Our work for peace must begin within the private world of each one of us. To build for man a world without fear, we must be without fear. To build a world of justice, we must be just.
Dag Hammarskjöld

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
Galileo Galilei

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw

You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Mark Twain

An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do.
Dylan Thomas

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.
e e cummings

When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.
Al Franken

It is well that war is so terrible - otherwise we would grow too fond of it.
Robert E. Lee

Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.
Pablo Picasso

A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return.
Salman Rushdie

A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.
Bob Hope

Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
Clarence Darrow

I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.
Frida Kahlo

To be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
Nelson Mandela

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
Carl Sagan

Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.
Hermann Hesse

Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
Andre Gide

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Make a decision, even if it's wrong.
Jarvis Klem

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You don't blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the President. You realize that you control your own destiny.
Albert Ellis

There are two motives for reading a book: one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it.
Bertrand Russell

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
Abraham Lincoln

I've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.
Paul Harvey

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Mark Twain

New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move.
David Letterman

The days of the digital watch are numbered.
Tom Stoppard

Don't let the fear of striking out hold you back.
Babe Ruth

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.
Marilyn Monroe

On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
George Orwell

Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.
Raymond Chandler

I consider being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill.
Samuel Butler

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
Soren Kierkegaard

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.
G. K. Chesterton

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
Jack London

Don't confuse being 'soft' with seeing the other guy's point of view.
George Bush, Sr.

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
Bob Dylan

We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.
Anton Chekhov

Old age is the most unexpected of things that can happen to a man.
Leon Trotsky

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
Benjamin Franklin

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
Umberto Eco

I like life. It's something to do.
Ronnie Shakes

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
Albert Einstein

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
Kurt Vonnegut

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.
Sydney Smith

I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.
W. Somerset Maugham

If it turns out that there is a God, I don't think that he's evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he's an underachiever.
Woody Allen

We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
Arthur Schopenhauer

It's never too late to be who you might have been.
George Eliot

It is necessary to work, if not from inclination, at least from despair. Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.
Charles Baudelaire

What I give form to in daylight is only one per cent of what I have seen in darkness.
M. C. Escher

One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
Oscar Wilde

Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
Edward Chapin

Human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.
William James

A smile is the shortest distance between two people.
Victor Borge

There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.
Fred Hoyle

What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
Nathaniel Hawthorne

We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired?
Seneca

Only the mediocre are always at their best.
Jean Giraudoux

It doesn't make a difference what temperature a room is, it's always room temperature.
Steven Wright

I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
Mitch Hedberg

I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're going and hook up with them later.
Mitch Hedberg

People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.
Frederick Douglass

I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow.
Woodrow Wilson

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.
George S. Patton

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
Benjamin Disraeli

Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Charles Dickens

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.
Franklin P. Jones

Cocaine is God's way of saying that you're making too much money.
Robin Williams

Travel is only glamorous in retrospect.
Paul Theroux

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
Henry David Thoreau

If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
Abraham Lincoln

When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.
Sir Winston Churchill

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
Anne Frank

I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
Thomas Jefferson

A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
Burt Bacharach

Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you.
Lord Chesterfield

Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy.
George Carlin

Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
Ambrose Bierce

To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other.
Jack Handy

He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.
M. C. Escher

In the end, everything is a gag.
Charlie Chaplin

The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
William Gibson

Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.
John Barrymore (last words)

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.
Mark Twain

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes.
Frank Lloyd Wright

If God had really intended men to fly, he'd make it easier to get to the airport.
George Winters

There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
Henry Kissinger

Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.
Mother Teresa

There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, "It all depends on me."
Andre Gide

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.
Woody Allen

Vote early and vote often.
Al Capone

Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind.
Chinese proverb

There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Pablo Picasso

Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made.
Otto von Bismarck

I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
Seneca

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.
George Eliot

Stoop and you'll be stepped on; stand tall and you'll be shot at.
Carlos A. Urbizo

I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.
Henny Youngman

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound - if I can remember any of the damn things.
Dorothy Parker

Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to.
Harry Emerson Fosdick

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.
Demosthenes

You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.
Wayne Gretzky

The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
Rene Descartes

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.
Ferdinand Foch

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault.
Henry Kissinger

As we grow old... the beauty steals inward.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.
Arnold Edinborough

Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in.
Napoleon Bonaparte

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
Francis Bacon

I took a speed reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.
Woody Allen

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only for wallowing in.
Katherine Mansfield

One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.
Kurt Vonnegut

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies, probably because they are generally the same people.
G. K. Chesterton

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Henry Ford

The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.
Henry Kissinger

Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway.
John Wayne

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
B. F. Skinner

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
Salvador Dali

You've got to take the bitter with the sour.
Samuel Goldwyn

To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home.
Ken Olsen, President of Digital Equipment, 1977

Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be.
William Hazlitt

The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
Bertrand Russell

How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
Charles De Gaulle

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
Albert Camus

Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.
Rudyard Kipling

You're never too old to become younger.
Mae West

To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle.
George Orwell

Eat to live, don't live to eat.
Benjamin Franklin

I'm the only person I know that's lost a quarter of a billion dollars in one year.... It's very character-building.
Steve Jobs

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
John Cage

The government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
Ronald Reagan

I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.
Ludwig Wittgenstein

When you are not practicing, remember, someone somewhere is practicing, and when you meet him he will win.
Ed Macauley

I have learned to use the word 'impossible' with the greatest caution.
Wernher von Braun

Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
Hobart Brown

I hate television. I hate it as much as I hate peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.
Orson Welles

Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
Cary Grant

Intuition isn't the enemy, but the ally, of reason.
John Kord Lagemann

Jean Paul Sartre says in "No Exit" that hell is other people. Well, our task in life is to make it heaven. Or at least earth.
Alan Alda

Whatever you are, be a good one.
Abraham Lincoln

If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.
Isaac Newton

It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of stars.
Arthur C. Clarke

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.
Jeanne Moreau

Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's levels of aspiration and expectation.
Jack Nicklaus

You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.
Wayne Gretzky

If you drink, don't drive. Don't even putt.
Dean Martin

We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.
Arthur Schopenhauer

A man may be so much of everything that he is nothing of anything.
Samuel Johnson

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
Robert Louis Stevenson

He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.
John Milton

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
Baruch Spinoza

People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it.
Ogden Nash

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
Mahatma Gandhi

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
P. G. Wodehouse

In your clothes avoid too much gaudiness; do not value yourself upon an embroidered gown; and remember that a reasonable word, or an obliging look, will gain you more respect than all your fine trappings.
Sir George Savile

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
Carl Jung

A hypocrite is a person who... but who isn't?
Don Marquis

So little time and so little to do.
Oscar Levant

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.
Bill Gates

Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.
Kurt Vonnegut

I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
G. K. Chesterton

There's no business like show business, but there are several businesses like accounting.
David Letterman

Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or better.
John Updike

My work is a game, a very serious game.
M. C. Escher

There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
Henry Kissinger

The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
G. K. Chesterton

Cherish all your happy moments: they make a fine cushion for old age.
Christopher Morley

The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.
Nikola Tesla

The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill.
Peter Ustinov

Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.
Hermann Hesse

If your morals make you dreary, depend on it , they are wrong.
Robert Louis Stevenson

We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming.
Wernher von Braun

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The best way out is always through.
Robert Frost

Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.
Harry S. Truman

God runs electromagnetics by wave theory on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and the Devil runs them by quantum theory on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday.
Sir William Bragg

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
Sir Winston Churchill

When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
Anais Nin

Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible.
Stanislaw Lem

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
Pablo Picasso

If someone wants a sheep, then that means that he exists.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
Immanuel Kant

To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Don't be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.
Robert Bresson

The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
Lewis Thomas

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say "I want to see the manager."
William S. Burroughs

If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do.
Samuel Butler

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook and a good digestion.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward.
John Maynard Keynes

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.
Tennessee Williams

I have never been hurt by anything I didn't say.
Calvin Coolidge

Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.
Steven Wright

The best way out is always through.
Robert Frost

Pay no attention to what the critics say... Remember, a statue has never been set up in honour of a critic!
Jean Sibelius

It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
Walt Disney

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can stop him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.
Martin Luther King Jr.

He wrapped himself in quotations- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
Rudyard Kipling

It's amazing that the amount of news that happens in the world every day always just exactly fits the newspaper.
Jerry Seinfeld

When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
Anais Nin

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
G. K. Chesterton

Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternatives.
Maurice Chevalier

Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
Fletcher Knebel

Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
Rene Descartes

So divinely is the world organized that every one of us, in our place and time, is in balance with everything else.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

That's the secret to life... replace one worry with another...
Charles M. Schultz

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.
Woody Allen

When I meet a man I ask myself, 'Is this the man I want my children to spend their weekends with?'
Rita Rudner

It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required.
Sir Winston Churchill

Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw

What does it matter how one comes by the truth so long as one pounces upon it and lives by it?
Henry Miller

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.
Bertrand Russell

Invention is the mother of necessity.
Thorstein Veblen

He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good.
Jewish Proverb

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
H. L. Mencken

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
Sir Winston Churchill

Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.
Mark Twain

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.
Sun-tzu, The Art of War

The best victory is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord before there are any actual hostilities... It is best to win without fighting.
Sun-tzu, The Art of War

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.
Sun-tzu, The Art of War

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
Marquis de la Grange

Nothing shocks me. I'm a scientist.
Harrison Ford (as Indiana Jones)

As the poet said, 'Only God can make a tree' - probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on.
Woody Allen

For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.
Johnny Carson

When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
Brendan Behan

We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
Alfred North Whitehead

It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
Sally Kempton

Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.
William Shakespeare, Hamlet

An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.
Laurence J. Peter

It is better to be quotable than to be honest.
Tom Stoppard

The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks.
Thomas Bailey

I happen to feel that the degree of a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting attitudes she can bring to bear on the same topic.
Lisa Alther

Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.
Alfred Hitchcock

A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin

Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening.
Dorothy Sarnoff

It's hard to be nostalgic when you can't remember anything.
Anon

We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic.
David Russell

I've been accused of every death except the casualty list of the World War.
Al Capone

I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.
Harry S Truman

How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
Charles De Gaulle

He that can't endure the bad, will not live to see the good.
Jewish Proverb

Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
Laurie Anderson

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
Frank Lloyd Wright

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
Rita Rudner

The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into the small threads that compose it, and you can break them one by one. You think, 'That is all there was!' But twist them all together and you have something tremendous.
Victor Hugo

Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy down the line and get him to inspire his people.
Lee Iacocca

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.
Stanley Kubrick

All men are mortal. Socrates was mortal. Therefore, all men are Socrates.
Woody Allen

Astronomers say the universe is finite, which is a comforting thought for those people who can't remember where they leave things.
Woody Allen

It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.
Woody Allen

Courage is grace under pressure.
Ernest Hemingway

The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are stronger at the broken places.
Ernest Hemingway

If error is corrected whenever it is recognized as such, the path of error is the path of truth.
Hans Reichenbach

I know that my unity with all people cannot be destroyed by national boundaries and government orders.
Leo Tolstoy

Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
Niccolò Machiavelli

Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if they are to be observed, have need of good morals.
Niccolò Machiavelli

I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
Bertrand Russell

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.
Bertrand Russell

All knowledge, we feel, must be built up upon our instinctive beliefs; and if these are rejected, nothing is left.
Bertrand Russell

All things that are truly great are at first thought impossible.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Dare to believe only in yourself.
Friedrich Nietzsche

It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!
Friedrich Nietzsche

Man is the cruelest animal.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Doing easily what others find difficult is talent; doing what is impossible for talent is genius.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle

Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments.
Isaac Asimov

All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals.
Peter Singer

Friendship is not necessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.
Clive Staples Lewis

