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{
"quote": "When I use a word, it means just what I choose it to mean-neither more nor less.",
"author": "Humpty Dumpty"
},
{
"quote": "You know the world is going crazy when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the U.S. of arrogance, Germany doesn't want to go to war, and the three most powerful men in America are named 'Bush', 'Dick', and 'Colon.'",
"author": "Chris Rock"
},
{
"quote": "If Bill Gates woke up with Oprah's money he'd jump out the window.",
"author": "Chris Rock"
},
{
"quote": "Religion has convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky, who watches everything you do every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a list of ten specific things he doesn't want you to do. And if you do any of these things, he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever, and suffer and burn and scream until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you and he needs money.",
"author": "George Carlin"
},
{
"quote": "The reason they call it the American Dream is because you have to be asleep to believe it.",
"author": "George Carlin"
},
{
"quote": "Think about how stupid the average person is. And then realize that half of 'em are stupider than that.",
"author": "George Carlin"
},
{
"quote": "What if there were no hypothetical questions?",
"author": "George Carlin"
},
{
"quote": "Some people see the glass half full. Other see it half empty. I see a glass that's twice as big as it needs to be.",
"author": "George Carlin"
},
{
"quote": "People who see life as anything but pure entertainment are missing the point.",
"author": "George Carlin"
},
{
"quote": "Language is a tool for concealing the truth.",
"author": "George Carlin"
},
{
"quote": "Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.",
"author": "George Carlin"
},
{
"quote": "I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it.",
"author": "George Carlin"
},
{
"quote": "I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death.",
"author": "George Carlin"
},
{
"quote": "In comic strips, the person on the left always speaks first.",
"author": "George Carlin"
},
{
"quote": "Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town.",
"author": "George Carlin"
},
{
"quote": "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.",
"author": "George Carlin"
},
{
"quote": "The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the naughty girls live.",
"author": "George Carlin"
},
{
"quote": "When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you get a front row seat.",
"author": "George Carlin"
},
{
"quote": "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.",
"author": "Jane Austen"
},
{
"quote": "The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,^nMoves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit^nShall lure it back to cancel half a Line,^nNor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.",
"author": "Omar Khayyam"
},
{
"quote": "The function of the Federal Reserve System is to foster the flow of credit and money that will facilitate orderly economic growth, a stable dollar, and long-run balance in our international payments.",
"author": "Federal Reserve Board of Governors"
},
{
"quote": "To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.",
"author": "Mary Pettibone Poole"
},
{
"quote": "De l'audace, encore de l'audace, et toujours de l'audace!",
"author": "Georges Jacques Danton"
},
{
"quote": "When I started writing I thought if I proved X was a stupid thing to do that people would stop doing X. I was wrong.",
"author": "Bill James"
},
{
"quote": "If you look long enough for an argument against reason, you will find it.",
"author": "Michael Lewis"
},
{
"quote": "Profits can be made safely only when the opportunity is available and not just because they happen to be desired or needed. ...Willingness and ability to hold funds uninvested while awaiting real opportunities is a key to success in the battle for investment survival.",
"author": "Gerard Loeb"
},
{
"quote": "Stocks are bought on expectations, not facts.",
"author": "Gerard Loeb"
},
{
"quote": "What everyone knows isn't worth knowing.",
"author": "Gerard Loeb"
},
{
"quote": "(on analysts) In a bull market you don't need'em; in a bear market, you don't want'em.",
"author": "Gerard Loeb"
},
{
"quote": "When popular opinion is nearly unanimous, contrary thinking tends to be most profitable. The reason is that once the crowd takes a position, it creates a short-term, self-fulfilling prophecy. But when a change occurs, everyone seems to change his mind at once.",
"author": "Gustave Le Bon"
},
{
"quote": "Women, when they have made a sheep of a man, always tell him that he is a lion with a will of iron.",
"author": "Honoré de Balzac"
},
{
"quote": "As one person I cannot change the world, but I can change the world of one person.",
"author": "Paul Shane Spear"
},
{
"quote": "The middle of every successful project looks like a disaster.",
"author": "Rosabeth Moss Kanter"
},
{
"quote": "Goebbels was in favor of free speech for views he liked. So was Stalin. If you're really in favor of free speech, then you're in favor of freedom of speech precisely for views you despise. Otherwise, you're not in favor of free speech.",
"author": "Noam Chomsky"
},
{
"quote": "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.",
"author": "Dr. Seuss"
},
{
"quote": "Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.",
"author": "Dr. Seuss"
},
{
"quote": "You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.",
"author": "Dr. Seuss"
},
{
"quote": "You have to be odd to be number one.",
"author": "Dr. Seuss"
},
{
"quote": "God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.",
"author": "Schools Superintendent Chalmers"
},
{
"quote": "All power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely.",
"author": "Lord Acton"
},
{
"quote": "The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.",
"author": "Douglas Adams"
},
{
"quote": "The history of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiry and Sophistication, otherwise known as the How, Why and Where phases. For instance, the first phase is characterized by the question 'How can we eat?' the second by the question 'Why do we eat?' and the third by the question 'Where shall we have lunch?'",
"author": "Douglas Adams"
},
{
"quote": "Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.",
"author": "Douglas Adams"
},
{
"quote": "We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem.",
"author": "Douglas Adams"
},
{
"quote": "Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?",
"author": "Douglas Adams"
},
{
"quote": "1. Anything that is in the world when you\u2019re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. 2. Anything that's invented between when you\u2019re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. 3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.",
"author": "Douglas Adams"
},
{
"quote": "No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.",
"author": "Henry B. Adams"
},
{
"quote": "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.",
"author": "Samuel Adams"
},
{
"quote": "Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.",
"author": "Scott Adams"
},
{
"quote": "Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems.",
"author": "Scott Adams"
},
{
"quote": "You can't motivate people to do things, you can only demotivate them. The primary job of the manager is not to empower but to remove obstacles.",
"author": "Scott Adams"
},
{
"quote": "To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.",
"author": "Akhenaton"
},
{
"quote": "Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.",
"author": "Woody Allen"
},
{
"quote": "More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.",
"author": "Woody Allen"
},
{
"quote": "Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.",
"author": "Woody Allen"
},
{
"quote": "Being a social outcast helps you stay concentrated on the really important things, like thinking and hacking.",
"author": "Eric Raymond"
},
{
"quote": "The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honour you can bestow on him. It means that you recognize his superiority to yourself.",
"author": "Joseph Sobran"
},
{
"quote": "Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country.",
"author": "Hermann Goering"
},
{
"quote": "Fascism should more properly be called corporatism since it is the merger of state and corporate power.",
"author": "Benito Mussolini"
},
{
"quote": "Better to live a day as a lion than 100 years as a sheep",
"author": "Benito Mussolini"
},
{
"quote": "And, isn't sanity really just a one-trick pony anyway? I mean all you get is one trick, rational thinking, but when you're good and crazy, oooh, oooh, oooh, the sky is the limit.",
"author": "The Tick"
},
{
"quote": "First they came for the Communists, but I was not a Communist, so I said nothing. Then they came for the Social Democrats, but I was not a Social Democrat, so I did nothing. Then came the Trade Unionists, but I was not a Trade Unionist. And then they came for the Jews, but I was not a Jew, so I did little. Then, when they came for me, there was no one left to stand up for me.",
"author": "Martin Niemoeller"
},
{
"quote": "It's better to win the lottery than to break your neck, but not by as much as you'd think.... Within a year, lottery winners and paraplegics have both (on average) returned most of the way to their baseline levels of happiness.",
"author": "Jonathan Haidt"
},
{
"quote": "Any observed statistical regularity will tend to collapse once pressure is placed upon it for control purposes.",
"author": "Charles Goodhart"
},
{
"quote": "I ain't what I used to be, but who the hell is?",
"author": "Dizzy Dean"
},
{
"quote": "It ain't braggin' if you can back it up.",
"author": "Dizzy Dean"
},
{
"quote": "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person is a little like expecting the bull not to attack you because you are a vegetarian.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "A story with a happy ending is one that hasn't finished yet.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "A black belt is a white belt who never gave up.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "The biggest risk you run is the one you cannot see.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Climb mountains not so the world can see you, but so you can see the world.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Life is what happens to other people while you're busy reading inspirational quotes",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Those who travel with the current will always feel they are good swimmers; those who swim against the current may never realize they are better swimmers than they imagine.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Forgiveness means giving up all hope for a better past.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "I guess when you look at someone through rose colored glasses, all the red flags just look like flags.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "You lose the jacket to please them, you keep it to piss them off. Either way it's for them, that's what's weak.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "A market selloff is worse than a divorce. You lose half your money, but your wife is still around.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "When life gives you lemons, punch life in the face, rub lemon in its eyes while yelling, how do you like that, bitch? Or if you don't have anger issues, make lemonade or something.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "If you run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day, you're the asshole.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "If it smells like shit everywhere you go, it's time to look under your own shoe.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Religion is like a penis. It's find to have one and be proud of it, but when you take it out and wave it in my face, that's when we have a problem.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Life is hard, but it's harder if you're stupid.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Pride is not the opposite of shame, but its source. True humility is the only antidote to shame.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "At the end of the game the King and the Pawn go into the same box.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Someone once called me ignorant and apathetic. I don't really know what that means, but it doesn't really matter.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "They tried to bury us. They didn\u2019t know we were seeds.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "You are to yourself what your thoughts are, you are to others what your actions are.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "You are not expected to set yourself on fire to keep someone else warm.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Being in the right place at the right time usually requires a very long investment of being in the right place at the wrong time.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "A man's gotta make at least one bet a day, else he could be walking around lucky and never know it.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Mediocrity is a tax paid by those who succumb to fear and comfort.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Hell is when you die, the person you became meets the person you could have become.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "You can't pay rent with expected value.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "If you keep one foot in the future and one foot in the past, you're going to shit all over the present.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "The world is not a wish-granting factory.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "People aren't against you: they are for themselves.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "No use carrying an umbrella if your shoes are leaking.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "We struggle with insecurity because we compare our behind-the-scenes with everyone else\u2019s highlight reel.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "We judge others by their actions and ourselves by our intentions.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "This is one of those things you always figure will happen to someone else. Unfortunately we're all someone else to someone else.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "It is not our abilities that show who we really are. It is our choices. - Albus Dumbledore",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "If you look for the light, you can often find it. But if you look for the dark, that is all you will ever see.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Someone once told me the definition of Hell: The last day you have on earth, the person you became will meet the person you could have become.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "You're a ghost driving a meat-coated skeleton made from stardust.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Climb mountains not so the world can see you, but so you can see the world.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Most every adult has had their life planned for them by an idiot teenager.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "A bubble is a bull market in which you don't have a position.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Everything the Communists told us about communism was a complete and utter lie. Unfortunately, everything the Communists told us about capitalism turned out to be true. - Anonymous Russian",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Structural engineering is the art of molding materials we don't wholly understand, into shapes we can't fully analyze, so as to withstand forces we can't really assess, in such a way that the community at large has no reason to suspect the extent of our ignorance.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Warning: Everything saved will be lost. - Wii notification",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "If you're not making waves, you're not under way.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "I like maxims that don't encourage behavior modification.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "It's psychosomatic. You're psycho and need a lobotomy. I'll get a saw.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "In my opinion, we don't devote nearly enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Some days even my lucky underpants don't help.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "I'm a simple man with complex tastes.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Karma means I can rest easy, knowing all the people I mistreated had it coming.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Given enough time, hydrogen starts to wonder where it came from, and where it is going.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "If you aspire to lead, you must inspire sometimes unwarranted confidence. If you aspire to truth, you must embrace sometimes unwarranted skepticism.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "\"Everyman for himself\" said the elephant as he danced amongst the chickens.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Popular consensus says that reality is based on popular consensus.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Life is complex. It has real and imaginary parts.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Somebody's had too much to think.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "I tried to join Paranoids Anonymous. They wouldn't let me know where the meetings were.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Heisenberg was here, maybe.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "I have a very firm grasp on reality! I can reach out and strangle it any time!",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Anything's possible, but only a few things actually happen.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "In the beginning there was nothing, then God said \" Let there be light\". And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a lot better.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Good, fast, cheap: choose any two.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Live now. There'll be plenty of time to be dead later.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "He who forgives ends the quarrel.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "The difference between try and triumph is a little umph.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "The World is full of such wondrous things; we should all be as happy as kings.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "It is not joy that makes us grateful. It is gratitude that makes us joyful.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "All lies and jest, still, a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "We are all just prisoners here, of our own device",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see. It's getting hard to be someone but it all works out.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "You can't get to the moon by climbing successively taller trees.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "A bad idea with a good presentation is doomed eventually. A good idea with a bad presentation is doomed immediately.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "The fact that an analysis appears in print has no relationship to the likelihood of its being correct.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Everything is linear if plotted log-log with a fat magic marker.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "There are three sorts of economist. Those who can count, and those who can't.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Respect is commanded, not demanded.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "The 3 most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates and a monthly salary.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Randomness is more random than you think.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "If no change in reality can change your belief, then your belief is not based on anything in reality.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Nothing in fine print is ever good news.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "What the large print giveth, the fine print taketh away.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Every customer was once a prospect, every prospect once a stranger. Moral: get acquainted.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "The person who minds nobody's business but his own is probably a millionaire.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Virtue is its own punishment.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "When it's time to buy, you won't want to.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "When anyone gets something for nothing, someone else gets nothing for something.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Who drinks on credit gets twice as drunk.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Don't fry bacon naked.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "A topologist is a man who doesn't know the difference between a coffee cup and a doughnut.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "To be unduly elated if you win, or unduly depressed when you lose, is a sign that you are carrying too much sail and not enough ballast.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "The best is good enough.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "The United States is the only country where it takes more brains to figure your tax than to earn the money to pay it.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "The truth is out there.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "You can't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "In the midst of great joy do not make great promises. In the midst of great anger do not answer a man's letter.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Eat less, wear less, scold less, worry less, talk less, preach less. Practice more, chew more, walk more, sleep more, smile more, read more, think more, and you'll live longer and be much happier while you live.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Power is not given, it is taken.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "You probably wouldn't worry about what other people thought of you if you knew how seldom they do.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "I'm a self-made man, but if I had to do it all over, I'd probably call a guy.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "It doesn't matter what the words mean logically. What matters is how the words make people feel.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "You don't want to be in the same woods as a wounded bear.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "From fortune to misfortune is but a step; from misfortune to fortune is a long way.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "If at first you don't succeed, skydiving may not be for you.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "A flood tide leads to fortune, but there is no tide table.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "It's easier to stay out of trouble than to get out of trouble.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Just because the river is quiet doesn't mean the crocodiles have left.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "It wasn't raining when Noah built the Ark.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "When a man has spent the major portion of his life learning to sing bass, he had better think twice before accepting an offer to sing tenor.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "When the truth is unimaginable, human psychology finds an alternative reality in which to dwell.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Muddy water let stand will clear.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "It's hard for a civilization to change gods, whether they are Zeus, Mao, or Wall Street.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "The clairvoyant society of London will not meet Tuesday because of unforeseen circumstances.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Good firms worry about competition. Great firms worry about clients.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "If we hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominos will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "The apple doesn't fall far from the tree but it can roll across the grass a bit.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "If you have a difficult task to do, give it to a lazy man, he will find an easier way to do it.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "I'm not superstitious, but I am a little stitious.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Respect existence, or expect resistance.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "If voting changed anything, they would make it illegal.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "No physician is really good until he has killed one or two patients.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "You don't want to be in the same woods as a wounded bear.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Civilization and anarchy are only seven meals apart.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Nothing is illegal if 100 businessmen decide to do it.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "After the ship has sunk, everyone knows how it could have been saved.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "One dog barks because it sees something; a hundred dogs bark because they heard the first dog bark.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "It exists, therefore it must be optimal (unless government is involved) - The economists' credo",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "I like the dog. If he can't eat it, or fuck it, he pisses on it. I can get behind that.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "In the end it will be okay. If it's not okay, it's not the end.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Trust in God, but make your pope-mobile with bullet-proof glass.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "It is no measure of health to be well-adjusted to a profoundly sick society.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Don't blame the mirror for your ugly face.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Vodka can be mixed with anything, including more vodka.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "The soldier who loses his rifle faces harsher punishment than the general who loses the war.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Never underestimate the value of doing nothing.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Just because the market's crazy doesn't make you a psychiatrist.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "No good deed goes unpunished.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Nobody really cares if you're miserable, so you might as well be happy.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Of course, everything in the newspaper is right except for that one article where you have personal knowledge of the subject.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "When you have the facts on your side, pound the facts. When you have the law on your side, pound the law. When you have neither, pound the table.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "The short run is longer than most people realize.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "It is not enough to be a good player. You must also play well.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "One doesn't have to play well, it's enough to play better than your opponents.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "War is when the young and stupid are tricked by the old and cynical into killing each other.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "No man is a hero to his valet.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "If you never get outside the box, you will probably not be very creative. But if you never get inside the box, you will probably not be very smart.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Blind faith is an ironic gift to return to the Creator of human intelligence.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "People don't change when they see the light, they change when they feel the heat.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Never mistake a clear view for a short distance.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "I only believe in statistics that I doctored myself.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "A statistician is someone who is good with numbers but doesn't have the personality to be an accountant.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "When you're riding ahead of the herd, every so often you have to look back and make sure they're still there.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Carter, Begin and Sadat, Brezhnev, Deng and Castro / Everyday negotiate us closer to desastro / Idi Amin and the Shah and Al Fatah is quite bizarre / I could never get the hang of ideology / I do the Rock",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "I've never gone to bed with an ugly woman, but I've sure woke up with a few.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "If you're not a liberal when you're 25, you have no heart. If you're not a conservative when you're 35, you have no brain.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Everything that used to be a sin is now a disease.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "When they raid the whorehouse, they also seize the piano player.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Tautologies are tautological.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "In my opinion, all men are islands. And what's more, now's the time to be one. This is an island age. A hundred years ago, you had to depend on other people. No one had TV or CDs or DVDs or videos or home espresso makers. Actually, they didn't have anything cool. Whereas now, you see, you can make yourself a little island paradise. With the right supplies and the right attitude, you can be sun-drenched, tropical, a magnet for young Swedish tourists. And I like to think that perhaps I am that kind of island. I like to think I'm Ibiza.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Any observed statistical tendency starts to break down when it becomes an instrument of policy or regulation.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Nothing exceeds like excess.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "A logician saves the life of a tiny space alien. The alien is very grateful and, since she's omniscient, offers the following reward: she offers to answer any question the logician might pose. Without too much thought (after all, he's a logician), he asks: \"What is the best question to ask and what is the correct answer to that question?\" The tiny alien pauses. Finally she replies, \"The best question is the one you just asked; and the correct answer is the one I gave.\" ",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not so sure.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "The road to success is always under construction",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "The only easy day was yesterday - USN SEAL HQ motto",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "The deadline for submitting any complaints was yesterday.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Somewhere in the world someone is training when you are not. When you race him, he will win.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Profanity is the linguistic refuge of the inarticulate motherfucker.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "The squonk is a very ugly creature, and it knows this. Its skin is ill-fitting, and covered with warts and other blemishes, therefore the squonk hides from being seen, and spends much of its time weeping sorrowfully over its own ugliness. The way to trap a squonk is by following its tear-stained trail. Hunters who have attempted to catch squonks have found that the creature is capable of evading capture by dissolving completely into a pool of tears.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "You can't fool Mother Nature.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Time wounds all heels.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "The key to the raindance is all in the timing.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "There are three truths: my truth, your truth, and the truth.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Could a being create the fifty billion galaxies, each with two hundred billion stars, then rejoice in the smell of burning goat flesh?",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "If we'd been born where they were born and taught what they were taught, we would believe what they believe.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "A terrorist is anyone who can afford a bomb but can't afford an air force.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Better to have unanswered questions than unquestioned answers.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Outperformance is brief, but fees are forever.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "It's hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "It's easier to manage your actions so you feel better, than to manage your feelings so you act better.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "I don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don't want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed. You know, as a career, I don't want to do that. ",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "If you start out depressed everything's kind of a pleasant surprise. ",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Things don't necessarily happen for the best, but some people are able to make the best of things that happen.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Plants grow toward the sun, humans grow in the direction of what they persistently ask questions about.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Call no man happy until he is dead.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Learn to fail, or fail to learn.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Theory is when you know something, but not how to make it work. Practice is when something works, but you don't know why. Programmers combine theory and practice: Nothing works and they don't know why.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "The Tao that can be named is not the real Tao.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don't.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "The glass is neither half-full nor half-empty: it's twice as big as it needs to be.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "The various left-wing ninnies who are running around bleating about theocracy are, in effect, hoist on their own petard. Having spent generations destroying the idea of limited government and creating an all-powerful national state, it ill becomes them to complain now that their tool is being turned to different ends.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "If pigs could vote, the man with the slop bucket would be elected swineherd every time, no matter how much slaughtering he did on the side.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "It took about 150 years, starting with a Bill of Rights that reserved to the states and the people all powers not explicitly delegated to the federal government, to produce a Supreme Court willing to rule that growing corn to feed to your own hogs is interstate commerce and can therefore be regulated by Congress.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Politicians are like diapers -- they should be changed often, and for the same reason.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "A man who works with his hands is a laborer.^nA man who works with his hands and brain is a craftsman.^nA man who works with his hands, and his brain, and his heart is an artist.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "When the government's boot is on your throat, whether it is a left boot or a right boot is of no consequence.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Never play Russian roulette with an Uzi.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "If you give someone a program, you will frustrate them for a day; if you teach them how to program, you will frustrate them for a lifetime.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Sedulously eschew obfuscatory verbosity and prolixity.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Quidquid latine dictum sit, profundum sonatur. (That which is spoken in Latin, sounds profound)",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "I am not an enigma, you're just stupid.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Gödel gave a formal demonstration of the inadequacy of formal demonstrations.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Mathematics is the part of science you could continue to do if you woke up tomorrow and discovered the universe was gone.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "I like my women like my coffee: artificially sweetened to cover up the natural bitterness.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "The information you have is not the information you want.^nThe information you want is not the information you need.^nThe information you need is not available.^nThe information that is available is not cheap.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "How come you never see a headline like 'Psychic Wins Lottery'?",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Human excellence: care more than others think is wise, risk more than others think is safe, dream more than others think is practical, and expect more than others think is possible.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Never play with scared money.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "To win, you must understand the game, you must understand the players, and above all you must understand yourself.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Wall Street breeds panics the way Oklahoma breeds twisters.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "If you bet like a mouse, you get cheese. But if you lose all your chips, you can't bet.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Quand on est dans la merde jusqu'au cou, il ne reste plus qu'a chanter.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Nothing is more permanent than a temporary solution.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Nobody believes the official spokesman... but everybody trusts an unidentified source.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Son, all I've ever asked of my Marines is that they obey my orders as they would the word of God. We are here to help the Vietnamese, because inside every gook there is an American trying to get out. It's a hardball world, son. We've gotta keep our heads until this peace craze blows over.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "These are great days we're living, bros! We are jolly green giants, walking the earth with guns. These people we wasted here today are the finest human beings we will ever know. After we rotate back to the world, we're gonna miss not having anyone around that's worth shooting.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Some dream and never do. Others do and never dream. But then there are those few who dream, and do what they dream.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "If all it took to beat the markets was a Ph.D. in mathematics, there'd be a hell of a lot of rich mathematicians out there.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Playing it safe is dangerous.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "The amount of risk we take in life is in direct proportion to how much we want to achieve.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Optimism means expecting the best. Confidence comes when you know what the worst case is and you know how to handle it.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "If you can't measure it, you probably can't manage it.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Never call on intuition. It calls on you.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "There are two kinds of people who lose money on Wall Street. Those who know nothing, and those who know everything.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "No risk, no return.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "If you risk nothing, you risk everything.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "If you don't have losses, you are not taking risks.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Fish see the bait, but not the hook; men see the profit, but not the peril.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Only dead fish swim with the stream.