Some Quotes - Sorted Alpha by Author

 

- A -

  1. Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.
      Franklin P. Adams

     

  2. I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.
      Woody Allen

     

  3. My luck is getting worse and worse. Last night, for instance, I was mugged by a quaker.
      Woody Allen

     

  4. Experience is often what you get when you were expecting something else.
      Anon.

     

  5. Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many.
      Anon.

     

  6. If you don't have time to do it right you must have time to do it over.
      Anon.

     

  7. Pro is to con as progress is to Congress.
      Anon.

     

  8. Remember, God always leaves the porch light on.
      Anon.

     

  9. Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening all at once.
      Anon.

     

  10. Love takes up where knowledge leaves off.
      Thomas Aquinas

     

  11. I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.
       Lady Astor

     

  12. How these curiosities would be quite forgott, did not such idle fellowes as I putt them down.
      John Aubrey

     


 

    - B -

    1. What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.
        Pearl Bailey, singer

       

    2. Pandemonium did not reign; it poured.
         John Kendrick Bangs

       

    3. If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
        Tallulah Bankhead, actress

       

    4. Bourbon.
        Tallulah Bankhead, last word

       

    5. What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
        Dave Barry

       

    6. The good die young, because they see it's no use living if you have got to be good.
        John Barrymore

       

    7. You will find my last words in the blue folder.
        Max Beerbohm, last words

       

    8. Applaud friends, the comedy is over.
        Ludwig van Beethoven, last words

       

    9. I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous and give the wrong answers.
        A Bit of Fry and Laurie

       

    10. I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.
        Shirley Temple Black, actress, singer, and US ambassador

       

    11. Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happinesss is assured.
        Ambrose Bierce, (1842-1914)

       

    12. When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.
        Alexander Graham Bell, american inventor

       

    13. I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them on long winter evenings.
        Humphrey Bogart to Lauren Bacall, in The Big Sleep

       

    14. Ability is nothing without opportunity.
         Napoleon Bonaparte

       

    15. It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
        Napoleon Bonaparte

       

    16. The rain it raineth on the just
      And also on the unjust fella:
      But chiefly on the just, because
      The unjust steals the just's umbrella.
        Lord Bowen

       

    17. The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic that distinguishes human beings from the beasts.
        Heywood Broun

       

    18. One good thing about being young is that you are not experienced enough to know you cannot possibly do the things you are doing.
        Gene Brown

       

    19. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television.
        Rita Mae Brown

       

    20. In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then beleive them to be true.
        Budda

       

    21. Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.
        Leo Buscaglia

       

    22. Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
        Samuel Butler

       

    23. It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
        Samuel Butler

       

    24. Vaccination is the medical sacrament corresponding to baptism.
        Samuel Butler

       


 

    - C -

    1. The only thing wrong with immortality is that it tends to go on forever.
        Herb Caen

       

    2. My work is being destroyed almost as soon as it is printed. One day it is being read; the next day someone's wrapping fish in it.
        Al Capp

       

    3. Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.
        Dale Carnegie

       

    4. It's a poor sort of memory that only works backward.
        Lewis Carroll

       

    5. If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.
        Johnny Carson

       

    6. How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.
        George Washington Carver, american inventor and horticulturist

       

    7. She jerked away from me like a startled fawn might, if I had a startled fawn and it jerked away from me.
        Raymond Chandler

       

    8. It's a long time since I drank champagne.
        Anton Checkov, last words

       

    9. If life were fair, Dan Quayle would be making a living asking "Do you want fries with that?"
        John Cleese

       

    10. The more you study, the more you find out you don't know, but the more you study, the closer you come.
        Cozy Cole

       

    11. By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
        Confucius

       

    12. The dread of lonliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.
        Cyril Connolly

       

    13. Public behavior is merely private character writ large.
        Stephen R. Covey, author, self-help speaker

       

    14. In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
        Winston Churchill

       


 

    - D -

    1. Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity.
        Nick Diamos

       

