Basil Beighey

Favorite Quotes ...

Here are some quotations I really like. Enjoy.

“Desire is like Christmas, It always promises more than it delivers.”

Harper’s Siegel

“There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.”

Thomas Jefferson

“Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.”

Ayn Rand

“The victor is not victorious if the vanquished does not consider himself so.”

Ennius

“Life is a tale, told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, and signifying nothing.”

Shakespeare – McBeth

“Give a man a mask, and he will show you his true face.”

Oscar Wilde

“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”

Plato

“It’s difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary is based on not understanding it.”

Upton Sinclair

“It’s always darkest just before it goes completely black.”

Wild Wild West, TV Show

“Everybody’s got plans… until they get hit in the face.”

Mike Tyson

“The best and free medicine is hunger.”

Isaac Newton

“Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.”

Francis Bacon

“You don’t truly learn something till you teach it.”

Steven Covy

“To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.”

Friedrich Nietzsche

“When you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.”

Mark Twain

“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.”

Henry Ford

“If a lady says “no”, it means “maybe”, if she says “maybe” it means “yes” if she says “yes”, it’s not a lady.”

Voltaire

“Men and women sleep on the same pillow, but have different dreams.”

Mongolian Wisdom

“How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that’s wise.”

Sophocles

“Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.”

Henry Ford

“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”

Napoleon Bonaparte

“The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.”

Andrew Carnegie

“If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.”

Epictetus

“Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.”

Henry Ford

“He who drinks, dies; he who does not drink, dies as well.”

Mongolian Wisdom

“People who do not want to feed their army will soon be forced to feed someone else’s.”

Napoleon Bonaparte

“The measure of a man is what he does with power.”

Plato

“Nothing creates fascists like the threat of freedom.”

Rodger Ebert

“A man never goes so far as when he does not know whither he is going.”

Oliver Cromwell

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.”

Mark Twain

“The great tragedy of life is not that you don’t get everything you want; it’s that you get everything and there is no time left to enjoy it.”

Miles Davis

“Get rich by taking something common and making it uncommon.”

John D. Rockefeller

“The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.”

Napoleon Bonaparte

“People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.”

A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh

“Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.”

Henry Ford

“We all fear death and question our place in the universe, the artist’s job is not to succumb to despair, but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.”

Woody Allen

“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”

Oscar Wilde

“Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.”

Confucius

“Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods”

H. L. Mencken

“If something can’t go on forever, it will stop.”

Herb Stein – Economist

“Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.”

Martin Luther King, Jr

“Put all your eggs in one basket, then watch that basket.”

Andrew Carnegie

“No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.”

Abraham Lincoln

“Women are the gatekeepers of sex, but men are the gatekeepers of commitment.”

Unknown

“All roads lead to the cemetery.”

Kevin Benson

“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.”

Confucius

“Anyone who can make you angry becomes your master.”

Epictetus

“The supreme treasure is knowledge, the middle treasure is children, and the lowest treasure is material wealth.”

Mongolian Wisdom

“Tradition is the illusion of permanence.”

Woody Allen

“What a folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.”

John Howe

“Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent people ignore.”

Albert Einstein

“I would rather earn 1% of a 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.”

John D. Rockefeller

“Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.”

Farrah Gray

“Ideology is often an escape from personal failure.”

Andrew Klavan

“I am sorry for the long letter but I didn’t have time to write a short one.”

Mark Twain

“Do today what others won’t and achieve tomorrow what others can’t.”

Jerry Rice

“Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.”

Confucius

“Directly after copulation, the devil’s laughter is heard.”

Arthur Schopenhauer

“Drunkenness Does not give rise to vices, it reveals them.”

Plato

“Leadership is the art of getting some else to do what you want them to because he or she wants to do it.”

Dwight Eisenhower

“Some people die at 25 and aren’t buried until 75.”

Benjamin Franklin

“A friend to all is a friend to none.”

Aristotle

“Do not train a child to learn by force or harshness; but direct them to it by what amuses their minds, so that you may be better able to discover with accuracy the peculiar bent of the genius of each.”

Plato

“I would rather hire a man with enthusiasm, than a man who knows everything.”

John D. Rockefeller

“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.”

Albert Einstein

“Art is never finished, only abandoned.”

Leonardo Da Vinci

“Most people don’t recognize opportunity because it comes dressed in overalls and looks a lot like work.”

Thomas Edison

“Respect yourself and others will respect you.”

Confucius

“Perfect is the enemy of good.”

Voltaire

“The world was made for people who aren’t cursed with self-awareness.”

Bull Durham the Movie

“To call the progress of the West a “Tyrannical Patriarchy” is indicative of a deep seated resentment and a historical ignorance that’s so profound that it’s indistinguishable from willful blindness.”

Jordan Peterson

“Emotions are the grandchildren of judgments.”

Robert Green

“A poet knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”

Leonardo Da Vinci

“The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people are full of doubts.”

Bertrand Russell

“Yesterday I was clever and tried to change the world; Today I am wise and try to change myself.”

Rumi

“Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.”

Mark Twain

“You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.”

Eleanor Roosevelt

“He travels the fastest who travels alone.”

Rudyard Kipling

“Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.”

Ambrose Bierce

“It’s not the will to win that matters, . . . It’s the will to prepare to win that matters.”

Paul “Bear” Bryant

“If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.”

Henry Ford

“One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”

Plato

“Art is how we decorate space, music is how we decorate time.”

Jean-Michel Basquiat

“If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is their father.”

Jean de La Bruyere

“Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail.”

Leonardo Da Vinci

“I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.”

Plato

“The winner has many friends, the loser has good friends.”

Mongolian Wisdom

“No matter how many friends you have in life, we all go down one to a box.”

Robert Ringer

“It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”

Epictetus

“Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others.”

Confucius

“Nowadays, people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”

Oscar Wilde

“Markets can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.”

John Maynard Keynes

“Relationships always end badly, or they wouldn’t end.”

Brian Flanagan, Cocktail the Movie

“Nothing is particularly hard if you divided it into small jobs.”

Henry Ford