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Laws of automotive repair:^n^n1. If you can get to the faulty part, you don't have the tool to get it off. ^n2. If you can get the part off, the parts house will have it back-ordered. ^n3. If it's in stock, it didn't need replacing in the first place.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Practice doesn't make perfect, practice makes permanent.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "When the phone doesn't ring, you'll know it's me.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "A girl in your convertible is worth five in your phone book.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "If we find ourselves becoming righteously indignant, that's a sure sign that we've gone too far and that our ability to effect change will be hindered. Beliefs and ideals have become just another way to put up walls.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "If something can't go on forever, it will end.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Stoop and be stepped on, or stand tall and be shot at.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Since our models are approximations, and since the power of statistical tests increases with sample size, any statistical test can be relied on to reject the model hypothesis, for a sufficiently large sample size.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "93.8% of all statistics are made up.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "90% of everything is crap.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "A flute without holes, is not a flute. A donut without a hole, is a danish.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "An American investment banker, visiting a small village in Mexico, encounters a Mexican fisherman. The fisherman describes his life: \"I sleep late, fish a little, take siesta with my wife, Maria, stroll into the village each evening where I sip wine and play guitar with my amigos. I have a full and busy life.\" The American scoffs at the fisherman's lack of ambition and goes into great detail about how he could expand his small business and make millions. \"Then what?\" asks the fisherman. \"Then you would retire,\" replies the American. \"Move to a small village where you would sleep late, fish a little, play with your kids, take siesta with your wife, and stroll to the village in the evenings where you could sip wine and play guitar with your amigos.\"",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Prosperity is when the prices of the things that you sell are rising; inflation is when the prices of the things that you buy are rising. Recession is when other people are unemployed; depression is when you are unemployed.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Inflation is the time when those who have saved for a rainy day get soaked.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Evil when we are in its power is not felt as evil but as a necessity, or even a duty.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Of all the unhappy people in the world, the unhappiest are those who have not found something they want to do.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Education is unique among consumer products when it fails to work as advertised, it's the customer that gets labelled as defective.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Self-respect is the cornerstone of all virtue.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Always behave like a duck - keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Floggings will continue until morale improves.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Anyone who doesn't know machine language has no business using a computer.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "If not you, who? If not now, when?",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Pain is weakness leaving your body.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Eagles fly; but weasels aren't sucked into jet engines.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "It's such a fine line between stupid and clever.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "If you bet on a horse, that's gambling. If you bet you can make three spades, that's entertainment. If you bet cotton will go up three points, that's business. See the difference?",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Sailing: pretending to have fun while getting sick while going nowhere slowly at great cost",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "You take the blue pill and the story ends. You wake in your bed and you believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill and you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "There is nothing noble in being superior to someone else. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "All the darkness in the world can't put out the light of one candle.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is depressing.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "You will never find time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "They say a reasonable amount o'fleas is good fer a dog - keeps him from broodin' over bein' a dog.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "When you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Don't fight the Fed.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Eat a live toad the first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "If triangles had a god, it'd have three sides.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "The society which scorns excellence in plumbing because it is a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity, shall have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "\"Economic man\" never gets a hang-over, if he doesn't decide that the advantages of acquiring it exceed the draw-backs.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "A dimple in the chin, a devil within.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "A guy who has all the answers doesn't understand the questions.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "A guy who likes a stock but doesn't own it isn't entitled to an opinion.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "A lot of things aren't worth knowing.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to stick in his mouth.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "A Smith & Wesson beats four aces.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Always sit facing the exit.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "When you're cryin', you should be buyin', when you're yellin' you should be sellin'",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "An economist is someone who sees something working in practice and asks whether it would work in principle.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "An economist never had to meet a payroll.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Economists do it with models.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Economists do it discretely and continuously.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "A forecaster is a gentle man,^nwith neither sword nor pistol.^nHe walks along most daintily,^nbecause his balls are crystal.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Did you hear of the economist who dove into his swimming pool and broke his neck? He forgot to seasonally adjust his pool.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "When an economist says the evidence is \"mixed,\" it means the theory says one thing and the data says the opposite.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Anything good in life is either illegal, immoral or fattening.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Bad as it is, there are some people who'd like your job.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Beauty is only skin deep, but in many cases, that's deep enough.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Before you attempt to beat the odds, be sure you can survive the odds beating you.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Behind every form of government lurks an oligarchy.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Blood is thicker than water, but then so is orange juice.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Bulls make money and bears make money, but pigs get slaughtered.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Congratulations. You're one step closer to hitting bottom.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Do not arouse the wrath of the great and powerful Oz. I said come back tomorrow.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Economics is the painful elaboration of the obvious.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Every few years, the bandit, the revolutionary and the priest trade hats.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Every time a trade is made, somebody was wrong.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Don\u2019t teach a man to fish\u2026and feed yourself. He\u2019s a grown man. And fishing\u2019s not that hard.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you have to answer fish questions for the rest of your natural life.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Give a man a religion and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Everybody wanna be big but nobody wanna lift these heavy ass weights!",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "God made me an atheist. Who are you to question His wisdom?",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "God, deliver me from your followers.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Heard about the dyslexic, agnostic, insomniac? - He lies awake all night wondering if there's a dog.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Honesty is the best policy, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "If a man is after money, he's money mad; if he keeps it, he's a capitalist; if he spends it, he's a playboy; if he doesn't get it, he's a never-do-well; if he doesn't try to get it, he lacks ambition. If he gets it without working for it; he's a parasite; and if he accumulates it after a life time of hard work, people call him a fool who never got anything out of life.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "If you buy a suit with two pairs of pants, you'll burn a hole in the jacket.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "If you have to forecast, forecast often.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "If you play too tight, the ante will eat you up.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "If you want praise, die. If you want blame, marry.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "If your outgo exeeds your income, your upkeep will be your downfall.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "In a bull market, be bullish.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "It could be that the purpose of your life is only to serve as a warning to others.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "It is morally wrong to allow a sucker to keep his money.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Joel, you wanna know something? Every now and then say, \"What the fuck.\" \"What the fuck\" gives you freedom. Freedom brings opportunity. Opportunity makes your future.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Just because I have a short attention span doesn't mean",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Laziness is the habit of resting when you are not exhausted.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Man who keep feet firmly on ground have trouble putting on pants.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Man, I see in Fight Club the strongest and smartest men who've ever lived. I see all this potential and I see squandering. Goddamn it, an entire generation pumpin' gas... waitin' tables... slaves with white collars. Advertising has them chasing cars and clothes... working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of history man. No purpose or place. We have no great war... no great depression. Our great war's a spiritual war. Our great depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires and movie gods and rock stars, but we won't. We're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Mass follows class.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "May the Great Spirit be with you wherever you go.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "May the warm winds of heaven^nBlow softly upon your house.^nMay the Great Spirit^nBless all who enter there.^nMay your mocassins^nMake happy tracks^nIn many snows,^nAnd may the rainbow^nAlways touch your shoulder.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "My advice to you is to start drinking heavily.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don't really know me.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Never play leapfrog with a unicorn.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Never play poker with a man called Doc.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Never put off until tomorrow what you can put off indefinitely.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Never wrestle a pig. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "New York is more provincial than the provinces.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "There are three kinds of people: those who can count, and those who can't.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Nobody can see his own backswing.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Nothing takes 5 minutes.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Now go away before I taunt you a second time.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Only 20% of people in any given profession know what they're doing.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Only entropy comes naturally.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Profits are an opinion. Cash is a fact.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Quitters never win, winners never quit, but those who never win and never quit are idiots.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Sell the stock when the company announces a new corporate headquarters.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Life is tough. Three out of three people die, so shut up and deal.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Life is tough. It's tougher if you're stupid.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Some people care about eating well. Others care about sleeping well.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Superstition brings bad luck.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "That which doesn't kill me merely postpones the inevitable.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "The best thing about investing is that it's indoor work with no heavy lifting.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "The only thing more frightening than a developer with a screwdriver or a hardware engineer with an IDE is a user with a pair of wire cutters and the root password.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "The bottom is always 10% below your worst case expectation.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "The chance of a piece of bread falling with the buttered side down is directly proportional to the cost of the carpet.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed.'",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "The difference between the productivity of the American truck driver and the Indian coolie is the truck.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "The only common feature of all your dissatisfying relationships is you.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "The right to free speech doesn't come with the right to be taken seriously.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "The trouble with statistical prediction is that the first seven kings of England named Henry had an average of 1.3 wives.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "There are no atheists in foxholes, and there are no conservatives when the pork is being passed out.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "There are no cabs when it's raining.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "There are no customers' yachts.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "There are no defensive stocks.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "There are no greater fools.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "There are no stupid questions, but there are lots of inquisitive idiots.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "There is always one more bug.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "There's an island of opportunity in every ocean of difficulty. Miss that, though, and you're pretty much fucked.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "There's no free lunch on Wall Street, nor a decent cheeseburger at any price.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "They don't ring a bell at the top (or the bottom).",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Things must change in order that they remain the same.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "To err is human, but to really fuck things up you need a computer.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "To err is human, to hedge divine.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "To give of yourself, you must first know yourself.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Today's news is tomorrow's fish wrap.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Trees don't grow to the sky.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Trust everybody but cut the cards.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Trust everybody, but yourself most of all.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Trust in Allah, but tie up your camel.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "When everybody likes a stock, it must go down; when nobody likes a stock, it might go up.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "When you earnestly believe that you can compensate for lack of skill by redoubling your efforts, there's no end to what you can't do.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Working long hours is a sign of insecurity.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everything else. We are all part of the same compost heap. We are all the all singing, all dancing CRAP of the world. You are not your bank account. You are not the clothes you wear. You are not the contents of your wallet. You are not your bowel cancer. You are not your grande latte. You are not the car you drive. YOU ARE NOT YOUR FUCKING KHAKIS.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "You can put wings on a pig, but you don't make it an eagle.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "You can't expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you!",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "WOMAN: Well, how did you become king then?^nARTHUR: The Lady of the Lake,... [angels sing] ...her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water signifying by Divine Providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur. [singing stops] That is why I am your king!^nDENNIS: Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.^nARTHUR: Be quiet!^nDENNIS: Well, but you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!^nARTHUR: Shut up!^nDENNIS: I mean, if I went 'round saying I was an emperor just because some moistened bint had lobbed a scimitar at me, they'd put me away!^nARTHUR: Shut up, will you. Shut up!^nDENNIS: Ah, now we see the violence inherent in the system.^nARTHUR: Shut up!^nDENNIS: Oh! Come and see the violence inherent in the system! Help, help! I'm being repressed!",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Monk: \"And Saint Attila raised the hand grenade up on high, saying, 'Oh, Lord, bless this thy hand grenade that with it thou mayest blow thy enemies to tiny bits, in thy mercy.' And the Lord did grin, and people did feast upon the lambs, and sloths, and carp, and anchovies, and orangutans, and breakfast cereals, and fruit bats, and large--\"^nBrother Maynard: \"Skip a bit, Brother.\"^nMonk: \"And the Lord spake, saying, 'First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then, shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, nor either count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who being naughty in my sight, shall snuff it.'\"",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "You can't fatten the pig on market day.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "You can't kiss all the girls.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "You can't spend relative performance.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "You never understand a stock until you're long (or short).",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "You'll never know who your friends are until you've had two bad years in a row.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "Your shower shoes have fungus on 'em. You'll never get to the Bigs with fungus on your shower shoes. Think classy and you'll be classy. If you win twenty in the Show you can let the fungus grow back on your shower shoes and the press'll think you're colorful. Until you win twenty in the Show, however, it means you're a slob.",
"author": "Anonymous"
},
{
"quote": "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.",
"author": "Aristotle"
},
{
"quote": "There is a cropping-time in the races of men, as in the fruits of the field; and sometimes, if the shock be good, there springs up for a time a succession of splendid men; and then comes a period of barrenness.",
"author": "Aristotle"
},
{
"quote": "The improbable is extremely probable.",
"author": "Aristotle"
},
{
"quote": "All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.",
"author": "Aristotle"
},
{
"quote": "The appropriate age for marriage is around eighteen for girls and thirty-seven for men.",
"author": "Aristotle"
},
{
"quote": "The gods too are fond of a joke.",
"author": "Aristotle"
},
{
"quote": "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act, but a habit.",
"author": "Aristotle"
},
{
"quote": "We live in deeds, not years: In thoughts not breaths; In feelings, not in figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives Who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.",
"author": "Aristotle"
},
{
"quote": "Well begun is half done.",
"author": "Aristotle"
},
{
"quote": "Life is a comedy for those who think... and a tragedy for those who feel.",
"author": "Horace Walpole"
},
{
"quote": "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent",
"author": "Isaac Asimov"
},
{
"quote": "He was wont to say that if he had read as much as other men he should have known no more than other men.",
"author": "Isaac Asimov"
},
{
"quote": "Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.",
"author": "Isaac Asimov"
},
{
"quote": "Never let your sense of morality prevent you from doing what's right.",
"author": "Isaac Asimov"
},
{
"quote": "Never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. In life people will take you at your own reckoning.",
"author": "Isaac Asimov"
},
{
"quote": "Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.",
"author": "Isaac Asimov"
},
{
"quote": "Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words.",
"author": "Saint Francis of Assisi"
},
{
"quote": "Failures either do not know what they want, or jib at the price.",
"author": "W. H. Auden"
},
{
"quote": "It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.",
"author": "W. H. Auden"
},
{
"quote": "Looking up at the stars, I know quite well^nThat, for all they care, I can go to hell,^nBut on earth indifference is the least^nWe have to dread from man or beast.^n^nHow should we like it were stars to burn^nWith a passion for us we could not return?^nIf equal affection cannot be,^nLet the more loving one be me.",
"author": "W. H. Auden"
},
{
"quote": "Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.",
"author": "Saint Augustine"
},
{
"quote": "In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?",
"author": "Saint Augustine"
},
{
"quote": "Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motions of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.",
"author": "Saint Augustine"
},
{
"quote": "Ninety percent of the time things turn out worse than you thought they would. The other ten percent of the time you had no right to expect that much.",
"author": "Saint Augustine"
},
{
"quote": "The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.",
"author": "Saint Augustine"
},
{
"quote": "If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.",
"author": "Richard Bach"
},
{
"quote": "Life does not require us to be consistent, cruel, patient, helpful, angry, rational, thoughtless, loving, rash, open-minded, neurotic, careful, rigid, tolerant, wasteful, rich, downtrodden, gentle, sick, considerate, funny, stupid, healthy, greedy, beautiful, lazy, responsive, foolish, sharing, presured, intimate, hedonistic, industrious, manipulative, insightful, capricious, wise, selfish, kind or sacrificed. Life does, however, require us to live with the consequences of our choices.",
"author": "Richard Bach"
},
{
"quote": "Take your dying with some seriousness, however. Laughing on the way to your execution is not generally understood by less advanced life forms, and they'll call you crazy.",
"author": "Richard Bach"
},
{
"quote": "The best way to avoid responsibility is to say 'I've got responsibilities.'",
"author": "Richard Bach"
},
{
"quote": "There is no racial bigotry here. I do not look down on niggers, kikes, wops or greasers. Here, you are all equally worthless.",
"author": "Gunnery Sergeant Francis Hartman"
},
{
"quote": "What is your major malfunction, numbnuts?",
"author": "Gunnery Sergeant Francis Hartman"
},
{
"quote": "Riches have wings; sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.",
"author": "Sir Francis Bacon"
},
{
"quote": "A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.",
"author": "Sir Francis Bacon"
},
{
"quote": "All rising to great place is by a winding stair.",
"author": "Sir Francis Bacon"
},
{
"quote": "If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.",
"author": "Sir Francis Bacon"
},
{
"quote": "If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.",
"author": "Sir Francis Bacon"
},
{
"quote": "Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt.",
"author": "Sir Francis Bacon"
},
{
"quote": "The way of fortune is like the Milky Way in the sky; which is a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together: so it is a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate.",
"author": "Sir Francis Bacon"
},
{
"quote": "We cannot command Nature except by obeying her.",
"author": "Sir Francis Bacon"
},
{
"quote": "The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.",
"author": "Walter Bagehot"
},
{
"quote": "The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.",
"author": "Walter Bagehot"
},
{
"quote": "Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.",
"author": "Russell Baker"
},
{
"quote": "The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately defeat him.",
"author": "Russell Baker"
},
{
"quote": "Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.",
"author": "James A. Baldwin"
},
{
"quote": "Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex, you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.",
"author": "James A. Baldwin"
},
{
"quote": "The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.",
"author": "James A. Baldwin"
},
{
"quote": "More persons, on the whole, are humbugged by believing nothing, than by believing too much.",
"author": "P. T. Barnum"
},
{
"quote": "Every crowd has a silver lining.",
"author": "P. T. Barnum"
},
{
"quote": "There's a sucker born every minute.",
"author": "P. T. Barnum"
},
{
"quote": "Money is a terrible master but an excellent servant.",
"author": "P. T. Barnum"
},
{
"quote": "Magnetism is one of the Six Fundamental Forces of the Universe, with the other five being Gravity, Duct Tape, Whining, Remote Control, and The Force That Pulls Dogs Toward The Groins Of Strangers.",
"author": "Dave Barry"
},
{
"quote": "People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.",
"author": "Dave Barry"
},
{
"quote": "The difference between Democrats and Republicans: A Democrat would stop to help you fix a flat, but probably unintentionally set your car on fire in the process. A Republican, on the other hand, wouldn't stop but would probably run you down so as not to be late for Ugly Pants Night at the country club.",
"author": "Dave Barry"
},
{
"quote": "I do nothing that a man of unlimited funds, superb physical endurance, and maximum scientific knowledge could not do.",
"author": "Batman"
},
{
"quote": "It's sometimes difficult to think clearly when you're strapped to a printing press.",
"author": "Batman"
},
{
"quote": "The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for.",
"author": "Simone de Beauvoir"
},
{
"quote": "You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.",
"author": "Henry Ward Beecher"
},
{
"quote": "A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road.",
"author": "Henry Ward Beecher"
},
{
"quote": "How miserable that man is that Governes a People where six parts of seaven at least are Poore Endebted Discontented and Armed.",
"author": "William Berkeley"
},
{
"quote": "In this very real world, good doesn't drive out evil. Evil doesn't drive out good. But the energetic displaces the passive.",
"author": "William Bernbach"
},
{
"quote": "No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.",
"author": "Yogi Berra"
},
{
"quote": "The future ain't what it used to be.",
"author": "Yogi Berra"
},
{
"quote": "There are some people who, if they don't already know, you can't tell 'em.",
"author": "Yogi Berra"
},
{
"quote": "You should always go to other people's funerals, otherwise, they won't come to yours.",
"author": "Yogi Berra"
},
{
"quote": "Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows.",
"author": "Ambrose Bierce"
},
{
"quote": "Conservative, n: A statesman who is enamored of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal who wishes to replace them with others.",
"author": "Ambrose Bierce"
},
{
"quote": "Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility.",
"author": "Ambrose Bierce"
},
{
"quote": "Egotist: A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.",
"author": "Ambrose Bierce"
},
{
"quote": "Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.",
"author": "Ambrose Bierce"
},
{
"quote": "History is an account, mostly false, of events, mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.",
"author": "Ambrose Bierce"
},
{
"quote": "I think I think; therefore I think I am.",
"author": "Ambrose Bierce"
},
{
"quote": "Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.",
"author": "Ambrose Bierce"
},
{
"quote": "Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.",
"author": "Ambrose Bierce"
},
{
"quote": "Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.",
"author": "Ambrose Bierce"
},
{
"quote": "Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.",
"author": "Ambrose Bierce"
},
{
"quote": "Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.",
"author": "Ambrose Bierce"
},
{
"quote": "Who never doubted, never half believed.",
"author": "Ambrose Bierce"
},
{
"quote": "There is nothing new under the sun but there are a lot of old things we don't know.",
"author": "Ambrose Bierce"
},
{
"quote": "Patience is a minor form of despair disguised as a virtue.",
"author": "Ambrose Bierce"
},
{
"quote": "There is a Providence that protects idiots, drunkards, children and the United States of America.",
"author": "Otto von Bismarck"
},
{
"quote": "When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of putting it into practice.",
"author": "Otto von Bismarck"
},
{
"quote": "Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.",
"author": "Niels Bohr"
},
{
"quote": "The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.",
"author": "Niels Bohr"
},
{
"quote": "An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.",
"author": "Niels Bohr"
},
{
"quote": "A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.",
"author": "Napoleon Bonaparte"
},
{
"quote": "Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.",
"author": "Napoleon Bonaparte"
},
{
"quote": "A leader is a dealer in hope.",
"author": "Napoleon Bonaparte"
},
{
"quote": "Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.",
"author": "Napoleon Bonaparte"
},
{
"quote": "History is a set of lies agreed upon.",
"author": "Napoleon Bonaparte"
},
{
"quote": "It requires more courage to suffer than to die.",
"author": "Napoleon Bonaparte"
},
{
"quote": "Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence.",
"author": "Napoleon Bonaparte"
},
{
"quote": "I just distrust people who want to change the world, but who don't want to change themselves. All the social evils that we see around us, they're all in a microcosm form in each of us. Who can point the finger?",
"author": "Bono"
},
{
"quote": "The world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever.",
"author": "Daniel J. Boorstin"
},
{
"quote": "The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.",
"author": "Daniel J. Boorstin"
},
{
"quote": "It may look like I'm just sitting here doing nothing, but I'm really actively waiting for all my problems to go away.",
"author": "Victor Borge"
},
{
"quote": "Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die.",
"author": "Mel Brooks"
},
{
"quote": "The Internet is so big, so powerful, and so pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.",
"author": "Andrew Brown"
},
{
"quote": "Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.",
"author": "H. Jackson Brown, Jr."
},
{
"quote": "Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates.",
"author": "H. Jackson Brown, Jr."
},
{
"quote": "Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp. Or what's a heaven for?",
"author": "Robert Browning"
},
{
"quote": "The truth is what is; what should be is a dirty lie.",
"author": "Lenny Bruce"
},
{
"quote": "Your lives are in the hands of men no smarter than you or I, many of them incompetent boobs. I know this because I've worked alongside them, gone bowling with them, watched them pass me over for promotions time and again. And I say... this stinks!",
"author": "Homer J. Simpson"
},
{
"quote": "No problem is so big that it can't be ignored.",
"author": "Homer J. Simpson"
},
{
"quote": "I am only one, but still I am one; I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.",
"author": "Helen Keller"
},
{
"quote": "No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an unchartered land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.",
"author": "Helen Keller"
},
{
"quote": "Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its shortness.",
"author": "Jean de la Bruyere"
},
{
"quote": "There are three principles in a man's being and life, the principle of thought, the principle of speech, and the principle of action. The origin of all conflict between me and my fellow-men is that I do not say what I mean and I don't do what I say.",
"author": "Martin Buber"
},
{
"quote": "All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.",
"author": "Martin Buber"
},
{
"quote": "If you can't drink a lobbyist's whiskey, take his money, sleep with his women and still vote against him in the morning, you don't belong in politics.",
"author": "Jesse Unruh"
},
{
"quote": "Occasionally, a man must rise above principles.",
"author": "Warren Buffett"
},
{
"quote": "Managers thinking about accounting issues should never forget one of Abraham Lincoln's favorite riddles: `How many legs does a dog have if you call his tail a leg?' The answer: `Four, because calling a tail a leg does not make it a leg'.",
"author": "Warren Buffett"
},
{
"quote": "The greatest thing about being rich is that you don\u2019t have to do business with people you don't like.",
"author": "Warren Buffett"
},
{
"quote": "The much-maligned idle rich have received a bad rap. They have maintained their wealth while many of the energetic rich - aggressive real estate operators, corporate acquirers, oil drillers, etc. - have seen their fortunes disappear.",
"author": "Warren Buffett"
},
{
"quote": "Forecasts usually tell us more of the forecaster than of the future.",
"author": "Warren Buffett"
},
{
"quote": "What the human being is best at doing is interpreting all new information so that their prior conclusions remain intact.",
"author": "Warren Buffett"
},
{
"quote": "Fear is the foe of the faddist, but the friend of the fundamentalist.",
"author": "Warren Buffett"
},
{
"quote": "Fresh ideas, new products, innovative processes and the like cause our country's standard of living to rise, and that's clearly good. As investors, however, our reaction to a fermenting industry is much like our attitude toward space exploration: We applaud the endeavor but prefer to skip the ride.",
"author": "Warren Buffett"
},
{
"quote": "Paradoxically, when dumb money acknowledges its limitations, it ceases to be dumb.",
"author": "Warren Buffett"
},
{
"quote": "What an investor needs is the ability to corrrectly evaluate selected businesses. Note that word \"selected.\" You don't have to be an expert on every company, or even many. You only have to be able to evaluate companies within your circle of competence. The size of that circle is not very important; knowing its boundaries, however, is vital.",
"author": "Warren Buffett"
},
{
"quote": "To suggest that this investor should sell off portions of his most successful investments simply because they have come to dominate this portfolio is akin to suggesting that the Bulls trade Michael Jordan because he has become so important to the team.",
"author": "Warren Buffett"
},
{
"quote": "Our favorite holding period is forever. We are just the opposite of those who hurry to sell and book profits when companies perform well but who tenaciously hang on to businesses that disappoint. Peter Lynch aptly likens such behavior to cutting the flowers and watering the weeds.",
"author": "Warren Buffett"
},
{
"quote": "The term \"institutional investor\" is becoming one of those self-contradictions called an oxymoron, comparable to \"jumbo shrimp,\" \"lady mudwrestler,\" and \"inexpensive lawyer.\"",
"author": "Warren Buffett"
},
{
"quote": "A short quiz: If you plan to eat hamburgers throughout your life and are not a cattle producer, should you wish for higher or lower prices for beef? Likewise, if you are going to buy a car from time to time but are not an auto manufacturer, should you prefer higher or lower car prices? These questions, of course, answer themselves...But now for the final exam: If you expect to be a net saver during the next five years, should you hope for a higher or lower stock market during that period? Many investors get this one wrong. Even though they are going to be net buyers of stocks for many years to come, they are elated when stock prices rise and depressed when they fall. In effect, they rejoice because prices have risen for the \"hamburgers\" they will soon by buying. This reaction makes no sense. Only those who will be sellers of equities in the near future should be happy at seeing stocks rise. Prospective purchasers should much prefer sinking prices.",
"author": "Warren Buffett"
},
{
"quote": "If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.",
"author": "Warren Buffett"
},
{
"quote": "\"Turn-arounds\" seldom turn.",
"author": "Warren Buffett"
},
{
"quote": "Investors can always buy toads at the going price for toads. If investors instead bankroll princesses who wish to pay double for the right to kiss the toad, those kisses had better pack some real dynamite.",
"author": "Warren Buffett"
},
{
"quote": "Accounting consequences do not influence our decisions. When acquisition costs are similar, we much prefer to purchase $2 of earnings that is not reportable under standard accounting principles than to purchase $1 of earnings that is reportable.",
"author": "Warren Buffett"
},
{
"quote": "Accounting is but an aid to business thinking, not a substitute for it.",
"author": "Warren Buffett"
},
{
"quote": "An investor should act as though he had a lifetime decision card with just twenty punches on it.",
"author": "Warren Buffett"
},
{
"quote": "An investor should ordinarily hold a small piece of an outstanding business with the same tenacity that an owner would exhibit if he owned all of that business.",
"author": "Warren Buffett"
},
{
"quote": "Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy only when others are fearful.",
"author": "Warren Buffett"
},
{
"quote": "Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.",
"author": "Warren Buffett"
},
{
"quote": "Invest in a company any fool can run because someday one will.",
"author": "Warren Buffett"
},
{
"quote": "It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it.",
"author": "Warren Buffett"
},
{
"quote": "Lethargy, bordering on sloth, should remain the cornerstone of an investment style.",
"author": "Warren Buffett"
},
{
"quote": "Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.",
"author": "Warren Buffett"
},
{
"quote": "Maybe grapes from a little eight-acre vineyard in France are really the best in the whole world, but I have always had a suspicion that about 99% of it is in the telling and about 1% in the drinking.",
"author": "Warren Buffett"
},
{
"quote": "Never invest in a business you cannot understand.",