    2. We sleep in separate rooms, we have dinner apart, we take separate vacations--we're doing everything we can to keep our marriage together.
        Rodney Dangerfield

       

    3. You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.
        Leonardo da Vinci, Italian inventor

       

    4. The human foot is a masterpiece of engineering and a work of art.
        Leonardo da Vinci

       

    5. It is the friends that you can call at 4 a.m. that matter.
        Marlene Dietrich

       

    6. There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics.
        Benjamin Disraeli, statesman

       

    7. Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.
        Fyodor Dostoyevsky

       

    8. It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data.
        Arthur Conan Doyle, english author

       

    9. ...when you have eliminated the impossible, that which remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
        Arthur Conan Doyle, english author

       

    10. Everything that can be invented has been invented.
        Charles Duell, Dir. US Patent Office, 1899

       

    11. Money doesn't talk, it swears.
        Bob Dylan

       


 

    - E -

    1. We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
        Thomas Alva Edison, amedican inventor and industrialist

       

    2. To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
        Thomas Alva Edison, amedican inventor and industrialist

       

    3. Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
        Thomas Alva Edison, amedican inventor and industrialist

       

    4. Results! Why man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
        Thomas Alva Edison, amedican inventor and industrialist

       

    5. Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
        Thomas Alva Edison, amedican inventor and industrialist

       

    6. It's very beautiful over there.
        Thomas Edison, last words

       

    7. The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
        Albert Einstein

       

    8. Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time and yet remain lonely.
        T.S.Eliot

       

    9. The secret of drunkeness is, that it insulates us in thought, whilst it unites us in feeling.
        Ralph Waldo Emerson

       

    10. This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
        Ralph Waldo Emerson, philosopher

       

    11. Our best thoughts come from others.
        Ralph Waldo Emerson

       

    12. So much of our time is preparation, so much is routine, and so much retrospect, that the path of each man's genius contracts itself to a very few hours.
        Ralph Waldo Emerson

       

    13. Men are what their mothers made them.
        Ralph Waldo Emerson

       


 

    - F -

    1. To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic. The calendar consents to carry on its dull wall-existence by the arbitrary timetables we have drawn up in consultation with those permanent commuters, Earth amd Sun. But we, unlike trees, need grow no annual rings.
        Clifton Fadiman

       

    2. An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. It's knowing where to go to find out what you need to know; and it's knowing how to use the information once you get it.
        William Feather

       

    3. It is the childlike mind that finds the kingdom.
        Charles Fillmore

       

    4. Experience is what allows us to repeat our mistakes, only with more finesse!
        Derwood Fincher

       

    5. It's more fun to arrive a conclusion than to justify it.
        Malcolm S. Forbes

       

    6. While theoretically and technically television may be feasible, commercially and financially I consider it an impossibility, a development of which we need waste
    7. little time or dreaming.
        Lee De Forest, 1926

       

    8. Religion has done love a great servive by making it a sin.
        Anatole France

       

    9. It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
        Anatole France

       

    10. Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
        Benjamin Franklin

       

    11. Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.
        Benjamin Franklin

       

    12. Creditors have better memories than debtors.
        Benjamin Franklin

       

    13. Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.
         Sigmund Freud

       

    14. The first human being who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
         Sigmund Freud

       

    15. In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
        Robert Frost

       


 

    - G -

    1. The test of good manners is to be patient with the bad ones.
        Ibn Gabirol

       

    2. There is one rule for politicians all over the world: Don't say in Power what you say in opposition; if you do, you only have to carry out what the other fellows have found impossible.
        John Galsworthy, English author

       

    3. I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
        Mahatma Gandhi

       

    4. If you are not too large for the place you occupy, you are too small for it.
        James A. Garfield, US President

       

    5. If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should not grow old.
        James A. Garfield

       

    6. Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be.
        Jose Ortega y Gasset

       

    7. When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading books. You will be reading meanings.
        Harold Geneen, from Managing,

       

