Favorite Quotes ...
Here are some quotations I really like. Enjoy.
![Jacques Rueff](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/Jacques-Rueff-150x150.png)
“Inflation consists of subsidizing expenditures that give no returns with money that does not exist.”
Jacques Rueff
![Jean-Michel Basquiat](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Jean-Michel-Basquiat-150x150.png)
“Art is how we decorate space, music is how we decorate time.”
Jean-Michel Basquiat
![Tim Kreider](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Tim-Kreider-150x150.png)
“Desire is like Christmas, It always promises more than it delivers.”
Tim Kreider
![Earl Nightingale](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/Earl-Nightingale-150x150.png)
“We become what we think about.”
Earl Nightingale
![Abraham Lincoln](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Abraham-Lincoln-150x150.png)
“No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.”
Abraham Lincoln
![Leonardo da Vinci](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Leonardo-da-Vinci-150x150.png)
“Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail.”
Leonardo Da Vinci
![Unknown](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Unknown-150x150.png)
“Value experience over possessions because memories are the real treasures of life.”
Unknown
![Plato](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Plato-150x150.png)
“I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.”
Plato
![Isaac Newton](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Isaac-Newton-150x150.png)
“The best and free medicine is hunger.”
Isaac Newton
![Miles Davis](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Miles-Davis-150x150.png)
“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
![Rodger Ebert](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Rodger-Ebert-150x150.png)
“Nothing creates fascists like the threat of freedom.”
Rodger Ebert
![Arthur Schopenhauer](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Arthur-Schopenhauer-150x150.png)
“Directly after copulation, the devil’s laughter is heard.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
![Robert Green](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Robert-Green-150x150.png)
“Emotions are the grandchildren of judgments.”
Robert Green
![Bull Durham Movie](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Bull-Durham-Movie-150x150.png)
“The world was made for people who aren’t cursed with self-awareness.”
Bull Durham the Movie
![Epictetus](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Epictetus-150x150.png)
“If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.”
Epictetus
![Plato](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Plato-150x150.png)
“The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.”
Plato
![John D. Rockefeller](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/John-D.-Rockefeller-150x150.png)
“I would rather earn 1% of 100 people’s efforts than 100% of my own efforts.”
John D. Rockefeller
![Eleanor Roosevelt](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Eleanor-Roosevelt-150x150.png)
“You wouldn’t worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
![Kevin Benson](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Kevin-Benson-150x150.png)
“All roads lead to the cemetery.”
Kevin Benson
![Voltaire](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Voltaire-150x150.png)
“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
![Confucious](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Confucious-150x150.png)
“Education breeds confidence. Confidence breeds hope. Hope breeds peace.”
Confucius
![Henry Ford](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Henry-Ford-150x150.png)
“Nothing is particularly hard if you divided it into small jobs.”
Henry Ford
![Henry Ford](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Henry-Ford-150x150.png)
“The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.”
Henry Ford
![Henry Ford](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Henry-Ford-150x150.png)
“Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.”
Henry Ford
![J.W. Goethe](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/J.W.-Goethe-150x150.png)
“You can easily judge a man’s character by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.”
J.W. Goethe
![Mark Twain](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Mark-Twain-150x150.png)
“I am sorry for the long letter but I didn’t have time to write a short one.”
Mark Twain
![Andrew Carnegie](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Andrew-Carnegie-150x150.png)
“The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell.”
Andrew Carnegie
![Aristotle](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Aristotle-150x150.png)
“A friend to all is a friend to none.”
Aristotle
![A.A. Milne](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/A.A.-Milne-150x150.png)
“People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.”
A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh
![Voltaire](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Voltaire-150x150.png)
“Perfect is the enemy of good.”
Voltaire
![Bear Bryant](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Bear-Bryant-150x150.png)
“It’s not the will to win that matters, . . . It’s the will to prepare to win that matters.”
Paul “Bear” Bryant
![Unknown](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Unknown-150x150.png)
“Fear is temporary, regret is forever.”
Unknown
![J.W. Goethe](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/J.W.-Goethe-150x150.png)
“Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.”
