Quote (#573)

"We are here to add what we can to life,
not to get what we can from life."
- William Osler

"The right to swing my fist ends
where the other man’s nose begins."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1841-1935)

"The Romans would never have found time to conquer the
world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin."
- Heinrich Heine

"I respect faith, but doubt is
what gets you an education."
- Wilson Mizner

"Never ascribe to malice that which can
adequately be explained by incompetence."
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

"If Stupidity got us into this mess,
then why can’t it get us out?"
- Will Rogers (1879-1935)

Quote (#499)

Reason is the wise man's
guide, example the fool's.
- Voltaire

One man's way may be as
good as as another's, but
we all like our own best.
- Jane Austen

The wise man sees in the misfortunes
of others what he should avoid.
- Syrus

The only good is knowledge,
and the only evil ignorance.
- Diogenes

"A picture is worth a thousand words."
- Napoleon Bonaparte

"Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

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 - Favorites

"The rule is perfect: in all matters of
opinion our adversaries are insane."
- Mark Twain

Never interrupt your enemy
when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

"The trouble with the rat race is that
even if you win, you're still a rat."
- Lily Tomlin

Words ought to be a little wild for
they are the assaults of thought on
the unthinking.
- John Maynard Keynes

Paucis verbis, quid est deconstructionismus?
What, in a nutshell, is deconstructionism?

There is nothing new under the sun but there
are lots of old things we don't know.
- Ambrose Bierce

Quotaria

"A compromise is the art of dividing
a cake in such a way that everyone
believes he has the biggest piece."
- Ludwig Erhard

"[Abstract art is] a product of the
untalented, sold by the unprincipled
to the utterly bewildered."
- Al Capp

"It was a book to kill time for
those who like it better dead."
- Dame Rose Macaulay

"Anything too stupid
to be said is sung."
- Voltaire

"History is the version of past events
that people have decided to agree upon."
- Napoleon Bonaparte

"Art is making something out
of nothing and selling it."
- Frank Zappa

Quotes

"I have tried to know absolutely
nothing about a great many things,
and I have succeeded fairly well."
- Robert Benchley

"Water, air, and cleanness are the
chief articles in my pharmacy."
- Napoleon Bonaparte

"I love not man the less,
but Nature more."
- Lord Byron

"The Amen of nature is always a flower."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

"About the time we can make the ends
meet, somebody moves the ends."
- Herbert Hoover

"We have, I fear, confused
power with greatness."
- Stewart Udall

Quotaria

"Impossible is a word only to be
found in the dictionary of fools."
- Napoleon I

"Never confuse people with what they don't need to know."
- Highlander: The Series, "The Revolutionary"

"The only people who find what
they are looking for in life
are the fault finders."
- Foster's Law

"Trees love to toss and sway;
they make such happy noises."
- Emily Carr

"I am certain there is too
much certainty in the world."
- Michael Crichton

"Success is doing ordinary things
extraordinarily well."
- Jim Rohn

Quotaria - Oneliners

"A poem is never finished, only abandoned."
- Paul Valery

"Gray skies are just clouds passing over."
- Duke Ellington

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

Life is a sexually transmitted terminal disease.
- Colin Greene

God's finger touched him, and he slept.
—Alfred, Lord Tennyson

A motion to adjourn is always in order.
- Robert Heinlein

Quotes

"If you get to thinkin' you're a person
of some influence, try orderin' somebody
else's dog around."
- Cowboy wisdom

"A dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and
to turn around three times before lying down"
- Robert Benchley

To be amused by what you read--that is
the great spring of happy quotations.
- CE Montague

"The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a
fool of yourself with him and not only will he not
scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too."
- Samuel Butler

"Here, gentlemen, a dog teaches
us a lesson in humanity."
- Napoleon Bonaparte

One of the serious obstacles to the improvement
of our race is indiscriminate charity.
- Andrew Carnegie

Quotes

Among those whom I like or admire,
I can find no common denominator,
but among those whom I love, I can:
all of them make me laugh.
- WH Auden

"Human salvation lies in the hands
of the creatively maladjusted."
- Martin Luther King Jr.

I love quotations because it is a joy to
find thoughts one might have, beautifully
expressed with much authority by someone
recognized wiser than oneself.
- Marlene Dietrich

You must not fight too often with one enemy,
or you will teach him all your tricks of war.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

Basic research is what I'm doing
when I don't know what I'm doing.
- Wernher von Braun

"Democracy means government by discussion, but it
is only effective if you can stop people talking."
- Clement Atlee

Quotes - Napoleon Bonaparte

A society without religion is
like a vessel without compass.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

"Ten people who speak make more noise
than ten thousand who are silent."
- Napoleon Bonaparte

If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the
universal giver of life would be my god.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

"History is a set of lies agreed upon."
- Napoleon Bonaparte

"Imagination rules the world."
- Napoleon Bonaparte

"Courage is like love; it must
have hope for nourishment."
- Napoleon Bonaparte

Quotes - Oneliners

I'm as pure as the driven slush.
- Tallulah Bankhead

Confusion is always the most honest response.
- Marty Indik

"Fortune favours the bold."
- Virgil

"Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise."
- Paul Engle

Actions lie louder than words.
- Carolyn Wells

In politics, absurdity is not a handicap.
- Napoleon Bonaparte