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Douglas Noel Adams

Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.
Bernard Mannes Baruch

As for courage and will - we cannot measure how much of each lies within us, we can only trust there will be sufficient to carry through trials which may lie ahead.
Andre Norton

Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.
George Bernard Shaw

You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don't trust enough.
Frank H. Crane

She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
Groucho Marx

Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
Groucho Marx

Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
Groucho Marx

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
Groucho Marx

Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped.
Groucho Marx

From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
Groucho Marx

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
Groucho Marx

When you reduce a complex message to something customers can understand, you’re not dumbing it down. You’re smartening it up.
Bruce Haddon

The race for market share is a race against time, not against competitors. Good ideas sooner always beat good ideas eventually. Today's marketplace is more concerned about when than who.
Bruce Haddon

Successful is the person who has lived well, laughed often and loved much, who has gained the respect of children, who leaves the world better than they found it, who has never lacked appreciation for the earth's beauty, who never fails to look for the best in others or give the best of themselves.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying.
Woody Allen

Half this game is ninety percent mental.
Yogi Berra

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Thomas Alva Edison

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.
Ian L. Fleming

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
Albert Einstein

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Don't be so humble - you are not that great.
Golda Meir, to a visiting diplomat

People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
Soren Kierkegaard

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
Emile Zola

Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
Georg Lichtenberg

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope.
-Helen Keller

Happiness is not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.
-Daphne du Maurier

It is better to deserve honours and not have them, than to have them and not deserve them.
Mark Twain

Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
Napoleon Hill

Success is the maximum utilisation of the ability that you have.
Zig Zilglar

It’s the process of striving that makes us grow - not necessarily the result. Running against the wind makes us better than running with it.
Herb Elliott MBE

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
Abraham Lincoln

I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back
Abraham Lincoln

Once you have passionately sold the core values of your organisation to your people, they have a very simple choice, and that is to be an Ambassador or an Assassin of those values.
Geoff Burch

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Robert F. Kennedy

Only a radically new kind of creativity will keep you and your organisation up there with the best.
Dr Kobus Neethling

The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit of doing them.
Benjamin Jowett

Men despise great projects when they do not feel themselves capable of great successes.
Luc de Clarnes Vauvenargues

We cannot work to create a future which we do not first imagine
Dr Peter Ellyard

It is not impossibilities which fill us with the deepest despair, but possibilities which we have failed to realize.
Robert Mallet

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

You can't shake hands with a clenched fist
Indira Ghandi

In a competitive world so much importance is put on winning at any cost that we sometimes forget that honesty, decency and integrity are the ultimate victors in both business and life.
Bryce Courtenay AM

To achieve great things, we must live as though we are never going to die.
Luc de Clarnes Vauvenargues

It is better to be making the news than taking it; to be an actor rather than a critic.
Sir Winston Spencer Churchill

Bad administration, to be sure, can destroy good policy; but good administration can never save bad policy.
Adlai Stevenson

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
Mark Twain

Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else.
Ogden Nash

Everybody sets out to do something, and everybody does something, but no one does what he sets out to do.
George Moore

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
Indira Ghandi

Nothing is so aggravating as calmness.
Oscar Wilde

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping that it will eat him last.
Sir Winston Spencer Churchill

It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.
Daniel Defoe

She got her good looks from her father - he's a plastic surgeon.
Groucho Marx

A belief is not merely an idea the mind possesses; it is an idea that possesses the mind.
Robert Bolton

Justice is what you get when you run out of money.
-H.L. Mencken

Never pick a fight with someone who buys ink by the barrel.
-H.L. Mencken

In war, truth is so precious she must always be escorted by a bodyguard of lies.
Sir Winston Spencer Churchill

Never in the field of human suffering, was so much made, by so few, from so many.
Sir Murray Rivers QC (Bryan Dawe) on politicians.

