Famous Quotes |
| A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the
brave. |
Mahatma Gandhi |
Indian ascetic & nationalist leader
(1869 - 1948) |
| Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make
mistakes. |
Mahatma Gandhi |
Indian ascetic & nationalist leader
(1869 - 1948) |
| If the aborigine drafted an IQ test, all of Western civilization would
presumably flunk it. |
Stanley Garn |
| Live as you will have wished to have lived when you are dying. |
Christian Furchtegott Gellert |
| Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. |
Andre Gide |
French critic, essayist, & novelist
(1869 - 1951) |
| Whoever controls the media--the images--controls the culture. |
Allen Ginsberg |
| Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined. |
Samuel Goldwyn |
US (Polish-born) movie producer
(1882 - 1974) |
| The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has
probably pervaded all ages. |
Horace Greeley |
| As you journey through life take a
minute every now and then to give a thought for the other fellow. He could be plotting something. |
Hagar the Horrible |
| We do not inherit this land from our ancestors; we borrow it from our
children. |
Haida Indian saying |
| It is my supposition that the
Universe in not only queerer than we imagine, is queerer than we CAN imagine. |
J.B.S. Haldane |
| My goal is simple. It is a complete
understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all. |
Stephen Hawking |
English cosmologist and physicist
(1942 - ) |
| We are just an advanced breed of
monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very
special. |
Stephen Hawking |
English cosmologist and physicist
(1942 - ) |
| Catch 22 |
Joseph Heller |
US novelist (1923 - ) |
| Some people are born mediocre, some
people achieve mediocrity, and some people have mediocrity thrust upon them. |
Joseph Heller |
US novelist (1923 - ) |
| Courage is grace under pressure. |
Ernest Hemingway |
US author & journalist (1899 -
1961) |
| But did thee feel the earth move? |
Ernest Hemingway |
US author & journalist (1899 -
1961) |
| Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. |
Ernest Hemingway |
US author & journalist (1899 -
1961) |
| The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not
understand. |
Frank Herbert |
US science fiction novelist (1920
- 1986) |
| It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves. |
Sir Edmund Hillary |
| We seem to have a compulsion these
days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are
like. I have prepared one of my own. I have placed some rather large samples
of dynamite, gunpowder, and nitroglycerin. My time capsule is set to go off
in the year 3000. It will show them what we are really like. |
Alfred Hitchcock |
British movie director (1899 -
1980) |
| Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored |
Aldous Huxley |
English critic & novelist
(1894 - 1963) |
| From the moment I picked up your
book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it. |
Groucho Marx |
US comedian with Marx Brothers
(1890 - 1977) |
| To achieve the impossible dream, try going to sleep. |
Joan Klempner |
| Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means
for going backwards. |
Aldous Huxley |
English critic & novelist
(1894 - 1963) |
| Consistency is contrary to nature,
contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead. |
Aldous Huxley |
English critic & novelist
(1894 - 1963) |
| Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings. |
C. D. Jackson |
| Sometimes being pushed to the wall gives you the momentum necessary to
get over it! |
Peter de Jager |
| We was robbed! |
Joe Jacobs |
| It is always the best policy to tell the truth, unless, of course, you
are an exceptionally good liar. |
Jerome K Jerome |
| Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use. |
Wendell Johnson |
| The most efficient labor-saving device is still money. |
Franklin P Jones |
| All marriages are mixed marriages. |
Chantal Saperstein |
| Mistakes are the portals of discovery. |
James Joyce |
Irish author (1882 - 1941) |
| Religion is a defense against the experience of God. |
Carl Jung |
Swiss psychologist (1875 - 1961) |
| Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding
of ourselves. |
Carl Jung |
Swiss psychologist (1875 - 1961) |
| The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not
between right and wrong. |
Carl Jung |
Swiss psychologist (1875 - 1961) |
| The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams
shall never die. |
Edward Kennedy |
| If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the
few who are rich. |
John F Kennedy |
| And so, my fellow Americans: ask not
what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country. |
John F Kennedy |
| When the going gets tough, the tough get going. |
Joseph P Kennedy |
| Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. |
Robert F Kennedy |
| My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my
life there. |
Charles F. Kettering |
US electrical engineer & inventor
(1876 - 1958) |
| In the long run, we are all dead. |
John Maynard Keynes |
English economist (1883 - 1946) |
| Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. |
Martin Luther King |
| Hatred paralyzes life; love releases
it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it. |
Martin Luther King |
| Life is too short for traffic. |
Dan Bellack |
| The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in
determination. |
Tommy Lasorda |
| All men dream: but not equally.
Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the
dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open
eyes, to make it possible. |
T. E. Lawrence |
| Human beings are seventy percent water, and with some the rest is
collagen. |
Martin Mull |
US comedian and actor (1943 - ) |
| Turn on, tune in and drop out. |
Timothy Leary |
US psychologist & promoter of mind-altering drugs (1920 - 1996) |
| There are three side effects of
acid. Enchanced long term memory, decreased short term memory, and I forget the third. |
Timothy Leary |
US psychologist & promoter of mind-altering drugs (1920 - 1996) |
| Power corrupts. Absolute power is kind of neat |
John Lehman, Secretary of the US Navy, 1981-1987 |
US administrator (1942 - ) |
| All we are saying is give peace a chance. |
John Lennon |
English singer & songwriter
(1940 - 1980) |
| Life is what happens while you are making other plans. |
John Lennon |
English singer & songwriter
(1940 - 1980) |
| Love anything and your heart will be
wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an
animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all
entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness.
But in that casket--safe, dark, motionless, airless--it will change. It will
not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To
love is to be vulnerable. |
C. S. Lewis |
English essayist & juvenile novelist
(1898 - 1963) |
| Every generation thinks it has the answers, and every generation is
humbled by nature. |
Phillip Lubin |
| Where facts are few, experts are many. |
Donald R. Gannon |
| 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 |
| The medium is the message. |
Marshall McLuhan |
Canadian author, educator, & philosopher (1911 - 1980) |
| The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a
global village. |
Marshall McLuhan |
Canadian author, educator, & philosopher (1911 - 1980) |
| Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy. |
Charlie McCarthy |
| Practical people would be more practical if they would take a little more
time for dreaming. |
J.P. McEvoy |
| A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do,
nothing else. |
Andre Malraux |
French author & resistance leader
(1901 - 1976) |
| In waking a tiger, use a long stick. |
Mao Tse-tung |
Chinese Communist politician (1893
- 1976) |
| Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. |
Mao Tse-tung |
Chinese Communist politician (1893
- 1976) |
| Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed. |
Mao Tse-tung |
Chinese Communist politician (1893
- 1976) |
| You are not superior just because you see the world in an odious light. |
Vicomte de Chateaubriand |
French author & politician
(1768 - 1848) |
| Get up, stand up Stand up for your rights Get up, stand up Never give up
the fight. |
Bob Marley |
| Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms. |
Groucho Marx |
US comedian with Marx Brothers
(1890 - 1977) |
| The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit. |
W. Somerset Maugham |
English dramatist & novelist
(1874 - 1965) |
| Death is a very dull, dreary affair,
and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it. |
W. Somerset Maugham |
English dramatist & novelist
(1874 - 1965) |
| An unfortunate thing about this
world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones. |
W. Somerset Maugham |
English dramatist & novelist
(1874 - 1965) |
| Excess on occasion is exhilarating.