"author": "Warren Buffett"
},
{
"quote": "Never is there just one cockroach in the kitchen.",
"author": "Warren Buffett"
},
{
"quote": "Optimism is the enemy of the rational buyer.",
"author": "Warren Buffett"
},
{
"quote": "Our goal is to find an outstanding business at a sensible price, not a mediocre business at a bargain price. It's far better to buy a wonderful company at a fair price than a fair company at a wonderful price.",
"author": "Warren Buffett"
},
{
"quote": "Predicting rain doesn't count. Building arks does.",
"author": "Warren Buffett"
},
{
"quote": "Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.",
"author": "Warren Buffett"
},
{
"quote": "That which is not worth doing is not worth doing well.",
"author": "Warren Buffett"
},
{
"quote": "The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.",
"author": "Warren Buffett"
},
{
"quote": "The future is <i>never</i> clear; you pay a very high price in the stock market for a cheery consensus. Uncertainty actually is the friend of the buyer of long-term values.",
"author": "Warren Buffett"
},
{
"quote": "The market, like, the Lord, helps those who help themselves. But unlike the Lord, the market does not forgive those who know not what they do.",
"author": "Warren Buffett"
},
{
"quote": "The most important thing to do when you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.",
"author": "Warren Buffett"
},
{
"quote": "Two rules: 1. Preserve the principal 2. When in doubt see Rule #1.",
"author": "Warren Buffett"
},
{
"quote": "Unless you can watch your stock holding decline by 50% without becoming panic-stricken, you should not be in the stock market.",
"author": "Warren Buffett"
},
{
"quote": "When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.",
"author": "Warren Buffett"
},
{
"quote": "Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.",
"author": "Warren Buffett"
},
{
"quote": "You are neither right nor wrong because the crowd disagrees with you. You are right because your data and reasoning are right.",
"author": "Warren Buffett"
},
{
"quote": "If we're not happy owning a piece of that business with the Exchange closed, we're not happy owning it with the Exchange open.",
"author": "Warren Buffett"
},
{
"quote": "Noble intentions should occasionally be checked against results.",
"author": "Warren Buffett"
},
{
"quote": "Every dogma has its day.",
"author": "Anthony Burgess"
},
{
"quote": "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.",
"author": "Edmund Burke"
},
{
"quote": "There is, however, a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.",
"author": "Edmund Burke"
},
{
"quote": "Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.",
"author": "Edmund Burke"
},
{
"quote": "People crushed by law, have no hopes but from power. If laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to laws; and those who have much to hope and nothing to lose, will always be dangerous.",
"author": "Edmund Burke"
},
{
"quote": "The worthy gentleman, who has been snatched from us...in the middle of contest, whilst his desires were as warm, and his hopes as eager as ours, has feelingly told us, what shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue.",
"author": "Edmund Burke"
},
{
"quote": "Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their own appetites, - in proportion as their love to justice is above their rapacity, - in proportion as their soundness and sobriety of understanding is above their vanity and presumption, - in proportion as they are more disposed to listen to the counsels of the wise and good, in preference to the flattery of knaves. Society cannot exist, unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere; and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.",
"author": "Edmund Burke"
},
{
"quote": "Custom reconciles us to every thing.",
"author": "Edmund Burke"
},
{
"quote": "It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.",
"author": "Edmund Burke"
},
{
"quote": "The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again: and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.",
"author": "Edmund Burke"
},
{
"quote": "To finish first, you must first finish.",
"author": "Rick Mears"
},
{
"quote": "The class which has the power to rob upon a large scale has also the power to control the government and legalize their robbery.",
"author": "Eugene Debs"
},
{
"quote": "The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.",
"author": "Richard Burton"
},
{
"quote": "A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.",
"author": "Lord Byron"
},
{
"quote": "A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.",
"author": "Lord Byron"
},
{
"quote": "Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.",
"author": "Lord Byron"
},
{
"quote": "Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.",
"author": "Lord Byron"
},
{
"quote": "Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.",
"author": "Lord Byron"
},
{
"quote": "When one subtracts from life infancy (which is vegetation), sleep, eating and swilling, buttoning and unbuttoning - how much remains of downright existence? The summer of a dormouse.",
"author": "Lord Byron"
},
{
"quote": "Who on earth could live were all judged justly?",
"author": "Lord Byron"
},
{
"quote": "Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.",
"author": "Lois McMaster Bujold"
},
{
"quote": "Any community's arm of force - military, police, security - needs people in it who can do neccesary evil, and yet not be made evil by it. To do only the necessary and no more. To constantly question the assumptions, to stop the slide into atrocity.",
"author": "Lois McMaster Bujold"
},
{
"quote": "It doesn't matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive.",
"author": "Lois McMaster Bujold"
},
{
"quote": "Suicidal glory is the luxury of the irresponsible. We're not giving up. We're waiting for a better opportunity to win.",
"author": "Lois McMaster Bujold"
},
{
"quote": "I'm not in denial. I'm just selective about the reality I choose to accept.",
"author": "Calvin and Hobbes"
},
{
"quote": "Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.",
"author": "Albert Camus"
},
{
"quote": "In such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners.",
"author": "Albert Camus"
},
{
"quote": "But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?",
"author": "Albert Camus"
},
{
"quote": "Do not wait for the last judgment, it takes place every day.",
"author": "Albert Camus"
},
{
"quote": "For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.",
"author": "Albert Camus"
},
{
"quote": "Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better.",
"author": "Albert Camus"
},
{
"quote": "Integrity has no need of rules.",
"author": "Albert Camus"
},
{
"quote": "It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.",
"author": "Albert Camus"
},
{
"quote": "Some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.",
"author": "Albert Camus"
},
{
"quote": "Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.",
"author": "Albert Camus"
},
{
"quote": "You can get much farther with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.",
"author": "Al Capone"
},
{
"quote": "No pressure, no diamonds.",
"author": "Thomas Carlyle"
},
{
"quote": "Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.",
"author": "Thomas Carlyle"
},
{
"quote": "Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are.",
"author": "Thomas Carlyle"
},
{
"quote": "Teach a parrot the terms \"supply and demand\" and you've got an economist.",
"author": "Thomas Carlyle"
},
{
"quote": "The block of granite which is an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong.",
"author": "Thomas Carlyle"
},
{
"quote": "The eye sees what it brings the power to see.",
"author": "Thomas Carlyle"
},
{
"quote": "The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.",
"author": "Thomas Carlyle"
},
{
"quote": "There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.",
"author": "Thomas Carlyle"
},
{
"quote": "When new turns of behavior cease to appear in the life of the individual, its behavior ceases to be intelligent.",
"author": "Thomas Carlyle"
},
{
"quote": "When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with its fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.",
"author": "Thomas Carlyle"
},
{
"quote": "Fear not those who argue but those who don't listen.",
"author": "Dale Carnegie"
},
{
"quote": "It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.",
"author": "Dale Carnegie"
},
{
"quote": "The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping.",
"author": "Dale Carnegie"
},
{
"quote": "\"Would you tell me please which way I have to go from here?\" \"That depends a good deal on where you want to go,\" said the cat.",
"author": "Lewis Carroll"
},
{
"quote": "I have had prayers answered - most strangely so sometimes - but I think our heavenly Father's loving-kindness has been even more evident in what He has refused me.",
"author": "Lewis Carroll"
},
{
"quote": "Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.",
"author": "Lewis Carroll"
},
{
"quote": "A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.",
"author": "Miguel de Cervantes"
},
{
"quote": "The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.",
"author": "Miguel de Cervantes"
},
{
"quote": "Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.",
"author": "Miguel de Cervantes"
},
{
"quote": "He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses courage loses all.",
"author": "Miguel de Cervantes"
},
{
"quote": "A man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he won't let himself get snotty about it.",
"author": "Raymond Chandler"
},
{
"quote": "As soon as anyone said you didn't need a gun, you'd better take one along that worked.",
"author": "Raymond Chandler"
},
{
"quote": "Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.",
"author": "Charlie Chaplin"
},
{
"quote": "Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.",
"author": "Anton Chekhov"
},
{
"quote": "When you have found out the prevaiing passion of any man, remember never to trust him where that passion is concerned.",
"author": "Lord Chesterfield"
},
{
"quote": "A light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning, have sometimes made a hero of the same man, who, by an indigestion, a restless night, and rainy morning, would have proved a coward.",
"author": "Lord Chesterfield"
},
{
"quote": "Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least. I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.",
"author": "Lord Chesterfield"
},
{
"quote": "Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.",
"author": "Lord Chesterfield"
},
{
"quote": "Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it, merely to show that you have one.",
"author": "Lord Chesterfield"
},
{
"quote": "Take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.",
"author": "Lord Chesterfield"
},
{
"quote": "Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well.",
"author": "Lord Chesterfield"
},
{
"quote": "Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him.",
"author": "Lord Chesterfield"
},
{
"quote": "A man must be orthodox upon most things, or he will never even have time to preach his own heresy.",
"author": "G. K. Chesterton"
},
{
"quote": "I've searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees.",
"author": "G. K. Chesterton"
},
{
"quote": "An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.",
"author": "G. K. Chesterton"
},
{
"quote": "Never invoke the gods unless you really want them to appear. It annoys them very much.",
"author": "G. K. Chesterton"
},
{
"quote": "The true object of all human life is play.",
"author": "G. K. Chesterton"
},
{
"quote": "The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it.",
"author": "G. K. Chesterton"
},
{
"quote": "Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.",
"author": "G. K. Chesterton"
},
{
"quote": "Gratitude is happiness doubled.",
"author": "G. K. Chesterton"
},
{
"quote": "Success is not final, failure is not fatal. It is the courage to continue that counts. ",
"author": "Sir Winston Churchill"
},
{
"quote": "One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.",
"author": "Sir Winston Churchill"
},
{
"quote": "I am a sporting man. I always like to give trains and aeroplanes a fair chance of getting away.",
"author": "Sir Winston Churchill"
},
{
"quote": "When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite.",
"author": "Sir Winston Churchill"
},
{
"quote": "It is a mistake to try to look too far ahead. The chain of destiny can only be grasped one link at a time.",
"author": "Sir Winston Churchill"
},
{
"quote": "Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'",
"author": "Sir Winston Churchill"
},
{
"quote": "Truth is so precious, it must be attended by a bodyguard of lies.",
"author": "Sir Winston Churchill"
},
{
"quote": "The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative.",
"author": "Sir Winston Churchill"
},
{
"quote": "I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.",
"author": "Sir Winston Churchill"
},
{
"quote": "In war it does not matter who is right, but who is left.",
"author": "Sir Winston Churchill"
},
{
"quote": "Britain and France had to choose between war and dishonour. They chose dishonour. They will have war.",
"author": "Sir Winston Churchill"
},
{
"quote": "I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this Government: 'I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat.' We have before us an ordeal of the most grievous kind. We have before us many, many long months of struggle and suffering. You ask, what is our policy? I can say: It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us: to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy. You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: Victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.",
"author": "Sir Winston Churchill"
},
{
"quote": "There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.",
"author": "Sir Winston Churchill"
},
{
"quote": "When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticise or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.",
"author": "Sir Winston Churchill"
},
{
"quote": "The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.",
"author": "Sir Winston Churchill"
},
{
"quote": "I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.",
"author": "Sir Winston Churchill"
},
{
"quote": "If you are going through hell, keep going.",
"author": "Sir Winston Churchill"
},
{
"quote": "Eating my words has never given me indigestion.",
"author": "Sir Winston Churchill"
},
{
"quote": "Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.",
"author": "Sir Winston Churchill"
},
{
"quote": "Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm.",
"author": "Sir Winston Churchill"
},
{
"quote": "It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice. I consider that the real vice is making losses.",
"author": "Sir Winston Churchill"
},
{
"quote": "He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.",
"author": "Sir Winston Churchill"
},
{
"quote": "A modest little person, with much to be modest about.",
"author": "Sir Winston Churchill"
},
{
"quote": "If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.",
"author": "Cicero"
},
{
"quote": "Just as the soul fills the body, so God fills the world. Just as the soul bears the body, so God endures the world. Just as the soul sees but is not seen, so God sees but is not seen. Just as the soul feeds the body, so God gives food to the world.",
"author": "Cicero"
},
{
"quote": "Wise men are instructed by reason; men of less understanding by experience; the most ignorant by necessity; and beasts by nature.",
"author": "Cicero"
},
{
"quote": "The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. They don't alter their views to fit the facts. They alter the facts to fit their views.",
"author": "The Doctor"
},
{
"quote": "I don't believe in astrology. I'm Sagittarius and we're skeptical.",
"author": "Arthur C. Clarke"
},
{
"quote": "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.",
"author": "Arthur C. Clarke"
},
{
"quote": "Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering.",
"author": "Arthur C. Clarke"
},
{
"quote": "The only difference between doctors and lawyers is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you, too.",
"author": "Arthur C. Clarke"
},
{
"quote": "It is better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.",
"author": "Carl von Clausewitz"
},
{
"quote": "The aggressor is always peace-loving; he would prefer to take over our country unopposed.",
"author": "Carl von Clausewitz"
},
{
"quote": "Respect commands itself and can neither be given nor withheld when it is due.",
"author": "Eldridge Cleaver"
},
{
"quote": "The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less.",
"author": "Eldridge Cleaver"
},
{
"quote": "If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas. And if I can persuade you to laugh at the particular point I make, by laughing at it you acknowledge its truth.",
"author": "John Cleese"
},
{
"quote": "A true artist is never satisfied.",
"author": "Georges Clemenceau"
},
{
"quote": "America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to decadence without the usual interval of civilization.",
"author": "Georges Clemenceau"
},
{
"quote": "War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory.",
"author": "Georges Clemenceau"
},
{
"quote": "A true poet does not bother to be poetical. Nor does a nursery gardener scent his roses.",
"author": "Jean Cocteau"
},
{
"quote": "Art produces ugly things which frequently become more beautiful with time. Fashion, on the other hand, produces beautiful things which always become ugly with time.",
"author": "Jean Cocteau"
},
{
"quote": "Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.",
"author": "Charles Caleb Colton"
},
{
"quote": "He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.",
"author": "Charles Caleb Colton"
},
{
"quote": "He that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.",
"author": "Charles Caleb Colton"
},
{
"quote": "He who studies books alone will know how things ought to be, and he who studies men will know how they are.",
"author": "Charles Caleb Colton"
},
{
"quote": "Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.",
"author": "Charles Caleb Colton"
},
{
"quote": "Times of general calamity and confusion have ever been productive of the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace, and the brightest thunderbolt is elicited from the darkest storm.",
"author": "Charles Caleb Colton"
},
{
"quote": "Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.",
"author": "Confucius"
},
{
"quote": "By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.",
"author": "Confucius"
},
{
"quote": "Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.",
"author": "Confucius"
},
{
"quote": "I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.",
"author": "Confucius"
},
{
"quote": "Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.",
"author": "Confucius"
},
{
"quote": "The wheel of fortune turns round incessantly, and who can say to himself, I shall to-day be uppermost.",
"author": "Confucius"
},
{
"quote": "To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness.",
"author": "Confucius"
},
{
"quote": "Wherever you go, go with all your heart.",
"author": "Confucius"
},
{
"quote": "Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself.",
"author": "Confucius"
},
{
"quote": "It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.",
"author": "Joseph Conrad"
},
{
"quote": "It is to be remarked that a good many people are born curiously unfitted for the fate waiting them on this earth.",
"author": "Joseph Conrad"
},
{
"quote": "The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.",
"author": "Joseph Conrad"
},
{
"quote": "It isn't so much that hard times are coming; the change observed is mostly soft times going.",
"author": "Groucho Marx"
},
{
"quote": "From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.",
"author": "Groucho Marx"
},
{
"quote": "I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.",
"author": "Groucho Marx"
},
{
"quote": "Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.",
"author": "Groucho Marx"
},
{
"quote": "Man does not control his own fate. The women in his life do that for him.",
"author": "Groucho Marx"
},
{
"quote": "Women should be obscene and not heard.",
"author": "Groucho Marx"
},
{
"quote": "A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.",
"author": "Alistair Cooke"
},
{
"quote": "To win without risk is to triumph without glory.",
"author": "Pierre Corneille"
},
{
"quote": "The great tragedy of life is not death, but what dies inside us while we live.",
"author": "Norman Cousins"
},
{
"quote": "Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom...The power to choose, to respond, to change.",
"author": "Stephen R. Covey"
},
{
"quote": "The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.",
"author": "Stephen R. Covey"
},
{
"quote": "There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles.",
"author": "Stephen R. Covey"
},
{
"quote": "We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.",
"author": "Stephen R. Covey"
},
{
"quote": "My body has certainly wandered a good deal, but I have an uneasy suspicion that my mind has not wandered enough.",
"author": "Noel Coward"
},
{
"quote": "If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.",
"author": "Quentin Crisp"
},
{
"quote": "The lie is the basic building block of good manners.",
"author": "Quentin Crisp"
},
{
"quote": "The message that 'love' will solve all of our problems is repeated incessantly in contemporary culture - it would be closer to the truth to say that love is a contagious and virulent disease which leaves a victim in a state of near imbecility, paralysis, profound melancholia and sometimes culminates in death.",
"author": "Quentin Crisp"
},
{
"quote": "Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you or I were going to be hanged.",
"author": "Oliver Cromwell"
},
{
"quote": "I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.",
"author": "Oliver Cromwell"
},
{
"quote": "Not only strike while the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.",
"author": "Oliver Cromwell"
},
{
"quote": "He who stops being better stops being good.",
"author": "Oliver Cromwell"
},
{
"quote": "It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.",
"author": "e. e. cummings"
},
{
"quote": "To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.",
"author": "e. e. cummings"
},
{
"quote": "Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.",
"author": "Salvador Dali"
},
{
"quote": "Never buy at the bottom, and always sell too soon.",
"author": "Jesse Livermore"
},
{
"quote": "The tyro knows nothing, and everybody, including himself, knows it. But the next, or second, grade thinks he knows a great deal and makes others feel that way too. He's the experienced sucker, who has studied - not the market itself but a few remarks about the market made by a still higher grade of suckers...It is naturally the semisucker who is always quoting the famous trading aphorisms and the various rules of the game. He knows all the don'ts that ever fell from the oracular lips of the old stagers-excepting the principal one, which is: don't be a sucker!",
"author": "Jesse Livermore"
},
{
"quote": "The big money is not in the buying or the selling, but in the sitting",
"author": "Jesse Livermore"
},
{
"quote": "Fate does not allows let you fix the tuition fee. She delivers the educational wallop and presents her own bill, knowing you have to pay it, no matter what the amount may be.",
"author": "Jesse Livermore"
},
{
"quote": "A man will risk half his fortune in the stock market with less reflection than he devotes to the selection of a medium-priced automobile.",
"author": "Jesse Livermore"
},
{
"quote": "Wall Street never changes, the pockets change, the suckers change, the stocks change, but Wall Street never changes, because human nature never changes.",
"author": "Jesse Livermore"
},
{
"quote": "If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.",
"author": "Clarence Darrow"
},
{
"quote": "The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.",
"author": "Clarence Darrow"
},
{
"quote": "Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.",
"author": "Charles Darwin"
},
{
"quote": "It's not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but those that are the most responsive to change.",
"author": "Charles Darwin"
},
{
"quote": "To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic aberration, could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I confess, absurd in the highest degree.",
"author": "Charles Darwin"
},
{
"quote": "We have seen that the senses and intuitions, the various emotions and faculties, such as love, memory, attention and curiosity, imitation, reason, etc., of which man boasts, may be found in an incipient, or even sometimes a well-developed condition, in the lower animals.",
"author": "Charles Darwin"
},
{
"quote": "If you think you're free, escape is impossible.",
"author": "Ram Dass"
},
{
"quote": "Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt.",
"author": "Robertson Davies"
},
{
"quote": "Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular. But it is not something that can be demanded from life, and if you are not happy you had better stop worrying about it and see what treasures you can pluck from your own brand of unhappiness.",
"author": "Robertson Davies"
},
{
"quote": "Only a fool expects to be happy all the time.",
"author": "Robertson Davies"
},
{
"quote": "The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.",
"author": "Robertson Davies"
},
{
"quote": "The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealised past.",
"author": "Robertson Davies"
},
{
"quote": "What has 'theology' ever said that is of the smallest use to anybody? When has 'theology' ever said anything that is demonstrably true and is not obvious? What makes you think that 'theology' is a subject at all?",
"author": "Richard Dawkins"
},
{
"quote": "The graveyards are full of indispensable men.",
"author": "Charles De Gaulle"
},
{
"quote": "It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.",
"author": "Peter De Vries"
},
{
"quote": "If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.",
"author": "W. Edwards Deming"
},
{
"quote": "It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best.",
"author": "W. Edwards Deming"
},
{
"quote": "Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival.",
"author": "W. Edwards Deming"
},
{
"quote": "If you would be a real seeker after truth, you must at least once in your life doubt, as far as possible, all things.",
"author": "Rene Descartes"
},
{
"quote": "Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.",
"author": "Charles Dickens"
},
{
"quote": "A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that everyone of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret, that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret, that every beating heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there, is, in some of its imaginings, a secret to the heart nearest it!",
"author": "Charles Dickens"
},
{
"quote": "Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that.",
"author": "Charles Dickens"
},
{
"quote": "No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.",
"author": "Charles Dickens"
},
{
"quote": "Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some.",
"author": "Charles Dickens"
},
{
"quote": "The one great business of law is to make business for itself.",
"author": "Charles Dickens"
},
{
"quote": "How dreary^nto be^nsomebody! How public^nlike a frog^nto tell your name^nthe livelong June^nto an admiring bog!",
"author": "Emily Dickinson"
},
{
"quote": "It is better to be the hammer than the anvil.",
"author": "Emily Dickinson"
},
{
"quote": "Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.",
"author": "Emily Dickinson"
},
{
"quote": "No government can be long secure without a formidable opposition.",
"author": "Benjamin Disraeli"
},
{
"quote": "The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.",
"author": "Benjamin Disraeli"
},
{
"quote": "The secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.",
"author": "Benjamin Disraeli"
},
{
"quote": "A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance.",
"author": "Benjamin Disraeli"
},
{
"quote": "Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.",
"author": "Benjamin Disraeli"
},
{
"quote": "Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.",
"author": "Benjamin Disraeli"
},
{
"quote": "Never complain and never explain.",
"author": "Benjamin Disraeli"
},
{
"quote": "Teach us that wealth is not elegance, that profusion is not magnificence, that splendor is not beauty.",
"author": "Benjamin Disraeli"
},
{
"quote": "No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do.",
"author": "Mark Van Doren"
},
{
"quote": "As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there's a twilight where everything remains seemingly unchanged, and it is in such twilight that we must be aware of change in the air, however slight, lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness.",
"author": "William O. Douglas"
},
{
"quote": "One and God make a majority.",
"author": "Frederick Douglass"
},
{
"quote": "Results are gained by exploiting opportunities, not by solving problems.",
"author": "Peter F. Drucker"
},
{
"quote": "Culture eats strategy for lunch.",
"author": "Peter F. Drucker"
},
{
"quote": "Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.",
"author": "Peter F. Drucker"
},
{
"quote": "People who don't take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year. People who do take risks generally make about two big mistakes a year.",
"author": "Peter F. Drucker"
},
{
"quote": "Dealmaking beats working. Dealmaking is exciting and fun, and working is grubby... That's why you have deals that don't make sense.",
"author": "Peter F. Drucker"
},
{
"quote": "The best way to predict the future is to create it.",
"author": "Peter F. Drucker"
},
{
"quote": "See yourself as a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.",
"author": "Wayne W. Dyer"
},
{
"quote": "Simply put, you believe that things or people make you unhappy, but this is not accurate. You make yourself unhappy.",
"author": "Wayne W. Dyer"
},
{
"quote": "You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.",
"author": "Wayne W. Dyer"
},
{
"quote": "A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.",
"author": "Bob Dylan"
},
{
"quote": "A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.",
"author": "Bob Dylan"
},
{
"quote": "If I wasn't Bob Dylan, I'd probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.",
"author": "Bob Dylan"
},
{
"quote": "You don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows.",
"author": "Bob Dylan"
},
{
"quote": "Adventure is worthwhile in itself.",
"author": "Amelia Earhart"
},
{
"quote": "Better do a good deed at home than go far away to burn incense.",
"author": "Amelia Earhart"
},
{
"quote": "Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace.",
"author": "Amelia Earhart"
},
{
"quote": "Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.",
"author": "Amelia Earhart"
},
{
"quote": "The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.",
"author": "Amelia Earhart"
},
{
"quote": "It is the ability to take a joke, not make one, that proves you have a sense of humor.",
"author": "Max Eastman"
},
{
"quote": "If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster.",
"author": "Clint Eastwood"
},
{
"quote": "If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, \"thank you,\" that would suffice.",
"author": "Meister Eckhart"
},
{
"quote": "But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.",
"author": "Umberto Eco"
},
{
"quote": "An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: What does happen is that the opponents gradually die out.",
"author": "Max Planck"
},
{
"quote": "Science advances one funeral at a time.",
"author": "Max Planck"
},
{
"quote": "Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. As a result, a genius is often a talented person who has simply done all of his homework.",
"author": "Thomas Alva Edison"
},
{
"quote": "Hell, there are no rules here - we're trying to accomplish something.",
"author": "Thomas Alva Edison"
},
{
"quote": "I haven't failed. I've found 10,000 ways that won't work.",
"author": "Thomas Alva Edison"
},
{
"quote": "Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.",
"author": "Thomas Alva Edison"
},
{
"quote": "Of all my inventions, I liked the phonograph best.... Life's most soothing things are sweet music and a child's goodnight.",
"author": "Thomas Alva Edison"
},
{
"quote": "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.",
"author": "Thomas Alva Edison"
},
{
"quote": "Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.",
"author": "Thomas Alva Edison"
},
{
"quote": "The world owes nothing to any man, but every man owes something to the world.",
"author": "Thomas Alva Edison"
},
{
"quote": "Many things are worth doing only in the most slovenly, halfhearted fashion possible, and many other things are not worth doing at all.",
"author": "Barbara Ehrenreich"
},
{
"quote": "Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.",
"author": "Albert Einstein"
},
{
"quote": "Unless Americans come to realize that they are not stronger in the world because they have the bomb but weaker because of their vulnerability to atomic attack, they are not likely to conduct their policy, in a spirit that furthers the arrival at an understanding.",
"author": "Albert Einstein"
},
{
"quote": "It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal god and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious, then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.",
"author": "Albert Einstein"
},
{
"quote": "A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labours of many men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.",
"author": "Albert Einstein"
},
{
"quote": "A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.",
"author": "Albert Einstein"
},
{
"quote": "All our lauded technological progress -- our very civilization - is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal.",
"author": "Albert Einstein"
},
{
"quote": "All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.",
"author": "Albert Einstein"
},
{
"quote": "An empty stomach is not a good political advisor.",
"author": "Albert Einstein"
},
{
"quote": "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.",
"author": "Albert Einstein"
},
{
"quote": "As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.",
"author": "Albert Einstein"
},
{
"quote": "Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.",
"author": "Albert Einstein"
},
{
"quote": "Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.",
"author": "Albert Einstein"
},
{
"quote": "God is subtle, but he is not malicious.",
"author": "Albert Einstein"
},
{
"quote": "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.",
"author": "Albert Einstein"
},
{
"quote": "I think that a particle must have a separate reality independent of the measurements. I like to think that the moon is there even if I am not looking at it.",
"author": "Albert Einstein"
},
{
"quote": "If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?",
"author": "Albert Einstein"
},
{
"quote": "If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.",
"author": "Albert Einstein"
},
{
"quote": "In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.",
"author": "Albert Einstein"
},
{
"quote": "In the temple of science are many mansions, and various indeed are they that dwell therein and the motives that have led them hither. Many take to science out of a joyful sense of superior intellectual power; science is their own special sport to which they look for vivid experience and the satisfaction of ambition; many others are to be found in the temple who have offered the products of their brains on this altar for purely utilitarian purposes. Were an angel of the Lord to come and drive all the people belonging to these two categories out of the temple, the assemblage would be seriously depleted, but there would still be some men, of both present and past times, left inside.",
"author": "Albert Einstein"
},
{
"quote": "It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.",
"author": "Albert Einstein"
},
{
"quote": "It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.",
"author": "Albert Einstein"
},
{
"quote": "Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.",
"author": "Albert Einstein"
},
{
"quote": "My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds.",
"author": "Albert Einstein"
},
{
"quote": "Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.",
"author": "Albert Einstein"
},
{
"quote": "Only a life lived for others is a life worth while.",
"author": "Albert Einstein"
},
{
"quote": "Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.",
"author": "Albert Einstein"
},
{
"quote": "Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.",
"author": "Albert Einstein"
},
{
"quote": "Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.",
"author": "Albert Einstein"
},
{
"quote": "Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.",
"author": "Albert Einstein"
},
{
"quote": "Relativity teaches us the connection between the different descriptions of one and the same reality.",
"author": "Albert Einstein"
},
{
"quote": "Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.",
"author": "Albert Einstein"
},
{
"quote": "Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty.",
"author": "Albert Einstein"
},
{
"quote": "The aim [of education] must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, see in the service to the community their highest life achievement.",
"author": "Albert Einstein"
},
{
"quote": "The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short time.",
"author": "Albert Einstein"
},
{
"quote": "The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is a dead man. To know that what is impenetrable for us really exists and manifests itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, whose gross forms alone are intelligible to our poor faculties - this knowledge, this feeling ... that is the core of the true religious sentiment. In this sense, and in this sense alone, I rank myself amoung profoundly religious men.",
"author": "Albert Einstein"
},
{
"quote": "The foundation of morality should not be made dependent on myth nor tied to any authority lest doubt about the myth or about the legitimacy of the authority imperil the foundation of sound judgment and action.",
"author": "Albert Einstein"
},
{
"quote": "The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceilings with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written these books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. But the child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books---a mysterious order which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects.",
"author": "Albert Einstein"
},
{
"quote": "The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle.",
"author": "Albert Einstein"
},
{
"quote": "The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.",
"author": "Albert Einstein"
},
{
"quote": "The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.",
"author": "Albert Einstein"
},
{
"quote": "The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.",
"author": "Albert Einstein"
},
{
"quote": "The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat.",
"author": "Albert Einstein"
},
{
"quote": "Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.",
"author": "Albert Einstein"
},
{
"quote": "Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.",
"author": "Albert Einstein"
},
{
"quote": "Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.",
"author": "Albert Einstein"
},
{
"quote": "When I was young, I found out that the big toe always ends up making a hole in a sock. So I stopped wearing socks.",
"author": "Albert Einstein"
},
{
"quote": "Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science.",
"author": "Albert Einstein"
},
{
"quote": "Whoever undertakes to set himself up as judge in the field of truth and knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the Gods.",
"author": "Albert Einstein"
},
{
"quote": "Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.",
"author": "Albert Einstein"
},
{
"quote": "You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.",
"author": "Albert Einstein"
},
{
"quote": "Science as we know it has two basic types of practitioners. One is the educated man who still has a controlled sense of wonder before the universal mystery, whether it hides in a snail's eye or within the light that impinges on that delicate organ. The second kind of observer is the extreme reductionist who is so busy stripping things apart that the tremendous mystery has been reduced to a trifle, to intangibles not worth troubling one's head about.",
"author": "Loren Eiseley"
},
{
"quote": "A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.",
"author": "Dwight David Eisenhower"
},
{
"quote": "A soldier's pack is not so heavy a burden as a prisoner's chains.",
"author": "Dwight David Eisenhower"
},
{
"quote": "If all that Americans want is security they can go to prison.",
"author": "Dwight David Eisenhower"
},
{
"quote": "There is no victory in any war except through our imagination, through our dedication, and through our work to avoid it.",
"author": "Dwight David Eisenhower"
},
{
"quote": "What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight. It's the size of the fight in the dog.",
"author": "Dwight David Eisenhower"
},
{
"quote": "The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it is the finest in the world.",