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.
J Frank Dobie

Remarkable people in all fields of endeavour move the world forward - they never give up.
Kevan Gosper AO

The most important qualities in life are honesty and sincerity. When you lean to fake these, all the rest comes easy.
Groucho Marx

News is what someone doesn't want published… the rest is all PR.
H.L. Menchen

May you live in interesting times.
Ancient Chinese curse

The new communication technologies have provided us with opportunities as never before - they are your passport to customer care and business growth.
Debbie Mayo-Smith

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
Oscar Wilde

Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein

Duty is what one expects from others.
Oscar Wilde

My head knows that perfection is impossible. But my heart insists that I must keep trying. Maybe my heart is wiser than I think.
Michael Coyne

To every man, every day, will come one valuable thought.
Thomas Edison

I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.
J. R. R. Tolkien

Systems allow us to apply the best thinking and give us a benchmark against which to measure and evaluate future ideas.
Alan Patching

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein

Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert Einstein

There is no such thing as can’t; only varying degrees of dont want to.
Tony Donohue

Deciding what to do is easy, deciding what not to do is hard.
Michael Dell, Founder, Dell Computers

When you have the treasure of contentment within you, there is an end to all.
Gahle Atherton

Limited desires keep you on the path of searching and contentment says you have already arrived.
Gahle Atherton

If you’re not confused about the current state of the economy then you clearly do not understand what is going on.
Dr Chris Caton

The dramatic news events mask the fundamental change that is taking place in global business . Later in the decade we will look back on the current period with amazement--we all saw the changes taking place but didn't realise their significance.
Robert Gottleibsen

You have the choice of how to deal with swiftly-developing technologies. Treat them as offering the potential to massively improve our lives and business relationships, and they will.
Ross Dawson

'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

In times of rapid change an intelligently imagined view of the future has a better chance of being right than the present does of staying the same.
Bruce Haddon

I believe deeply that informed public discourse on all issues great and small is vital in a democracy.
Richard Butler AM

Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
Eddie Rickenbacker

I believe we can shape our destiny by developing opinions and influencing events by seeking out the truth.
David Galbally QC

It’s there within us all. It costs nothing, takes almost no time and is powerful beyond measure. Unleash the power of praise and reap the rewards.
Susan Mitchell

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
George Bernard Shaw

Football clubs are a microcosm of life - 20 years involvement has convinced me that nothing is impossible.
Tim Watson

All great achievements have one thing in common - people with a passion to succeed.
Pat Cash

My attitude to travelling is similar to that on life; go forward with an open mind, a great deal of patience and your most winning smile.
Catriona Rowntree

As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.
Benjamin Disraeli

Successful people I admire are comfortable in their own skin. They don't need to take themselves too seriously....but they take their professionalism very seriously indeed.
Elaine Canty

We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Progress might have been all right once, but it has gone on too long.
Ogden Nash

The law taught me to believe nobody, the media proves that was right… there is always a story behind the story, no matter who squirms when it is told.
Jon Faine

Relationships are the building blocks of our personal and business lives - they should be cherished and developed.
Dr Feelgood

Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's levels of aspiration and expectation.
Jack Nicklaus

There’s nothing like a hearty laugh to unclutter the brain, unburden the heart and convince the family you should be in a Home.
Kerry Cue

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.
Groucho Marx

Harmony is not confined to music. It should be reflected in business and life.
James Morrison AM

I like to think that Music is part of our heritage - it indelibly marks the major events in our personal lives and our society
Russell Morris

Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory.
General George S. Patton

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

It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians.
Henrik Ibsen

A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
Adlai Stevenson

I know what a statesman is. He's a dead politician. We need more statesman.
Robert C. Edwards

When a politician changes his position it's sometimes hard to tell whether he has seen the light or felt the heat.
Robert Fuoss

In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defence of the indefensible.
George Orwell

In politics there is no honour
Benjamin Disraeli

Few things are as immutable as the addiction of political groups to the ideas by which they have once won office.
John Kenneth Galbraith,The Affluent Society

Since a politician never belives what he says, he is surprised when others believe him.
Charles de Gaulle

I don't know what effect these men will have on the enemy, but, by God, they terrify me.
Duke of Wellington on his troops.