J.W. Goethe
![Oscar Wilde](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Oscar-Wilde-150x150.png)
“Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”
Oscar Wilde
![Steven Covy](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Steven-Covy-150x150.png)
“You don’t truly learn something till you teach it.”
Steven Covy
![Mike Tyson](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Mike-Tyson-150x150.png)
“Everybody’s got plans… until they get hit in the face.”
Mike Tyson
![Kublai Khan](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Kublai-Khan-150x150.png)
“The winner has many friends, the loser has good friends.”
Mongolian Wisdom
![Epictetus](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Epictetus-150x150.png)
“Anyone who can make you angry becomes your master.”
Epictetus
![Napoleon Bonaparte](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Napoleon-Bonaparte-150x150.png)
“People who do not want to feed their army will soon be forced to feed someone else’s.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
![basil](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/basil.png)
“You can’t get out of the way of what you don’t see coming.”
Basil Beighey
![Confucious](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Confucious-150x150.png)
“Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.”
Confucius
![Martin Luther King, Jr.](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Martin-Luther-King-Jr_-150x150.png)
“Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.”
Martin Luther King, Jr
![Woody Allen](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Woody-Allen-150x150.png)
“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
![Henry Ford](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Henry-Ford-150x150.png)
“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
![Oscar Wilde](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Oscar-Wilde-150x150.png)
“Nowadays, people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.”
Oscar Wilde
![Ambrose Bierce](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Ambrose-Bierce-150x150.png)
“Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.”
Ambrose Bierce
![Leonardo da Vinci](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Leonardo-da-Vinci-150x150.png)
“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
![Benjamin Franklin](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Benjamin-Franklin-150x150.png)
“Some people die at 25 and aren’t buried until 75.”
Benjamin Franklin
![Jerry Rice](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Jerry-Rice-150x150.png)
“Do today what others won’t and achieve tomorrow what others can’t.”
Jerry Rice
![Jean de la Bruyere](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Jean-de-la-Bruyere-150x150.png)
“If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is their father.”
Jean de La Bruyere
![Earl Nightingale](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/Earl-Nightingale-150x150.png)
“Success is the progressive realization of a worthy ideal.”
Earl Nightingale
![Oscar Wilde](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Oscar-Wilde-150x150.png)
“Give a man a mask, and he will show you his true face.”
Oscar Wilde
![Rumi](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Rumi-150x150.png)
“Yesterday I was clever and tried to change the world; Today I am wise and try to change myself.”
Rumi
![Dr. Farrah Gray](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Dr.-Farrah-Gray-150x150.png)
“Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.”
Farrah Gray
![John D. Rockefeller](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/John-D.-Rockefeller-150x150.png)
“Get rich by taking something common and making it uncommon.”
John D. Rockefeller
![Kublai Khan](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Kublai-Khan-150x150.png)
“He who drinks dies; he who does not drink, dies as well.”
Mongolian Wisdom
![Kublai Khan](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Kublai-Khan-150x150.png)
“Men and women sleep on the same pillow, but have different dreams.”
Mongolian Wisdom
![Plato](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Plato-150x150.png)
“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
![Andrew Carnegie](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Andrew-Carnegie-150x150.png)
“Put all your eggs in one basket, then watch that basket.”
Andrew Carnegie
![John Howe](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/John-Howe-150x150.png)
“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
![Dwight Eisenhower](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Dwight-Eisenhower-150x150.png)
“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
![Marcus Aurelius](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Marcus-Aurelius-150x150.png)
“You don’t have to have an opinion about that.”
Marcus Aurelius
![Confucious](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Confucious-150x150.png)
“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.”
Confucius
![Albert Einstein](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Einstein-150x150.png)
“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
![Eleanor Roosevelt](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Eleanor-Roosevelt-150x150.png)
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
![Upton Sinclair](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Upton-150x150.png)
“It’s difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary is based on not understanding it.”
Upton Sinclair
![Woody Allen](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Woody-Allen-150x150.png)
“Tradition is the illusion of permanence.”
Woody Allen
![Shakespeare](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Shakespeare-150x150.png)
“Life is a tale, told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, and signifying nothing.”