"author": "George Eliot"
},
{
"quote": "The sense of security more frequently springs from habit than from conviction, and for this reason it often subsists after such a change in the conditions as might have been expected to suggest alarm. The lapse of time during which a given event has not happened is, in this logic of habit, constantly alleged as a reason why the event should never happen, even when the lapse of time is precisely the added condition which makes the event imminent.",
"author": "George Eliot"
},
{
"quote": "Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving worthy evidence of the fact.",
"author": "George Eliot"
},
{
"quote": "It is never too late to be what you might have been.",
"author": "George Eliot"
},
{
"quote": "Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.",
"author": "George Eliot"
},
{
"quote": "Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.",
"author": "George Eliot"
},
{
"quote": "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.",
"author": "George Eliot"
},
{
"quote": "The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another.",
"author": "George Eliot"
},
{
"quote": "There are many victories worse than a defeat.",
"author": "George Eliot"
},
{
"quote": "There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.",
"author": "George Eliot"
},
{
"quote": "We must not inquire too curiously into motives... They are apt to become feeble in the utterance: the aroma is mixed with the grosser air.",
"author": "George Eliot"
},
{
"quote": "Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.",
"author": "George Eliot"
},
{
"quote": "What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?",
"author": "George Eliot"
},
{
"quote": "Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.",
"author": "George Eliot"
},
{
"quote": "The first twenty million is always the hardest.",
"author": "Po Bronson"
},
{
"quote": "Editors are failed writers, and so are most writers.",
"author": "T. S. Eliot"
},
{
"quote": "The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.",
"author": "T. S. Eliot"
},
{
"quote": "We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.",
"author": "T. S. Eliot"
},
{
"quote": "Art is dangerous. It is one of the attractions: when it ceases to be dangerous you don't want it.",
"author": "Duke Ellington"
},
{
"quote": "Progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.",
"author": "Henry Havelock Ellis"
},
{
"quote": "Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.",
"author": "Ralph Ellison"
},
{
"quote": "No man is quite sane. Each has a vein of folly in his composition.",
"author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"
},
{
"quote": "There is no strong performance without a little fanaticism in the performer.",
"author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"
},
{
"quote": "The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble.",
"author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"
},
{
"quote": "'Tis very certain that each man carries in his eye the exact indication of his rank in the immense scale of men, and we are always learning to read it.",
"author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"
},
{
"quote": "God's will will not be made manifest by cowards.",
"author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"
},
{
"quote": "All history is a record of the power of minorities, and of minorities of one.",
"author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"
},
{
"quote": "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do.",
"author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"
},
{
"quote": "A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is braver five minutes longer.",
"author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"
},
{
"quote": "Adhere to your own act, and congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant, and broken the monotony of a decorous age.",
"author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"
},
{
"quote": "All life is an experiment.",
"author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"
},
{
"quote": "Always do what you are afraid to do.",
"author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"
},
{
"quote": "An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory.",
"author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"
},
{
"quote": "As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.",
"author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"
},
{
"quote": "Concentration is the secret of strengths in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs.",
"author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"
},
{
"quote": "Courage consists in the power of self-recovery.",
"author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"
},
{
"quote": "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.",
"author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"
},
{
"quote": "Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.",
"author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"
},
{
"quote": "Every man has his own courage, and is betrayed because he seeks in himself the courage of other persons.",
"author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"
},
{
"quote": "Every man I meet is in some way my superior.",
"author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"
},
{
"quote": "I like the silent church before the service begins, better than any preaching.",
"author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"
},
{
"quote": "In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.",
"author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"
},
{
"quote": "Manners are the happy way of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love - now repeated and hardened into usage. They form at last a rich varnish, with which the routine of life is washed, and its details adorned.",
"author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"
},
{
"quote": "No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.",
"author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"
},
{
"quote": "Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.",
"author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"
},
{
"quote": "People only see what they are prepared to see.",
"author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"
},
{
"quote": "Speak what you think to-day in words as hard as cannon-balls and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day.",
"author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"
},
{
"quote": "Success: To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children, to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends, to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived.",
"author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"
},
{
"quote": "The characteristic of a genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world.",
"author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"
},
{
"quote": "The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and is willing to trust him.",
"author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"
},
{
"quote": "The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.",
"author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"
},
{
"quote": "The wise skeptic does not teach doubt but how to look for the permanent in the mutable and fleeting.",
"author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"
},
{
"quote": "This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.",
"author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"
},
{
"quote": "Those are a success who have lived well, laughed often, and loved much; who have gained the respect of intelligent people and the love of children, who have filled their niche and accomplished their task, who leave the world better than they found it, whether by a perfect poem or a rescued soul; who never lacked appreciation of the earth's beauty or failed to express it; who looked for the best in others and gave the best they had.",
"author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"
},
{
"quote": "Treat a man as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a man as he could be, and he will become what he should be.",
"author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"
},
{
"quote": "We acquire the strength we have overcome.",
"author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"
},
{
"quote": "We aim above the mark to hit the mark.",
"author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"
},
{
"quote": "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.",
"author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"
},
{
"quote": "What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour.",
"author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"
},
{
"quote": "Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you say.",
"author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"
},
{
"quote": "Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.",
"author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"
},
{
"quote": "Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.",
"author": "Ralph Waldo Emerson"
},
{
"quote": "All religions must be tolerated... every man must get to heaven in his own way.",
"author": "Epictetus"
},
{
"quote": "First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.",
"author": "Epictetus"
},
{
"quote": "No man is free who is not master of himself.",
"author": "Epictetus"
},
{
"quote": "Remember that you are an actor in a drama, of such a part as it may please the master to assign you, for a long time or for a little as he may choose. And if he wills you to take the part of a poor man, or a cripple, or a ruler, or a private citizen, then may you act that part with grace! For to act well the part that is allotted to us, that indeed is ours to do, but to choose it is another's.",
"author": "Epictetus"
},
{
"quote": "We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.",
"author": "Epictetus"
},
{
"quote": "He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.",
"author": "Epictetus"
},
{
"quote": "In a philosophical dispute, he gains most who is defeated, since he learns most.",
"author": "Epicurus"
},
{
"quote": "Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.",
"author": "Epicurus"
},
{
"quote": "Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.",
"author": "Epicurus"
},
{
"quote": "Not what we have, but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.",
"author": "Epicurus"
},
{
"quote": "Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able?^nThen he is not omnipotent.^nIs he able, but not willing?^nThen he is malevolent.^nIs he both able and willing?^nThen whence cometh evil?^nIs he neither able nor willing?^nThen why call him God?",
"author": "Epicurus"
},
{
"quote": "If you keep thinking about what you want to do or what you hope will happen, you don't do it, and it won't happen.",
"author": "Desiderius Erasmus"
},
{
"quote": "It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.",
"author": "Desiderius Erasmus"
},
{
"quote": "There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.",
"author": "Desiderius Erasmus"
},
{
"quote": "The rain it raineth on the just, And also on the unjust fella; But chiefly on the just, Because the unjust steals the just's umbrella.",
"author": "Sam Ervin"
},
{
"quote": "No one has a finer command of language than the person who keeps his mouth shut.",
"author": "Sam Rayburn"
},
{
"quote": "Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but you shall be the miracle.",
"author": "Phillips Brooks"
},
{
"quote": "Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check.",
"author": "M. C. Escher"
},
{
"quote": "So, with slight efforts, how should one obtain great results? It is foolish even to desire it.",
"author": "Euripides"
},
{
"quote": "Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.",
"author": "Euripides"
},
{
"quote": "One does nothing who tries to console a despondent person with words. A friend is one who aids with deeds at a critical time when deeds are called for.",
"author": "Euripides"
},
{
"quote": "Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.",
"author": "Euripides"
},
{
"quote": "Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.",
"author": "Euripides"
},
{
"quote": "Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.",
"author": "William Faulkner"
},
{
"quote": "The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.",
"author": "Richard P. Feynman"
},
{
"quote": "It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong.",
"author": "Richard P. Feynman"
},
{
"quote": "If I could explain it to the average person, it wouldn't have been worth the Nobel Prize.",
"author": "Richard P. Feynman"
},
{
"quote": "The theoretical broadening which comes from having many humanities subjects on the campus is offset by the general dopiness of the people who study these things.",
"author": "Richard P. Feynman"
},
{
"quote": "There are 10^11 stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number. But it's only a hundred billion. It's less than the national deficit! We used to call them astronomical numbers. Now we should call them economical numbers.",
"author": "Richard P. Feynman"
},
{
"quote": "Don't worry about your heart, it will last you as long as you live.",
"author": "W. C. Fields"
},
{
"quote": "Start off every day with a smile and get it over with.",
"author": "W. C. Fields"
},
{
"quote": "Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.",
"author": "W. C. Fields"
},
{
"quote": "If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit.",
"author": "W. C. Fields"
},
{
"quote": "Never give a sucker an even break.",
"author": "W. C. Fields"
},
{
"quote": "Women are like elephants. I like to look at 'em, but I wouldn't want to own one.",
"author": "W. C. Fields"
},
{
"quote": "To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.",
"author": "Gustave Flaubert"
},
{
"quote": "Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.",
"author": "Gustave Flaubert"
},
{
"quote": "One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.",
"author": "Gustave Flaubert"
},
{
"quote": "Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal.",
"author": "Gustave Flaubert"
},
{
"quote": "What is the beautiful, if not the impossible.",
"author": "Gustave Flaubert"
},
{
"quote": "Of all lies, art is the least untrue.",
"author": "Gustave Flaubert"
},
{
"quote": "The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.",
"author": "Gustave Flaubert"
},
{
"quote": "Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying.",
"author": "Gustave Flaubert"
},
{
"quote": "I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.",
"author": "Ian L. Fleming"
},
{
"quote": "If a pig could pray, it would pray for swill. What do you pray for?",
"author": "B. C. Forbes"
},
{
"quote": "Diamonds are only lumps of coal that stuck to their jobs.",
"author": "B. C. Forbes"
},
{
"quote": "Wars almost never end the way starters had in mind.",
"author": "Malcolm S. Forbes"
},
{
"quote": "Investor: One who bought stocks that went up. Speculator: One who bought stocks that went down.",
"author": "Malcolm S. Forbes"
},
{
"quote": "Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.",
"author": "Malcolm S. Forbes"
},
{
"quote": "Men who never get carried away should be.",
"author": "Malcolm S. Forbes"
},
{
"quote": "People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.",
"author": "Malcolm S. Forbes"
},
{
"quote": "Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.",
"author": "Malcolm S. Forbes"
},
{
"quote": "A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.",
"author": "Gerald R. Ford"
},
{
"quote": "Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.",
"author": "Henry Ford"
},
{
"quote": "A bank-managed industry will not change obsolete machinery for up-to-date equipment because their eyes are fixed too firmly on dividends. Such an industry runs down, ceases to be efficient, and finally dies. With engineer management a business is constantly replenished with the best methods regardless of cost and the public gets a better product.",
"author": "Henry Ford"
},
{
"quote": "A market is never saturated with a good product, but it is very quickly saturated with a bad one.",
"author": "Henry Ford"
},
{
"quote": "Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice.",
"author": "Henry Ford"
},
{
"quote": "Don't find fault, find a remedy.",
"author": "Henry Ford"
},
{
"quote": "Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.",
"author": "Henry Ford"
},
{
"quote": "I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done.",
"author": "Henry Ford"
},
{
"quote": "It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages.",
"author": "Henry Ford"
},
{
"quote": "It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.",
"author": "Henry Ford"
},
{
"quote": "Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.",
"author": "Henry Ford"
},
{
"quote": "The competitor to be feared is one who never bothers about you at all, but goes on making his own business better all the time.",
"author": "Henry Ford"
},
{
"quote": "The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.",
"author": "Henry Ford"
},
{
"quote": "The question \"Who ought to be boss?\" is like as \"Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?\" Obviously, the man who can sing tenor.",
"author": "Henry Ford"
},
{
"quote": "There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.",
"author": "Henry Ford"
},
{
"quote": "Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it.",
"author": "Henry Ford"
},
{
"quote": "Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.",
"author": "Henry Ford"
},
{
"quote": "You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.",
"author": "Henry Ford"
},
{
"quote": "Genius is seldom recognized for what it is: a great capacity for hard work.",
"author": "Henry Ford"
},
{
"quote": "All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another.",
"author": "Anatole France"
},
{
"quote": "To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.",
"author": "Anatole France"
},
{
"quote": "We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal.",
"author": "Anatole France"
},
{
"quote": "It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.",
"author": "Anatole France"
},
{
"quote": "Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them you are a mile away... and you have their shoes.",
"author": "Al Franken"
},
{
"quote": "It is wonderful how preposterously the affairs of the world are managed.",
"author": "Benjamin Franklin"
},
{
"quote": "He that spits against the wind spits in his own face.",
"author": "Benjamin Franklin"
},
{
"quote": "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.",
"author": "Benjamin Franklin"
},
{
"quote": "Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.",
"author": "Benjamin Franklin"
},
{
"quote": "All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.",
"author": "Benjamin Franklin"
},
{
"quote": "He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.",
"author": "Benjamin Franklin"
},
{
"quote": "Never confuse motion with action.",
"author": "Benjamin Franklin"
},
{
"quote": "Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.",
"author": "Benjamin Franklin"
},
{
"quote": "Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.",
"author": "Benjamin Franklin"
},
{
"quote": "Well done is better than well said.",
"author": "Benjamin Franklin"
},
{
"quote": "So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do.",
"author": "Benjamin Franklin"
},
{
"quote": "The intellect should be the servant of the heart, but not its slave.",
"author": "Auguste Comte"
},
{
"quote": "Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.",
"author": "Babe Ruth"
},
{
"quote": "From error to error, one discovers the entire truth.",
"author": "Sigmund Freud"
},
{
"quote": "Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.",
"author": "Sigmund Freud"
},
{
"quote": "Man has an infinite capacity for self-rationalization.",
"author": "Sigmund Freud"
},
{
"quote": "Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.",
"author": "Sigmund Freud"
},
{
"quote": "When making a decision of minor importance, I have always found it advantageous to consider all the pros and cons. In vital matters, however, such as the choice of a mate or a profession, the decision should come from the unconscious, from somewhere within ourselves. In the important decisions of personal life, we should be governed, I think, by the deep inner needs of our nature.",
"author": "Sigmund Freud"
},
{
"quote": "There ain't no such thing as a free lunch.",
"author": "Milton Friedman"
},
{
"quote": "Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it.",
"author": "Milton Friedman"
},
{
"quote": "Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.",
"author": "Milton Friedman"
},
{
"quote": "The only way that has ever been discovered to have a lot of people cooperate together voluntarily is through the free market. And that's why it's so essential to preserving individual freedom.",
"author": "Milton Friedman"
},
{
"quote": "Well first of all, tell me, is there some society you know of that doesn't run on greed? You think Russia doesn't run on greed? You think China doesn't run on greed? What is greed?",
"author": "Milton Friedman"
},
{
"quote": "Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world.",
"author": "Erich Fromm"
},
{
"quote": "Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.",
"author": "Erich Fromm"
},
{
"quote": "A conservative believes nothing should be done for the first time.",
"author": "Thomas Fuller"
},
{
"quote": "Better be alone than in bad company.",
"author": "Thomas Fuller"
},
{
"quote": "He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.",
"author": "Thomas Fuller"
},
{
"quote": "No man can be happy without a friend, nor be sure of his friend till he is unhappy.",
"author": "Thomas Fuller"
},
{
"quote": "Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.",
"author": "John Kenneth Galbraith"
},
{
"quote": "Misfortune awaits those who presume to believe that the future is revealed to them.",
"author": "John Kenneth Galbraith"
},
{
"quote": "Banking may well be a career from which no man really recovers.",
"author": "John Kenneth Galbraith"
},
{
"quote": "Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.",
"author": "John Kenneth Galbraith"
},
{
"quote": "Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.",
"author": "John Kenneth Galbraith"
},
{
"quote": "The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.",
"author": "John Kenneth Galbraith"
},
{
"quote": "All successful revolutions are the kicking in of a rotten door.",
"author": "John Kenneth Galbraith"
},
{
"quote": "Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.",
"author": "John Kenneth Galbraith"
},
{
"quote": "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.",
"author": "Galileo Galilei"
},
{
"quote": "You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him discover it himself.",
"author": "Galileo Galilei"
},
{
"quote": "People tend to remember their rights but forget their duties.",
"author": "Indira Gandhi"
},
{
"quote": "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.",
"author": "Indira Gandhi"
},
{
"quote": "A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, nothing else.",
"author": "Mohandas K. Gandhi"
},
{
"quote": "Action is the best speech and the best propaganda.",
"author": "Mohandas K. Gandhi"
},
{
"quote": "All your scholarship would be in vain if at the same time you do not build your character and attain mastery over your thoughts and your actions.",
"author": "Mohandas K. Gandhi"
},
{
"quote": "An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.",
"author": "Mohandas K. Gandhi"
},
{
"quote": "Democracy is a great institution and, therefore, it is liable to be greatly abused.",
"author": "Mohandas K. Gandhi"
},
{
"quote": "Even as a tree has a single trunk but many branches and leaves, there is one religion - human religion- but any number of faiths.",
"author": "Mohandas K. Gandhi"
},
{
"quote": "Evolution of democracy is not possible if we are not prepared to hear the other side.",
"author": "Mohandas K. Gandhi"
},
{
"quote": "Freedom means voluntary restraints and discipline, voluntary acceptance of the rule of law.",
"author": "Mohandas K. Gandhi"
},
{
"quote": "Government that is ideal governs the least.",
"author": "Mohandas K. Gandhi"
},
{
"quote": "Hatred can be overcome only by love.",
"author": "Mohandas K. Gandhi"
},
{
"quote": "Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.",
"author": "Mohandas K. Gandhi"
},
{
"quote": "I came to the conclusion long ago, that all religions were true, and also that all had some error in them, and whilst I hold my own, I should hold others as dear as Hinduism.",
"author": "Mohandas K. Gandhi"
},
{
"quote": "I disbelieve in the conversion of one person by another. My effort should never be to undermine another's faith but to make him a better follower of his own faith.",
"author": "Mohandas K. Gandhi"
},
{
"quote": "If it is man's privilege to be independent, it is equally his duty to be inter-dependent.",
"author": "Mohandas K. Gandhi"
},
{
"quote": "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.",
"author": "Mohandas K. Gandhi"
},
{
"quote": "One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.",
"author": "Mohandas K. Gandhi"
},
{
"quote": "Religions are different roads converging to the same point. What does it matter that we take different roads so long as we reach the same goal? In reality there are as many religions as there are individuals.",
"author": "Mohandas K. Gandhi"
},
{
"quote": "Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.",
"author": "Mohandas K. Gandhi"
},
{
"quote": "The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.",
"author": "Mohandas K. Gandhi"
},
{
"quote": "The more efficient a force is the more silent and the more subtle it is.",
"author": "Mohandas K. Gandhi"
},
{
"quote": "The outward freedom that we shall attain will be only in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown.",
"author": "Mohandas K. Gandhi"
},
{
"quote": "To answer brutality with brutality is to admit one's moral and intellectual bankruptcy.",
"author": "Mohandas K. Gandhi"
},
{
"quote": "True morality consists not in following the beaten track, but in finding out the true path for ourselves and in fearlessly following it.",
"author": "Mohandas K. Gandhi"
},
{
"quote": "True religion being the greatest thing in life and in the world, it has been exploited the most. And those who have seen the exploiters and the exploitation and missed the reality naturally get disgusted with the thing itself. But religion is after all a matter for each individual, and then too a matter of the heart, call it then by whatever name you like, that which gives greatest solace in the midst of the severest fire is God.",
"author": "Mohandas K. Gandhi"
},
{
"quote": "Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.",
"author": "Mohandas K. Gandhi"
},
{
"quote": "What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?",
"author": "Mohandas K. Gandhi"
},
{
"quote": "Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.",
"author": "Mohandas K. Gandhi"
},
{
"quote": "Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.",
"author": "Mohandas K. Gandhi"
},
{
"quote": "Everyone has three lives: a public life, a private life, and a secret life.",
"author": "Gabriel Garcia Marquez"
},
{
"quote": "Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.",
"author": "Gabriel Garcia Marquez"
},
{
"quote": "What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.",
"author": "Gabriel Garcia Marquez"
},
{
"quote": "If God hadn't rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world.",
"author": "Gabriel Garcia Marquez"
},
{
"quote": "Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.",
"author": "Gabriel Garcia Marquez"
},
{
"quote": "There is a road^nNo simple highway^nBetween the dawn ^nand the dark of night, ^nand if you go^nno one may follow^nthat path is for your steps alone",
"author": "Jerry Garcia"
},
{
"quote": "You do not merely want to be considered just the best of the best. You want to be considered the only ones who do what you do.",
"author": "Jerry Garcia"
},
{
"quote": "Our firmest convictions are apt to be the most suspect, they mark our limitations and our bounds. Life is a petty thing unless it is moved by the indomitable urge to extend its boundaries.",
"author": "Jose Ortega y Gasset"
},
{
"quote": "We cannot put off living until we are ready.",
"author": "Jose Ortega y Gasset"
},
{
"quote": "Success is a lousy teacher. Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.",
"author": "Bill Gates"
},
{
"quote": "In this business, by the time you realize you're in trouble, it's too late to save yourself. Unless you're running scared all the time, you're gone.",
"author": "Bill Gates"
},
{
"quote": "The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.",
"author": "Bill Gates"
},
{
"quote": "We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.",
"author": "Bill Gates"
},
{
"quote": "Formula for success: Rise early, work hard, strike oil.",
"author": "J. Paul Getty"
},
{
"quote": "If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.",
"author": "J. Paul Getty"
},
{
"quote": "Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.",
"author": "J. Paul Getty"
},
{
"quote": "The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.",
"author": "J. Paul Getty"
},
{
"quote": "The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.",
"author": "Edward Gibbon"
},
{
"quote": "In the end more than they wanted freedom, they wanted security. When the Athenians finally wanted not to give to society but for society to give to them, when the freedom they wished for was freedom from responsibility, then Athens ceased to be free.",
"author": "Edward Gibbon"
},
{
"quote": "We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.",
"author": "Kahlil Gibran"
},
{
"quote": "When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.",
"author": "Kahlil Gibran"
},
{
"quote": "Work is love made visible.",
"author": "Kahlil Gibran"
},
{
"quote": "Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.",
"author": "Kahlil Gibran"
},
{
"quote": "Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.",
"author": "Andre Gide"
},
{
"quote": "It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.",
"author": "Andre Gide"
},
{
"quote": "One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.",
"author": "Andre Gide"
},
{
"quote": "Tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.",
"author": "Andre Gide"
},
{
"quote": "You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself and how little I deserve it.",
"author": "Sir William S. Gilbert"
},
{
"quote": "My object all sublime^nI shall achieve in time",
"author": "Sir William S. Gilbert"
},
{
"quote": "Things are seldom what they seem^nSkim milk masquerades as cream",
"author": "Sir William S. Gilbert"
},
{
"quote": "My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them.",
"author": "Penn Gillette"
},
{
"quote": "Only the mediocre are always at their best.",
"author": "Jean Giraudoux"
},
{
"quote": "The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you've got it made.",
"author": "Jean Giraudoux"
},
{
"quote": "When you see a woman who can go nowhere without a staff of admirers, it is not so much because they think she is beautiful, it is because she has told them they are handsome.",
"author": "Jean Giraudoux"
},
{
"quote": "No one ever became great except through many and great mistakes.",
"author": "William Ewart Gladstone"
},
{
"quote": "Once you have missed the first buttonhole you'll never manage to button up.",
"author": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"
},
{
"quote": "Many people take no care of their money until they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just the same with their time.",
"author": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"
},
{
"quote": "It never occurs to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.",
"author": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"
},
{
"quote": "I have come to the frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element. It is my personal approach that creates the climate. It is my daily mood that makes the weather. I possess tremendous power to make life miserable or joyous. I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration, I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal. In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis is escalated or de-escalated, and a person is humanized or de-humanized. If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming.",
"author": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"
},
{
"quote": "Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.",
"author": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"
},
{
"quote": "Everyone hears only what he understands.",
"author": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"
},
{
"quote": "Few people have the imagination for reality.",
"author": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"
},
{
"quote": "He only earns his freedom and his life who takes them every day by storm.",
"author": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"
},
{
"quote": "If God had wanted me otherwise, He would have created me otherwise.",
"author": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"
},
{
"quote": "If I love you, what business is it of yours?",
"author": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"
},
{
"quote": "If you treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.",
"author": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"
},
{
"quote": "Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.",
"author": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"
},
{
"quote": "None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.",
"author": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"
},
{
"quote": "One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.",
"author": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"
},
{
"quote": "One ought every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.",
"author": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"
},
{
"quote": "The greater part of all mischief in the world arises from the fact that men do not sufficiently understand their own aims. They have undertaken to build a tower, and spend no more labor on the foundation than would be necessary to erect a hut.",
"author": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"
},
{
"quote": "The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone here and there who thinks and feels with us, and though distant, is close to us in spirit - this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.",
"author": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"
},
{
"quote": "When ideas fail, words come in very handy.",
"author": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe"
},
{
"quote": "Information is not scarce - especially on the Net, where it is not only abundant but overflowing... So a key question arises: Is there something else that flows through cyberspace, something that is scarce and desirable? There is. No one would put anything on the Internet without the hope of obtaining some. It's called attention. And the economy of attention-not information-is the natural economy of cyberspace.",
"author": "Michael Goldhaber"
},
{
"quote": "A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take it all away.",
"author": "Barry Goldwater"
},
{
"quote": "I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!",
"author": "Barry Goldwater"
},
{
"quote": "It's an impossible situation, but it has possibilities.",
"author": "Samuel Goldwyn"
},
{
"quote": "If I could drop dead right now, I'd be the happiest man alive.",
"author": "Samuel Goldwyn"
},
{
"quote": "A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.",
"author": "Samuel Goldwyn"
},
{
"quote": "Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.",
"author": "Samuel Goldwyn"
},
{
"quote": "I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their job.",
"author": "Samuel Goldwyn"
},
{
"quote": "Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union.",
"author": "Samuel Goldwyn"
},
{
"quote": "The harder I work, the luckier I get.",
"author": "Samuel Goldwyn"
},
{
"quote": "We're overpaying him, but he's worth it.",
"author": "Samuel Goldwyn"
},
{
"quote": "If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.",
"author": "Edmond de Goncourt"
},
{
"quote": "Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to our purposes, ignorant perhaps of the messages buried in its long history. Let us hope that we are still in the early morning of our April day.",
"author": "Stephen Jay Gould"
},
{
"quote": "In science, 'fact' can only mean 'confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent.' I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.",
"author": "Stephen Jay Gould"
},
{
"quote": "Time converts the improbable to the inevitable - give me a million years and I'll flip a hundred heads in a row more than once.",
"author": "Stephen Jay Gould"
},
{
"quote": "It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.",
"author": "Baltasar Gracian"
},
{
"quote": "Never open the door to the lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.",
"author": "Baltasar Gracian"
},
{
"quote": "Politics -- the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other.",
"author": "Oscar Ameringer"
},
{
"quote": "Investment banking is perhaps the most respectable department of the Wall Street community because it is here that finance plays its constructive role of supplying new capital for the expansion of industry.",
"author": "Benjamin Graham"
},
{
"quote": "An oil prospector, moving to his heavenly reward, was met by St. Peter with bad news. \"You're qualified for residence,\" said St. Peter, \"but, as you can see, the compound reserved for oil men is packed. There's no way to squeeze you in.\" After thinkina moment, the prospector asked if he might say just four words to the present occupants. That seemed harmless to St. Peter, so the prospector cupped his hands and yelled, \"Oil discovered in hell!\" Immediately all the oil men marche out to head for the nether regions. Impressed, St. Peter invited the prospector to move in and make himself comfortable. The prospector paused. \"No,\" he said, \"I think I'll go along with the rest of the boys. There might be some truth to that rumor after all.\"",
"author": "Benjamin Graham"
},
{
"quote": "Mr. Market is very obliging indeed. Every day he tells you what he thinks your interest is worth and furthermore offers to buy you out or to sell you an additional interest on that basis. Sometimes his idea of value appears plausible and justified by business developments and prospects as you know them. Often, on the other hand, Mr. Market lets his enthusiasm or his fears run away with him, and the value he proposes seems to you a little short of silly.",
"author": "Benjamin Graham"
},
{
"quote": "There are two requirements for success in Wall Street. One, you have to think correctly; and secondly, you have to think independently.",
"author": "Benjamin Graham"
},
{
"quote": "In the short-run, the market is a voting machine, but in the long-run, the market is a weighing machine.",
"author": "Benjamin Graham"
},
{
"quote": "Everyone's entitled to their own opinion, but they're not entitled to their own facts.",
"author": "Donald Rumsfeld"
},
{
"quote": "In my country, we believe that the only things that separate us from the animals are pointless rituals and mindless superstitions.",
"author": "Latka Gravas"
},
{
"quote": "There's no money in poetry, but then there's no poetry in money, either.",
"author": "Robert Graves"
},
{
"quote": "A college education shows a man how little other people know.",
"author": "Thomas Chandler Haliburton"
},
{
"quote": "There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are forced to deal with.",
"author": "Admiral William Halsey"
},
{
"quote": "Touch a thistle timidly, and it pricks you; grap it boldly, and its spines crumble.",
"author": "Admiral William Halsey"
},
{
"quote": "Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.",
"author": "Alexander Hamilton"
},
{
"quote": "God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.",
"author": "Dag Hammarskjold"
},
{
"quote": "I believe that we should die with decency so that at least decency will survive.",
"author": "Dag Hammarskjold"
},
{
"quote": "Never look down to test the ground before taking your next step; only he who keeps his eye fixed on the far horizon will find the right road.",
"author": "Dag Hammarskjold"
},
{
"quote": "What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.",
"author": "Dag Hammarskjold"
},
{
"quote": "A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.",
"author": "Sydney J. Harris"
},
{
"quote": "Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.",
"author": "Sydney J. Harris"
},
{
"quote": "An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run.",
"author": "Sydney J. Harris"
},
{
"quote": "Happiness is a direction, not a place.",
"author": "Sydney J. Harris"
},
{
"quote": "If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size?",
"author": "Sydney J. Harris"
},
{
"quote": "Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.",
"author": "Sydney J. Harris"
},
{
"quote": "Men make counterfeit money; in many more cases, money makes counterfeit men.",
"author": "Sydney J. Harris"
},
{
"quote": "Ninety percent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves.",
"author": "Sydney J. Harris"
},
{
"quote": "Perseverance is the most overrated of traits, if it is unaccompanied by talent; beating your head against a wall is more likely to produce a concussion in the head than a hole in the wall.",