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

It is wonderful that even today, with all the competition of radio, television, films, and records, the book has kept its precious character. A book is somehow sacred. A dictator can kill and maim people, can sink to any kind of tyranny and only be hated. But when books are burnt the ultimate in tyranny has happened. This we cannot forgive.
John Steinbeck; Nobel Prize speech 1962

If you can't manage your own time well, how can you expect to manage others?
Anon

If you haven't had a failure in this business, you haven't been around long enough.
Sandra Levy, Australian film and television producer.

I am a great believer in luck. The harder I work, the more of it I seem to have.
F.L. Emerson

Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping.
Julius Charles Hare

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that things are difficult.
Seneca

A miser and a liar bargain quickly.
Greek Proverb

A smooth sea never made a skilful mariner.
English Proverb

Duty is what one expects from others
Oscar Wilde

People who are just in it for the money - they usually fail.
Robert Holmes A Court.

A leader is a dealer in hope.
Napoleon Bonaparte

In the midst of great joy do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of great anger do not answer anyone's letter.
Chinese Proverb

Decisions are like New Year's resolutions - making them is easy; sticking to them is the hard part.
Anon

Risk-taking is the essence of innovation.
Herman Kahn

Better ask questions twice than lose your way once.
Danish Proverb

The empires of the future will be the empires of the mind.
Winston Churchill

If at first an idea isn't totally absurd, there's no hope for it.
Albert Einstein

We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.
Henry Longfellow

A person will stand for a long time with their mouth open before a roast duck flies into it.
Chinese Proverb

It's not the men in my life. It's the life in my men.
Mae West

We will either find a way or make one.
Hannibal

What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary.
Richard Harkness

When I hear somebody sigh, Life is hard, I am always tempted to ask, Compared to what?
Sydney J. Harris

In times like these, it is helpful to remember that there have always been times like these.
Paul Harvey

If you don't make mistakes, you aren't really trying.
Coleman Hawking

My goal is simple. It is complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists as all.
Stephen Hawking

Good leaders must first become good servantsProsperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.
William Hazlitt

We are most nearly ourselves when we achieve the seriousness of the child at play.
Heraclitus

The brighter you are, the more you have to learn.
Don Herold

Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?
Jules Feiffer

I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally.
W.C. Fields

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
F. Scott Fitzgerald

If you sit down and don't see a fish at the table, the fish is you.
Ken Flaton

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
Malcolm S. Forbes

It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.
Henry Ford

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't.
Anatole France

The secret of success is constancy to purpose.
Benjamin Franklin

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.
Robert Frost

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.
Robert Frost

The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
Robert Frost

It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts.
Millard Fuller

In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.
John Kenneth Gabraith

There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.
Indira Ghandi

Good leaders must first become good servants.
Robert Greenleaf

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
Mohandas Gandhi

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
André Gide

If you want to piss with the big dogs, you'd better learn to lift your leg first; otherwise you just might get pissed on.
E.M. Glenn

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Arthur Godfrey

I would rather die fighting than fight dying.
Kevin Grant

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.
Sidney Greenberg

Good leaders must first become good servants.
Robert Greenleaf

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
Greek Proverb

The secret of success is constancy to purpose
Benjamin Franklin

When authorities warn you of the sinfulness of sex, there is an important lesson to be learned. Do not have sex with the authorities.
Matt Groening

In order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
Carl Sagan

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
George Santayana

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
Marilyn vos Savant

Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't.
Pete Seeger

The breakfast of champions is not cereal, it's the opposition.
Nick Seitz

Do not do unto others as you would they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
George Bernard Shaw

When there is an original sound in the world, it makes a hundred echoes.
John Shedd

Leaders get out in front and stay there by raising the standards by which they judge themselves - and by which they are willing to be judged.
Fredrick Smith

There can be no justice so long as rules are absolute.
Patrick Stewart

No dictator, no invader, can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against that power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand. The Centauri learned this lesson once. We will teach it to them again. Though it take a thousand years, we will be free.
J. Michael Straczynski

Those who can, do. Those who can't, teach. Those who can't teach teach education.
Nicolas Martin

Don't let your studies interfere with your education.
Henry Rutgers

I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of boy next to me.
Woody Allen.