    8. The meek may inherit the earth - but not its mineral rights.
        J. Paul Getty (1892-1976)

       

    9. Yesterday is but today's memory, and tomorrow is today's dream.
        Kahlil Gibran

       

    10. I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.
        Kahlil Gibran

       

    11. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.
        Goethe

       

    12. More light!
        Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, last words

       

    13. Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language, and forthwith it is something entirely different.
        Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

       

    14. I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better than book or orator.
        Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

       

    15. Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.
         Oliver Goldsmith

       

    16. Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies.
        Adrienne Gusoff

       

 

    - H -

    1. I never trust a fighting man who doesnt smoke or drink.
        Adm William Halsey

       

    2. Truth, like a torch, the more it's shook it shines.
        Sir William Hamilton ['Discussions on Philosophy', 1852]

       

    3. The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
        Lucille S. Harper

       

    4. Oh, what lies there are in kisses.
        Heinrich Heine

       

    5. My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.
        Ernest Hemingway

       

    6. Why should the Devil have all the good tunes?
        Rowland Hill (1744-1833)

       

    7. Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call Destiny.
        John Oliver Hobbes

       

    8. I may have many faults, but being wrong ain't one of them.
        Jimmy Hoffa

       

    9. It is easier to love humanity . . . . than one's neighbor.
        Eric Hoffer

       

    10. The great tragedy of Science--the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.
        T.H. Huxley ['Collected Essays', 1894 ]

       

    11. Blessed are the young, for they will inherit the national debt.
        Herbert Hoover.

       

    12. A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.
        Edgar Watson Howe

       

    13. Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.
        Edgar Watson Howe

       

    14. Little minds are interested in the extraordinary; great minds in the commonplace.
        Elbert Hubbard

       

    15. The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
        Elbert Hubbard

       

    16. A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
        Victor Hugo

       

    17. Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.
        Victor Hugo

       

    18. I don't think I shall ever get over this.
        Leigh Hunt, last words

       


 

    - I -

    1. An Argument needs no reason; Nor any friendship.
        Ibycus

       

    2. Some minds seem almost to create themselves, springing up under every disadvantage and working their solitary but irresistible way through a thousand obstacles.
        Washington Irving

       

    3. Public money is like holy water; everyone helps himself to it.
        Italian Proverb

       


 

    - J -

    1. It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word.
        Andrew Jackson

       

    2. I am more afraid of alcohol than of all the bullets of the enemy.
        Gen. Stonewall Jackson

       

    3. The surest way to hit a woman's heart is to take aim kneeling.
        Douglas Jerrold

       

    4. Love's like the measles--all the worse when it comes late in life.
        David Jerold ['Wit and Opinions', 1859]

       

    5. Religion's in the heart, not in the knees.
        David Jerold ['The Devil's Ducat', 1830]

       

    6. I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house.
        Jerome K. Jerome ['They and I', 1909]

       

    7. The friendship that can cease has never been real.
        Saint Jerome

       

    8. Any jackass can kick down a barn but it takes a good carpenter to build one.
        Lyndon B Johnson

       

    9. Architecture is the art of how to waste space.
        Philip Johnson [in the New York Times, 27 Dec 1964]

       

    10. I can't drink a little, therefore I never touch it. Abstinance is as easy for me as tempreance would be difficult.
         Samuel Johnson

       


 

    - K -

    1. My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
        Charles F. Kettering

       

    2. The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.
        Martin Luther King

       

    3. If you look like your passport photo, you're too ill to travel.
        Will Kommen

       


 

    - L -

    1. There is a woman at the begining of all great things.
        Alphonse de Lamartine

       

    2. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.
        Ann Landers, Advice Columnist

       

    3. Rare is the person who can weigh the faults of others without putting his thumb on the scales.
        Byron J. Langenfeld

       

    4. The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it.
        Doug Larson

       

    5. Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enought to know they were impossible.
        Doug Larson

       

    6. You can close your eyes to reality but not to memories.
        Stanislaw Lec

       

    7. Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat.
        John Lehman, US Secretary of the Navy 1981-1987

       

    8. Good words do more than hard speeches, as the sunbeams without any noise will make the traveller cast off his cloak, which all the blustering winds could not do, but only make him bind it closer to him.
        Robert Leighton (1611-1684)

       

    9. A lie told often enough becomes the truth.
        V.I. Lenin

       

    10. Life is what happens while you are making other plans.
        John Lennon, singer and songwriter

       

    11. We're all given some sort of skill in life. Mine just happens to be beating up on people.
        Sugar Ray Leonard

       

    12. When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.
        Max Lerner

       

    13. Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.
        Abraham Lincoln

       

    14. He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help.
        Abraham Lincoln

       

    15. Ignorance is a voluntary misfortune.
        Nicholas Ling

       

    16. Tilting at windmills hurts you more than the windmills.
        Lazarus Long - character by Robert A Heinlein

       

    17. Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.
        Sophia Loren, actress

       

    18. Let us be of good cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those that never come.
        James Russel Lowell

       

    19. I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.
        E.V. Lucas

       

    20. Most human beings are quite likeable if you do not see too much of them.
        Robert Lynd

       


 

    - M -

    1. Nothing except the mint can make money without advertising.
        Thomas Babington Macaulay

       

    2. To be trusted is a greater compliment than to be loved.
        George MacDonald

       

    3. Every man is the architect of his own life. He builds it just the way he wants it. However, after he has built what he wants, he sometimes decides that he doesn't like what he has built and looks for someone or something to blame instead of changing himself.
        Sidney Madwed

       

    4. Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed.
        Mao Tse-tung, revolutionary and party chairman

       

    5. Men are creatures with two legs and eight hands.
        Jayne Mansfield

       

    6. It's far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.
        Judith S. Martin

       

    7. I wish to be cremated. One tenth of my ashes shall be given to my agent, as written in our contract.
        Groucho Marx

       

    8. I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
        Groucho Marx

       

    9. Genius is a bend in the creek where bright water has gathered, and which mirrors the treds, the sky and the banks. It just does that because it is there and the scenery is there. Talent is a fine mirror with a silver frame, with the name of the owner engraved on the back.
        Edgar Lee Masters

       

    10. An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.
        W. Somerset Maugham, author

       

    11. Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
        W. Somerset Maugham

       

    12. Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.
        W. Somerset Maugham

       

    13. It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
        Herman Melville, american author

       

    14. He who knows how to be poor knows everything.
        Jules Michelet, (1798-1847)

       

    15. One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.
        A. A. Milne, author

       

    16. It is necessary to relax your muscles when you can. Relaxing your brain is fatal.
        Stirling Moss, British racing car driver, Newsweek May 16, 1955

       

    17. Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.
        Iris Murdoch

       


 

    - N -

    1. Discretion is the better part of virtue,
      Commitments the voters don't know about can't hurt you.
        Ogden Nash, (1902-1971) from The Old Dog Barks Backwards

       

    2. A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your girdle when your hips stick.
        Ogden Nash

       

    3. To keep your marriage brimming, with love in the wedding cup, whenever you're wrong, admit it; whenever you're right, shut up.
        Ogden Nash

       

    4. I drink to make other people interesting.
        George Jean Nathan

       

    5. Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day.
        Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

       

    6. It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book.
        Friedrich Nietzsche, (1844-1900)

       

    7. Each friend represents a world in us, a world not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.
        Anais Nin

       


 

    - O -

    1. Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine.
        David Ogilvy

       

    2. The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.
        David Ogilvy

       

    3. Turn up the light. I don't want to go home in the dark.
        O' Henry, last words

       

    4. If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters.
        Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, reporter, editor, US First Lady

       

    5. There are children playing in the street who could solve some of my top problems in physics, because they have modes of sensory perception that I lost long ago.
        J(ulius) Robert Oppenheimer, (1904-1967) physicist, a-bomb developer

       