"author": "Sydney J. Harris"
},
{
"quote": "The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, \"I was wrong\".",
"author": "Sydney J. Harris"
},
{
"quote": "The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.",
"author": "Sydney J. Harris"
},
{
"quote": "The tragedy of modern man is not that he knows less about the meaning of his own life, but that it bothers him less.",
"author": "Vaclav Havel"
},
{
"quote": "Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?",
"author": "Stephen W. Hawking"
},
{
"quote": "Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.",
"author": "Nathaniel Hawthorne"
},
{
"quote": "Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.",
"author": "Nathaniel Hawthorne"
},
{
"quote": "No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.",
"author": "Nathaniel Hawthorne"
},
{
"quote": "Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.",
"author": "Nathaniel Hawthorne"
},
{
"quote": "The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.",
"author": "Nathaniel Hawthorne"
},
{
"quote": "If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.",
"author": "William Hazlitt"
},
{
"quote": "The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.",
"author": "William Hazlitt"
},
{
"quote": "Zeal will do more than knowledge.",
"author": "William Hazlitt"
},
{
"quote": "Only you have ever understood me...And you got it wrong.",
"author": "Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel"
},
{
"quote": "Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.",
"author": "Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel"
},
{
"quote": "You proud men of action are, after all, nothing but unconscious instruments of the men of thought.",
"author": "Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel"
},
{
"quote": "Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one's nose.",
"author": "Heinrich Heine"
},
{
"quote": "Don't ever become a pessimist... a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.",
"author": "Robert A. Heinlein"
},
{
"quote": "I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.",
"author": "Robert A. Heinlein"
},
{
"quote": "Sex without love is merely healthy exercise.",
"author": "Robert A. Heinlein"
},
{
"quote": "The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.",
"author": "Robert A. Heinlein"
},
{
"quote": "The most ridiculous concept ever perpetrated by H. Sapiens is that the Lord God of Creation, Shaper and Ruler of the Universes, wants the sacharrine adoration of his creations, that he can be persuaded by their prayers, and becomes petulant if he does not receive this flattery. Yet this ridiculous notion, without one real shred of evidence to bolster it, has gone on to found one of the oldest, largest and least productive industries in history.",
"author": "Robert A. Heinlein"
},
{
"quote": "Theology is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn't there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.",
"author": "Robert A. Heinlein"
},
{
"quote": "You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.",
"author": "Robert A. Heinlein"
},
{
"quote": "Destiny is a good thing to accept when it's going your way. When it isn't, don't call it destiny; call it injustice, treachery, or simple bad luck.",
"author": "Joseph Heller"
},
{
"quote": "He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.",
"author": "Joseph Heller"
},
{
"quote": "Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.",
"author": "Joseph Heller"
},
{
"quote": "Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure.",
"author": "Joseph Heller"
},
{
"quote": "Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.",
"author": "Ernest Hemingway"
},
{
"quote": "They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.",
"author": "Ernest Hemingway"
},
{
"quote": "Never mistake motion for action.",
"author": "Ernest Hemingway"
},
{
"quote": "Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.",
"author": "Ernest Hemingway"
},
{
"quote": "The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.",
"author": "Ernest Hemingway"
},
{
"quote": "The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places.",
"author": "Ernest Hemingway"
},
{
"quote": "I know no way of judging the future but by the past.",
"author": "Patrick Henry"
},
{
"quote": "Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!",
"author": "Patrick Henry"
},
{
"quote": "Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.",
"author": "Audrey Hepburn"
},
{
"quote": "Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same.",
"author": "Audrey Hepburn"
},
{
"quote": "Big results require big ambitions.",
"author": "Heraclitus"
},
{
"quote": "Character is destiny.",
"author": "Heraclitus"
},
{
"quote": "Much learning does not teach understanding.",
"author": "Heraclitus"
},
{
"quote": "No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.",
"author": "Heraclitus"
},
{
"quote": "A hundredload of worry will not pay an ounce of debt.",
"author": "George Herbert"
},
{
"quote": "Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give lustre, and many more people see than weigh.",
"author": "Herodotus"
},
{
"quote": "If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.",
"author": "Napoleon Hill"
},
{
"quote": "The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.",
"author": "Napoleon Hill"
},
{
"quote": "Everything in excess is opposed to nature.",
"author": "Hippocrates"
},
{
"quote": "It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it.",
"author": "A. A. Hodge"
},
{
"quote": "It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.",
"author": "Oliver Wendell Holmes"
},
{
"quote": "The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.",
"author": "Oliver Wendell Holmes"
},
{
"quote": "Have the courage to act instead of react.",
"author": "Oliver Wendell Holmes"
},
{
"quote": "I would not give a fig for the simplicity this side of complexity, but I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity.",
"author": "Oliver Wendell Holmes"
},
{
"quote": "The main part of intellectual education is not the acquisition of facts but learning how to make facts live.",
"author": "Oliver Wendell Holmes"
},
{
"quote": "The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.",
"author": "Oliver Wendell Holmes"
},
{
"quote": "The mode by which the inevitable comes to pass is effort.",
"author": "Oliver Wendell Holmes"
},
{
"quote": "The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.",
"author": "Oliver Wendell Holmes"
},
{
"quote": "The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it.",
"author": "Lou Holtz"
},
{
"quote": "Man, supposing you and I, escaping this battle,^nwould be able to live on forever, ageless, immortal,^nso neither would I myself go on fighting in the foremost^nnor would I urge you into the fighting where men win glory.^nBut now, seeing that the spirits of death stand close about us^nin their thousands, no man can turn aside nor escape them,^nlet us go on and win glory for ourselves, or yield it to others.",
"author": "Homer"
},
{
"quote": "Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write; nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children, the light of the sun, the sighing of the wind, and the gleam of the stars -all the beauties of creation.",
"author": "Homer"
},
{
"quote": "Two urns on Jove's high throne have ever stood,^nThe source of evil one, and one of good;^nFrom thence the cup of mortal man he fills,^nBlessings to these, to those distributes ills;^nTo most he mingles both.",
"author": "Homer"
},
{
"quote": "A ship in port is safe, but that's not what ships are built for.",
"author": "Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper"
},
{
"quote": "If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It's much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.",
"author": "Rear Admiral Grace Murray Hopper"
},
{
"quote": "He who postpones the hour of living is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.",
"author": "Horace"
},
{
"quote": "Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not.",
"author": "Horace"
},
{
"quote": "Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.",
"author": "Horace"
},
{
"quote": "Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?",
"author": "Horace"
},
{
"quote": "There are some people that will be deterred by the fact that we have nuclear weapons... But those people are the folks we can deal with anyway.",
"author": "General Charles Horner"
},
{
"quote": "As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.",
"author": "G. Housworth"
},
{
"quote": "A theory is no more like a fact than a photograph is like a person.",
"author": "Edward W. Howe"
},
{
"quote": "A thief believes everybody steals.",
"author": "Edward W. Howe"
},
{
"quote": "Living up to ideals is like doing everyday work with your Sunday clothes on.",
"author": "Edward W. Howe"
},
{
"quote": "When a friend is in trouble, don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.",
"author": "Edward W. Howe"
},
{
"quote": "Religion has two faces. On one hand, it inspires us to seek the light. On the other hand, it hands us simple answers and blankets of dogma to help us hide from the dark.",
"author": "Reverend Webster \"Kit\" Howell"
},
{
"quote": "There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for.",
"author": "Fred Hoyle"
},
{
"quote": "The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters.",
"author": "Daniel Webster"
},
{
"quote": "One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.",
"author": "Elbert Hubbard"
},
{
"quote": "A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.",
"author": "Elbert Hubbard"
},
{
"quote": "A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman as bad as she dares.",
"author": "Elbert Hubbard"
},
{
"quote": "I would rather be able to appreciate things I can not have than to have things I am not able to appreciate.",
"author": "Elbert Hubbard"
},
{
"quote": "If pleasures are greatest in anticipation, just remember that this is also true of pain.",
"author": "Elbert Hubbard"
},
{
"quote": "It's pretty hard to be efficient without being obnoxious.",
"author": "Elbert Hubbard"
},
{
"quote": "One of the greatest mistakes you can make in life is continually fearing that you'll make one.",
"author": "Elbert Hubbard"
},
{
"quote": "Pray that success will not come any faster than you are able to endure it.",
"author": "Elbert Hubbard"
},
{
"quote": "Responsibility is the price of freedom.",
"author": "Elbert Hubbard"
},
{
"quote": "Strong men can always afford to be gentle. Only the weak are intent on \"giving as good as they get.\"",
"author": "Elbert Hubbard"
},
{
"quote": "A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company.",
"author": "Charles Evans Hughes"
},
{
"quote": "When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free.",
"author": "Charles Evans Hughes"
},
{
"quote": "I'm not a paranoid deranged millionaire. Goddammit, I'm a billionaire.",
"author": "Howard Hughes"
},
{
"quote": "To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.",
"author": "Aldous Huxley"
},
{
"quote": "Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead. A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it.",
"author": "Aldous Huxley"
},
{
"quote": "Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.",
"author": "Aldous Huxley"
},
{
"quote": "Human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.",
"author": "Aldous Huxley"
},
{
"quote": "Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.",
"author": "Aldous Huxley"
},
{
"quote": "My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.",
"author": "Aldous Huxley"
},
{
"quote": "Science has 'explained' nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.",
"author": "Aldous Huxley"
},
{
"quote": "Several excuses are always less convincing than one.",
"author": "Aldous Huxley"
},
{
"quote": "So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable.",
"author": "Aldous Huxley"
},
{
"quote": "The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred.",
"author": "Aldous Huxley"
},
{
"quote": "The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.",
"author": "Aldous Huxley"
},
{
"quote": "There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.",
"author": "Aldous Huxley"
},
{
"quote": "No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its falsehood would be more miraculous, than the fact, which it endeavours to establish.",
"author": "David Hume"
},
{
"quote": "Truth springs from argument amongst friends.",
"author": "David Hume"
},
{
"quote": "Everything in the world was originally purchased by labor.",
"author": "David Hume"
},
{
"quote": "Here am I who have written on all sorts of subjects calculated to excite hostility, moral, political, and religious, and yet I have no enemies - except, indeed, all the Whigs, all the Tories, and all the Christians.",
"author": "David Hume"
},
{
"quote": "A man acquainted with history may, in some respect, be said to have lived from the beginning of the world, and to have been making continual additions to his stock of knowledge in every century. ",
"author": "David Hume"
},
{
"quote": "A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.",
"author": "David Hume"
},
{
"quote": "Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few. ",
"author": "David Hume"
},
{
"quote": "The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.",
"author": "Thomas H. Huxley"
},
{
"quote": "Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.",
"author": "Thomas H. Huxley"
},
{
"quote": "Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.",
"author": "Thomas H. Huxley"
},
{
"quote": "The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.",
"author": "Thomas H. Huxley"
},
{
"quote": "Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.; it is the first lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly.",
"author": "Thomas H. Huxley"
},
{
"quote": "One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. Therefore, the man who stands in the midst of the struggle and says, 'I have it,' merely shows by doing so that he has just lost it.",
"author": "Henrik Ibsen"
},
{
"quote": "Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.",
"author": "Andrew Jackson"
},
{
"quote": "It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word.",
"author": "Andrew Jackson"
},
{
"quote": "There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is having lots to do and not doing it.",
"author": "Andrew Jackson"
},
{
"quote": "In politics, an organized minority is a political majority.",
"author": "Jesse Jackson"
},
{
"quote": "Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.",
"author": "Jesse Jackson"
},
{
"quote": "When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression.",
"author": "Jesse Jackson"
},
{
"quote": "Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.",
"author": "William James"
},
{
"quote": "Whistling to keep up courage is no mere figure of speech. On the other hand, sit all day in a moping posture, sigh, and reply to everything with a dismal voice, and your melancholy lingers... Smooth the brow, brighten the eye, contract the dorsal rather than the ventral aspect of the frame, and speak in a major key, pass the genial compliment, and your heart must be frigid indeed if it does not gradually thaw.",
"author": "William James"
},
{
"quote": "A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.",
"author": "William James"
},
{
"quote": "Everyone knows on any given day that there are energies slumbering in him which the incitements of that day do not call forth. Compared with what we ought to be, we are only half awake.",
"author": "William James"
},
{
"quote": "If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.",
"author": "William James"
},
{
"quote": "If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.",
"author": "William James"
},
{
"quote": "Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.",
"author": "William James"
},
{
"quote": "Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?",
"author": "William James"
},
{
"quote": "The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.",
"author": "William James"
},
{
"quote": "The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community.",
"author": "William James"
},
{
"quote": "We have grown literally afraid to be poor. We despise anyone who elects to be poor in order to simplify and save his inner life. If he does not join the general scramble and pant with the money-making street, we deem him spiritless and lacking in ambition.",
"author": "William James"
},
{
"quote": "Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.",
"author": "William James"
},
{
"quote": "How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of and which no other people on earth enjoy.",
"author": "Thomas Jefferson"
},
{
"quote": "Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.",
"author": "Thomas Jefferson"
},
{
"quote": "I would rather be exposed to the inconvenience attending too much liberty than those attending too small degree of it.",
"author": "Thomas Jefferson"
},
{
"quote": "I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just, (and) that His justice cannot sleep forever.",
"author": "Thomas Jefferson"
},
{
"quote": "Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.",
"author": "Thomas Jefferson"
},
{
"quote": "Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do.",
"author": "Thomas Jefferson"
},
{
"quote": "I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world, and do not find in our particular superstition (Christianity) one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology.",
"author": "Thomas Jefferson"
},
{
"quote": "I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion.",
"author": "Thomas Jefferson"
},
{
"quote": "I'm a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.",
"author": "Thomas Jefferson"
},
{
"quote": "If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send one hundred and fifty lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour?",
"author": "Thomas Jefferson"
},
{
"quote": "In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.",
"author": "Thomas Jefferson"
},
{
"quote": "One man with courage is a majority.",
"author": "Thomas Jefferson"
},
{
"quote": "Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.",
"author": "Thomas Jefferson"
},
{
"quote": "Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.",
"author": "Thomas Jefferson"
},
{
"quote": "Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.",
"author": "Thomas Jefferson"
},
{
"quote": "The advertisement is the most truthful part of a newspaper.",
"author": "Thomas Jefferson"
},
{
"quote": "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.",
"author": "Thomas Jefferson"
},
{
"quote": "There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talents.",
"author": "Thomas Jefferson"
},
{
"quote": "It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.",
"author": "Thomas Jefferson"
},
{
"quote": "They say there's a heaven for those who will wait^nSome say it's better, but I say it ain't^nI'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints^nSinners are much more fun^nOnly the good die young",
"author": "Billy Joel"
},
{
"quote": "You can lead a man to Congress, but you can\u2019t make him think.",
"author": "Milton Berle"
},
{
"quote": "The first casualty when war comes is truth.",
"author": "Hiram Johnson"
},
{
"quote": "Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.",
"author": "Samuel Johnson"
},
{
"quote": "Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.",
"author": "Samuel Johnson"
},
{
"quote": "He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.",
"author": "Samuel Johnson"
},
{
"quote": "I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.",
"author": "Samuel Johnson"
},
{
"quote": "It is better to live rich than to die rich.",
"author": "Samuel Johnson"
},
{
"quote": "It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.",
"author": "Samuel Johnson"
},
{
"quote": "Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.",
"author": "Samuel Johnson"
},
{
"quote": "Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must first be overcome.",
"author": "Samuel Johnson"
},
{
"quote": "Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.",
"author": "Samuel Johnson"
},
{
"quote": "Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.",
"author": "Samuel Johnson"
},
{
"quote": "Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.",
"author": "Samuel Johnson"
},
{
"quote": "The realization that one is to be hanged in the morning concentrates the mind wonderfully.",
"author": "Samuel Johnson"
},
{
"quote": "There are charms made only for distant admiration.",
"author": "Samuel Johnson"
},
{
"quote": "You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.",
"author": "Samuel Johnson"
},
{
"quote": "Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.",
"author": "Samuel Johnson"
},
{
"quote": "Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.",
"author": "Samuel Johnson"
},
{
"quote": "What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.",
"author": "Samuel Johnson"
},
{
"quote": "I have not yet begun to fight!",
"author": "John Paul Jones"
},
{
"quote": "Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake when you make it again.",
"author": "John Paul Jones"
},
{
"quote": "He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.",
"author": "Joseph Joubert"
},
{
"quote": "When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.",
"author": "Joseph Joubert"
},
{
"quote": "Follow that will and that way which experience confirms to be your own.",
"author": "Carl Gustav Jung"
},
{
"quote": "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed.",
"author": "Carl Gustav Jung"
},
{
"quote": "We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born.",
"author": "Carl Gustav Jung"
},
{
"quote": "By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired.",
"author": "Franz Kafka"
},
{
"quote": "All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason.",
"author": "Immanuel Kant"
},
{
"quote": "It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy",
"author": "Immanuel Kant"
},
{
"quote": "So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.",
"author": "Immanuel Kant"
},
{
"quote": "All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?",
"author": "Immanuel Kant"
},
{
"quote": "Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.",
"author": "Immanuel Kant"
},
{
"quote": "If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.",
"author": "Immanuel Kant"
},
{
"quote": "From the crooked timber of humanity, nothing entirely straight was ever fashioned.",
"author": "Immanuel Kant"
},
{
"quote": "Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.",
"author": "Immanuel Kant"
},
{
"quote": "Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.",
"author": "Immanuel Kant"
},
{
"quote": "In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.",
"author": "Immanuel Kant"
},
{
"quote": "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.",
"author": "F. Scott Fitzgerald"
},
{
"quote": "Life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.",
"author": "John Fitzgerald Kennedy"
},
{
"quote": "Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.",
"author": "John Fitzgerald Kennedy"
},
{
"quote": "Victory has a thousand fathers but defeat is an orphan.",
"author": "John Fitzgerald Kennedy"
},
{
"quote": "We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world, or to make it the last.",
"author": "John Fitzgerald Kennedy"
},
{
"quote": "When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger, and the other represents opportunity.",
"author": "John Fitzgerald Kennedy"
},
{
"quote": "All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days, nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days, nor in the life of this administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin.",
"author": "John Fitzgerald Kennedy"
},
{
"quote": "Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.",
"author": "Robert F. Kennedy"
},
{
"quote": "Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.",
"author": "John Maynard Keynes"
},
{
"quote": "In the long run we are all dead.",
"author": "John Maynard Keynes"
},
{
"quote": "Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.",
"author": "John Maynard Keynes"
},
{
"quote": "The ideas of economists and politicians, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back.",
"author": "John Maynard Keynes"
},
{
"quote": "The political problem of mankind is to combine three things: economic efficiency, social justice, and individual liberty.",
"author": "John Maynard Keynes"
},
{
"quote": "The social objective of skilled investment should be to defeat the dark forces of time and ignorance which envelope our future.",
"author": "John Maynard Keynes"
},
{
"quote": "Capitalism is the astounding belief that the wickedest of men will do the wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.",
"author": "John Maynard Keynes"
},
{
"quote": "Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent.",
"author": "John Maynard Keynes"
},
{
"quote": "Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others.",
"author": "John Maynard Keynes"
},
{
"quote": "The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.",
"author": "John Maynard Keynes"
},
{
"quote": "The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.",
"author": "John Maynard Keynes"
},
{
"quote": "If you want to forecast the outcome of a beauty contest, look at the judges, not the beauties.",
"author": "John Maynard Keynes"
},
{
"quote": "Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.",
"author": "Soren Kierkegaard"
},
{
"quote": "Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.",
"author": "Soren Kierkegaard"
},
{
"quote": "To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself permanently.",
"author": "Soren Kierkegaard"
},
{
"quote": "Through violence you may murder a hater, but you can't murder hate. Through violence you may murder a liar, but you can't establish truth. Through violence you may murder a murderer, but you can't murder murder. Darkness cannot put out darkness. Only light can do that.",
"author": "Martin Luther King"
},
{
"quote": "Everyone is more or less mad on one point.",
"author": "Rudyard Kipling"
},
{
"quote": "Gardens are not made by singing \"Oh, how beautiful,\" and sitting in the shade.",
"author": "Rudyard Kipling"
},
{
"quote": "All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.",
"author": "Rudyard Kipling"
},
{
"quote": "Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone.",
"author": "Rudyard Kipling"
},
{
"quote": "Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.",
"author": "Rudyard Kipling"
},
{
"quote": "Military men are dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns for foreign policy.",
"author": "Henry A. Kissinger"
},
{
"quote": "Moderation is a virtue only in those who are thought to have an alternative.",
"author": "Henry A. Kissinger"
},
{
"quote": "Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.",
"author": "Henry A. Kissinger"
},
{
"quote": "The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.",
"author": "Henry A. Kissinger"
},
{
"quote": "The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.",
"author": "Henry A. Kissinger"
},
{
"quote": "To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.",
"author": "Henry A. Kissinger"
},
{
"quote": "If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.",
"author": "Stanley Kubrick"
},
{
"quote": "The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.",
"author": "Stanley Kubrick"
},
{
"quote": "A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.",
"author": "Jean de La Fontaine"
},
{
"quote": "Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.",
"author": "Jean de La Fontaine"
},
{
"quote": "When virtue is lost, benevolence appears; when benevolence is lost, right conduct appears; when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expedience is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.",
"author": "Lao Tzu"
},
{
"quote": "Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage.",
"author": "Lao Tzu"
},
{
"quote": "When you are regretful, you are living in the past. When you are anxious, you are living in the future. When you are at peace, you are living in the present.",
"author": "Lao Tzu"
},
{
"quote": "Those who have knowledge, don't predict. Those who predict, don't have knowledge.",
"author": "Lao Tzu"
},
{
"quote": "Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.",
"author": "Lao Tzu"
},
{
"quote": "The reason people blame things on previous generations is that there's only one other choice.",
"author": "Doug Larson"
},
{
"quote": "Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - and paradise is when you have none.",
"author": "Doug Larson"
},
{
"quote": "I found it's not good to talk about my troubles. Eighty percent of the people don't care, and the other twenty percent are glad you're having trouble.",
"author": "Tommy Lasorda"
},
{
"quote": "Listen, if you start worrying about the people in the stands, before too long you're up in the stands with them.",
"author": "Tommy Lasorda"
},
{
"quote": "There are three types of baseball players: those who make it happen, those who see it happen, and those who ask, \"what happened?\".",
"author": "Tommy Lasorda"
},
{
"quote": "To light a candle is to cast a shadow.",
"author": "Ursula K. Le Guin"
},
{
"quote": "To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most useful in times of stress and darkness.",
"author": "Ursula K. Le Guin"
},
{
"quote": "Mathematicians are mad tailors: they are making \"all the possible clothes\" hoping to make also something suitable for dressing.",
"author": "Stanislaw Lem"
},
{
"quote": "Mud often gives the illusion of depth.",
"author": "Stanislaw Lem"
},
{
"quote": "It is still an unending source of surprise for me how a few scribbles on a blackboard or on a piece of paper can change the course of human affairs.",
"author": "Stanislaw Lem"
},
{
"quote": "They don't think it be like it is, but it do.",
"author": "Oscar Gamble"
},
{
"quote": "The past is History, The future is a Mystery, And today is a Gift that is why they call it the present.",
"author": "Master Oogway"
},
{
"quote": "The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.",
"author": "Oscar Levant"
},
{
"quote": "I have no trouble with my enemies. But my goddamn friends... they are the ones that keep me walking the floors at night.",
"author": "Oscar Levant"
},
{
"quote": "Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.",
"author": "Oscar Levant"
},
{
"quote": "Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.",
"author": "C. S. Lewis"
},
{
"quote": "Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.",
"author": "C. S. Lewis"
},
{
"quote": "Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.",
"author": "C. S. Lewis"
},
{
"quote": "Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.",
"author": "C. S. Lewis"
},
{
"quote": "Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.",
"author": "C. S. Lewis"
},
{
"quote": "I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.",
"author": "C. S. Lewis"
},
{
"quote": "If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.",
"author": "C. S. Lewis"
},
{
"quote": "If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth, only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.",
"author": "C. S. Lewis"
},
{
"quote": "Let's pray that the human race never escapes from Earth to spread its iniquity elsewhere.",
"author": "C. S. Lewis"
},
{
"quote": "We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.",
"author": "C. S. Lewis"
},
{
"quote": "You don't have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.",
"author": "C. S. Lewis"
},
{
"quote": "A house divided against itself cannot stand.",
"author": "Abraham Lincoln"
},
{
"quote": "Better to remain silent and to be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.",
"author": "Abraham Lincoln"
},
{
"quote": "He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.",
"author": "Abraham Lincoln"
},
{
"quote": "In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and, to the young, it comes with bitterest agony, because it takes them unawares.",
"author": "Abraham Lincoln"
},
{
"quote": "It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.",
"author": "Abraham Lincoln"
},
{
"quote": "It is true that you may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.",
"author": "Abraham Lincoln"
},
{
"quote": "Labor is prior to, and independent of capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.",
"author": "Abraham Lincoln"
},
{
"quote": "Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us dare to do our duty as we understand it.",
"author": "Abraham Lincoln"
},
{
"quote": "Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.",
"author": "Abraham Lincoln"
},
{
"quote": "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.",
"author": "Abraham Lincoln"
},
{
"quote": "Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it.",
"author": "Abraham Lincoln"
},
{
"quote": "With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan - to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations.",
"author": "Abraham Lincoln"
},
{
"quote": "The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.",
"author": "Abraham Lincoln"
},
{
"quote": "Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.",
"author": "Abraham Lincoln"
},
{
"quote": "A man has honor if he holds himself to an ideal of conduct though it is inconvenient, unprofitable, or dangerous to do so.",
"author": "Walter Lippmann"
},
{
"quote": "There is nothing so good for the human soul as the discovery that there are ancient and flourishing civilized societies which have somehow managed to exist for many centuries and are still in being though they have had no help from the traveler in solving their problems.",
"author": "Walter Lippmann"
},
{
"quote": "Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.",
"author": "Walter Lippmann"
},
{
"quote": "While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom, the necessity of listening is what makes the right important.",
"author": "Walter Lippmann"
},
{
"quote": "You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.",
"author": "David Lloyd George"
},
{
"quote": "All wealth is the product of labor.",
"author": "John Locke"
},
{
"quote": "As people are walking all the time, in the same spot, a path appears.",
"author": "John Locke"
},
{
"quote": "Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.",
"author": "John Locke"
},
{
"quote": "The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.",
"author": "John Locke"
},
{
"quote": "Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.",
"author": "Vince Lombardi"
},
{
"quote": "If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.",
"author": "Vince Lombardi"
},
{
"quote": "It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.",
"author": "Vince Lombardi"
},
{
"quote": "Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.",
"author": "Vince Lombardi"
},
{
"quote": "The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.",
"author": "Vince Lombardi"
},
{
"quote": "Winners never quit and quitters never win.",
"author": "Vince Lombardi"
},
{
"quote": "Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.",
"author": "Vince Lombardi"
},
{
"quote": "Winning is not a sometime thing, it is an all the time thing. You don't do things right once in a while...you do them right all the time.",
"author": "Vince Lombardi"
},
{
"quote": "The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.",
"author": "Vince Lombardi"
},
{
"quote": "Success is like anything worthwhile. It has a price. You have to pay the price to win and you have to pay the price to get to the point where success is possible. Most important, you must pay the price to stay there.",
"author": "Vince Lombardi"
},
{
"quote": "The good Lord gave you a body that can stand most anything. It's your mind you have to convince.",
"author": "Vince Lombardi"
},
{
"quote": "Perfection is not attainable. But if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence.",
"author": "Vince Lombardi"
},
{
"quote": "There's only one way to succeed in anything, and that is to give it everything.",
"author": "Vince Lombardi"
},
{
"quote": "Battles are primarily won in the hearts of men. Men respond to leadership in a most remarkable way and once you have won his heart, he will follow you anywhere.",
"author": "Vince Lombardi"
},
{
"quote": "Watch your thoughts, for they become your beliefs. Watch your beliefs, for they become your words. Watch your words, for they become your actions. Watch your actions, for they become your habits. Watch your habits, for they become your character. And watch your character, for it becomes your destiny.",
"author": "Vince Lombardi"
},
{
"quote": "The harder you work, the harder it is to surrender.",
"author": "Vince Lombardi"
},
{
"quote": "If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?",
"author": "Vince Lombardi"
},
{
"quote": "The dictionary is the only place that success comes before work.",
"author": "Vince Lombardi"
},
{
"quote": "Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect.",
"author": "Vince Lombardi"
},
{
"quote": "Winning isn't everything, but the will to win is everything.",
"author": "Vince Lombardi"
},
{
"quote": "It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.",
"author": "General Douglas MacArthur"
},
{
"quote": "Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear, kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor, with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.",
"author": "General Douglas MacArthur"
},
{
"quote": "Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.",
"author": "General Douglas MacArthur"
},
{
"quote": "It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.",
"author": "General Douglas MacArthur"
},
{
"quote": "There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.",
"author": "General Douglas MacArthur"
},
{
"quote": "We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction.",
"author": "General Douglas MacArthur"
},
{
"quote": "You are remembered for the rules you break.",
"author": "General Douglas MacArthur"
},
{
"quote": "Before all else, be armed.",
"author": "Niccolo Machiavelli"
},
{
"quote": "Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.",
"author": "Niccolo Machiavelli"
},
{
"quote": "It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.",
"author": "Niccolo Machiavelli"
},
{
"quote": "It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.",
"author": "Niccolo Machiavelli"
},
{
"quote": "War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.",
"author": "Niccolo Machiavelli"
},
{
"quote": "Politics have no relation to morals.",
"author": "Niccolo Machiavelli"
},
{
"quote": "Punishments should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense; benefits ought to be handed ought drop by drop, so that they may be relished the more.",
"author": "Niccolo Machiavelli"
},
{
"quote": "The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.",
"author": "Niccolo Machiavelli"
},
{
"quote": "Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.",
"author": "Niccolo Machiavelli"
},
{
"quote": "It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.",
"author": " James Madison"
},
{
"quote": "The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.",
"author": " James Madison"
},
{
"quote": "If men were angels, no government would be necessary.",
"author": " James Madison"
},
{
"quote": "If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.",
"author": " James Madison"
},
{
"quote": "No nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare.",
"author": " James Madison"
},
{
"quote": "To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.",
"author": " James Madison"
},
{
"quote": "Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.",
"author": " James Madison"
},
{
"quote": "Men do not fight for flag or country, for the Marine Corps or glory or any other abstraction. They fight for one another.",
"author": " William Manchester"
},
{
"quote": "Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.",
"author": "Horace Mann"
},
{
"quote": "Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward offered, for they are gone forever.",
"author": "Horace Mann"
},
{
"quote": "Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.",
"author": "Alan Watts"
},
{
"quote": "Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.",
"author": "Alan Watts"
},
{
"quote": "No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.",
"author": "Alan Watts"
},
{
"quote": "I owe my solitude to other people.",
"author": "Alan Watts"
},
{
"quote": "The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.",
"author": "Marcus Aurelius"
},
{
"quote": "Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness - all of them due to the offenders' ignorance of what is good or evil. But for my part I have long perceived the nature of good and its nobility, the nature of evil and its meanness, and also the nature of the culprit himself, who is my brother (not in the physical sense, but as a fellow-creature similarly endowed with reason and a share of the divine); therefore none of those things can injure me, for nobody can implicate me in what is degrading. Neither can I be angry with my brother or fall foul of him; for he and I were born to work together, like a man's two hands, feet, or eyelids, or like the upper and lower rows of his teeth. To obstruct each other is against Nature's law - and what is irritation or aversion but a form of obstruction?",
"author": "Marcus Aurelius"
},
{
