Quote (#559)

"The object of war is not to die for your country,
but to make the other bastard die for his."
- General George Patton (1885-1945)

"It is better to be feared than
loved, if you cannot be both."
- Niccolo Machiavelli

"When a man is wrapped up in himself
he makes a pretty small package."
- John Ruskin (1819-1900)

"I choose a block of marble and
chop off whatever I don’t need."
- Rodin

"Copy from one, it’s plagiarism;
copy from two, it’s research."
- Wilson Mizner

"University politics are vicious precisely
because the stakes are so small."
- Henry Kissinger

Favorite Quotes

There will come a time when you believe everything
is finished. That'll be the beginning.
- Louis L'Amour

"When love and skill
work together, expect
a masterpiece."
- John Ruskin

"Perpetual optimism is
a force multiplier."
- Colin Powell

Talent hits a target no one else can hit;
Genius hits a target no one else can see.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

Every time you pick up a grain of sand you
hold a universe in the palm of your hand.
- Dr. Lao, "7 Faces of Dr. Lao"

Albus Dumbledore: "Welcome to a new year at Hogwarts!
Before we begin our banquet, I would like to say a few
words. And here they are: Nitwit! Blubber! Oddment! Tweak!"
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, J.K. Rowling.

Quotaria - Oneliners

"'True to yourself, to the bitter end.'"
- Tim Robins, "Prisoners of the Sun"

Can I handle the seasons of my life?
- Stevie Nicks

"Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments."
- Nathaniel Hawthorne

"There is no wealth but life."
- John Ruskin

"Children are all foreigners."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Never judge a book by its movie."
- J. W. Eagan

Quotaria

"My interest is in the future
because I am going to spend
the rest of my life there."
- Charles Kettering

"The sky is the part of creation
in which nature has done for the
sake of pleasing man."
- John Ruskin

"The most erroneous stories are those
we think we know best - and therefore
never scrutinize or question."
- Stephen Jay Gould

"Every nation ridicules other
nations, and all are right."
- Arthur Schopenhauer

"I haven't spoken to my wife in years.
I didn't want to interrupt her."
- Rodney Dangerfield

"Research is the process of going up
alleys to see if they are blind."
- Marston Bates

Quotaria

"Those who build beneath
the stars build too low."
- Edward Young

"Politics is perhaps the only profession for
which no preparation is thought necessary."
- Robert Louis Stevenson

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost;
that is where they should be. Now put foundations under them.
- Henry David Thoreau

Every increased possession
loads us with new weariness.
- John Ruskin

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything
without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
- Robert Frost

Psychoanalysis can unravel some of the forms of madness;
it remains a stranger to the sovereign enterprise of
unreason. It can neither limit nor transcribe, nor most
certainly explain, what is essential in this enterprise.
- Michel Foucault