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"Become who you are."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

"If you want to build a ship, don't herd people
together to collect wood and don't assign them
tasks and work, but rather teach them to long
for the endless immensity of the sea."
- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"We ought to be more focused on enemies without
than preoccupied with finding them within."
- Alan Wolfe

"A patriot must always be ready to defend
his country against his government."
- Edward Abbey

"Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal,
has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and
is not a conservative, has no brains."
- Winston Churchill

"I would have made a good Pope."
- Richard M. Nixon

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

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

Quotaria - Favorites

"A thinker sees his own actions as experiments
and questions--as attempts to find out something.
Success and failure are for him answers above all."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

"The more refined and subtle our minds,
the more vulnerable they are."
- Paul Tournier

"The best is yet to be ... so do it well."
- "The Man Without a Face" (movie)

"The truth shall make you odd."
- Flannery O'Connor

A lie gets halfway around the world before
the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Winston Churchill

Without music, life would be a mistake.
- Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Quotes - Oneliners

The price of greatness is responsibility.
- Sir Winston Churchill

The truth is more important than the facts.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

"Peace begins with a smile."
- Mother Teresa

"Youth has no age."
- Pablo Picasso

"Free men are the strongest men."
- Wendell Willkie

"Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom."
- Soren Kierkegaard

Quotaria

"One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man."
- Elbert Hubbard

"Solitary trees, if they
grow at all, grow strong."
- Winston Churchill

"Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center
is everywhere and the circumference nowhere."
- Blaise Pascal

"Things do not happen.
Things are made to happen."
- John F. Kennedy

"Rogues are preferable to imbeciles
because they sometimes take a rest."
- Alexandre Dumas

"The least of learning is
done in the classrooms."
- Thomas Merton

Quotes

"You can tell a lot about a fellow's character
by his way of eating jellybeans."
- Ronald Reagan

"A government that is big enough to give you all
you want is big enough to take it all away."
- Barry Goldwater

"Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for
work and driving through traffic in a car that you are
still paying for - in order to get to the job you need
to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you
leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it."
- Ellen Goodman

"Personally I'm always ready to learn,
although I do not always like being taught."
- Sir Winston Churchill

"Humanity is acquiring all the right
technology for all the wrong reasons."
- R. Buckminster Fuller

"It is not worth an intelligent man's time
to be in the majority. By definition, there
are already enough people to do that."
- G. H. Hardy

Quotes - Sir Winston Churchill

It has been said that democracy is
the worst form of government except
all the others that have been tried.
- Winston Churchill

Everyone has his day and some
days last longer than others.
- Sir Winston Churchill

If you're going through hell, keep going.
- Winston Churchill

We all are worms, but I do believe I am a glowworm.
- Sir Winston Churchill

Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers
which they dare not dismount. And the
tigers are getting hungry.
- Winston Churchill

Quotes - Sir Winston Churchill

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
- Sir Winston Churchill

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never
to criticize or attack the government of my own
country. I make up for lost time when I come home.
- Sir Winston Churchill

"It is a good thing for an uneducated
man to read books of quotations."
- Sir Winston Churchill

I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats
look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
- Winston Churchill

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity;
an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
- Sir Winston Churchill

The greatest lesson in life is to know
that even fools are right sometimes.
- Winston Churchill

Quotes - Sir Winston Churchill

I have nothing to offer but
blood, toil, tears and sweat
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

Success is not final, failure is not fatal
it is the courage to continue that counts.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

"The Americans will always do the right thing...
after they have exhausted all other options."
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

It is better to be making the news than taking
it; to be an actor rather than a critic.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

The truth is incontrovertible. Panic may
resent it, ignorance may deride it, malice
may distort it, but there it is.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)