"quote": "Look down from above on the numberless herds of mankind, with their mysterious ceremonies, their divers voyagings in storm and calm, and all the chequered pattern of their comings and gatherings and goings. Go on to consider the life of bygone generations; and then the life of all those who are yet to come; and even at the present day, the life of the hordes of far-off savages. In short, reflect what multitudes there are who are ignorant of your very name; how many more will have speedily forgotten it; how many, perhaps praising you now, who will soon enough be abusing you; and that therefore remembrance, glory, and all else together are things of no worth.",
"author": "Marcus Aurelius"
},
{
"quote": "I often marvel how it is that though each man loves himself beyond all else, he should yet value his own opinion of himself less than that of others.",
"author": "Marcus Aurelius"
},
{
"quote": "How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it.",
"author": "Marcus Aurelius"
},
{
"quote": "People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are.",
"author": "Marcus Aurelius"
},
{
"quote": "One can live well even in a palace.",
"author": "Marcus Aurelius"
},
{
"quote": "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.",
"author": "Marcus Aurelius"
},
{
"quote": "A man's worth is no greater than his aspirations. A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.",
"author": "Marcus Aurelius"
},
{
"quote": "The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts, therefore guard accordingly; and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.",
"author": "Marcus Aurelius"
},
{
"quote": "Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.",
"author": "Marcus Aurelius"
},
{
"quote": "Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.",
"author": "Marcus Aurelius"
},
{
"quote": "Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.",
"author": "Marcus Aurelius"
},
{
"quote": "Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.",
"author": "Marcus Aurelius"
},
{
"quote": "Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.",
"author": "Marcus Aurelius"
},
{
"quote": "Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.",
"author": "Marcus Aurelius"
},
{
"quote": "Life! Don't talk to me about life",
"author": "Marvin, the Paranoid Android"
},
{
"quote": "You think you've got problems, what are you supposed to do if you're a manically depressed robot? No, don't bother to answer that, I'm fifty thousand times more intelligent than you and even I don't know the answer. It gives me a headache just trying to think down to your level.",
"author": "Marvin, the Paranoid Android"
},
{
"quote": "Nothing in the world is permanent, and we\u2019re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we\u2019re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.",
"author": "William Somerset Maugham"
},
{
"quote": "I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation.",
"author": "William Somerset Maugham"
},
{
"quote": "Few misfortunes can befall a boy which bring worse consequence than to have a really affectionate mother.",
"author": "William Somerset Maugham"
},
{
"quote": "If you don't change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?",
"author": "William Somerset Maugham"
},
{
"quote": "It is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.",
"author": "William Somerset Maugham"
},
{
"quote": "It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.",
"author": "William Somerset Maugham"
},
{
"quote": "It is well to have right on our side, but it is madness to forget that unless we have might as well it will avail us nothing. We must believe that God loves men of good will, but there is no evidence to show that he will save fools from the results of their folly.",
"author": "William Somerset Maugham"
},
{
"quote": "The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.",
"author": "William Somerset Maugham"
},
{
"quote": "The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant and kind.",
"author": "William Somerset Maugham"
},
{
"quote": "As you begin changing your thinking, start immediately to change your behavior. Begin to act the part of the person you would like to become. Take action on your behavior. Too many people want to feel, then take action. This never works.",
"author": "John Maxwell"
},
{
"quote": "Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.",
"author": "Mignon McLaughlin"
},
{
"quote": "A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.",
"author": "Mignon McLaughlin"
},
{
"quote": "What you are is the price you paid to get what you used to want.",
"author": "Mignon McLaughlin"
},
{
"quote": "The chief reason for drinking is the desire to behave in a certain way, and to be able to blame it on alcohol",
"author": "Mignon McLaughlin"
},
{
"quote": "There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. Everybody's crew.",
"author": "Marshall McLuhan"
},
{
"quote": "Affluence creates poverty.",
"author": "Marshall McLuhan"
},
{
"quote": "Art at its most significant is a Distant Early Warning System that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it.",
"author": "Marshall McLuhan"
},
{
"quote": "Art is anything you can get away with.",
"author": "Marshall McLuhan"
},
{
"quote": "Far more thought and care go into the composition of any prominent ad in a newspaper or magazine than go into the writing of their features and editorials.",
"author": "Marshall McLuhan"
},
{
"quote": "Good taste is the first refuge of the non-creative.",
"author": "Marshall McLuhan"
},
{
"quote": "Great art speaks a language which every intelligent person can understand. Modernists today speak a different language.",
"author": "Marshall McLuhan"
},
{
"quote": "I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.",
"author": "Marshall McLuhan"
},
{
"quote": "We become what we behold.",
"author": "Marshall McLuhan"
},
{
"quote": "We shape our tools and then our tools shape us.",
"author": "Marshall McLuhan"
},
{
"quote": "All of us who grew up before World War II are immigrants in time, immigrants from an earlier world, living in an age essentially different from anything we knew before.",
"author": "Margaret Mead"
},
{
"quote": "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.",
"author": "Margaret Mead"
},
{
"quote": "Of all the peoples whom I have studied, from city dwellers to cliff dwellers, I always find that at least 50 percent would prefer to have at least one jungle between themselves and their mothers-in-law.",
"author": "Margaret Mead"
},
{
"quote": "Don't be so humble. You're not that great.",
"author": "Golda Meir"
},
{
"quote": "Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart, don't know how to laugh either.",
"author": "Golda Meir"
},
{
"quote": "Happiness courts the light so we deem the world is gay. But misery hides aloof so we deem that misery there is none.",
"author": "Herman Melville"
},
{
"quote": "Art is the objectification of feeling.",
"author": "Herman Melville"
},
{
"quote": "Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.",
"author": "Herman Melville"
},
{
"quote": "God help thee, old man, thy thoughts have created a creature in thee; and he whose intense thinking thus makes him a Prometheus; a vulture feeds upon that heart for ever; that vulture the very creature he creates.",
"author": "Herman Melville"
},
{
"quote": "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.",
"author": "H. L. Mencken"
},
{
"quote": "The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated. ",
"author": "H. L. Mencken"
},
{
"quote": "The government consists of a gang of men exactly like you and me. They have, taking one with another, no special talent for the business of government; they have only a talent for getting and holding office. ",
"author": "H. L. Mencken"
},
{
"quote": "The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. ",
"author": "H. L. Mencken"
},
{
"quote": "The trouble with fighting for human freedom is that one spends most of one's time defending scoundrels. For it is against scoundrels that oppressive laws are first aimed, and oppression must be stopped at the beginning if it is to be stopped at all. ",
"author": "H. L. Mencken"
},
{
"quote": "Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it. ",
"author": "H. L. Mencken"
},
{
"quote": "As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.",
"author": "H. L. Mencken"
},
{
"quote": "Nature abhors a moron.",
"author": "H. L. Mencken"
},
{
"quote": "To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!",
"author": "H. L. Mencken"
},
{
"quote": "No matter how much a woman loved a man, it would still give her a glow to see him commit suicide for her.",
"author": "H. L. Mencken"
},
{
"quote": "The men American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try and tell them the truth.",
"author": "H. L. Mencken"
},
{
"quote": "Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.",
"author": "H. L. Mencken"
},
{
"quote": "Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.",
"author": "H. L. Mencken"
},
{
"quote": "Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.",
"author": "H. L. Mencken"
},
{
"quote": "Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.",
"author": "H. L. Mencken"
},
{
"quote": "Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.",
"author": "H. L. Mencken"
},
{
"quote": "Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.",
"author": "H. L. Mencken"
},
{
"quote": "Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?",
"author": "H. L. Mencken"
},
{
"quote": "Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.",
"author": "H. L. Mencken"
},
{
"quote": "No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.",
"author": "H. L. Mencken"
},
{
"quote": "Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.",
"author": "H. L. Mencken"
},
{
"quote": "Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.",
"author": "H. L. Mencken"
},
{
"quote": "The only really happy folk are married women and single men.",
"author": "H. L. Mencken"
},
{
"quote": "There is always an easy solution to every...problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.",
"author": "H. L. Mencken"
},
{
"quote": "We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.",
"author": "H. L. Mencken"
},
{
"quote": "Morality is doing right, no matter what you are told. Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right",
"author": "H. L. Mencken"
},
{
"quote": "The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.",
"author": "H. L. Mencken"
},
{
"quote": "Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong.",
"author": "H. L. Mencken"
},
{
"quote": "There is only one honest impulse at the bottom of Puritanism, and that is the impulse to punish the man with a superior capacity for happiness \u2014 to bring him down to the miserable level of \u201cgood\u201d men, i.e., of stupid, cowardly, and chronically unhappy men.",
"author": "H. L. Mencken"
},
{
"quote": "A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.",
"author": "Thomas Merton"
},
{
"quote": "Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul. For just as the wind carries thousands of winged seeds so each moment brings with it germs of spiritual vitality that come to rest imperceptibly in the minds and wills of men. Most of these unnumbered seeds perish and are lost, because men are not prepared to receive them: for such seeds as these cannot spring up anywhere except in the good soil of freedom, spontaneity, and love.",
"author": "Thomas Merton"
},
{
"quote": "The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.",
"author": "Thomas Merton"
},
{
"quote": "The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.",
"author": "Thomas Merton"
},
{
"quote": "The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.",
"author": "Thomas Merton"
},
{
"quote": "The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of other men! A weird life it is, indeed, to be living always in somebody else's imagination, as if that were the only place in which one could at last become real!",
"author": "Thomas Merton"
},
{
"quote": "What can we gain by sailing to the moon if we are not able to cross the abyss that separates us from ourselves? This is the most important of all voyages of discovery, and without it, all the rest are not only useless, but disastrous.",
"author": "Thomas Merton"
},
{
"quote": "When ambition ends, happiness begins.",
"author": "Thomas Merton"
},
{
"quote": "Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.",
"author": "Michelangelo"
},
{
"quote": "The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark. Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.",
"author": "Michelangelo"
},
{
"quote": "Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.",
"author": "Michelangelo"
},
{
"quote": "Carving is easy, you just go down to the skin and stop.",
"author": "Michelangelo"
},
{
"quote": "My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's loveliness.",
"author": "Michelangelo"
},
{
"quote": "America is still a frontier country that almost shudders at the idea of creative expression.",
"author": "James A. Michener"
},
{
"quote": "Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.",
"author": "James A. Michener"
},
{
"quote": "I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.",
"author": "James A. Michener"
},
{
"quote": "It is known that the bad workmen who form the majority of the operatives in many branches of industry, are decidedly of opinion that bad workmen ought to receive the same wages as good, and that no one ought to be allowed, through piecework or otherwise, to earn by superior skill or industry more than others can without it. ",
"author": "John Stuart Mill"
},
{
"quote": "Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives.",
"author": "John Stuart Mill"
},
{
"quote": "Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.",
"author": "John Stuart Mill"
},
{
"quote": "If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.",
"author": "John Stuart Mill"
},
{
"quote": "One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.",
"author": "John Stuart Mill"
},
{
"quote": "The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.",
"author": "John Stuart Mill"
},
{
"quote": "The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.",
"author": "John Stuart Mill"
},
{
"quote": "War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.",
"author": "John Stuart Mill"
},
{
"quote": "Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men.",
"author": "John Stuart Mill"
},
{
"quote": "I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than attempting to satisfy them.",
"author": "John Stuart Mill"
},
{
"quote": "All one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.",
"author": "Arthur Miller"
},
{
"quote": "I have made more friends for American culture than the State Department. Certainly I have made fewer enemies, but that isn't very difficult.",
"author": "Arthur Miller"
},
{
"quote": "Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple.",
"author": "Charlie Mingus"
},
{
"quote": "The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.",
"author": "Friedrich August von Hayek"
},
{
"quote": "In government, the scum rises to the top.",
"author": "Friedrich August von Hayek"
},
{
"quote": "It is largely because civilization enables us constantly to profit from knowledge which we individually do not possess and because each individual's use of his particular knowledge may serve to assist others unknown to him in achieving their ends that men as members of civilized society can pursue their individual ends so much more successfully than they could alone.",
"author": "Friedrich August von Hayek"
},
{
"quote": "The preservation of individual freedom is incompatible with a full satisfaction of our views of distributive justice.",
"author": "Friedrich August von Hayek"
},
{
"quote": "The choice open to us is not between a system in which everybody will get what he deserves according to some absolute and universal standard of right, and one where the individual shares are determined partly by accident or good will or chance, but between a system where it is the will of a few persons that decides who is to get what, and one where it depends at least partly on the ability and enterprise of the people concerned and partly on unforeseeable circumstances.",
"author": "Friedrich August von Hayek"
},
{
"quote": "Compared with the totality of knowledge which is continually utilized in the evolution of a dynamic civilization, the difference between the knowledge that the wisest and that which the most ignorant individual can deliberately employ is comparatively insignificant.",
"author": "Friedrich August von Hayek"
},
{
"quote": "From the fact that people are very different it follows that, if we treat them equally, the result must be inequality in their actual position, and that the only way to place them in an equal position would be to treat them differently. Equality before the law and material equality are therefore not only different but are in conflict which each other; and we can achieve either one or the other, but not both at the same time.",
"author": "Friedrich August von Hayek"
},
{
"quote": "Human reason can neither predict nor deliberately shape its own future. Its advances consist in finding out where it has been wrong.",
"author": "Friedrich August von Hayek"
},
{
"quote": "Humiliating to human pride as it may be, we must recognize that the advance and even the preservation of civilization are dependent upon a maximum of opportunity for accidents to happen. ",
"author": "Friedrich August von Hayek"
},
{
"quote": "A society that does not recognize that each individual has values of his own which he is entitled to follow can have no respect for the dignity of the individual and cannot really know freedom. ",
"author": "Friedrich August von Hayek"
},
{
"quote": "There is nothing so comfortable as a small bankroll. A big one is always in danger.",
"author": "Wilson Mizner"
},
{
"quote": "A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while, he knows something.",
"author": "Wilson Mizner"
},
{
"quote": "I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.",
"author": "Wilson Mizner"
},
{
"quote": "To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.",
"author": "Wilson Mizner"
},
{
"quote": "To overcome evil with good is good, to resist evil by evil is evil.",
"author": "Mohammed"
},
{
"quote": "We die only once, and for such a long time.",
"author": "Moliere"
},
{
"quote": "The game is out there and it's either play or get played.",
"author": "Omar"
},
{
"quote": "One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison.",
"author": "Ashley Montagu"
},
{
"quote": "The idea is to die young as late as possible.",
"author": "Ashley Montagu"
},
{
"quote": "The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.",
"author": "Ashley Montagu"
},
{
"quote": "Confidence in others' honesty is evidence of one's own integrity.",
"author": "Michel de Montaigne"
},
{
"quote": "Man is quite insane. He wouldn't know how to create a maggot, yet he creates gods by the dozen.",
"author": "Michel de Montaigne"
},
{
"quote": "We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.",
"author": "Michel de Montaigne"
},
{
"quote": "Diplomacy without power is feeble, and power without diplomacy is destructive and blind.",
"author": "Hans Morgenthau"
},
{
"quote": "Th measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.",
"author": "Thomas Macaulay"
},
{
"quote": "To be a money master, you must first be a self-master.",
"author": "J. P. Morgan"
},
{
"quote": "A man always has two reasons for the things he does - a good reason and the real reason.",
"author": "J. P. Morgan"
},
{
"quote": "Big shots are only little shots who keep shooting.",
"author": " Christopher Morley"
},
{
"quote": "There are 193 species of monkeys and apes, 192 of them are covered with hair. The exception is a naked ape self-named Homo sapiens...This unusual and highly successful species spends a great deal of time examining his higher motives and an equal amount of time ignoring his fundamental ones.",
"author": " Desmond Morris"
},
{
"quote": "Every man becomes, to a certain degree, what the people he generally converses with are.",
"author": " Robert Motherwell"
},
{
"quote": "Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the duty to foster invention and constantly to create technological novelties, but equally the duty to surrender to these novelties unconditionally, just because they are offered, without respect to their human consequences.",
"author": " Lewis Mumford"
},
{
"quote": "Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.",
"author": "Edward R. Murrow"
},
{
"quote": "The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.",
"author": "Edward R. Murrow"
},
{
"quote": "The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order. With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved.",
"author": "Edward R. Murrow"
},
{
"quote": "The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue.",
"author": "Edward R. Murrow"
},
{
"quote": "We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.",
"author": "Edward R. Murrow"
},
{
"quote": "You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.",
"author": "Mahfouz Naguib"
},
{
"quote": "One would expect people to remember the past and to imagine the future, but in fact, when discoursing or writing about history, they imagine it in terms of their own experience ... they imagine the past and remember the future.",
"author": "Lewis Namier"
},
{
"quote": "You know there's a problem with the education system when you realize out of the 3 Rs only one begins with an R.",
"author": "Dennis Miller"
},
{
"quote": "I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance,^nWere it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance.",
"author": "Ogden Nash"
},
{
"quote": "People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up.",
"author": "Ogden Nash"
},
{
"quote": "Progress might have been all right once, but it has gone on too long.",
"author": "Ogden Nash"
},
{
"quote": "Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying them without money?",
"author": "Ogden Nash"
},
{
"quote": "There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.",
"author": "Ogden Nash"
},
{
"quote": "Too clever is dumb.",
"author": "Ogden Nash"
},
{
"quote": "Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.",
"author": "George Jean Nathan"
},
{
"quote": "What passes for woman's intuition is often nothing more than man's transparency.",
"author": "George Jean Nathan"
},
{
"quote": "The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.",
"author": "Martina Navratilova"
},
{
"quote": "There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about.",
"author": "John von Neumann"
},
{
"quote": "In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.",
"author": "John von Neumann"
},
{
"quote": "We willingly pay 30,000 - 40,000 fatalities per year for the advantages of individual transportation by automobile.",
"author": "John von Neumann"
},
{
"quote": "A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.",
"author": "John Henry Newman"
},
{
"quote": "Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall ever have a beginning.",
"author": "John Henry Newman"
},
{
"quote": "We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.",
"author": "John Henry Newman"
},
{
"quote": "We can easily manage if we will only take, each day, the burden appointed to it. But the load will be too heavy for us if we carry yesterday's burden over again today, and then add the burden of the morrow before we are required to bear it.",
"author": "John Newton"
},
{
"quote": "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.",
"author": "Reinhold Niebuhr"
},
{
"quote": "Nothing worth doing is completed in our lifetime; therefore, we must be saved by hope. Nothing true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore, we are saved by love.",
"author": "Reinhold Niebuhr"
},
{
"quote": "The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.",
"author": "Friedrich Nietzsche"
},
{
"quote": "Liberal institutions straightaway cease being liberal the moment they are firmly established.",
"author": "Friedrich Nietzsche"
},
{
"quote": "Having the courage of one's convictions...is a matter of having the courage for an attack on one's convictions.",
"author": "Friedrich Nietzsche"
},
{
"quote": "A casual stroll through a lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything.",
"author": "Friedrich Nietzsche"
},
{
"quote": "Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.",
"author": "Friedrich Nietzsche"
},
{
"quote": "Faith: not wanting to know what is true.",
"author": "Friedrich Nietzsche"
},
{
"quote": "He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.",
"author": "Friedrich Nietzsche"
},
{
"quote": "I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.",
"author": "Friedrich Nietzsche"
},
{
"quote": "Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?",
"author": "Friedrich Nietzsche"
},
{
"quote": "Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.",
"author": "Friedrich Nietzsche"
},
{
"quote": "We should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh.",
"author": "Friedrich Nietzsche"
},
{
"quote": "What does not kill me, makes me stronger.",
"author": "Friedrich Nietzsche"
},
{
"quote": "When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began.",
"author": "Friedrich Nietzsche"
},
{
"quote": "The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.",
"author": "Friedrich Nietzsche"
},
{
"quote": "Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.",
"author": "Anais Nin"
},
{
"quote": "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.",
"author": "Anais Nin"
},
{
"quote": "We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.",
"author": "Anais Nin"
},
{
"quote": "All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.",
"author": "Sean O'Casey"
},
{
"quote": "There's no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can, so as to keep it out of as many things as possible.",
"author": "Sean O'Casey"
},
{
"quote": "You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea; you cannot put an idea up against the barrack-square wall and riddle it with bullets; you cannot confine it in the strongest prison cell your slaves could ever build.",
"author": "Sean O'Casey"
},
{
"quote": "When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.",
"author": "P.J. O'Rourke"
},
{
"quote": "I've always figured that if God wanted us to go to church a lot He'd have given us bigger behinds to sit on and smaller heads to think with.",
"author": "P.J. O'Rourke"
},
{
"quote": "The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then gets elected and proves it.",
"author": "P.J. O'Rourke"
},
{
"quote": "The forces of safety are afoot in the land. I, for one, believe it is a conspiracy - a conspiracy of Safety Nazis shouting \"Sieg Health\" and seeking to trammel freedom, liberty, and large noisy parties. The Safety Nazis advocate gun control, vigorous exercise, and health foods. The result can only be a disarmed, exhausted, and half-starved population ready to acquiesce to dictatorship of some kind...Everything that's fun in life is dangerous. Horse races, for instance, are very dangerous. But attempt to design a safe horse and the result is a cow (an appalling animal to watch at the trotters.) And everything that isn't fun is dangerous too. It is impossible to be alive and safe.",
"author": "P.J. O'Rourke"
},
{
"quote": "At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.",
"author": "Flannery O'Connor"
},
{
"quote": "Most people know what a story is until they sit down to write one.",
"author": "Flannery O'Connor"
},
{
"quote": "There are all kinds of truth, your truth and somebody else's. But behind all of them there is only one truth and that is that there's no truth.",
"author": "Flannery O'Connor"
},
{
"quote": "Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.",
"author": "Flannery O'Connor"
},
{
"quote": "The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.",
"author": "Flannery O'Connor"
},
{
"quote": "And in that time^nWhen men decide and feel safe^nTo call the war insane^nTake one moment to embrace^nThose gentle heroes^nYou left behind.",
"author": "Major Michael Davis O'Donnell"
},
{
"quote": "I hate flowers. I only paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move.",
"author": "Georgia O'Keefe"
},
{
"quote": "Give people a taste of Old Crow, and tell them it's Old Crow. Then give them another taste of Old Crow, but tell them it's Jack Daniels. Ask them which they prefer. They'll think the two drinks are quite different. They are tasting images.",
"author": "David Ogilvy"
},
{
"quote": "If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants.",
"author": "David Ogilvy"
},
{
"quote": "It is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.",
"author": "David Ogilvy"
},
{
"quote": "Mega-mergers are for megalomaniacs.",
"author": "David Ogilvy"
},
{
"quote": "It is hard to let old beliefs go. They are familiar. We are comfortable with them and have spent years building systems and developing habits that depend on them. Like a man who has worn eyeglasses so long that he forgets he has them on, we forget that the world looks to us the way it does because we have become used to seeing it that way through a particular set of lenses. Today, however, we need new lenses. And we need to throw the old ones away.",
"author": "Kenichi Ohmae"
},
{
"quote": "I'd like [people] to remember me for a diligent expert workman. I think a poet is a workman. I think Shakespeare was a workman. And God's a workman. I don't think there's anything better than a workman.",
"author": "Laurence Olivier"
},
{
"quote": "We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.",
"author": "Aristotle Onassis"
},
{
"quote": "The open society, the unrestricted access to knowledge, the unplanned and uninhibited association of men for its furtherance - these are what may make a vast, complex, ever growing, ever changing, ever more specialized and expert technological world, nevertheless a world of human community.",
"author": "J. Robert Oppenheimer"
},
{
"quote": "History is written by the winners.",
"author": "George Orwell"
},
{
"quote": "A humanitarian is always a hypocrite.",
"author": "George Orwell"
},
{
"quote": "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.",
"author": "George Orwell"
},
{
"quote": "All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. Writing a book is a long, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.",
"author": "George Orwell"
},
{
"quote": "Big Brother is watching you.",
"author": "George Orwell"
},
{
"quote": "During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act",
"author": "George Orwell"
},
{
"quote": "He who controls the past commands the future.",
"author": "George Orwell"
},
{
"quote": "If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.",
"author": "George Orwell"
},
{
"quote": "If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face--for ever.",
"author": "George Orwell"
},
{
"quote": "Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.",
"author": "George Orwell"
},
{
"quote": "Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.",
"author": "George Orwell"
},
{
"quote": "Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.",
"author": "George Orwell"
},
{
"quote": "The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is sometimes willing to commit sins for the sake of loyalty, that one does not push asceticism to the point where it makes friendly intercourse impossible, and that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by life, which is the inevitable price of fastening one's love upon other human individuals.",
"author": "George Orwell"
},
{
"quote": "The price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.",
"author": "George Orwell"
},
{
"quote": "War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.",
"author": "George Orwell"
},
{
"quote": "We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.",
"author": "George Orwell"
},
{
"quote": "We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.",
"author": "George Orwell"
},
{
"quote": "The gift derives its value from the rank of the giver.",
"author": "Ovid"
},
{
"quote": "Cunning leads to knavery. It is but a step from one to the other, and that very slippery. Only lying makes the difference; add that to cunning, and it is knavery.",
"author": "Ovid"
},
{
"quote": "Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour.",
"author": "Ovid"
},
{
"quote": "Fortune and love favor the brave.",
"author": "Ovid"
},
{
"quote": "It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are.",
"author": "Ovid"
},
{
"quote": "Let your hook always be cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.",
"author": "Ovid"
},
{
"quote": "Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with all to keep it.",
"author": "Ovid"
},
{
"quote": "Sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves.",
"author": "Ovid"
},
{
"quote": "Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.",
"author": "Satchel Paige"
},
{
"quote": "Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it don't matter.",
"author": "Satchel Paige"
},
{
"quote": "Airplanes may kill you, but they ain't likely to hurt you.",
"author": "Satchel Paige"
},
{
"quote": "Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you.",
"author": "Satchel Paige"
},
{
"quote": "Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.",
"author": "Satchel Paige"
},
{
"quote": "It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.",
"author": "Thomas Paine"
},
{
"quote": "Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.",
"author": "Thomas Paine"
},
{
"quote": "Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.",
"author": "Thomas Paine"
},
{
"quote": "That government is best which governs least.",
"author": "Thomas Paine"
},
{
"quote": "The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value.",
"author": "Thomas Paine"
},
{
"quote": "The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum.",
"author": "Thomas Paine"
},
{
"quote": "I have always strenuously supported the right of every man to his own opinion, however different that opinion might be to mine. He who denies another this right makes a slave of himself to his present opinion, because he precludes himself the right of changing it.",
"author": "Thomas Paine"
},
{
"quote": "If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to. ",
"author": "Dorothy Parker"
},
{
"quote": "Guns aren't lawful^nNooses give^nGas smells awful^nMight as well live.",
"author": "Dorothy Parker"
},
{
"quote": "If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.",
"author": "Dorothy Parker"
},
{
"quote": "Take care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves.",
"author": "Dorothy Parker"
},
{
"quote": "Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.",
"author": "C. Northcote Parkinson"
},
{
"quote": "Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not quarrelled with him?",
"author": "Blaise Pascal"
},
{
"quote": "Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a gift from God.",
"author": "Blaise Pascal"
},
{
"quote": "If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.",
"author": "Blaise Pascal"
},
{
"quote": "In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don't.",
"author": "Blaise Pascal"
},
{
"quote": "It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.",
"author": "Blaise Pascal"
},
{
"quote": "Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.",
"author": "Blaise Pascal"
},
{
"quote": "Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.",
"author": "Blaise Pascal"
},
{
"quote": "Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.",
"author": "Blaise Pascal"
},
{
"quote": "The heart has its reasons, which reason cannot know.",
"author": "Blaise Pascal"
},
{
"quote": "We think very little of time present; we anticipate the future, as being too slow, and with a view to hasten it onward, we recall the past to stay it as too swiftly gone. We are so thoughtless, that we thus wander through the hours which are not here, regardless only of the moment that is actually our own.",
"author": "Blaise Pascal"
},
{
"quote": "We are generally better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others.",
"author": "Blaise Pascal"
},
{
"quote": "I have never made a prediction and I never will.",
"author": "Tony Blair"
},
{
"quote": "A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.",
"author": "General George S. Patton"
},
{
"quote": "A pint of sweat saves a gallon of blood.",
"author": "General George S. Patton"
},
{
"quote": "Luck is when preparation meets opportunity.",
"author": "General George S. Patton"
},
{
"quote": "I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.",
"author": "William Penn"
},
{
"quote": "Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.",
"author": "William Penn"
},
{
"quote": "The whole earth is the tomb of heroic men and their story is not given only on stone over their clay but abides everywhere without visible symbol woven into the stuff of other men's lives.",
"author": "Pericles"
},
{
"quote": "A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.",
"author": "Laurence J. Peter"
},
{
"quote": "America is a country that doesn't know where it is going but is determined to set a speed record getting there.",
"author": "Laurence J. Peter"
},
{
"quote": "An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today.",
"author": "Laurence J. Peter"
},
{
"quote": "Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.",
"author": "Laurence J. Peter"
},
{
"quote": "Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.",
"author": "Laurence J. Peter"
},
{
"quote": "Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.",
"author": "Laurence J. Peter"
},
{
"quote": "Everyone rises to their level of incompetence.",
"author": "Laurence J. Peter"
},
{
"quote": "Expert: a man who makes three correct guesses consecutively.",
"author": "Laurence J. Peter"
},
{
"quote": "Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.",
"author": "Laurence J. Peter"
},
{
"quote": "Going to church doesn't make you any more a Christian than going to the garage makes you a car.",
"author": "Laurence J. Peter"
},
{
"quote": "If you don't know where you're going, you will probably end up somewhere else.",
"author": "Laurence J. Peter"
},
{
"quote": "Slouch, and the world slouches with you. Push, and you push alone.",
"author": "Laurence J. Peter"
},
{
"quote": "The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.",
"author": "Laurence J. Peter"
},
{
"quote": "There are two kinds of egotists: Those who admit it, and the rest of us.",
"author": "Laurence J. Peter"
},
{
"quote": "There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought.",
"author": "Laurence J. Peter"
},
{
"quote": "In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed king can still goof up.",
"author": "Laurence J. Peter"
},
{
"quote": "If no one is pissed-off with you then you are dead but just haven't figured it out yet.",
"author": "Tom Peters"
},
{
"quote": "Test fast, fail fast, adjust fast.",
"author": "Tom Peters"
},
{
"quote": "Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.",
"author": "Pablo Picasso"
},
{
"quote": "Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.",
"author": "Pablo Picasso"
},
{
"quote": "Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.",
"author": "Pablo Picasso"
},
{
"quote": "Everything you can imagine is real.",
"author": "Pablo Picasso"
},
{
"quote": "I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.",
"author": "Pablo Picasso"
},
{
"quote": "Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.",
"author": "Pablo Picasso"
},
{
"quote": "You can't run a business without taking risks.",
"author": "Pablo Picasso"
},
{
"quote": "The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.",
"author": "Robert M. Pirsig"
},
{
"quote": "The truth knocks on the door and you say, \"Go away, I'm looking for the truth,\" and so it goes away.",
"author": "Robert M. Pirsig"
},
{
"quote": "One geometry cannot be more true than another; it can only be more convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.",
"author": "Robert M. Pirsig"
},
{
"quote": "Be kind, for everyone you meet is facing a hard battle.",
"author": "Plato"
},
{
"quote": "Courage is knowing what not to fear.",
"author": "Plato"
},
{
"quote": "How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?",
"author": "Plato"
},
{
"quote": "There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.",
"author": "Plato"
},
{
"quote": "We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.",
"author": "Plato"
},
{
"quote": "Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.",
"author": "Plato"
},
{
"quote": "You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.",
"author": "Plato"
},
{
"quote": "The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.",
"author": "Pliny the Elder"
},
{
"quote": "The lust of avarice has so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.",
"author": "Pliny the Elder"
},
{
"quote": "The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.",
"author": "Plutarch"
},
{
"quote": "What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.",
"author": "Plutarch"
},
{
"quote": "Tis' with our judgement as our watches; none go just alike and each believes his own.",
"author": "Alexander Pope"
},
{
"quote": "Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.",
"author": "Alexander Pope"
},
{
"quote": "Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.",
"author": "Alexander Pope"
},
{
"quote": "Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.",
"author": "Alexander Pope"
},
{
"quote": "A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.",
"author": "Alexander Pope"
},
{
"quote": "All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.",
"author": "Alexander Pope"
},
{
