Quotes corner

Below are some of my favorite quotes, sampled from the Quotations page. The authors of these quotations are predominantly male and western. Please DM me on twitter if you are aware of good sources of quotations from diverse authors. I have also taken the liberty to change all references of 'men' or 'he' or 'him' to gender neutral terms in these quotes.

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading. Henny Youngman

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

TV is chewing gum for the eyes. Frank Lloyd Wright

The first time I see a jogger smiling, I'll consider it. Joan Rivers

It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. Voltaire

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms. Groucho Marx

Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have. Ernest Haskins

Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people. Philip Guedalla

The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well. Joe Ancis

I didn't really say everything I said. Yogi Berra

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it. Terry Pratchett

If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you. Don Marquis

My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right? Charles M. Schulz

If humankind minus one were of one opinion, then humankind is no more justified in silencing the one than the one - if they had the power - would be justified in silencing humankind. John Stuart Mill

I'm not a vegetarian because I love animals. I'm a vegetarian because I hate plants. A. Whitney Brown

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking. A. A. Milne

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. Dorothy Nevill

Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired. Jules Renard

People have become the tools of their tools. Henry David Thoreau

What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public. Vilhjalmur Stefansson

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise. Bertrand Russell

There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead. Arthur Honegger

Of those who say nothing, few are silent. Thomas Neill

If you cannot convince them, confuse them. Harry S Truman

There are two ways to slide easily through life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking. Alfred Korzybski

After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one. Cato the Elder

What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do. John Ruskin

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race. Don Marquis

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious. Peter Ustinov

A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats. Anonymous

An opinion should be the result of thought, not a substitute for it. Jef Mallett

Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was. Margaret Mitchell

Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us. Bill Watterson

There are two cardinal sins from which all others spring: Impatience and Laziness. Franz Kafka

Like I always say, there's no 'I' in "team". There is a 'me', though, if you jumble it up. David Shore

The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it. Einstein

I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific. Jane Wagner

Is there life before death? Graffito

Money can't buy friends, but it can get you a better class of enemy. Spike Milligan

In heaven all the interesting people are missing. Friedrich Nietzsche

What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to. Hansell B. Duckett

In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known. Thomas Pickering

We live in an age when pizza gets to your home before the police. Jeff Marder

You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers. John J. Plomp

One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time. Nancy Astor

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before. Mae West

We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are. Anais Nin

The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised. George F. Will

The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it. Franklin P. Jones

Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate. Thomas Jones

Indecision may or may not be my problem. Jimmy Buffett

A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it. Bob Hope

People never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction. Blaise Pascal [Personal note: I believe this aptly applies to the current political climate in India]