Shakespeare – McBeth
![Confucious](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Confucious-150x150.png)
“Respect yourself and others will respect you.”
Confucius
![Albert Einstein](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Einstein-150x150.png)
“Weak people revenge. Strong people forgive. Intelligent people ignore.”
Albert Einstein
![Thomas Jefferson](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Thomas-Jefferson-150x150.png)
“There is nothing more unequal than the equal treatment of unequal people.”
Thomas Jefferson
![Cocktail The Movie](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Cocktail-The-Movie-150x150.png)
“Relationships always end badly, or they wouldn’t end.”
Brian Flanagan, Cocktail the Movie
![Unknown](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Unknown-150x150.png)
“Women are the gatekeepers of sex, but men are the gatekeepers of commitment.”
Unknown
![Mark Twain](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Mark-Twain-150x150.png)
“Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.”
Mark Twain
![John Maynard Keynes](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/John-Maynard-Keynes-150x150.png)
“Markets can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent.”
John Maynard Keynes
![Kublai Khan](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Kublai-Khan-150x150.png)
“The supreme treasure is knowledge, the middle treasure is children, and the lowest treasure is material wealth.”
Mongolian Wisdom
![Francis Bacon](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Francis-Bacon-150x150.png)
“Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.”
Francis Bacon
![Herb Stein](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Herb-Stein-150x150.png)
“If something can’t go on forever, it will stop.”
Herb Stein – Economist
![J.W. Goethe](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/J.W.-Goethe-150x150.png)
“Everyone hears only what he understands.”
J.W. Goethe
![J.W. Goethe](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/J.W.-Goethe-150x150.png)
“Receive without pride. Let go without attachment.”
J.W. Goethe
![Epictetus](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Epictetus-150x150.png)
“How terrible is wisdom, when it brings no profit to the man that’s wise.”
Sophocles
![Epictetus](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Epictetus-150x150.png)
“It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”
Epictetus
![Rudyard Kipling](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Rudyard-Kipling-150x150.png)
“He travels the fastest who travels alone.”
Rudyard Kipling
![Wild Wild West](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Wild-Wild-West-150x150.png)
“It’s always darkest just before it goes completely black.”
Wild Wild West, TV Show
![Napoleon Bonaparte](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Napoleon-Bonaparte-150x150.png)
“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.”
Napoleon Bonaparte
![Mark Twain](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Mark-Twain-150x150.png)
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.”
Mark Twain
![Plato](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Plato-150x150.png)
“Drunkenness does not give rise to vices, it reveals them.”
Plato
![Plato](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Plato-150x150.png)
“One of the penalties of refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”
Plato
![Plato](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Plato-150x150.png)
“The measure of a man is what he does with power.”
Plato
![Mark Twain](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Mark-Twain-150x150.png)
“When you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.”
Mark Twain
![Henry Ford](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Henry-Ford-150x150.png)
“Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.”
Henry Ford
![Andrew Klavan](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Andrew-Klavan-150x150.png)
“Ideology is often an escape from personal failure.”
Andrew Klavan
![Oliver Cromwell](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Oliver-Cromwell-150x150.png)
“A man never goes so far as when he does not know whither he is going.”
Oliver Cromwell
![Confucious](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Confucious-150x150.png)
“Attack the evil that is within yourself, rather than attacking the evil that is in others.”
Confucius
![Napoleon Bonaparte](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Napoleon-Bonaparte-150x150.png)
“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
![Ayn Rand](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Ayn-Rand-150x150.png)
“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
![Robert Ringer](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Robert-Ringer-150x150.png)
“No matter how many friends you have in life, we all go down one to a box.”
Robert Ringer
![Robert Hanlon](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/Robert-Hanlon-150x150.png)
“Never attribute to malice what is adequately explained by stupidity.”
Robert J. Hanlon
![John D. Rockefeller](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/John-D.-Rockefeller-150x150.png)
“I would rather hire a man with enthusiasm, than a man who knows everything.”
John D. Rockefeller
![Thomas Edison](https://basilbeighey.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Thomas-Edison-150x150.png)
“Most people don’t recognize opportunity because it comes dressed in overalls and looks a lot like work.”
Thomas Edison