Quotes - Favorites

"A poem is no place for an idea."
- Edgar Watson Howe

"The whole problem with the world is that fools
and fanatics are always so certain of themselves,
but wiser people so full of doubts."
- Bertrand Russell

"It's easy to make a buck. It's a
lot tougher to make a difference."
- Tom Brokaw

There's only one way to
fail, and that is to quit.
- [no attribution]

Knowing others is intelligence.
Knowing yourself is true wisdom.
- Lao Tse

Perfect is achieved, not when there is
nothing left to add, but when there is
nothing left to take away.
- Antoine de St. Exupery

Quotes

"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power.
We have guided missiles and misguided men."
- Martin Luther King Jr

"I must study politics and war that
my sons may have liberty to study
mathematics and philosophy."
- John Adams

A good many young writers make the mistake of
enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope,
big enough for the manuscript to come back in.
This is too much of a temptation to the editor.
- Ring Lardner

I do not believe in
the creed professed
by the Jewish Church,
by the Roman Church,
by the Greek Church,
by the Turkish Church,
by the Protestant Church,
nor by any church that I know of.
My own mind is my own church.
- Thomas Paine

There is no passion like that of
a functionary for his function.
- Georges Clemenceau

People are difficult to govern because
they have too much knowledge.
- Lao-Tzu

Quotes - PBF2B

"Early morning cheerfulness
can be extremely obnoxious."
- William Feather

"You are only as smart as your questions
and as dumb as your answers."
- Allen Wolff

The more laws and order are made
prominent, The more thieves and
robbers there will be.
- Lao-Tzu

"You wouldn't have won
if we'd beaten you."
- Yogi Berra

When we lose the right to be different,
we lose the privilege to be free.
- Charles Evans Hughes

"He was a bold man who
first ate an oyster."
- Jonathan Swift

Quotes

Seek not happiness too greedily,
and be not fearful of happiness.
~ Lao-Tzu

"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile,
hoping it will eat him last."
- Winston Churchill

"Age is whatever you think it is. You
are as old as you think you are."
- Muhammad Ali

"My theory is that all of Scottish
cuisine is based on a dare."
- Mike Myers

"The nice part about being a pessimist is
that you are constantly being either proven
right or pleasantly surprised. "
- George F. Will

"A nickel ain't worth
a dime anymore."
- Yogi Berra

Quotaria

"Defining and analyzing humor is
a pastime of humorless people."
- Robert Benchley

"In times like these, it helps to recall that
there have always been times like these."
- Paul Harvey

When the highest type of men hear Tao,
They diligently practice it.
When the average type of men hear Tao,
They half believe in it.
When the lowest type of men hear Tao,
They laugh heartily at it.
Without the laugh, there is no Tao.
- Lao-Tzu

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled [poets] to
write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration,
such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their
sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
- Socrates

"Everybody likes a kidder,
but nobody lends him money."
- Arthur Miller

"The opposite of the religious fanatic
is not the fanatical atheist but the
gentle cynic who cares not whether
there is a god or not."
- Eric Hoffer

Quotaria

"I have a love interest in every
one of my films - a gun."
- Arnold Schwarzenegger

"If you have a garden and a library,
you have everything you need."
- Marcus Tullius Cicero

"You talk to God, you're religious.
God talks to you, you're psychotic."
- Doris Egan

Every thinker puts some portion of an apparently
stable world in peril and no one can wholly predict
what will emerge in its place.
- John Dewey

"Nature is not
human hearted."
- Lao Tzu

"Nature always wears the
colors of the spirit."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quotaria

I have come to believe that the whole
world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
that is made terrible by our own mad
attempt to interpret it as though it
had an underlying truth.
- Umberto Eco

It is the wretchedness of being rich
that you have to live with rich people.
- Logan Pearsall Smith

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland,
rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
- John Cleese

If you can count your money, you
don't have a billion dollars.
- Jean Paul Getty

He who knows others is wise;
He who know himself is enlightened.
- Lao-Tzu

Marriage is like pi - natural,
irrational, and very important.
- Lisa Hoffman

Quotaria - Oneliners

"A little subversion is good for the soul."
- "The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles"

"How do I know about the world? By what is within me."
- Lao Tzu, "Tao Te Ching"

"The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it."
- George Orwell

Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.
- Jules Feiffer

"Discretion is the polite word for hypocrisy.
- Christine Keeler

"Ability is a poor man's wealth."
- John Wooden