, the thing that
surprised me the most was that things
were as bad as we'd been saying they were.
- John F. Kennedy

"The trouble with facts is that
there are so many of them."
- Samuel McChord Crothers

"There is a great deal of difference between
an eager man who wants to read a book and the
tired man who wants a book to read."
- GK Chesterton

"When all you have is a flamethrower,
everything looks like a speed camera."
- Peter

"Where we have strong emotions,
we're liable to fool ourselves."
- Carl Sagan

The true measure of a man is how he treats
someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson