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Below are just a selection
of quotes I have gathered which I think are worth looking at. They are in
alphabetical order by author and cover a wide selection of topics. I hope
you enjoy them as I think they are all worth reading and remembering.
A:
Lord Acton: - Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. - Great men are almost always bad men. - [Politicians] never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge,
Aesop: - Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
Aeschylus: It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
Ali, Muhammad: When you're as
great as I am, it's hard to be humble. Alfonso The Wise: - If I had been present at the creation, I would have given some useful hints for the better arrangement of the Universe.
Alda, Alan: - It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich.
Amis,Kingsley: - If you can't annoy somebody, there's little point in writing.
Angelou, Maya: - Whining is not only graceless, but can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighbourhood. - If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded. Anonymous: - Count your age with friends but not with years. - Don't anthropomorphize computers -- they hate it. - Don't trust anyone over 30 who used to say "Don't trust anyone over 30." - Give her two red roses, each with a note. The first note says "For the woman I love" and the second, "For my best friend." - Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig. - Jealousy is the only vice that gives no pleasure. - Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item. - The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. - Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot. - Know her mind and you can have her body, know her heart and you have her soul. - Money can't buy happiness; it can, however, rent it. - Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without. - If you don't
know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer. - If you don't have time to do it right you must have time to do it over.
Arnold. Matthew: - Genuine poetry is conceived and composed in the soul. - And we are here as on a darkling plain; Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, Where ignorant armies clash by night.
Aristotle: - Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge.
Aurelius Antoninus, Marcus: - Whatever may happen to you was prepared for you from all eternity; and the implication of causes was from eternity spinning the thread of your being.
B:
Baker, Ray (me): - Everybody must be free; yet sometimes we need some company'. - Freedom is a stallion, freedom is a galleon. Freedom is: Love, Beauty & Grace. - Information is like gold - a heavy load." - That which link us, bind us." - Why do we look, but never
see?" - Freedom has a price that is always worth paying. - Despair breeds hatred and hatred breeds death - Few minds wear out; more rust out. Burns, George: - If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.
Butler, Samuel: All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
Bacon, Francis: - We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do. - Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor. - Money is like muck, not good except it be spread. - Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
Baker, Russell: - Don't try to
make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it. Balfour, A. J: - The energies of our system will decay, the glory of the sun will be dimmed, and the earth, tide less and inert, will no longer tolerate the race which has for a moment disturbed its solitude. Man will go down into the pit, and all his thoughts will perish.
Baring, Maurice: - If you would know what the Lord God thinks of money, you have only to look at those to whom He gives it.
Barry, Marion: - Outside of the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the country.
Benchley, Robert: Except for an occasional heart attack I feel as young as I ever did.
Bennett, Arnold: - Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.
Berlioz, Hector: Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
Bevan, Aneurin: - This island is almost made of coal and surrounded by fish. Only an organizing genius could produce a shortage of coal and fish in Great Britain at the same time. - No attempt at ethical or social seduction can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party . . . So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.
Bierce, Ambrose: - The covers of this book are too far apart.
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Bore, n. A
person who talks when you wish him to listen.
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Brain, n. An
apparatus with which we think that we think. - Calamities are of two kinds: misfortune to ourselves, and good fortune to others. [The Devil's Dictionary]
- Debauchee, n. One who
has so earnestly pursued pleasure that he has had the misfortune to overtake it.
- Peace, n. In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting. - Novel, A short story padded.[The Devil's Dictionary] - Story, A narrative, commonly untrue.[The Devil's Dictionary] - We know what
happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over.
Billings, Josh: - When a young man begins to go down hill everything seems to be greased for the occasion. - Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. - Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
- It is better that ten guilty persons escape than one innocent suffer.
Blok, Alexander: - Poetry; The right words in the right order.
Bohr, Niels: - Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
Braun, Wehrner von: - We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming. - The hard part about being a bartender is figuring out who is drunk and who is just stupid
Bruyere, Jean De La: - Nothing more clearly show how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and other wordly goods, than the way he distributes these, and the sort of men who are most amply provided with them.
- You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime. Carson, Johnny: - Mail your packages early so the post office can lose them in time for Christmas.
