famous quotes
The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.
Oscar Wilde
To be amused by what you read--that is the great spring of happy quotations.
C. E. Montague
There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.
Samuel Johnson
The more things change, the more they remain... insane.
Michael Fry and T. Lewis
Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties. - Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The beginning is the most important part of the work.
- Plato
Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
- Geri Weitzman
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
- John Adams
To prophesy is extremely difficult - especially with regard to the future.
- Chinese proverb
Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
- Shakespeare
There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
- Henry Kissinger
It is not the horse that draws the cart, but the oats.
- Russian proverb
I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
- George Burns
All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.
- Samuel Butler
Your true value depends entirely on what you are compared with.
- Bob Wells
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
- Albert Einstein
"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?"
- Albert Einstein
A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.
- Bob Edwards
If you think education is expensive, try Ignorance.
- Andy McIntyre
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
- Will Rogers
Lady Nancy Astor: Winston, if you were my husband, I'd put arsenic in your morning coffee.
Churchill: Madam, if you were my wife, I'd drink it.
Bessie Braddock: Winston, you are drunk!
Churchill: And Madam, you are ugly. And tomorrow, I'll be sober, and you will still be ugly.
Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.
- H. L. Mencken
My wife dresses to kill. She cooks the same way.
- Henny Youngman
The greatest risk is to risk nothing at all.
- Leo Buscaglia
God does not play dice with the universe.
- Albert Einstein
Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
- Albert Einstein
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo.
- James Klass
Not all those who wander are lost.
- J R R Tolkien
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
- Lao-Tsu
These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.
- Gilbert Highet
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein
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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
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