Quotes
Here are some of my favorite quotes, some just funny and not reflecting my personal views; picked and ordered randomly.
- Golda Meir - Don't be so humble, you're not that great.
- Mohandas Gandhi - There is more to life than increasing its speed.
- Bernard Baruch - Vote for the man who promises least; he'll be the least disappointing.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - What is important in life is life, and not the result of life.
- Abraham Lincoln - Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.
- Orison Swett Marden - A will finds a way.
- Albert Einstein - Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
- Albert Einstein - Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.
- Albert Einstein - Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- William Shakespeare - Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
- Vince Lombardi - We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
- Jack Benny - Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.
- Bill Watterson - There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.
- Donald Knuth - If you optimize everything, you will always be unhappy.
- Donald Knuth - Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.
- Donald Knuth - The most important thing in the programming language is the name. A language will not succeed without a good name. I have recently invented a very good name and now I am looking for a suitable language.
- Marie Curie - Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
- Erich Fromm - The task we must set for ourselves is not to feel secure, but to be able to tolerate insecurity.
- Erich Fromm - Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.
- Erich Fromm - Sanity is only that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought.
- Thomas Fuller - Every horse thinks its own pack heaviest.
- Jean Rostand - To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.
- Jean Rostand - I should have no use for a paradise in which I should be deprived of the right to prefer hell.
- Jean Rostand - In politics, yesterday's lie is attacked only to flatter today's.
- Jean Rostand - One must credit an hypothesis with all that has had to be discovered in order to demolish it.
- Robert Orben - Sometimes I get the feeling the whole world is against me, but deep down I know that's not true. Some smaller countries are neutral.
- Anatole France - It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
- Bill Vaughan - Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
- Rita Rudner - 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.
- Italian Proverb - Once the game is over, the King and the pawn go back in the same box.
- Woody Allen - Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.
- Bertrand Russell - A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery - Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
- George Orwell - All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
- Clarence Darrow - Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?
- George Burns - The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible.
- George Burns - I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.
- George Burns - Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
- Ani DiFranco - Art may imitate life, but life imitates TV.
- Charles M. Schulz - Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.
- Charles M. Schulz - All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.
- Johann von Neumann - In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
- # Interviewer: What do you think of Western civiliation?
Mohandas Gandhi: I think it would be a very good idea.
- Groucho Marx - I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
- Mike Krzyzewski - The truth is that many people set rules to keep from making decisions.
- Mark Twain - It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
- Mark Twain - If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.
- Mark Twain - Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times.
- Mark Twain - Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold.
- Douglas Adams - The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.
- Douglas Adams - He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
- Douglas Adams - A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
- Douglas Adams - He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.
- Douglas Adams - I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it.
- Douglas Adams - If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat.
- Marlene Dietrich - It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.
- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach - Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.
- Jascha Heifetz - No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.
- Bernard Baruch - If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
- Pablo Picasso - Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.
- Pablo Picasso - Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.
- Pablo Picasso - My mother said to me, "If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope." Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.