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

Quote (#498)

Every great advance in science has issued
from a new audacity of imagination.
- John Dewey

A society which is mobile, which is full of channels for
the distribution of a change occurring anywhere, must see
to it that its members are educated to personal initiative
and adaptability. Otherwise, they will be overwhelmed by the
changes in which they are caught and whose significance or
connections they do not perceive.
- John Dewey

As we are liberated from our own fear, our
presence automatically liberates others.
- Nelson Mandela

It is far more impressive when others discover
your good qualities without your help.
- Judith S. Martin

"Love is the master key that
opens the gates of happiness."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

There's music in the sighting of a reed;
There's music in the gushing of a rill;
There's music in all things, if men had ears;
There's earth is but an echo of the spheres.
- Byron

Quote (#493)

"To avoid situations in which you might make
mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all."
- Peter McWilliams

"When a thing ceases to be a
subject of controversy, it ceases
to be a subject of interest."
- William Hazlitt

"It is by universal misunderstanding that all
agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood
each other, they would never agree."
- Charles Baudelaire

When a friend asks,
there is no tomorrow.
- George Herbert

The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes

Life itself is a quotation.
- Jorge Luis Borges (1899–1986)

Favorite Quotes

Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have
taught me that when nothing can possible go wrong
and every avenue has been covered, then is the time
to buy a house on the next continent.
- Terry Pratchett

The fox knows many things, but
the hedgehog knows one big thing.
- Archilochus

"Now this is not the end. It
is not even the beginning of
the end. But it is, perhaps,
the end of the beginning."
- Sir Winston Churchill

"Science is a way of talking about the universe in
words that bind it to a common reality. Magic is a
method of talking to the universe in words that it
cannot ignore. The two are rarely compatible."
- The Phantom Stranger, BOOKS OF MAGIC #1

Insanity is often the logic of
an accurate mind over-tasked.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

Khan: Do you know the Klingon proverb that tells us, "Revenge
is a dish that is best served cold"? It is very cold...in space.
- Star Trek - The Wrath of Khan

Quotes

Try to learn something about everything
and everything about something.
- Thomas H. Huxley

You probably wouldn't worry about what
people think of you if you could know
how seldom they do.
- Olin Miller

I believe that a scientist looking
at nonscientific problems is just
as dumb as the next guy.
- Richard Feynman

Freedom is not worth having if it does
not include the freedom to make mistakes.
- Mahatma Gandhi

If you're not scared or angry at the thought of a
human brain being controlled remotely, then it could
be this prototype of mine is finally starting to work.
- John Alejandro King

Lawyers spend a great deal of
their time shoveling smoke.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

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 - Favorites

The human brain starts working the
moment you are born and never stops
until you stand up to speak in public.
- George Jessel

"I'd rather know some of the questions
than all of the answers."
- James Thurber

"The mind of a bigot is like the pupil
of the eye. The more light you shine
on it, the more it will contract."
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

"Oh, what a tangled web we weave
when first we practice to believe."
- Laurence J. Peter

"When love is gone, there's always justice.
And when justice is gone, there's always force.
And when force is gone, there's always Mom.
Hi, Mom!"
- Laurie Anderson

When dealing with the insane, the best
method is to pretend to be sane.
- Hermann Hesse