It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit. |
W. Somerset Maugham |
English dramatist & novelist
(1874 - 1965) |
| Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. |
Henry Louis Mencken |
| The only really happy folk are married women and single men. |
Henry Louis Mencken |
| Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an
institution. |
Henry Louis Mencken |
| No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public. |
Henry Louis Mencken |
| For every problem, there is one solution which is simple, neat and wrong. |
Henry Louis Mencken |
| It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended
from man. |
Henry Louis Mencken |
| The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but
that it is a bore. |
Henry Louis Mencken |
| I expect Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man. |
George Meredith |
English novelist & poet (1828
- 1909) |
| When shit becomes valuable, the poor will be born without assholes. |
Henry Miller |
US author (1891 - 1980) |
| One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly
making exciting discoveries. |
A. A. Milne |
English juvenile author (1882 -
1956) |
| Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty
without any proof. |
Ashley Montague |
| The city is not a concrete jungle, it is a human zoo. |
Desmond Morris |
| God, grant me the serenity to accept
the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. |
Reinhold Niebuhr |
US Protestant theologian (1892 -
1971) |
| It is hard to let old beliefs go.
They are familiar. We are comfortable with them and have spent years building systems and developing habits that depend on
them. Like a man who has worn eyeglasses so long that he forgets he has them
on, we forget that the world looks to us the way it does because we have
become used to seeing it that way through a particular set of lenses. Today,
however, we need new lenses. And we need to throw the old ones away. |
Kenich Ohmae |
| I take a simple view of life: keep your eyes open and get on with it. |
Sir Laurence Olivier |
| Big Brother is watching you. |
George Orwell |
English essayist, novelist, & satirist (1903 - 1950) |
| All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others. |
George Orwell |
English essayist, novelist, & satirist (1903 - 1950) |
| Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present
controls the past. |
George Orwell |
English essayist, novelist, & satirist (1903 - 1950) |
| There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an
exception to the rule. |
George Osner |
| The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The
pessimist fears it is true. |
Robert Oppenheimer |
| 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 (1885 - 1945) |
| I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how
to do it. |
Pablo Picasso |
Spanish Cubist painter (1881 -
1973) |
| The vast possibilities of our great
future will become realities only if we make ourselves responsible for that future. |
Gifford Pinchot |
| Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects. |
Will Rogers |
US humorist & showman (1879 -
1935) |
| The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. |
Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
| The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts about
reality. |
Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
| Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted. |
Hesketh Pearson |
| If you are going to do something wrong at least enjoy it. |
Leo Rosten |
US (Polish-born) author (1908
- ) |
| The scientific theory I like best is
that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage. |
Mark Russell |
US comedian, political commentator, & satirist (1932 -
) |
| I know but one freedom, and that is the freedom of the mind. |
Antoine de Saint-Exupery |
French writer (1900 - 1944) |
| Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. |
George Santayana |
US (Spanish-born) philosopher
(1863 - 1952) |
| Everything has been figured out except how to live. |
Jean-Paul Sartre |
French author & existentialist philosopher (1905 - 1980) |
| Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now -- always. |
Albert Schweitzer |
French philosopher & physician
(1875 - 1965) |
| Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory. |
Albert Schweitzer |
French philosopher & physician
(1875 - 1965) |
| Finally, in conclusion, let me say just this. |
Peter Sellers |
English comic movie actor (1925 -
1980) |
| All great truths begin as blasphemies. |
George Bernard Shaw |
Irish dramatist & socialist
(1856 - 1950) |
| It is most unwise for people in love to marry. |
George Bernard Shaw |
Irish dramatist & socialist
(1856 - 1950) |
| The golden rule is that there are no golden rules. |
George Bernard Shaw |
Irish dramatist & socialist
(1856 - 1950) |
| The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post. |
George Bernard Shaw |
Irish dramatist & socialist
(1856 - 1950) |
| We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience. |
George Bernard Shaw |
Irish dramatist & socialist
(1856 - 1950) |
| Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well. |
Phillip Stanhope |
| 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 |
Canadian explorer & ethnologist
(1879 - 1962) |
| No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions. |
Charles Steinmetz |
| There is nothing stronger in the world than gentleness. |
Han Suyin |
| If you talk to God, you are praying. If God talks to you, you have
schizophrenia. |
Thomas Szasz |
