Quote (#577)

"Dance like it hurts,
Love like you need money,
Work when people are watching."
- Scott Adams

"We do what we must, and
call it by the best names."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Those who can make you
believe absurdities can
make you commit atrocities."
- Voltaire

"Acting is the most minor of gifts and
not a very high-class way to earn a
living. After all, Shirley Temple could
do it at the age of four."
- Katharine Hepburn

"To me, boxing is like a ballet, except
there's no music, no choreography, and
the dancers hit each other."
- Jack Handey

"But what is the difference between literature and journalism?
...Journalism is unreadable and literature is not read. That is all."
- Oscar Wilde

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 (#492)

Tears are the silent
language of grief.
- Voltaire

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience
of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
- Isaac D Israeli (1766–1848)

Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone;
For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"It has always been the prerogative of children
and half-wits to point out that the emperor has
no clothes. But the half-wit remains a half-wit,
and the emperor remains an emperor."
- Neil Gaiman

"To err is human; to
forgive, infrequent."
- Franklin P. Adams

"Everything that is beautiful and noble is
the product of reason and calculation."
- Charles Baudelaire

Quotaria

"If voting changed anything,
they'd make it illegal."
- Emma Goldman

"Your life story would not make
a good book. Don't even try."
- Fran Lebowitz

Women complain about premenstrual syndrome,
but I think of it as the only time of the
month that I can be myself.
- Roseanne

When it's a question of money,
everybody is of the same religion.
- Voltaire

You can't say that civilization don't
advance, however, for in every war
they kill you in a new way.
- Will Rogers

No one can have a higher opinion
of him than I have, and I think
he's a dirty little beast.
- W. S. Gilbert

Quotes - Favorites

What if nothing exists and we're
all in somebody's dream?
- Woody Allen

"Judge a man by his questions
rather than his answers."
- Voltaire

When an elderly and distinguished scientist tells
you that something is possible, he is very probably
right. When he tells you that something is impossible,
he is very probably wrong.
- Arthur C. Clarke

Nothing endures but change.
- Heraclitus

Things are not bad in themselves,
but our cowardice makes them so.
- Michel de Montaigne

God put me on this earth to accomplish a
certain number of things. Right now I am
so far behind that I will never die.
- Bill Watterson

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

Strange as it seems, no amount of learning
can cure stupidity, and higher education
positively fortifies it.
- Stephen Vizinczey

There's a fine line between genius and
insanity. I have erased this line.
- Oscar Levant

It is far better to be silent than merely
to increase the quantity of bad books.
- Voltaire

To believe is to know you believe, and to
know you believe is not to believe.
- Jean-Paul Sartre

Drop the question what tomorrow
may bring, and count as profit
every day that fate allows you.
- Horace

Just because you made a mistake
doesn't mean you are a mistake.
- Georgette Mosbacher

Quotaria

Ability may get you to the top, but
it takes character to keep you there.
- John Wooden

"Assuming either the Left Wing or the
Right Wing gained control of the country,
it would probably fly around in circles."
- Pat Paulsen

God gave men both a penis and a brain, but unfortunately
not enough blood supply to run both at the same time.
- Robin Williams,
commenting on the Clinton/Lewinsky affair

Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
- Francis Marie Arouet de Voltaire on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan

To be completely honest with oneself is the
very best effort a human being can make.
- Sigmund Freud

For to be possessed of good mental
powers is not sufficient; the principal
matter is to apply them well.
- Rene Descartes

Quotaria

"My husband gave me a necklace. It's fake. I requested fake.
Maybe I'm paranoid, but in this day and age, I don't want
something around my neck that's worth more than my head."
- Rita Rudner

"The most savage controversies are those about matters
as to which there is no good evidence either way."
- Bertrand Russell

"No problem can stand the assault
of sustained thinking."
- Voltaire

"Genius is 1% inspiration
and 99% perspiration."
- Thomas Edison

"Enjoying life isn't about finding
the answers, but living the questions."
- Sue Margolis

"See how the masses of men worry themselves into
nameless graves, while here and there a great
unselfish soul forgets himself into immortality."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quotaria

"I have never made but one prayer to God,
a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies
ridiculous.' And God granted it."
- Voltaire

Optimism: The doctrine, or belief, that
everything is beautiful, including what
is ugly, everything good, especially the
bad, and everything right that is wrong.
- Ambrose Bierce

You are not permitted to kill a woman who
has wronged you, but nothing forbids you
to reflect that she is growing older every
minute. You are avenged 1440 times a day.
- Ambrose Bierce

"There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to
be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion.
It's less than the national deficit! We used to
call them astronomical numbers. Now we should
call them economical numbers."
- Richard Feynman

"Always and never are two words you
should always remember never to use."
- Wendell Johnson

"The effort to understand the universe is one
of the very few things that lifts human life
a little above the level of farce, and gives
it some of the grace of tragedy."
- Steven Weinberg

Quotaria

First they ignore you,
then they laugh at you,
then they fight you,
then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi

True greatness consists in the use of
a powerful understanding to enlighten
oneself and others.
- Voltaire

Taking a new step, uttering a new
word, is what people fear most.
- Dostoyevsky

"The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the
word 'crisis'. One brush stroke stands for danger;
the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware
of the danger - but recognize the opportunity."
- Richard Nixon

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to
be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew
before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.
- Paul Dirac, English physicist in US (1902 - 1984)

Brady's First Law of Problem Solving: When confronted by a
difficult problem, you can solve it more easily by reducing
it to the question: How would the Lone Ranger have handled this?
- Brady

Quotes

When a naked man is chasing a woman through an alley
with a butcher knife and a hard-on, I figure he
isn't out collecting for the Red Cross.
- Clint Eastwood

If you're playing a poker game and
you look around the table and can't
tell who the sucker is, it's you.
- Paul Newman

"What springs from earth dissolves to earth again,
and heaven-born things fly to their native seat."
- Marcus Aurelius

I have long been of the opinion that if
work were such a splendid thing the rich
would have kept more of it for themselves.
- Bruce Grocott

I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places.
He told me to quit going to those places.
- Henny Youngman

Doubt is not a pleasant condition,
but certainty is absurd.
- Voltaire