    6. We knew the world could not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita: "I am became Death, the destroyers of worlds." I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.
        J Robert Oppenheimer, (1904-1967) American physicist, Recalling the explosion of the first atomic bomb near Almogordo, New Mexico [Jul. 15, 1945]

       

    7. Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
        George Orwell, author

       

    8. There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule.
        Charles Osgood, journalist

       


 

    - P -

    1. What we obtain too cheap we esteem too little; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.
        Thomas Paine

       

    2. It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.
        Blaise Pascal

       

    3. Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do, and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
        George S. Patton, US General

       

    4. We do not remember days, we remember moments.
        Cesare Pavese

       

    5. The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but hold hands.
        Alexander Penney

       

    6. The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
        Eden Phillpots

       

    7. I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
        Pablo Picasso, artist

       

    8. The wages of sin are death, but after taxes are taken out, it's just a tired feeling.
        Paula Poundstone

       

    9. Do not eat your heart.
        Pythagoras

       

 

    - Q -

    1. If we do not succeed, we run the risk of failure.
        Dan Quayle

       


 

    - R -

    1. Draw the curtain, the fraud is over.
        Rabelais, last words

       

    2. In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice; in practice, there is.
        Chuck Reid

       

    3. Laziness is no more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
        Jules Renard

       

    4. Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects.
        Will Rogers, homespun philosopher

       

    5. What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.
        Will Rogers

       

    6. Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
        Theodore Roosevelt

       

    7. Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep.
        Benjamin Rush

       

    8. Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.
        Bertrand Russell

       

    9. Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
        Babe Ruth

       


 

- S -

  1. It is base to filch a purse, daring to embezzle a million, but it is great beyond measure to steal a crown. The sin lessens as the guilt increases.
      Johann von Schiller

     

  2. Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
      Dr Robert Schuller

     

  3. Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
      Albert Schweitzer, doctor

     

  4. Man is a clever aninmal who behaves like an imbecile.
      Albert Schweitzer

     

  5. The tendency of an event to occur varies inversely with one's preparation for it.
      David Searles

     

  6. Why, they couldn't hit an lephant at this dist...
       Gen. John Sedgewick, last words

     

  7. The things hardest to bear are sweetest to remember.
      Seneca

     

  8. We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
      George Bernard Shaw, english playwrite

     

  9. First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
      George Bernard Shaw, english playwrite

     

  10. Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.
      George Bernard Shaw, english playwrite

     

  11. They are never alone who are accompanied by noble thoughts.
       Philip Sidney

     

  12. Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.
      B F Skinner , american psychologist

     

  13. He has occasional flashes of silence, that make his conversation perfectly delightful.
      Sydney Smith

     

  14. Pay quickly what thou owest. The needy tradesman is made glad by such considerate haste.
      Walter Smith

     

  15. We are apt to forget that children watch examples better than they listen to preaching.
      Roy L. Smith

     

  16. All my life, as down an abyss without a bottom, I have been pouring van-loads of information into the vacancy of oblivion I call my mind.
       Logan Pearsall Smith

     

  17. Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing anyone who comes between them.
      Sydney Smith

     

  18. By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
      Socrates

     

  19. When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
      Herbert Spencer, (1820-1903)

     

  20. Ceremony is the invention of wise men to keep fools at a distance.
      Richard Seele

     

  21. We're not into science fiction because it's good literature, we're into it because it's weird. Follow your weird, ladies and gentlemen. Forget trying to pass for normal. Follow your geekdom. Embrace your nerditude. In the immortal words of Lafcadio Hearn, a geek of incredible obscurity whose work is still in print after a hundred years, ``woo the muse of the odd.''
      Bruce Sterling

     

  22. The best things in life are nearest : Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life's plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life.
      Robert Louis Stevenson

     

  23. I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.
      Harriet Beecher Stowe

     

  24. Now I've laid me down to die
    I pray my neighbors not to pry
    Too deeply into sins that I
    Not only cannot here deny
    But much enjoyed as life flew by.
       Preston Sturges, Epitaph