"quote": "All nature is but art, unknown to thee^nAll chance, direction, which thou canst not see^nAll discord, harmony not understood^nAll partial evil, universal good",
"author": "Alexander Pope"
},
{
"quote": "Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.",
"author": "Alexander Pope"
},
{
"quote": "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.",
"author": "Alexander Pope"
},
{
"quote": "Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.",
"author": "Alexander Pope"
},
{
"quote": "Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of Mankind is Man.",
"author": "Alexander Pope"
},
{
"quote": "On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reason's the card, but passion the gale. ",
"author": "Alexander Pope"
},
{
"quote": "The most positive men are the most credulous.",
"author": "Alexander Pope"
},
{
"quote": "A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.",
"author": "Ezra Pound"
},
{
"quote": "Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care.",
"author": "Colin Powell"
},
{
"quote": "You don't know what you can get away with until you try.",
"author": "Colin Powell"
},
{
"quote": "To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.",
"author": "Steve Prefontaine"
},
{
"quote": "I'm not really a cab driver. I'm just waiting for something better to come along. You know, like death.",
"author": "Alex Rieger"
},
{
"quote": "Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.",
"author": "Marcel Proust"
},
{
"quote": "The past not merely is not fugitive, it remains present.",
"author": "Marcel Proust"
},
{
"quote": "Above all things, reverence yourself.",
"author": "Pythagoras"
},
{
"quote": "Concern should drive us into action and not into a depression. No man is free who cannot control himself.",
"author": "Pythagoras"
},
{
"quote": "Ignorant people see life as either existence or non-existence, but wise men see it beyond both existence and non-existence to something that transcends them both; this is an observation of the Middle Way.",
"author": "Pythagoras"
},
{
"quote": "One can't love man without hating most of the creatures who pretend to bear his name.",
"author": "Ayn Rand"
},
{
"quote": "A government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.",
"author": "Ayn Rand"
},
{
"quote": "Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.",
"author": "Ayn Rand"
},
{
"quote": "Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the individual).",
"author": "Ayn Rand"
},
{
"quote": "It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.",
"author": "Ayn Rand"
},
{
"quote": "Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property.",
"author": "Ayn Rand"
},
{
"quote": "Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver.",
"author": "Ayn Rand"
},
{
"quote": "So long as men desire to live together, no man may initiate the use of physical force against others... When a man attempts to deal with me by force, I answer him, by force. It is only as retaliation that force may be used and only against the man who starts its use. No, I do not share his evil or sink to his concept of morality: I merely grant him his choice, destruction, the only destruction he had the right to choose: his own.",
"author": "Ayn Rand"
},
{
"quote": "They proclaim that every man is entitled to exist without labor and, the laws of reality to the contrary notwithstanding, is entitled to receive his \"minimum sustenance\" his food, his clothes, his shelter, with no effort on his part, as his due and his birthright. To receive it, from whom?",
"author": "Ayn Rand"
},
{
"quote": "We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.",
"author": "Ayn Rand"
},
{
"quote": "When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals, he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.",
"author": "Ayn Rand"
},
{
"quote": "Why is it immoral for you to desire, but moral for others to do so? Why is it immoral to produce a value and keep it, but moral to give it away? And if it is not moral for you to keep a value, why is it moral for others to accept it? If you are selfless and virtuous when you give it, are they not selfish and vicious when they take it?",
"author": "Ayn Rand"
},
{
"quote": "I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting.",
"author": "Ronald Reagan"
},
{
"quote": "I never drink coffee at lunch. I find it keeps me awake for the afternoon.",
"author": "Ronald Reagan"
},
{
"quote": "Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book.",
"author": "Ronald Reagan"
},
{
"quote": "You and I are told we must choose between a left or right, but I suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There is only an up or down. Up to man's age-old dream -- the maximum of individual freedom consistent with order -- or down to the ant heap of totalitarianism. Regardless of their sincerity, their humanitarian motives, those who would sacrifice freedom for security have embarked on this downward path.",
"author": "Ronald Reagan"
},
{
"quote": "They say hard work never killed anyone, but why take chances?",
"author": "Ronald Reagan"
},
{
"quote": "It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.",
"author": "Agnes Repplier"
},
{
"quote": "When you're up to your armpits in alligators it's hard to remember you came here to drain the swamp.",
"author": "Agnes Repplier"
},
{
"quote": "Stick with the optimists. It's going to be tough enough even if they're right.",
"author": "James Reston"
},
{
"quote": "All politics are based on the indifference of the majority.",
"author": "James Reston"
},
{
"quote": "Luck is the residue of design.",
"author": "Branch Rickey"
},
{
"quote": "Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will find them gradually, without noticing it, and live along some distant day into the answer.",
"author": "Rainer Maria Rilke"
},
{
"quote": "Do not assume that he who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, he would never have been able to find these words.",
"author": "Rainer Maria Rilke"
},
{
"quote": "For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.",
"author": "Rainer Maria Rilke"
},
{
"quote": "Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.",
"author": "Rainer Maria Rilke"
},
{
"quote": "Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave.",
"author": "Rainer Maria Rilke"
},
{
"quote": "There may be good, but there are no pleasant marriages.",
"author": "Rainer Maria Rilke"
},
{
"quote": "A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.",
"author": "John D. Rockefeller"
},
{
"quote": "Every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty.",
"author": "John D. Rockefeller"
},
{
"quote": "You can't say civilizations don't advance...in every war they kill you in a new way.",
"author": "Will Rogers"
},
{
"quote": "The fellow that can only see a week ahead is always the popular fellow, for he is looking with the crowd. But the one that can see years ahead, he has a telescope but he can't make anybody believe he has it.",
"author": "Will Rogers"
},
{
"quote": "Just be thankful you're not getting all the government you're paying for.",
"author": "Will Rogers"
},
{
"quote": "You've got to be an optimist to be a Democrat, and you've got to be a humorist to stay one.",
"author": "Will Rogers"
},
{
"quote": "I am not a member of any organized party - I am a Democrat.",
"author": "Will Rogers"
},
{
"quote": "There is something about a Republican that you can only stand him for so long; and on the other hand, there is something about a Democrat that you can't stand him quite that long.",
"author": "Will Rogers"
},
{
"quote": "A hero is a man who does what he can.",
"author": "Romain Rolland"
},
{
"quote": "We have always known that heedless self-interest was bad morals; we know now that it is bad economics.",
"author": "Franklin Roosevelt"
},
{
"quote": "A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water.",
"author": "Eleanor Roosevelt"
},
{
"quote": "Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.",
"author": "Eleanor Roosevelt"
},
{
"quote": "Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.",
"author": "Eleanor Roosevelt"
},
{
"quote": "A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car, but if he has a university education, he may steal from the whole railroad...To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.",
"author": "Theodore Roosevelt"
},
{
"quote": "A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues.",
"author": "Theodore Roosevelt"
},
{
"quote": "Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft.",
"author": "Theodore Roosevelt"
},
{
"quote": "Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.",
"author": "Theodore Roosevelt"
},
{
"quote": "I can govern the United States or I can govern my daughter, Alice, but I can't do both.",
"author": "Theodore Roosevelt"
},
{
"quote": "If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.",
"author": "Theodore Roosevelt"
},
{
"quote": "Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.",
"author": "Theodore Roosevelt"
},
{
"quote": "Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.",
"author": "Theodore Roosevelt"
},
{
"quote": "Speak softly and carry a big stick.",
"author": "Theodore Roosevelt"
},
{
"quote": "To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.",
"author": "Theodore Roosevelt"
},
{
"quote": "It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best laws, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.",
"author": "Theodore Roosevelt"
},
{
"quote": "Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.",
"author": "Theodore Roosevelt"
},
{
"quote": "Science has made us gods even before we are worthy of being men.",
"author": "Jean Rostand"
},
{
"quote": "A conservative is one who admires radicals centuries after they're dead.",
"author": "Leo Rosten"
},
{
"quote": "You can understand people better if you look at them - no matter how old or impressive they may be - as if they are children. For most of us never mature, we simply grow taller.",
"author": "Leo Rosten"
},
{
"quote": "The most happy marriage I can picture or imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman.",
"author": "Samuel Taylor Coleridge"
},
{
"quote": "People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.",
"author": "Jean-Jacques Rousseau"
},
{
"quote": "The essence of the liberal outlook lies not in what opinions are held but in how they are held: Instead of being held dogmatically they are held tentatively, and with a consciousness that new evidence may at any moment lead to their abandonment.",
"author": "Bertrand Russell"
},
{
"quote": "Unfounded beliefs are the homage which impulse pays to reason",
"author": "Bertrand Russell"
},
{
"quote": "One should as a rule, respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny, and is likely to interfere with happiness in all kinds of ways.",
"author": "Bertrand Russell"
},
{
"quote": "I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.",
"author": "Bertrand Russell"
},
{
"quote": "Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.",
"author": "Bertrand Russell"
},
{
"quote": "The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way. Persecution is used in theology, not in arithmetic.",
"author": "Bertrand Russell"
},
{
"quote": "The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.",
"author": "Bertrand Russell"
},
{
"quote": "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.",
"author": "Bertrand Russell"
},
{
"quote": "All science is either physics or stamp collecting.",
"author": "Ernest Rutherford"
},
{
"quote": "You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 10^12 to 1.",
"author": "Ernest Rutherford"
},
{
"quote": "The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.",
"author": "William Safire"
},
{
"quote": "If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.",
"author": "Carl Sagan"
},
{
"quote": "A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.",
"author": "Carl Sagan"
},
{
"quote": "It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English -- up to fifty words used in correct context -- no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.",
"author": "Carl Sagan"
},
{
"quote": "They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.",
"author": "Carl Sagan"
},
{
"quote": "We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.",
"author": "Carl Sagan"
},
{
"quote": "A chief is a man who assumes responsibility. He says \"I was beaten,\" he does not say \"My men were beaten\";",
"author": "Antoine de Saint-Exupery"
},
{
"quote": "A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.",
"author": "Antoine de Saint-Exupery"
},
{
"quote": "He who has gone, so we but cherish his memory, abides with us, more potent, nay, more present than the living man.",
"author": "Antoine de Saint-Exupery"
},
{
"quote": "If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.",
"author": "Antoine de Saint-Exupery"
},
{
"quote": "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.",
"author": "Antoine de Saint-Exupery"
},
{
"quote": "Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward in the same direction.",
"author": "Antoine de Saint-Exupery"
},
{
"quote": "On a day of burial there is no perspective - for space itself is annihilated. Your dead friend is still a fragmentary being. The day you bury him is a day of chores and crowds, of hands false or true to be shaken, of the immediate cares of mourning. The dead friend will not really die until tomorrow, when silence is round you again. Then he will show himself complete, as he was - to tear himself away, as he was, from the substantial you. Only then will you cry out because of him who is leaving and whom you cannot detain.",
"author": "Antoine de Saint-Exupery"
},
{
"quote": "Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.",
"author": "Antoine de Saint-Exupery"
},
{
"quote": "When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.",
"author": "Antoine de Saint-Exupery"
},
{
"quote": "You are responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. You are responsible for your rose.",
"author": "Antoine de Saint-Exupery"
},
{
"quote": "The problem is no longer that with every pair of hands that comes into the world there comes a hungry stomach. Rather it is that, attached to those hands are sharp elbows.",
"author": "Paul A. Samuelson"
},
{
"quote": "Sufficient inside information can ruin anybody in Wall Street.",
"author": "William P. Hamilton"
},
{
"quote": "Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.",
"author": "George Sand"
},
{
"quote": "Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed.",
"author": "Carl Sandburg"
},
{
"quote": "I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.",
"author": "Carl Sandburg"
},
{
"quote": "Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.",
"author": "Carl Sandburg"
},
{
"quote": "Valor is a gift. Those having it never know for sure whether they have it till the test comes. And those having it in one test never know for sure if they will have it when the next test comes.",
"author": "Carl Sandburg"
},
{
"quote": "Man is a gregarious animal, and much more so in his mind than in his body. He may like to go alone for a walk, but he hates to stand alone in his opinions.",
"author": "George Santayana"
},
{
"quote": "Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.",
"author": "George Santayana"
},
{
"quote": "Each religion, by the help of more or less myth, which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.",
"author": "George Santayana"
},
{
"quote": "My atheism, like that of Spinoza, is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image, to be servants of their human interests.",
"author": "George Santayana"
},
{
"quote": "Sanity is madness put to good use.",
"author": "George Santayana"
},
{
"quote": "Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.",
"author": "George Santayana"
},
{
"quote": "The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.",
"author": "William Saroyan"
},
{
"quote": "What a people talk about means something. What they don't talk about means something.",
"author": "William Saroyan"
},
{
"quote": "It disturbs me no more to find men base, unjust, or selfish than to see apes mischievous, wolves savage, or the vulture ravenous.",
"author": "Jean-Paul Sartre"
},
{
"quote": "Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.",
"author": "Jean-Paul Sartre"
},
{
"quote": "Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.",
"author": "Jean-Paul Sartre"
},
{
"quote": "A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.",
"author": "Artur Schopenhauer"
},
{
"quote": "All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.",
"author": "Artur Schopenhauer"
},
{
"quote": "Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.",
"author": "Artur Schopenhauer"
},
{
"quote": "What a man is contributes much more to his happiness than what he has...What a man is in himself, what accompanies him when he is alone, what no one can give him or take away, is obviously more essential to him than everything he has in the way of possessions, or even what he may be in the eyes of the world.",
"author": "Artur Schopenhauer"
},
{
"quote": "Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.",
"author": "Artur Schopenhauer"
},
{
"quote": "If you want to discover your true opinion of anybody, observe the impression made on you by the first sight of a letter [caller ID] from him.",
"author": "Artur Schopenhauer"
},
{
"quote": "Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and none can tell whose sphere is the largest.",
"author": "Robert H. Schuller"
},
{
"quote": "Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.",
"author": "Robert H. Schuller"
},
{
"quote": "What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?",
"author": "Robert H. Schuller"
},
{
"quote": "My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?",
"author": "Charles Schulz"
},
{
"quote": "Times of innovation...are times of effort and sacrifice, of work for the future, while the harvest comes after. The harvest is gathered under recessive symptoms and with more anxiety that rejoicing. [During] recession, new methods are being copied and improved. Some industries expand into new investment opportunities created by the achievements of entrepreneurs; others respond by rationalization of their technological and commercial processes under pressure; much dead wood disappears.",
"author": "Joseph A. Schumpeter"
},
{
"quote": "However useful for many purposes, total output is a figment which would not exist at all, were there no statisticians to create it.",
"author": "Joseph A. Schumpeter"
},
{
"quote": "Motorcars travel faster than they otherwise would because they are provided with brakes.",
"author": "Joseph A. Schumpeter"
},
{
"quote": "This process of Creative Destruction is the essential fact about capitalism...The essential point to grasp is that in dealing with capitalism we are dealing with an evolutionary process.",
"author": "Joseph A. Schumpeter"
},
{
"quote": "Innovation is the outstanding fact in the economic history of capitalist society or in what is purely economic in that history, and also it is largely responsible for most of what we would at first sight attribute to other factors...Individual innovations imply, by virtue of their nature, a 'big' step and a 'big' change. A railroad through new country, i.e., country not yet served by railroads, as soon as it gets into working order upsets all conditions of location, all cost calculations, all production functions within its radius of influence; and hardly any 'ways of doing things' which have been optimal before remain so afterward.",
"author": "Joseph A. Schumpeter"
},
{
"quote": "A man can do only what he can do. But if he does that each day he can sleep at night and do it again the next day.",
"author": "Albert Schweitzer"
},
{
"quote": "Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.",
"author": "Albert Schweitzer"
},
{
"quote": "O! many a shaft, at random sent^nFinds mark the archer little meant!^nAnd many a word, at random spoken,^nMay soothe or wound a heart that's broken!",
"author": "Sir Walter Scott"
},
{
"quote": "We didn't inherit the Earth from our parents. We're borrowing it from our children.",
"author": "Chief Seattle"
},
{
"quote": "Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.",
"author": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca"
},
{
"quote": "A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.",
"author": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca"
},
{
"quote": "A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.",
"author": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca"
},
{
"quote": "As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters. Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.",
"author": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca"
},
{
"quote": "Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.",
"author": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca"
},
{
"quote": "Every man prefers belief to the exercise of judgment.",
"author": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca"
},
{
"quote": "He who is brave is free.",
"author": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca"
},
{
"quote": "If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.",
"author": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca"
},
{
"quote": "It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.",
"author": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca"
},
{
"quote": "It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.",
"author": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca"
},
{
"quote": "It's not because things are difficult that we dare not venture. It's because we dare not venture that they are difficult.",
"author": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca"
},
{
"quote": "No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it.",
"author": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca"
},
{
"quote": "The primary sign of a well-ordered mind is a man's ability to remain in one place and linger in his own company.",
"author": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca"
},
{
"quote": "There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.",
"author": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca"
},
{
"quote": "We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.",
"author": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca"
},
{
"quote": "We often want one thing and pray for another, not telling the truth even to the gods.",
"author": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca"
},
{
"quote": "We should every night call ourselves to an account: what infirmity have I mastered to-day? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.",
"author": "Lucius Annaeus Seneca"
},
{
"quote": "The difference between the men and the boys is, and always has been, that the boys want to be something, while the men want to do something.",
"author": "Eric Sevareid"
},
{
"quote": "My ventures are not in one bottom trusted,^nNor to one place; nor is my whole estate^nUpon the fortune of this present year^nTherefore, my merchandise makes me not sad.",
"author": "William Shakespeare"
},
{
"quote": "All the world's a stage,^nAnd all the men and women merely players.^nThey have their exits and their entrances,^nAnd one man in his time plays many parts,^nHis acts being seven ages.",
"author": "William Shakespeare"
},
{
"quote": "Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.",
"author": "William Shakespeare"
},
{
"quote": "Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.",
"author": "William Shakespeare"
},
{
"quote": "Forever, and forever, farewell, Cassius!^nIf we do meet again, why, we shall smile;^nIf not, why then this parting was well made.",
"author": "William Shakespeare"
},
{
"quote": "Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice.",
"author": "William Shakespeare"
},
{
"quote": "Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.",
"author": "William Shakespeare"
},
{
"quote": "Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.",
"author": "William Shakespeare"
},
{
"quote": "Suspicion, Discontent, and Strife, Come in for Dowrie with a Wife.",
"author": "William Shakespeare"
},
{
"quote": "The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.",
"author": "William Shakespeare"
},
{
"quote": "There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.",
"author": "William Shakespeare"
},
{
"quote": "This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.",
"author": "William Shakespeare"
},
{
"quote": "What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god!",
"author": "William Shakespeare"
},
{
"quote": "When sorrows come, they come not single spies,^nBut in battalions.",
"author": "William Shakespeare"
},
{
"quote": "Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world^nLike a Colossus; and we petty men^nWalk under his huge legs, and peep about^nTo find ourselves dishonourable graves.^nMen at some time are masters of their fates:^nThe fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,^nBut in ourselves, that we are underlings.",
"author": "William Shakespeare"
},
{
"quote": "You won't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking and getting well hammered yourself.",
"author": "George Bernard Shaw"
},
{
"quote": "All great truths begin as blasphemies.",
"author": "George Bernard Shaw"
},
{
"quote": "A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.",
"author": "George Bernard Shaw"
},
{
"quote": "You have a choice of trusting the natural stability of gold or the honesty and intelligence of members of the government, and with all due respect to these gentleman, I advise you as long as the capitalist system lasts, vote for gold.",
"author": "George Bernard Shaw"
},
{
"quote": "Democracy subsitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.",
"author": "George Bernard Shaw"
},
{
"quote": "This is the true joy of life - the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.",
"author": "George Bernard Shaw"
},
{
"quote": "The roulette table pays nobody except him that keeps it. Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette tables is unknown.",
"author": "George Bernard Shaw"
},
{
"quote": "A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.",
"author": "George Bernard Shaw"
},
{
"quote": "A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most.",
"author": "George Bernard Shaw"
},
{
"quote": "Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever when they are only wasting their time",
"author": "George Bernard Shaw"
},
{
"quote": "He who has never hoped can never despair.",
"author": "George Bernard Shaw"
},
{
"quote": "Life does not cease to be funny when people die; any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.",
"author": "George Bernard Shaw"
},
{
"quote": "Martyrdom is the only way a person can become famous without ability.",
"author": "George Bernard Shaw"
},
{
"quote": "Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.",
"author": "George Bernard Shaw"
},
{
"quote": "Success covers a multitude of blunders.",
"author": "George Bernard Shaw"
},
{
"quote": "The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact than a drunken man is happier than a sober one.",
"author": "George Bernard Shaw"
},
{
"quote": "The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.",
"author": "George Bernard Shaw"
},
{
"quote": "The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me.",
"author": "George Bernard Shaw"
},
{
"quote": "The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.",
"author": "George Bernard Shaw"
},
{
"quote": "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.",
"author": "George Bernard Shaw"
},
{
"quote": "There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats grapenuts on principle.",
"author": "George Bernard Shaw"
},
{
"quote": "When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.",
"author": "George Bernard Shaw"
},
{
"quote": "All compound things are subject to breaking up. Strive on with mindfulness.",
"author": "Gautama Siddhartha"
},
{
"quote": "\"This is my child, this is my wealth\": such thoughts are the preoccupations of fools. If we are unable to own even ourselves, why make such claims?",
"author": "Gautama Siddhartha"
},
{
"quote": "A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker. A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.",
"author": "Gautama Siddhartha"
},
{
"quote": "An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind.",
"author": "Gautama Siddhartha"
},
{
"quote": "Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.",
"author": "Gautama Siddhartha"
},
{
"quote": "Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.",
"author": "Gautama Siddhartha"
},
{
"quote": "He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.",
"author": "Gautama Siddhartha"
},
{
"quote": "He who never thinks of anything as 'mine' does not feel the lack of anything: he is never worried by a sense of loss.",
"author": "Gautama Siddhartha"
},
{
"quote": "Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.",
"author": "Gautama Siddhartha"
},
{
"quote": "I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.",
"author": "Gautama Siddhartha"
},
{
"quote": "I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done.",
"author": "Gautama Siddhartha"
},
{
"quote": "It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.",
"author": "Gautama Siddhartha"
},
{
"quote": "It is better to travel well than to arrive.",
"author": "Gautama Siddhartha"
},
{
"quote": "Let no sleep fall upon thy eyes till thou hast thrice reviewed the transactions of the past day. Where have I turned aside from rectitude? What have I been doing? What have I left undone, which I ought to have done? Begin thus from the first act, and proceed; and, in conclusion, at the ill which thou hast done, be troubled, and rejoice for the good.",
"author": "Gautama Siddhartha"
},
{
"quote": "Let us rise up and be thankful, for if we didn't learn a lot today, at least we learned a little, and if we didn't learn a little, at least we didn't get sick, and if we got sick, at least we didn't die; so, let us all be thankful.",
"author": "Gautama Siddhartha"
},
{
"quote": "Let yourself be open and life will be easier. A spoon of salt in a glass of water makes the water undrinkable. A spoon of salt in a lake is almost unnoticed.",
"author": "Gautama Siddhartha"
},
{
"quote": "Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.",
"author": "Gautama Siddhartha"
},
{
"quote": "The instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves.",
"author": "Gautama Siddhartha"
},
{
"quote": "The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.",
"author": "Gautama Siddhartha"
},
{
"quote": "The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.",
"author": "Gautama Siddhartha"
},
{
"quote": "There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.",
"author": "Gautama Siddhartha"
},
{
"quote": "Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.",
"author": "Gautama Siddhartha"
},
{
"quote": "Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.",
"author": "Gautama Siddhartha"
},
{
"quote": "We are formed and molded by our thoughts. Those whose minds are shaped by selfless thoughts give joy when they speak or act. Joy follows them like a shadow that never leaves them.",
"author": "Gautama Siddhartha"
},
{
"quote": "We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts, we make our world.",
"author": "Gautama Siddhartha"
},
{
"quote": "What we think, we become.",
"author": "Gautama Siddhartha"
},
{
"quote": "Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.",
"author": "Gautama Siddhartha"
},
{
"quote": "You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.",
"author": "Gautama Siddhartha"
},
{
"quote": "Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart, give yourself to it.",
"author": "Gautama Siddhartha"
},
{
"quote": "We have to believe in free will. We've got no choice.",
"author": "Isaac Bashevis Singer"
},
{
"quote": "According to the system of natural liberty, the sovereign has only three duties to attend to ... first, the duty of protecting the society from the violence and invasion of other independent societies; secondly, the duty of protecting, so far as possible, every member of the society from the injustice or oppression of every other member of it, or the duty of establishing an exact administration of justice, and thirdly, the duty of erecting and maintaining certain public works and certain public institutions, which it can never be for the interest of any individual, or small number of individuals, to erect and maintain.",
"author": "Adam Smith"
},
{
"quote": "Every individual...generally, indeed, neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it...by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value, he intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention...By pursuing his own interest he frequently promotes that of the society more effectually than when he really intends to promote it.",
"author": "Adam Smith"
},
{
"quote": "How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it.",
"author": "Adam Smith"
},
{
"quote": "It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our necessities but of their advantages.",
"author": "Adam Smith"
},
{
"quote": "It is the highest impertinence and presumption, therefore, in kings and ministers, to pretend to watch over the economy of private people, and to restrain their expense... They are themselves always, and without any exception, the greatest spendthrifts in the society. Let them look well after their own expense, and they may safely trust private people with theirs. If their own extravagance does not ruin the state, that of their subjects never will.",
"author": "Adam Smith"
},
{
"quote": "Labour was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.",
"author": "Adam Smith"
},
{
"quote": "People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices. It is impossible indeed to prevent such meetings, by any law which either could be executed, or would be consistent with liberty and justice. But though the law cannot hinder people of the same trade from sometimes assembling together, it ought to do nothing to facilitate such assemblies; much less to render them necessary.",
"author": "Adam Smith"
},
{
"quote": "Power and riches... keep off the summer shower, not the winter storm... leave [their possessor] always as much, and sometimes more exposed than before, to anxiety, to fear, and to sorrow; to diseases, to danger, and to death.",
"author": "Adam Smith"
},
{
"quote": "Such is the delicacy of man alone, that no object is produced to his liking. He finds that in everything there is need for improvement.... The whole industry of human life is employed not in procuring the supply of our three humble necessities, food, clothes and lodging, but in procuring the conveniences of it according to the nicety and delicacy of our tastes.",
"author": "Adam Smith"
},
{
"quote": "The natural effort of every individual to better his own condition ... is so powerful, that it is alone, and without any assistance, not only capable of carrying on the society to wealth and prosperity, but of surmounting a hundred impertinent obstructions with which the folly of human laws too often encumbers its operations.",
"author": "Adam Smith"
},
{
"quote": "The uniform, constant and uninterrupted effort of every man to better his condition, the principle from which public and national, as well as private opulence is originally derived, is frequently powerful enough to maintain the natural progress of things toward improvement, in spite both of the extravagance of government, and of the greatest errors of administration. Like the unknown principle of animal life, it frequently restores health and vigour to the constitution, in spite, not only of the disease, but of the absurd prescriptions of the doctor.",
"author": "Adam Smith"
},
{
"quote": "There is many an honest Englishman, who, in his private station, would be more seriously disturbed by the loss of a guinea, than by the national loss of Minorca, who yet, had it been in his power to defend that fortress, would have sacrificed his life a thousand times rather than, through his fault, have let it fall into the hands of the enemy.",
"author": "Adam Smith"
},
{
"quote": "This division of labour, from which so many advantages are derived...is the necessary, though very slow and gradual consequence of a certain propensity in human nature which has in view no such extensive utility; the propensity to truck, barter, and exchange one thing for another...It is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals, which seem to know neither this nor any other species of contracts...Nobody ever saw a dog make a fair and deliberate exchange of one bone for another with another dog. Nobody ever saw one animal by its gestures and natural cries signify to another, this is mine, that yours; I am willing to give this for that.",
"author": "Adam Smith"
},
{
"quote": "With the great part of rich people, the chief employment of riches consists in the parade of riches.",
"author": "Adam Smith"
},
{
"quote": "[The man of system] seems to imagine that he can arrange the different members of a great society with as much ease as the hand arranges the different pieces upon a chess-board; he does not consider that the pieces upon the chess-board have no other principle of motion besides that which the hand impresses upon them; but that, in the great chess-board of human society, every single pieces has a principle of motion of its own, altogether different from that which the legislator might choose to impress upon it.",
"author": "Adam Smith"
},
{
"quote": "If he is infinitely good, what reason should we have to fear him? If he is infinitely wise, why should we have doubts concerning our future? If he knows all, why warn him of our needs and fatigue him with our prayers? If he is everywhere, why erect temples to him? If he is just, why fear that he will punish the creatures that he has filled with weaknesses? If grace does everything for them, what reason would he have for recompensing them? If he is all-powerful, how offend him, how resist him? If he is reasonable, how can he be angry at the blind, to whom he has given the liberty of being unreasonable? If he is immovable, by what right do we pretend to make him change his decrees? If he is inconceivable, why occupy ourselves with him? If he has spoken, why is the universe not convinced? If the knowledge of a God is the most necessary, why is it not the most evident and the clearest?",
"author": "Percy Bysshe Shelley"
},
{
"quote": "It has always puzzled me that so many people have taken it for granted that God favors those who believe in him. Isn't it possible that the actual God is a scientific God who has little patience with beliefs founded on faith rather than evidence?",
"author": "Raymond Smullyan"
},
{
"quote": "In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.",
"author": "Jan L.A. van de Snepscheut"
},
{
"quote": "Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings?",
"author": "Diogenes"
},
{
"quote": "Why then do you live, if you do not care to live well?\"",
"author": "Diogenes"
},
{
"quote": "Beware the barrenness of a busy life.",
"author": "Socrates"
},
{
"quote": "Let him that would move the world first move himself.",
"author": "Socrates"
},
{
"quote": "My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.",
"author": "Socrates"
},
{
"quote": "To him who is in fear everything rustles.",
"author": "Socrates"
},
{
"quote": "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is a habit.",
"author": "Socrates"
},
{
"quote": "The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.",
"author": "Herbert Spencer"
},
{
"quote": "When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.",
"author": "Herbert Spencer"
},
{
"quote": "The ultimate effect of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.",
"author": "Herbert Spencer"
},
{
"quote": "What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence, a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it.",
"author": "Herbert Simon"
},
{
"quote": "The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.",
"author": "Baruch Spinoza"
},
{
"quote": "Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself. ",
"author": "Baruch Spinoza"
},
{
"quote": "Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.",
"author": "Baruch Spinoza"
},
{
"quote": "Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.",
"author": "Baruch Spinoza"
},
{
"quote": "I call him free who is led solely by reason.",
"author": "Baruch Spinoza"
},
{
"quote": "I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.",
"author": "Baruch Spinoza"
},
{
"quote": "If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.",
"author": "Baruch Spinoza"
},
{
"quote": "The main purpose of the stock market is to make fools of as many men as possible.",
"author": "Bernard Baruch"
},
{
"quote": "There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.",
"author": "Gertrude Stein"
},
{
"quote": "I don't know where speculation got a bad name, since I know of no forward leap which was not fathered by speculation.",
"author": "John Steinbeck"
},
{
"quote": "The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.",
"author": "John Steinbeck"
},
{
"quote": "In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.",
"author": "John Steinbeck"
},
{
"quote": "Man is the only kind of varmint sets his own trap, baits it, then steps in it.",
"author": "John Steinbeck"
},
{
"quote": "Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard.",
"author": "John Steinbeck"
},
{
"quote": "I have yet to hear a man ask for advice on how to combine marriage and a career.",
"author": "Gloria Steinem"
},
{
"quote": "Logic is in the eye of the logician.",
"author": "Gloria Steinem"
},
{
"quote": "The truth will set you free. But first, it will piss you off.",
