447. QUOTES - Famous People

Good Quotations by Famous People:

 

1.      "Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo."  - H. G. Wells (1866-1946)

2.      "Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever."  - Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

3.      "Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake." 

4.      "Don't be so humble - you are not that great."  - Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat

5.      "His ignorance is encyclopedic"  - Abba Eban (1915-2002)

6.      "If a man does his best, what else is there?"  - General George S. Patton (1885-1945)

7.      "Political correctness is tyranny with manners."  - Charlton Heston (1924-)

8.      "You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality." 

- Ayn Rand (1905-1982)

9.      "When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity; when many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion."  - Robert Pirsig (1948-)

10.  "Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer."  - Saint Thomas Moore (1478-1535)

11.  "I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better."

-          A. J. Liebling (1904-1963) 

12.  "People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid."  - Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855)

13.  "Give me chastity and continence, but not yet."  - Saint Augustine (354-430)

14.  "Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."

-          Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

15.  "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

16.  "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on." - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

17.  "You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you."  - Leon Trotsky (1879-1940)

18.  "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 (1564-1642)

19.  "We are all atheists about most of the gods humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further."

-          Richard Dawkins (1941-)

20.  "The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work."  - Emile Zola (1840-1902)

21.  "This book fills a much-needed gap."  - Moses Hadas (1900-1966) in a review

22.  "The full use of your powers along lines of excellence."  - definition of "happiness" by John F. Kennedy

23.  "I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart."  - e e Cummings

24.  "Give me a museum and I'll fill it."  - Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

25.  "In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is."  - Yogi Berra

26.  "I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."  - Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

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

-          Rene Descartes (1596-1650), "Discours de la Methode"

28.  "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."  - Martin Luther King Jr

29.  "Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right." - Henry Ford (1863-1947)

30.  "Do, or do not. There is no 'try'."  - Yoda ('The Empire Strikes Back')

31.  "The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it."  - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

32.  "Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed."  - George Burns (1896-1996)

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

34.  "There are no facts, only interpretations."  - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

35.  "Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." - Martin Luther King Jr.

36.  "Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back."  - Paul Erdos (1913-1996)

37.  "Try to learn something about everything and everything about something."  - Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895)

38.  "Dancing is silent poetry."  - Simonides (556-468bc)

39.  "The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad."  - Salvador Dali (1904-1989)

40.  "But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near."  - Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)

41.  "Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws."

-          Plato (427-347 B.C.)

42.  "The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it."  - George Bernard Shaw

43.  "Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'."  - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

44.  "Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn."  - Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947-)

45.  "Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain." - Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805)

46.  "We have art to save ourselves from the truth." - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

47.  "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." - Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

48.  "I have nothing to declare except my genius." - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) upon arriving at U.S. customs 1882

49.  "Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe." - H. G. Wells (1866-1946)

50.  "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)

51.  "The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'."

52.  "If you are going through hell, keep going." - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

53.  "He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'."

-          Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

54.  "Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions."

-          Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)

55.  "I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters."

-          Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)

56.  "Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."

-          Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

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57.  "God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh."

-          Voltaire (1694-1778)

58.  "He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death."

-          H. H. Munro (Saki) (1870-1916)

59.  "I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter."

-          Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

60.  "I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them."

-          Ian L. Fleming (1908-1964)

61.  "If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars."

-          J. Paul Getty (1892-1976)

62.  "Facts are the enemy of truth."

-          Don Quixote - "Man of La Mancha"

63.  "When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world."

-          George Washington Carver (1864-1943)

64.  "How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself."

-          Anais Nin (1903-1977)

65.  "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

-          Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)

66.  "I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right."

-          Frederick (II) the Great

67.  "Maybe this world is another planet's Hell."

-          Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)

68.  "Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact."  

-          George Eliot (1819-1880)

69.  "Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable