Quotes

Although prepared for martyrdom,
I preferred that it be postponed.
- Sir Winston Churchill

A citizen of America will cross the ocean
to fight for democracy, but won't cross
the street to vote in a national election.
- Bill Vaughan

"If God wanted us to fly, He
would have given us tickets."
- Mel Brooks

I was always taught to respect my elders
and I've now reached the age when I
don't have anybody to respect.
- George Burns

Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after
they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.
- Alan Corenk

If you think you can do a thing or think
you can't do a thing, you're right.
- Henry Ford

Quotes

"Hollywood is a place where they'll pay
you a thousand dollars for a kiss and
fifty cents for your soul."
- Marilyn Monroe

There is joy in work. There is no
happiness except in the realization
that we have accomplished something.
- Henry Ford

"Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing."
- Vince Lombardi

"The ear of the leader must ring
with the voices of the people."
- Woodrow Wilson

Nothing is said that has
not been said before.
- Terence

Wolvie: C’mon, McCoy deliver that psneumatic setative sometime this week!
Beast: As another sawbones named McCoy was known to have intoned... "I am a doctor.. not a miracle worker!!"
- X-men adventures # 8-9

Quotes

"If all the world's a stage, I
want to operate the trap door."
- Paul Beatty

"Before I met my husband, I'd
never fallen in love, though
I'd stepped in it a few times."
- Rita Rudner

"There art two cardinal sins from which all
others spring: Impatience and Laziness."
- Franz Kafka

Obstacles are those frightful
things you see when you take
your eyes off your goal.
- Henry Ford

"Never give a party if you will be
the most interesting person there."
- Mickey Friedman

"A woman drove me to drink and I didn't
even have the decency to thank her."
- W. C. Fields

Quotes - Favorites

"Where love rules, there is no will to power
and where power predominates, there love is
lacking. The one is the shadow of the other."
- Carl Jung

"Even stones have a love, a
love that seeks the ground".
- Meister Eckhart

Brave men are all vertebrates; they
have their softness on the surface
and their toughness in the middle.
- Lewis Carrol

"Liberty without learning is always in peril;
learning without liberty is always in vain."
- John F. Kennedy

Only those who dare to fail greatly
can ever achieve greatly.
~ Robert F. Kennedy

Nothing is particularly hard if
you divide it into small jobs.
- Henry Ford

Quotaria

I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success,
but I can give you a formula for failure: try to
please everybody all the time.
- Herbert Bayard Swope

People can have the Model T in any
colour--so long as it's black.
- Henry Ford

Life is a great big canvas,
and you should throw all the
paint on it you can.
- Danny Kaye

To invent, you need a good
imagination and a pile of junk.
- Thomas Alva Edison

It's better to be wanted for murder
than not to be wanted at all.
- Marty Winch

There are three reasons why lawyers are replacing rats
as laboratory research animals. One is that they are
plentiful, another is that lab assistants don't get so
attached to them and the third is that they will do
things that you just can't get rats to do.
- Blanche Knott

Quotes

"Don't borrow someone else's spectacles
to view yourself with."
- Simon Travaglia

"The only reason some people get lost in thought
is because it's unfamiliar territory."
- Paul Fix

"In comic strips, the person on
the right always speaks first."
- George Carlin

"If men were angels, no
government would be necessary."
- James Madison

An idealist is a person who helps
other people to be prosperous.
- Henry Ford

"Opportunity knocked.
My doorman threw him out."
- Adrienne Gusoff

Quotes

I am looking for a lot of men who
have an infinite capacity to not
know what can't be done.
- Henry Ford

"Tact is the knack of making a
point without making an enemy."
- Isaac Newton

Education...has produced a vast
population able to read but unable
to distinguish what is worth reading.
- GM Trevelyan

Education's purpose is to replace
an empty mind with an open one.
- Malcolm Forbes

Everyone is a genius at least once a
year. The real geniuses simply have
their bright ideas closer together.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

I can't understand why people are frightened
of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
- John Cage