Chinese Curse: - If thine enemy offend thee, give his child a drum.
Chanel, Coco: - Nature gives you the face you have at twenty. Life shapes the face you have at thirty. But at fifty you get the face you deserve.
Chevalier, Maurice: - Many a man has fallen in love with a girl in a light so dim he would not have chosen a suit by it.
Clausewitz, Karl Von: - War is nothing more than the continuation of politics by other means.
Chesterton, G K: - A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. - Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.
Churchill, Winston:- The wars of the peoples will be more terrible than those of kings.- Give us the tools, and we will finish the job. - The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity. - Men occasionally stumble on the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened. - The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes. - We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. - We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. Clancy, Tom: - The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.
Cobb, Irvin S: An epitaph is a belated advertisement for a line of goods that have been permanently discontinued.
Coffin, Harold: - The fellow who thinks he knows it all is especially annoying to those of us who do.
Cozzens, James Gould: A cynic is just a man who found out when he was about ten that there wasn't any Santa Claus, and he's still upset.
Crawford, Francis:
Crowfoot: (Blackfoot warrior and orator)- What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses itself in the sunset.
Custer, George Armstrong:
Dane, Frank: - Never vote for the best candidate, vote for the one who will do the least harm.
Darrow, Clarence: - History repeats itself. That's one of the things wrong with history. - Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away. - I am a friend of the workingman, I would rather be his friend than be one. - When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President; I'm beginning to believe it.
Descartes, Ren้: - Cogito, ergo sum. I think, therefore I am.
Disraeli, Benjamin: -
I repeat . . . that all power is a trust that we are accountable for its
exercise that, from the people, and for the people, all springs, and all must
exist. - There is an art of reading, as well as an art of thinking, and an art of writing. - My idea of an
agreeable person is a person who agrees with me.
Eagan, J W: - Never judge a book by its movie.
Edison, Thomas: - I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Edwards, Bob: - When Solomon said that there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking an automobile.
Einstein, Albert: - Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love. Emerson, Ralph Waldo: - People do not deserve good writing, they are so pleased with bad. - Men are what their mothers made them.
English Professor, Ohio University: - I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top.
Ertz, Susan: - Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
Eschenbach, M. Ebner: - Be the first to say what is self-evident, and you are immortal.
Exupery, Antoine de Saint: - And now here is my secret, a very simple secret; it is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
- Once, during prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water. - I like children. Properly cooked. France, Anatole: - A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance. - To die for an idea is to place a pretty high price on conjectures. - The books that everybody admires are those nobody reads.
Frost, Robert: - A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it rains. - The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up and does not stop until you get into the office. - Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up. Fudim, Libbie:
Gandhi, Indira: - You can't shake hands with a clenched fist.
Gardner, Ed: - Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and instead of bleeding, sings.
Gardner, Hy: - You know you're getting old when everything hurts. And what doesn't hurt doesn't work.
Galsworthy, John: - Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem.
Gide. Andre: - It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von: - One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words. - Know thyself? If I knew myself, I'd run away. - If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.
Goldsmith, Oliver: - I always get the better when I argue alone.
Goff, Sidney:
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Goldwyn, Samuel: - Television has
raised writing to a new low. Gwenn, Edmund: (last words) - Dying is easy. Comedy is difficult.
Herbert, Samuel: An autobiography is the story of how a man thinks he lived.
Hitchcock Alfred - I never said all actors are cattle; what I said was all actors should be treated like cattle. Hobbes John Oliver - Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call Destiny.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell: - Give us the luxuries of life and we will dispense with the necessities.
Hope, Bob: - You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake. - Middle Age is when your age starts to show around your middle.
Howe, Ed: - None of us can boast about the morality of our ancestors. The records do not show that Adam and Eve were married. - No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
Hubbard, Elbert: - If you don't advertise yourself you will be advertised by your loving enemies. - Perfume: any smell that is used to drown a worse one. - You can lead a boy to college but you can't make him think. - A pessimist is one who has been intimately acquainted with an optimist.
Hubbard, Kin: - Some people pay a compliment as if they expected a receipt. - Everything comes to him who waits, except a loaned book. - Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny. - It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
Hugo, Victor: - Thought is the labour of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.
Indian proverb:- Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
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