Famous Quotes

“Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.” Niels Bohr

 

“Act in the valley so that you need not fear those who stand on the hill.” Danish proverb

 

“The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.” Groucho Marx

 

“Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open.” Sir James Dewar, Scientist

 

“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing; it was here first.” Mark Twain

 

“Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.” Mark Twain

 

“Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.” Samuel Butler

 

“If you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, you don’t know what you’re doing.” W. Edwards Deming

 

“We think in generalities, but we live in details.” Alfred North Whitehead

 

“Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest.” Mark Twain

 

“It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best.” W. Edwards Deming

 

“If all pulled in one direction, the world would keel over.” Yiddish proverb

 

“There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it.” Christopher Darlington Morley

 

“Do just once what others say you can’t do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again.” James R. Cook

“If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.” Anatole France

 

“When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.” Eric Hoffer

 

“The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.” Samuel Butler

 

“When all think alike, no one is thinking very much.” Walter Lippmann

 

“You must believe in free will; there is no choice.” Isaac Bashevis Singer

 

“This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.” Winston Churchill

 

“I haven’t failed, I’ve found 10,000 ways that don’t work.” Thomas Edison

 

“Useless laws weaken necessary laws.” Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu

 

“All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

 

“Half the work that is done in this world is to make things appear what they are not.” Elias Root Beadle

 

“Work expands to fill the time available for its completion.” C. Northcote Parkinson

 

“Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.” Henry David Thoreau

 

“It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.” Walt Disney

 

“We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.” Mark Twain

“Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.” Mark Twain

 

“It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.” Voltaire

 

“The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch somebody else doing it wrong, without comment.” T. H. White

 

“Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.” George Eliot

 

“Of those who say nothing, few are silent.” Thomas Neill

 

“What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.” Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu

 

“Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you’re not really interested in order to get where you’re going.” Christopher Darlington Morley

 

“The secret of being tiresome is to tell everything.” Voltaire

 

“The fellow who thinks he knows it all is especially annoying to those of us who do.” Harold Coffin

 

“Too bad all the people who know how to run this country are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair.” George Burns
“Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.” Voltaire

 

“The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him.” Stanislaw Jerszy Lec

 

“To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.” Olin Miller

 

“Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own.” Chinese proverb

 

“I will not condemn you for what you did yesterday, if you do it right today.” Sheldon S. Maye

 

“We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.” Isaac Bashevis Singer

 

“As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.” Andrew Carnegie

 

“A memorandum isn’t written to inform the receiver, but to protect the writer.” Dean Acheson

 

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” George Santayana

 

“A classic is a book which people praise and don’t read.” Mark Twain

 

“It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.” Mark Twain

 

“A jury consists of twelve people who determine which client has the better lawyer.” Robert Frost

 

“Those are my principles. If you don’t like them I have others.” Groucho Marx

 

“I can’t understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I’m frightened of old ones.” John Cage

 

“History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.” Napoleon Bonaparte

 

“Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.” Jules de Gaultier