Favorite Quotes ...
Here are some quotations I really like. Enjoy.
“You can easily judge a man’s character by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.”
J.W. Goethe
“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
“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
“Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.”
Francis Bacon
“I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.”
Plato
“The best and free medicine is hunger.”
Isaac Newton
“Everybody’s got plans… until they get hit in the face.”
Mike Tyson
“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
“There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.”
Thomas Jefferson
“You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“A man never goes so far as when he does not know whither he is going.”
Oliver Cromwell
“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
“One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”
Plato
“You don’t have to have an opinion about that.”
Marcus Aurelius
“Nothing creates fascists like the threat of freedom.”
Rodger Ebert
“No matter how many friends you have in life, we all go down one to a box.”
Robert Ringer
“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
“Markets can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.”
John Maynard Keynes
“Emotions are the grandchildren of judgments.”
Robert Green
“Art is never finished, only abandoned.”
Leonardo Da Vinci
“Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.”
Confucius
“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
“People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.”
A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
“No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.”
Abraham Lincoln
“The world was made for people who aren’t cursed with self-awareness.”
Bull Durham the Movie
“Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal.”
Earl Nightingale
“Tradition is the illusion of permanence.”
Woody Allen
“Art is how we decorate space, music is how we decorate time.”
Jean-Michel Basquiat
“Desire is like Christmas, It always promises more than it delivers.”
Tim Kreider
“Put all your eggs in one basket, then watch that basket.”
Andrew Carnegie
“If something can’t go on forever, it will stop.”
Herb Stein – Economist
“Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.”
Farrah Gray
“People who do not want to feed their army will soon be forced to feed someone else’s.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.”
Andrew Carnegie
“A friend to all is a friend to none.”
Aristotle
“Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.”
Henry Ford
“All roads lead to the cemetery.”
Kevin Benson
“When you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.”
Mark Twain
“Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.”
Confucius
“We become what we think about.”
Earl Nightingale
“The winner has many friends, the loser has good friends.”
Mongolian Wisdom
“Nothing is particularly hard if you divided it into small jobs.”
Henry Ford
“Do today what others won’t and achieve tomorrow what others can’t.”
Jerry Rice
“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
Oscar Wilde
“How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that’s wise.”
Sophocles
“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
“Women are the gatekeepers of sex, but men are the gatekeepers of commitment.”
Unknown
“Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.”
Mark Twain
“Most people don’t recognize opportunity because it comes dressed in overalls and looks a lot like work.”
Thomas Edison
“Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.”
Henry Ford
“The victor is not victorious if the vanquished does not consider himself so.”
Ennius
“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
“It’s always darkest just before it goes completely black.”
Wild Wild West, TV Show
“It’s difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary is based on not understanding it.”
Upton Sinclair
“Inflation consists of subsidizing expenditures that give no returns with money that does not exist.”
Jacques Rueff
“To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Drunkenness does not give rise to vices, it reveals them.”
Plato
“Get rich by taking something common and making it uncommon.”
John D. Rockefeller
“Directly after copulation, the devil’s laughter is heard.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
“The measure of a man is what he does with power.”
Plato
“Men and women sleep on the same pillow, but have different dreams.”
Mongolian Wisdom
“Anyone who can make you angry becomes your master.”
Epictetus
“If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.”
Epictetus
“Receive without pride. Let go without attachment.”
J.W. Goethe
“If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.”
Henry Ford
“Nowadays, people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
Oscar Wilde
“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.”
Henry Ford
“I would rather earn 1% of 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.”
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
“I would rather hire a man with enthusiasm, than a man who knows everything.”
John D. Rockefeller
“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
“If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is their father.”
Jean de La Bruyere
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“The supreme treasure is knowledge, the middle treasure is children, and the lowest treasure is material wealth.”
Mongolian Wisdom
“I am sorry for the long letter but I didn’t have time to write a short one.”
Mark Twain
“Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods”
H. L. Mencken
“Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.”
Martin Luther King, Jr
“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
“It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”
Epictetus
“Fear is temporary, regret is forever.”
Unknown
“Life is a tale, told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, and signifying nothing.”
Shakespeare – McBeth
“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
“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.”
Confucius
“Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.”
Ambrose Bierce
“Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail.”
Leonardo Da Vinci
“Perfect is the enemy of good.”
Voltaire
“Yesterday I was clever and tried to change the world; Today I am wise and try to change myself.”
Rumi
“Value experience over possessions because memories are the real treasures of life.”
Unknown
“He who drinks dies; he who does not drink, dies as well.”
Mongolian Wisdom
“Ideology is often an escape from personal failure.”
Andrew Klavan
“You can’t get out of the way of what you don’t see coming.”
Basil Beighey
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.”
Mark Twain
“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
Plato
“Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent people ignore.”
Albert Einstein
“Everyone hears only what he understands.”
J.W. Goethe
“He travels the fastest who travels alone.”
Rudyard Kipling
“Give a man a mask, and he will show you his true face.”
Oscar Wilde
“Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others.”
Confucius
“You don’t truly learn something till you teach it.”
Steven Covy
“Relationships always end badly, or they wouldn’t end.”
Brian Flanagan, Cocktail the Movie