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.
Robert Frost

He who laughs last, didn't get the joke.
Anon

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.
Peter Ustinov

It's not whether you win or lose, it's how good you look.
David Lee Roth

Success depends on your backbone, not your wishbone.
Anon

Experience is the name that everyone gives to his mistakes.
Oscar Wilde.

I'm not a good shot, but I shoot often.
Theodore Roosevelt

Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.
E. Joseph Cossman

There are three ways a man can be ruined: women, gambling, and farming. My father chose the most boring.
Pope John XXIII

Man errs as long as he strives.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. 1749-1832.

He who never fell never climbed.
Anon

I dream of a company where people come to work every day in a rush to try something they woke up thinking about the night before. We want them to go home from work wanting to talk about what they did that day, rather than trying to forget it. We want factories where the whistle blows and everybody wonders where the time went, and then somebody suddenly wonders aloud why we need a whistle. We want a company where people find a better way, everyday, of doing things, and where by shaping their own work experience, they make their lives better and their company the best.
Jack Welch, CEO, General Electric.

Make three correct guesses consecutively and you will establish a reputation as an expert.
Laurence J Peter

A good man giving bad advice is more dangerous than a nasty man giving bad advice.
Conor Cruise P'Brien

A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.
Ed Howe

The art of giving advice is to make the recipient believe he thought of it himself.
Frank Tyger

Dreaming is zero value. I mean, anyone can dream.
Bill Gates

You've got a goal, I've got a goal. Now all we need is a football team.
Groucho Marx

A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.
Richard Nixon

If you don't have some bad loans, you're not in business.
Paul Volcker

Observe the masses and do the opposite.
James Caan

I can't stand this proliferation of paperwork. It's useless to fight the forms. You've got to kill the people producing them.
Vladimir Kabaidze

One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the Government run it.
Ronald Reagan

The rule of business is how fast you can get your idea to market. Those whose systems do not allow them to move quickly are doomed.
Ken Tuchman

Always forgive your enemies: nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde

You can't do business sitting on your arse.
Lord MacLaurin

If it ain't broke, break it.
Richard Pascale

Oppose, adapt, adopt.
Benjamin Disraeli

It is better to be defeated on principle than to win on lies.
Arthur Calwell

You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.
Al Capone

The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
Aristotle Onassis

Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.
Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower

The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
Elizabeth Taylor

Fortune favours the brave.
Terence

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

How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
William Shakespeare

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
George Bernhard Shaw

Committee - a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
Milton Berle

A diplomat is someone who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you look forward to the trip.
Cashie Stinnett

The real problem is what to do with the problem solvers after the problems are solved.
G. Talese

If you can't convince them, confuse them.
Harry S. Truman

When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.
W. Wrigley Jnr

The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.
Washington Allston

Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other.
Oscar Ameringer

It is impossible to love and to be wise.
Francis Bacon

Committee - a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.
M. Berle

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.
Niels Bohr

A miser and a liar bargain quickly.
Greek proverb

Each man is the smith of his own fortune.
Appius Claudius Caecus

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
Winston Churchill

An unjust peace is better than a just war.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.
Phyllis Diller

Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.
Albert Einstein

A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
English proverb

A liberal is man too broad-minded to take his own side in a quarrel.
Robert Frost

The art of war is to avoid big battles.
Sun Tzu

Don't let your studies interfere with your education.
Henry Rutgers

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.
Thomas Henry Huxley

I cannot hear what you say for the thunder of what you are.
Zulu Proverb

Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.
John Stuart Mill

A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing but collectively can meet and decide that nothing can be done.
Alfred E. Smith

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Soren Kiekegaad

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
General Charles De Gaulle

Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.
Fred Brookes