     

  25. I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
      Jonathan Swift

     


 

- T -

  1. There is more similarity in the marketing challenge of selling a precious painting by Degas and a frosted mug of root beer than you ever thought possible.
      Alfred Taubman

     

  2. The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
      Elizabeth Taylor, actress

     

  3. I am a part of all that I have seen.
      Alfred Lord Tennyson

     

  4. There is more hunger in the world for love and appreciation in this world than for bread.
      Mother Teresa

     

  5. If you want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.
      Mother Teresa

     

  6. It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
      William Makepeace Thackeray

     

  7. You don't tell deliberate lies, but sometimes you have to be evasive.
      Margaret Thatcher, english prime minister

     

  8. Time is but the stream I go a-fishin in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Itls thin current slides away, but eternity remains.
      Henry David Thoreau

     

  9. I consider exercise vulgar. It makes people smell.
       Alec Yuill Thornton

     

  10. You simply must stop taking advice from other people.
      Melissa Timberman

     

  11. A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.
      Martin Tupper, (1810-1889) in Proverbial Philosophy

     

  12. The secret source of Humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.
      Mark Twain

     

  13. The man that sets out to carry a cat by it's tail learns something that will always be useful and which will never grow dim or doubtful.
      Mark Twain

     

  14. It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
       Mark Twain

     

  15. We are all alike, on the inside.
       Mark Twain

     

  16. Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.
      Mark Twain

     

  17. I can live for two months on a good compliment.
       Mark Twain

     

  18. 'Don't you worry, and don't you hurry.' I know that phrase by heart, and if all other music should perish out of the world it would still sing to me.
      Mark Twain, from Home Conditions 1900, referring to a saying from his Grandmother

     


 

- U -

  1. If a person never contradicts himself, it must be that he says nothing.
      Miguel de Unamuno

     


 

- V -

  1. God save me from my friends. I can protect myself from my enemies.
      Marshall de Villares

     

  2. To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.
      Voltaire

     

  3. Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.
      Kurt Vonnegut, author

     

  4. If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don't need an enemy.
      Kurt Vonnegut, author

     


 

- W -

  1. Who was the guy who first looked at a cow and said, "I think I'll drink whatever comes out of these things when I squeeze 'em!"?
      Bill Watterson, from Calvin & Hobbes

     

  2. Go away. I'm all right.
       H.G. Wells, last words

     

  3. A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
      Orson Welles

     

  4. Life is pain, highness! Anyone who says differently is selling something.
      Westley, as the man in black, from The Princess Bride

     

  5. Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.
      Mae West

     

  6. Too much of a good thing is wonderful.
      Mae West, american actress

     

  7. Loves conquers all things except poverty and a toothache.
      Mae West, american actress

     

  8. When choosing between two evils I always like to take the one I've never tried before.
      Mae West, american actress

     

  9. I maintain that two and two would continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the ameteur for three, or the cry of the critic for five.
      James MacNeill Whistler

     

  10. An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you've got a situation.
       Billy Wilder , american director

     

  11. Before I married, I had three theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories.
      John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

     

  12. First things first, but not necessarily in that order.
      Doctor Who, fictional english SF character

     

  13. Logic merely enables one to be wrong with authority.
      Doctor Who, fictional english SF character

     

  14. Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
      Oscar Wilde, english author

     

  15. It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.
      Oscar Wilde, "Lady Windermere's Fan."

     

  16. I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.
      P.G. Wodehouse

     

  17. Television is chewing gum for the eyes.
      Frank Lloyd Wright

     

  18. A man is a fool is he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.
      Frank Lloyd Wright, american architect

     


 

- Y -

  1. It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts.
       Boris Yeltsin

     

  2. Try not. Do, or do not. There is no try.
      Yoda, from Star Wars II

     


 

- Z -

  1. Every obnoxious act is a cry for help.
      Zig Ziglar

     

 

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