Favorite Quotes ...
Here are some quotations I really like. Enjoy.
“A friend to all is a friend to none.”
Aristotle
“Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.”
Henry Ford
“Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.”
Mark Twain
“Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods”
H. L. Mencken
“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
“Value experience over possessions because memories are the real treasures of life.”
Unknown
“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
“A man never goes so far as when he does not know whither he is going.”
Oliver Cromwell
“Ideology is often an escape from personal failure.”
Andrew Klavan
“If something can’t go on forever, it will stop.”
Herb Stein – Economist
“Some people die at 25 and aren’t buried until 75.”
Benjamin Franklin
“People who do not want to feed their army will soon be forced to feed someone else’s.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“The best and free medicine is hunger.”
Isaac Newton
“No matter how many friends you have in life, we all go down one to a box.”
Robert Ringer
“It’s difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary is based on not understanding it.”
Upton Sinclair
“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
“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
“If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.”
Epictetus
“Inflation consists of subsidizing expenditures that give no returns with money that does not exist.”
Jacques Rueff
“We become what we think about.”
Earl Nightingale
“Women are the gatekeepers of sex, but men are the gatekeepers of commitment.”
Unknown
“Get rich by taking something common and making it uncommon.”
John D. Rockefeller
“Life is a tale, told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, and signifying nothing.”
Shakespeare – McBeth
“It’s always darkest just before it goes completely black.”
Wild Wild West, TV Show
“Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.”
Martin Luther King, Jr
“He travels the fastest who travels alone.”
Rudyard Kipling
“Do today what others won’t and achieve tomorrow what others can’t.”
Jerry Rice
“The victor is not victorious if the vanquished does not consider himself so.”
Ennius
“Nothing creates fascists like the threat of freedom.”
Rodger Ebert
“The measure of a man is what he does with power.”
Plato
“Everybody’s got plans… until they get hit in the face.”
Mike Tyson
“Yesterday I was clever and tried to change the world; Today I am wise and try to change myself.”
Rumi
“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
Plato
“If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.”
Henry Ford
“Relationships always end badly, or they wouldn’t end.”
Brian Flanagan, Cocktail 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
“It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”
Epictetus
“Everyone hears only what he understands.”
J.W. Goethe
“You don’t have to have an opinion about that.”
Marcus Aurelius
“The supreme treasure is knowledge, the middle treasure is children, and the lowest treasure is material wealth.”
Mongolian Wisdom
“If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is their father.”
Jean de La Bruyere
“The winner has many friends, the loser has good friends.”
Mongolian Wisdom
“Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail.”
Leonardo Da Vinci
“Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.”
J.W. Goethe
“Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.”
Ambrose Bierce
“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
“Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do what you want them to because he or she wants to do it.”
Dwight Eisenhower
“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 am sorry for the long letter but I didn’t have time to write a short one.”
Mark Twain
“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
“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
“Nowadays, people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
Oscar Wilde
“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
“Most people don’t recognize opportunity because it comes dressed in overalls and looks a lot like work.”
Thomas Edison
“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
Oscar Wilde
“Receive without pride. Let go without attachment.”
J.W. Goethe
“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
“Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.”
Confucius
“There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.”
Thomas Jefferson
“How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that’s wise.”
Sophocles
“People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.”
A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
“Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.”
Henry Ford
“You can’t get out of the way of what you don’t see coming.”
Basil Beighey
“Art is never finished, only abandoned.”
Leonardo Da Vinci
“Never attribute to malice what is adequately explained by stupidity.”
Robert J. Hanlon
“Put all your eggs in one basket, then watch that basket.”
Andrew Carnegie
“Give a man a mask, and he will show you his true face.”
Oscar Wilde
“The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.”
Andrew Carnegie
“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“Directly after copulation, the devil’s laughter is heard.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
“When you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.”
Mark Twain
“Markets can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.”
John Maynard Keynes
“Fear is temporary, regret is forever.”
Unknown
“One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”
Plato
“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
“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.”
Confucius
“He who drinks dies; he who does not drink, dies as well.”
Mongolian Wisdom
“Desire is like Christmas, It always promises more than it delivers.”
Tim Kreider
“I would rather earn 1% of 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.”
John D. Rockefeller
“Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent people ignore.”
Albert Einstein
“Men and women sleep on the same pillow, but have different dreams.”
Mongolian Wisdom
“Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal.”
Earl Nightingale
“Anyone who can make you angry becomes your master.”
Epictetus
“Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.”
Farrah Gray
“You don’t truly learn something till you teach it.”
Steven Covy
“You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.”
Francis Bacon
“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.”
Henry Ford
“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
“You can easily judge a man’s character by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.”
J.W. Goethe
“Art is how we decorate space, music is how we decorate time.”
Jean-Michel Basquiat
“Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others.”
Confucius
“Perfect is the enemy of good.”
Voltaire
“All roads lead to the cemetery.”
Kevin Benson
“Respect yourself and others will respect you.”
Confucius
“Nothing is particularly hard if you divided it into small jobs.”
Henry Ford
“Tradition is the illusion of permanence.”
Woody Allen
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.”
Mark Twain