"author": "Gloria Steinem"
},
{
"quote": "Good pitching will always stop good hitting and vice-versa.",
"author": "Casey Stengel"
},
{
"quote": "The Yankees don't pay me to win every day, just two out of three.",
"author": "Casey Stengel"
},
{
"quote": "When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.",
"author": "Casey Stengel"
},
{
"quote": "You have to go broke three times to learn how to make a living.",
"author": "Casey Stengel"
},
{
"quote": "A free society is one where it's safe to be unpopular.",
"author": "Adlai E. Stevenson"
},
{
"quote": "A hungry man is not a free man.",
"author": "Adlai E. Stevenson"
},
{
"quote": "An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics.",
"author": "Adlai E. Stevenson"
},
{
"quote": "Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.",
"author": "Adlai E. Stevenson"
},
{
"quote": "In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.",
"author": "Adlai E. Stevenson"
},
{
"quote": "The elephant has a thick skin, a head full of ivory, and as everyone who has seen a circus parade knows, proceeds best by grasping the tail of its predecessor.",
"author": "Adlai E. Stevenson"
},
{
"quote": "There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.",
"author": "Adlai E. Stevenson"
},
{
"quote": "It's one of nature's ways that we often feel closer to distant generations than to the generation immediately preceding us.",
"author": "Igor Stravinsky"
},
{
"quote": "Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.",
"author": "Igor Stravinsky"
},
{
"quote": "My childhood was a period of waiting for the moment when I could send everyone and everything connected with it to hell.",
"author": "Igor Stravinsky"
},
{
"quote": "We must accept life for what it actually is - a challenge to our quality without which we should never know of what stuff we are made, or grow to our full stature.",
"author": "Robert Louis Stevenson"
},
{
"quote": "Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.",
"author": "Robert Louis Stevenson"
},
{
"quote": "He who knoweth the precepts by heart, but faileth to practice them, is like unto one who lighteth a lamp and then shutteth his eyes.",
"author": "Robert Louis Stevenson"
},
{
"quote": "Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm.",
"author": "Robert Louis Stevenson"
},
{
"quote": "Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things.",
"author": "Robert Louis Stevenson"
},
{
"quote": "To be what we are, and to become what we are capable of becoming, is the only end of life.",
"author": "Robert Louis Stevenson"
},
{
"quote": "For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.",
"author": "Sun Tzu"
},
{
"quote": "Opportunities multiply as they are seized.",
"author": "Sun Tzu"
},
{
"quote": "The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.",
"author": "Sun Tzu"
},
{
"quote": "Thus it is that in war the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory.",
"author": "Sun Tzu"
},
{
"quote": "To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.",
"author": "Sun Tzu"
},
{
"quote": "All warfare is based on deception.",
"author": "Sun Tzu"
},
{
"quote": "If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.",
"author": "Sun Tzu"
},
{
"quote": "The opportunity to secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.",
"author": "Sun Tzu"
},
{
"quote": "There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare.",
"author": "Sun Tzu"
},
{
"quote": "For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.",
"author": "Jonathan Swift"
},
{
"quote": "It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.",
"author": "Jonathan Swift"
},
{
"quote": "The power of fortune is confessed only by the miserable, for the happy impute all their success to prudence or merit.",
"author": "Jonathan Swift"
},
{
"quote": "The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.",
"author": "Jonathan Swift"
},
{
"quote": "We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.",
"author": "Jonathan Swift"
},
{
"quote": "Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.",
"author": "Jonathan Swift"
},
{
"quote": "Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.",
"author": "Jonathan Swift"
},
{
"quote": "Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.",
"author": "Jonathan Swift"
},
{
"quote": "Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.",
"author": "Jonathan Swift"
},
{
"quote": "I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.",
"author": "Jonathan Swift"
},
{
"quote": "When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.",
"author": "Jonathan Swift"
},
{
"quote": "Whatever you can lose, reckon of no account.",
"author": "Publilius Syrus"
},
{
"quote": "A small debt produced a debtor; a large one, an enemy.",
"author": "Publilius Syrus"
},
{
"quote": "Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.",
"author": "Publilius Syrus"
},
{
"quote": "To show resentment at a reproach is to show that one may have deserved it.",
"author": "Publilius Syrus"
},
{
"quote": "The more corrupt the republic, the more numerous the laws.",
"author": "Tacitus"
},
{
"quote": "A shocking crime was committed on the unscrupulous initiative of few individuals, with the blessing of more, and amid the passive acquiescence of all.",
"author": "Tacitus"
},
{
"quote": "To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.",
"author": "Tacitus"
},
{
"quote": "To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.",
"author": "Tacitus"
},
{
"quote": "Valor is of no service, chance rules all, and the bravest often fall by the hands of cowards.",
"author": "Tacitus"
},
{
"quote": "A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.",
"author": "Rabindranath Tagore"
},
{
"quote": "Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.",
"author": "Rabindranath Tagore"
},
{
"quote": "There are two kinds of adventurers: those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won't.",
"author": "Rabindranath Tagore"
},
{
"quote": "When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.",
"author": "Sara Teasdale"
},
{
"quote": "I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish He didn't trust me so much.",
"author": "Mother Teresa"
},
{
"quote": "If you judge people, you have no time to love them.",
"author": "Mother Teresa"
},
{
"quote": "It is easy to love the people far away. It is not always easy to love those close to us. It is easier to give a cup of rice to relieve hunger than to relieve the loneliness and pain of someone unloved in our own home. Bring love into your home for this is where our love for each other must start.",
"author": "Mother Teresa"
},
{
"quote": "It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.",
"author": "Mother Teresa"
},
{
"quote": "Peace begins with a smile.",
"author": "Mother Teresa"
},
{
"quote": "Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.",
"author": "Mother Teresa"
},
{
"quote": "We are all pencils in the hand of God.",
"author": "Mother Teresa"
},
{
"quote": "We cannot all do great things, but we can do small things with great love.",
"author": "Mother Teresa"
},
{
"quote": "Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment. They farm fungi, raise aphids as livestock, launch armies into war, use chemical sprays to alarm and confuse enemies, capture slaves, engage in child labor, exchange information ceaselessly. They do everything but watch television.",
"author": "Lewis Thomas"
},
{
"quote": "Somebody's boring me. I think it's me.",
"author": "Dylan Thomas"
},
{
"quote": "I hold a beast, an angel and a madman in me, and my enquiry is as to their working, and my problem is their subjugation and victory, downthrow and upheaval, and my effort is their self-expression.",
"author": "Dylan Thomas"
},
{
"quote": "Gain a modest reputation for being unreliable and you will never be asked to do a thing.",
"author": "Paul Theroux"
},
{
"quote": "We are most of us very lonely in this world; you who have any who love you, cling to them and thank God.",
"author": "William Makepeace Thackeray"
},
{
"quote": "'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.",
"author": "William Makepeace Thackeray"
},
{
"quote": "It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.",
"author": "William Makepeace Thackeray"
},
{
"quote": "Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.",
"author": "William Makepeace Thackeray"
},
{
"quote": "The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.",
"author": "William Makepeace Thackeray"
},
{
"quote": "There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.",
"author": "William Makepeace Thackeray"
},
{
"quote": "Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.",
"author": "William Makepeace Thackeray"
},
{
"quote": "Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.",
"author": "William Makepeace Thackeray"
},
{
"quote": "Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.",
"author": "Margaret Thatcher"
},
{
"quote": "Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.",
"author": "Margaret Thatcher"
},
{
"quote": "One only gets to the top rung on the ladder by steadily climbing up one at a time, and suddenly all sorts of powers, all sorts of abilities which you thought never belonged to you - suddenly become within your own possibility and you think, \"Well, I'll have a go, too.\"",
"author": "Margaret Thatcher"
},
{
"quote": "Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming \"Wow! What a Ride!",
"author": "Hunter S. Thompson"
},
{
"quote": "The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.",
"author": "Hunter S. Thompson"
},
{
"quote": "There's no such thing as paranoia. The truth is, your worst fears always come true.",
"author": "Hunter S. Thompson"
},
{
"quote": "America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.",
"author": "Hunter S. Thompson"
},
{
"quote": "For every moment of triumph, for every instance of beauty, many souls must be trampled.",
"author": "Hunter S. Thompson"
},
{
"quote": "I wouldn't recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they've always worked for me.",
"author": "Hunter S. Thompson"
},
{
"quote": "Money is not required to buy one necessity of the soul.",
"author": "Henry David Thoreau"
},
{
"quote": "It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?",
"author": "Henry David Thoreau"
},
{
"quote": "Only when we forget what we were taught do we start to have real knowledge.",
"author": "Henry David Thoreau"
},
{
"quote": "The fault-finder will find faults even in paradise.",
"author": "Henry David Thoreau"
},
{
"quote": "It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.",
"author": "Henry David Thoreau"
},
{
"quote": "A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.",
"author": "Henry David Thoreau"
},
{
"quote": "As for Doing-good, that is one of the professions which are full. Moreover, I have tried it fairly, and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution...But I would not stand between any man and his genius; and to him who does this work, which I decline, with his whole heart and soul and life, I would say, Persevere, even if the world call it doing evil, as it is most likely they will.",
"author": "Henry David Thoreau"
},
{
"quote": "As for the Pyramids, there is nothing to wonder at in them so much as the fact that so many men could be found degraded enough to spend their lives constructing a tomb for some ambitious booby, whom it would have been wiser and manlier to have drowned in the Nile, and then given his body to the dogs.",
"author": "Henry David Thoreau"
},
{
"quote": "Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.",
"author": "Henry David Thoreau"
},
{
"quote": "I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.",
"author": "Henry David Thoreau"
},
{
"quote": "I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.",
"author": "Henry David Thoreau"
},
{
"quote": "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.",
"author": "Henry David Thoreau"
},
{
"quote": "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.",
"author": "Henry David Thoreau"
},
{
"quote": "In the long run, men hit only what they aim at. Therefore, though they should fail immediately, they had better aim at something high.",
"author": "Henry David Thoreau"
},
{
"quote": "Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.",
"author": "Henry David Thoreau"
},
{
"quote": "Perfect sincerity and transparency make a great part of beauty, as in dewdrops, lakes, and diamonds.",
"author": "Henry David Thoreau"
},
{
"quote": "Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. What a man thinks of himself, that is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate.",
"author": "Henry David Thoreau"
},
{
"quote": "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation",
"author": "Henry David Thoreau"
},
{
"quote": "There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one that is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve.",
"author": "Henry David Thoreau"
},
{
"quote": "To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust.",
"author": "Henry David Thoreau"
},
{
"quote": "Trade curses every thing it handles; and though you trade in messages from heaven, the whole curse of trade attaches to the business.",
"author": "Henry David Thoreau"
},
{
"quote": "What is the use of a fine house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?",
"author": "Henry David Thoreau"
},
{
"quote": "What men call social virtues, good fellowship, is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter, which lie close together to keep each other warm. It brings men together in crowds and mobs in bar-rooms and elsewhere, but it does not deserve the name of virtue.",
"author": "Henry David Thoreau"
},
{
"quote": "It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.",
"author": "James Thurber"
},
{
"quote": "Nowadays men lead lives of noisy desperation.",
"author": "James Thurber"
},
{
"quote": "There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.",
"author": "James Thurber"
},
{
"quote": "You can fool too many of the people too much of the time.",
"author": "James Thurber"
},
{
"quote": "Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.",
"author": "Alexis de Tocqueville"
},
{
"quote": "There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle.",
"author": "Alexis de Tocqueville"
},
{
"quote": "We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects.",
"author": "Alexis de Tocqueville"
},
{
"quote": "Profits, like sausages... are esteemed most by those who know least about what goes into them.",
"author": "Alvin Toffler"
},
{
"quote": "You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.",
"author": "Alvin Toffler"
},
{
"quote": "Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life.",
"author": "Alvin Toffler"
},
{
"quote": "It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.",
"author": "J. R. R. R. Tolkien"
},
{
"quote": "Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many live that deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.",
"author": "J. R. R. R. Tolkien"
},
{
"quote": "All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.",
"author": "J. R. R. R. Tolkien"
},
{
"quote": "It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.",
"author": "J. R. R. R. Tolkien"
},
{
"quote": "Not all those who wander are lost.",
"author": "J. R. R. R. Tolkien"
},
{
"quote": "Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.",
"author": "Leo Tolstoy"
},
{
"quote": "If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state.",
"author": "Leo Tolstoy"
},
{
"quote": "It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.",
"author": "Leo Tolstoy"
},
{
"quote": "It seldom happens that a man changes his life through his habitual reasoning. No matter how fully he may sense the new plans and aims revealed to him by reason, he continues to plod along in old paths until his life becomes frustrating and unbearable - he finally makes the change only when his usual life can no longer be tolerated.",
"author": "Leo Tolstoy"
},
{
"quote": "Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility.",
"author": "G. M. Trevelyan"
},
{
"quote": "A little man often casts a long shadow.",
"author": "G. M. Trevelyan"
},
{
"quote": "If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in a library?",
"author": "Lily Tomlin"
},
{
"quote": "Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.",
"author": "Lily Tomlin"
},
{
"quote": "Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it.",
"author": "Lily Tomlin"
},
{
"quote": "The problem with winning the rat race is you're still a rat.",
"author": "Lily Tomlin"
},
{
"quote": "We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.",
"author": "Lily Tomlin"
},
{
"quote": "When we talk to God we are praying; when God talks to us, we are schizophrenic.",
"author": "Lily Tomlin"
},
{
"quote": "It's my belief we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.",
"author": "Lily Tomlin"
},
{
"quote": "We are all in this together, by ourselves.",
"author": "Lily Tomlin"
},
{
"quote": "The United States has got some of the dumbest people in the world. I want you to know that we know that.",
"author": "Ted Turner"
},
{
"quote": "The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.",
"author": "William Butler Yeats"
},
{
"quote": "Never argue with stupid people, they will drag your down to their level and then beat you with experience.",
"author": "Mark Twain"
},
{
"quote": "Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.",
"author": "Mark Twain"
},
{
"quote": "I was sorry to hear my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying off. Chaucer is dead, so is Milton, so is Shakespeare, and I am not feeling very well myself.",
"author": "Mark Twain"
},
{
"quote": "Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.",
"author": "Mark Twain"
},
{
"quote": "If you do not read the newspaper, you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.",
"author": "Mark Twain"
},
{
"quote": "Religion was invented when the first con man met the first fool.",
"author": "Mark Twain"
},
{
"quote": "I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.",
"author": "Mark Twain"
},
{
"quote": "Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.",
"author": "Mark Twain"
},
{
"quote": "Do the right thing, it will gratify some people and greatly astonish the rest.",
"author": "Mark Twain"
},
{
"quote": "The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.",
"author": "Mark Twain"
},
{
"quote": "Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.",
"author": "Mark Twain"
},
{
"quote": "A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.",
"author": "Mark Twain"
},
{
"quote": "A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.",
"author": "Mark Twain"
},
{
"quote": "Civilization is the limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.",
"author": "Mark Twain"
},
{
"quote": "Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.",
"author": "Mark Twain"
},
{
"quote": "I never let schooling interfere with my education.",
"author": "Mark Twain"
},
{
"quote": "I have no color prejudices nor caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. All I care to know is that a man is a human being, and that is enough for me; he can't be any worse.",
"author": "Mark Twain"
},
{
"quote": "If you take a starving dog and make him sleek and prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between man and dog.",
"author": "Mark Twain"
},
{
"quote": "In religion and politics people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing.",
"author": "Mark Twain"
},
{
"quote": "It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.",
"author": "Mark Twain"
},
{
"quote": "Only a government that is rich and safe can afford to be a democracy, for democracy is the most expensive and nefarious kind of government ever heard of on earth.",
"author": "Mark Twain"
},
{
"quote": "We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read.",
"author": "Mark Twain"
},
{
"quote": "When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.",
"author": "Mark Twain"
},
{
"quote": "The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly everybody will side with you when you are in the right.",
"author": "Mark Twain"
},
{
"quote": "Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.",
"author": "Vincent Van Gogh"
},
{
"quote": "One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.",
"author": "Vincent Van Gogh"
},
{
"quote": "Even if I am in love with you, all the same what's it to you?",
"author": "Suzanne Vega"
},
{
"quote": "Looks are nothing: give me ten minutes to explain away my ugliness and I'll bed the Queen of France",
"author": "Voltaire"
},
{
"quote": "To learn who rules over you, simply find out whom you are not allowed to criticize.",
"author": "Voltaire"
},
{
"quote": "The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it.",
"author": "Voltaire"
},
{
"quote": "Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.",
"author": "Voltaire"
},
{
"quote": "Anything too stupid to be said is sung.",
"author": "Voltaire"
},
{
"quote": "It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind.",
"author": "Voltaire"
},
{
"quote": "\"All events are interconnected in this best of all possible worlds; for, had you not been kicked out of a fine castle, by hard kicks in your backside for love of Mademoiselle Cun&eacute;gonde, had you not been clapped into the Inquisition, had you not wandered America on foot, had you not run your sword through the Baron, and had you not lost all your sheep from the land of Eldorado, you would not have been here to eat candied citrons and pistachios.\"^n\"That's well said,\" replied Candide, \"but we must cultivate our garden.\"",
"author": "Voltaire"
},
{
"quote": "Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.",
"author": "Voltaire"
},
{
"quote": "Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiculous one.",
"author": "Voltaire"
},
{
"quote": "He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.",
"author": "Voltaire"
},
{
"quote": "Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.",
"author": "Voltaire"
},
{
"quote": "The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.",
"author": "Voltaire"
},
{
"quote": "They only live who dare.",
"author": "Voltaire"
},
{
"quote": "Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too.",
"author": "Voltaire"
},
{
"quote": "To believe in God is impossible. Not to believe in Him is absurd.",
"author": "Voltaire"
},
{
"quote": "Now, my good man, this is no time for making enemies.",
"author": "Voltaire"
},
{
"quote": "It is dangerous to be right on matters on which the established authorities are wrong.",
"author": "Voltaire"
},
{
"quote": "Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.",
"author": "George Washington"
},
{
"quote": "Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.",
"author": "George Washington"
},
{
"quote": "If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good.",
"author": "Thomas J. Watson"
},
{
"quote": "Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself.",
"author": "Thomas J. Watson"
},
{
"quote": "I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.",
"author": "Orson Welles"
},
{
"quote": "In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed - they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, 500 years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.",
"author": "Orson Welles"
},
{
"quote": "It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.",
"author": "Orson Welles"
},
{
"quote": "Good sex is like good bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand.",
"author": "Mae West"
},
{
"quote": "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.",
"author": "Mae West"
},
{
"quote": "You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.",
"author": "Mae West"
},
{
"quote": "I was Snow White, but I drifted.",
"author": "Mae West"
},
{
"quote": "Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.",
"author": "E. B. White"
},
{
"quote": "I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.",
"author": "E. B. White"
},
{
"quote": "Television hangs on the questionable theory that whatever happens anywhere should be sensed everywhere. If everyone is going to be able to see everything, in the long run all sights may lose whatever rarity value they once possessed, and it may well turn out that people, being able to see and hear practically everything, will be specially interested in almost nothing.",
"author": "E. B. White"
},
{
"quote": "Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half the people are right more than half of the time.",
"author": "E. B. White"
},
{
"quote": "Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.",
"author": "Walt Whitman"
},
{
"quote": "The dirtiest book of all is the expurgated book.",
"author": "Walt Whitman"
},
{
"quote": "Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.",
"author": "Oscar Wilde"
},
{
"quote": "Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.",
"author": "Oscar Wilde"
},
{
"quote": "Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.",
"author": "Oscar Wilde"
},
{
"quote": "Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.",
"author": "Oscar Wilde"
},
{
"quote": "I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.",
"author": "Oscar Wilde"
},
{
"quote": "A gentleman is never unintentionally rude.",
"author": "Oscar Wilde"
},
{
"quote": "It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances.",
"author": "Oscar Wilde"
},
{
"quote": "Only the shallow know themselves.",
"author": "Oscar Wilde"
},
{
"quote": "Punctuality is the thief of time.",
"author": "Oscar Wilde"
},
{
"quote": "He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.",
"author": "Oscar Wilde"
},
{
"quote": "Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever.",
"author": "Oscar Wilde"
},
{
"quote": "Action is the last resource of those who don't know how to dream.",
"author": "Oscar Wilde"
},
{
"quote": "A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.",
"author": "Oscar Wilde"
},
{
"quote": "Investment banker: He thinks morals are paintings on walls, and scruples are money in Russia.",
"author": "Billy Wilder"
},
{
"quote": "You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.",
"author": "Billy Wilder"
},
{
"quote": "An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.",
"author": "Billy Wilder"
},
{
"quote": "If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.",
"author": "Billy Wilder"
},
{
"quote": "Business underlies everything in our national life, including our spiritual life. Witness the fact that in the Lord's Prayer the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.",
"author": "Woodrow Wilson"
},
{
"quote": "I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking...Never murder a man who is committing suicide.",
"author": "Woodrow Wilson"
},
{
"quote": "If you want to make enemies, try to change something.",
"author": "Woodrow Wilson"
},
{
"quote": "Ambition has but one reward for all:^nA little power, a little transient fame;^nA grave to rest in, and a fading name!",
"author": "William Winter"
},
{
"quote": "Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.",
"author": "Ludwig Wittgenstein"
},
{
"quote": "If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done.",
"author": "Ludwig Wittgenstein"
},
{
"quote": "Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.",
"author": "Ludwig Wittgenstein"
},
{
"quote": "I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.",
"author": "Ludwig Wittgenstein"
},
{
"quote": "The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.",
"author": "Ludwig Wittgenstein"
},
{
"quote": "I believe in God, only I spell it n-a-t-u-r-e.",
"author": "Frank Lloyd Wright"
},
{
"quote": "An expert is a man who has stopped thinking - he knows!",
"author": "Frank Lloyd Wright"
},
{
"quote": "Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.",
"author": "Frank Lloyd Wright"
},
{
"quote": "No stream rises higher than its source. What ever man might build could never express or reflect more than he was. He could record neither more nor less than he had learned of life when the buildings were built.",
"author": "Frank Lloyd Wright"
},
{
"quote": "The architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the term... if he can't see at least ten years ahead don't call him an architect.",
"author": "Frank Lloyd Wright"
},
{
"quote": "O Great Spirit, Whose voice I hear in the winds,^nand whose breath gives life to all the world,^nhear me, I come before you, one of your children.^nI am small and weak. I need your strength and wisdom.^nLet me walk in beauty and make my eyes^never behold the red and purple sunset.^nMake my hands respect the things you have made,^nmy ears sharp to hear your voice.^nMake me wise so that I may know the things you^nhave taught my people,^nthe lesson you have hidden in every leaf and rock.^nI seek strength not to be superior to my brothers,^nbut to be able to fight my greatest enemy, myself.^nMake me ever ready to come to you with clean hands and straight eyes,^nso when life fades as a fading sunset,^nmy spirit may come to you without shame.",
"author": "Chief YellowHawk"
},
{
"quote": "The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.",
"author": "Frank Zappa"
},
{
"quote": "Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read.",
"author": "Frank Zappa"
},
{
"quote": "Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.",
"author": "Frank Zappa"
},
{
"quote": "Gotham City. Always brings a smile to my face...Decent people shouldn't live here. They'd be happier somewhere else.",
"author": "The Joker"
},
{
"quote": "Too bad all the people who know how to run this country are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair.",
"author": "George Burns"
},
{
"quote": "It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do.",
"author": "Jerome K. Jerome"
},
{
"quote": "Love is the child of illusion and the parent of disillusion.",
"author": "Miguel de Unamuno"
},
{
"quote": "A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.",
"author": "Miguel de Unamuno"
},
{
"quote": "Anybody with ability can play in the big leagues. But to be able to trick people year in and year out the way I did, I think that was a much greater feat.",
"author": "Bob Uecker"
},
{
"quote": "In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.",
"author": "Peter Ustinov"
},
{
"quote": "The three chief virtues of a programmer are: Laziness, Impatience and Hubris",
"author": "Larry Wall"
},
{
"quote": "Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.",
"author": "Larry Wall"
},
{
"quote": "Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.",
"author": "Larry Wall"
},
{
"quote": "Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.",
"author": "Larry Wall"
},
{
"quote": "It's the movies that have really been running things in America ever since they were invented. They show you what to do, how to do it, when to do it, how to feel about it, and how to show how you feel about it. Everybody has their own America, and then they have the pieces of a fantasy America that they think is out there but they can't see.",
"author": "Andy Warhol"
},
{
"quote": "I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.",
"author": "Booker T. Washington"
},
{
"quote": "One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.",
"author": "Booker T. Washington"
},
{
"quote": "Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.",
"author": "Earl Warren"
},
{
"quote": "If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.",
"author": "Gerald Weinberg"
},
{
"quote": "The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong--but that is the way to bet.",
"author": "Damon Runyon"
},
{
"quote": "Feelings are not supposed to be logical. Dangerous is the man who has rationalized his emotions.",
"author": "David Borenstein"
},
{
"quote": "'Tis nobler to lose honor to save the lives of men than it is to gain honor by taking them.",
"author": "David Borenstein"
},
{
"quote": "There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.",
"author": "Emile Zola"
},
{
"quote": "You will get all you want in life if you help enough other people get what they want.",
"author": "Zig Ziglar"
},
{
"quote": "Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.",
"author": "Zig Ziglar"
},
{
"quote": "You should examine yourself daily. If you find faults, you should correct them. When you find none, you should look harder.",
"author": "Xi Zhi"
},
{
"quote": "Large skepticism leads to large understanding. Small skepticism leads to small understanding. No skepticism leads to no understanding.",
"author": "Xi Zhi"
},
{
"quote": "When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set.",
"author": "Lin Yutang"
},
{
"quote": "Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice.",
"author": "Lin Yutang"
},
{
"quote": "If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.",
"author": "Lin Yutang"
},
{
"quote": "Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.",
"author": "Lin Yutang"
},
{
"quote": "Some people ask the secret of our long marriage. We take time to go to a restaurant two times a week. A little candlelight, dinner, soft music and dancing. She goes Tuesdays, I go Fridays.",
"author": "Henny Youngman"
},
{
"quote": "Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you really want.",
"author": "Margaret Young"
},
{
"quote": "Every time I fill a vacant office, I make ten malcontents and one ingrate.",
"author": "Louis XIV"
},
{
"quote": "The true test of a leader is whether his followers will adhere to his cause from their own volition, enduring the most arduous hardships without being forced to do so, and remaining steadfast in the moments of greatest peril.",
"author": "Xenophon"
},
{
"quote": "Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterwards.",
"author": "Saint Francis Xavier"
},
{
"quote": "Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.",
"author": "Herbert George Wells"
},
{
"quote": "Beauty is in the heart of the beholder.",
"author": "Herbert George Wells"
},
{
"quote": "Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.",
"author": "Herbert George Wells"
},
{
"quote": "Our sun is one of 100 billion stars in our galaxy. Our galaxy is one of the billions of galaxies populating the universe. It would be the height of presumption to think that we are the only living thing within that enormous immensity.",
"author": "Wernher von Braun"
},
{
"quote": "One test result is worth one thousand expert opinions",
"author": "Wernher von Braun"
},
{
"quote": "Our two greatest problems are gravity and paper work. We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is over whelming.",
"author": "Wernher von Braun"
},
{
"quote": "The history of both Europe and Asia shows beyond a doubt the futility of trying to turn a tiger into a kitten by giving it a dish of cream.",
"author": "V. K. Wellington Koo"
},
{
"quote": "Me fail English? That's unpossible",
"author": "Ralph Wiggam"
},
{
"quote": "There are two ways of spreading light: to be a candle or the mirror that reflects it.",
"author": "Edith Wharton"
},
{
"quote": "Gather round while I sing you of Wernher von Braun^nA man whose allegiance^nIs ruled by expedience^nCall him a Nazi, he won't even frown^n\"Ha, Nazi schmazi,\" says Wernher von Braun^n^nDon't say that he's hypocritical^nSay rather that he's apolitical^n\"Once the rockets are up, who cares where they come down^nThat's not my department,\" says Wernher von Braun^n^nSome have harsh words for this man of renown^nBut some think our attitude^nShould be one of gratitude^nLike the widows and cripples in old London town^nWho owe their large pensions to Wernher von Braun^n^nYou too may be a big hero^nOnce you've learned to count backwards to zero^n\"In German oder English I know how to count down^nUnd I'm learning Chinese,\" says Wernher von Braun",
"author": "Tom Lehrer"
},
{
"quote": "You gotta know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, ^nKnow when to walk away, know when to run. ^nYou never count your money, while you're sittin' at the table, ^nThere'll be time enough for countin', when the dealing's done.",
"author": "Kenny Rogers"
},
{
"quote": "If the brain were simple enough for us to understand it, we would be too simple to understand it.",
"author": "Ken Hill"
},
{
"quote": "Let us suppose that an ichthyologist is exploring the life of the ocean. He casts a net into the water and brings up a fishy assortment. Surveying his catch, he proceeds in the usual manner of a scientist to systematise what it reveals. He arrives at two generalisations: No sea-creature is less than two inches long. All sea-creatures have gills. These are both true of his catch, and he assumes tentatively that they will remain true however often he repeats it. In applying this analogy, the catch stands for the body of knowledge which constitutes physical science, and the net for the sensory and intellectual equipment which we use in obtaining it. The casting of the net corresponds to observation; for knowledge which has not been or could not be obtained by observation is not admitted into physical science. An onlooker may object that the first generalisation is wrong. \"There are plenty of sea-creatures under two inches long, only your net is not adapted to catch them.\" The icthyologist dismisses this objection contemptuously. \"Anything uncatchable by my net is ipso facto outside the scope of icthyological knowledge. In short, \"what my net can't catch isn't fish.\" Or--to translate the analogy-- \"If you are not simply guessing, you are claiming a knowledge of the physical universe discovered in some other way than by the methods of physical science, and admittedly unverifiable by such methods. You are a metaphysician. Bah!",
"author": "Sir Arthur Eddington"
},
{
"quote": "Science is built upon facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no more a science that a heap of stones is a house.",
"author": "Henri Poincare"
},
{
"quote": "Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.",
"author": "B. F. Skinner"
},
{
"quote": "Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.",
"author": "E. W. Dijkstra"
},
{
"quote": "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.",
"author": "P. G. Wodehouse"
},
{
"quote": "Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.",
"author": "P. G. Wodehouse"
},
{
"quote": "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.",
"author": "Donald Knuth"
},
{
"quote": "Premature optimization is the root of all evil.",
"author": "Donald Knuth"
},
{
"quote": "I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.",
"author": "Aleksander Solzhenitsyn"
},
{
"quote": "It is not because the truth is too difficult to see that we make mistakes... we make mistakes because the easiest and most comfortable course for us is to seek insight where it accords with our emotions - especially selfish ones.",
"author": "Aleksander Solzhenitsyn"
},
{
"quote": "You can only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power-he's free again.",
"author": "Aleksander Solzhenitsyn"
},
{
"quote": "If only there were evil people somewhere insidiously committing evil deeds and it were necessary only to separate them from the rest of us and destroy them. But the line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?",
"author": "Aleksander Solzhenitsyn"
},
{
"quote": "A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.",
"author": "Saki"
},
{
"quote": "Men wanted for hazardous journey. Small wages. Bitter cold. Long months of complete darkness. Constant danger. Safe return doubtful. Honor and recognition in case of success",
"author": "Ernest Shackleton"
},
{
"quote": "Superhuman effort isn't worth a damn unless it achieves results.",
"author": "Ernest Shackleton"
},
{
"quote": "The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.1",
"author": "Sir William Bragg"
},
{
"quote": "If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.",
"author": "Derek Bok"
},
{
"quote": "I love this planet! I've got wealth, fame, and access to the depths of sleaze that those things bring.",
"author": "Bender"
},
{
"quote": "If running out of gas is a bad feeling, you might be tempted to put masking tape over your fuel gauge...and miss out on the positive intention of that information.",
"author": "Ed Seykota"
},
{
"quote": "Pyramiding instructions appear on dollar bills. Add smaller and smaller amounts on the way up. Keep your eye open at the top.",
"author": "Ed Seykota"
},
{
"quote": "It can be very expensive to try to convince the markets you are right.",
"author": "Ed Seykota"
},
{
"quote": "Advice for an average trader: he should find a superior trader to do his trading for him, and then go find something he really loves to do.",
"author": "Ed Seykota"
},
{
"quote": "Elements of good trading: cutting losses, cutting losses and cutting losses.",
"author": "Ed Seykota"
},
{
"quote": "Fundamentals that you read about are typically useless as the market has already discounted the price, and I call them \"funny-mentals.\" However, if you catch on early, before others believe, then you might have valuable \"surprise-a-mentals\".",
"author": "Ed Seykota"
},
{
"quote": "If I am bullish, I neither buy on a reaction, nor wait for strength; I am already in. I turn bullish at the instant my buy stop is hit, and stay bullish until my sell stop is hit. Being bullish and not being long is illogical.",
"author": "Ed Seykota"
},
{
"quote": "Win or lose, everyone gets what they want out of the market [life].",
"author": "Ed Seykota"
},
{
"quote": "No matter what kind of math you use, you wind up measuring volatility with your gut.",
"author": "Ed Seykota"
},
{
"quote": "The joy of winning and the pain of losing are right up there with the pain of winning and the joy of losing. Also to consider are the joy and pain of not participating. The relative strengths of these feelings tends to increase with the distance of the trader from his commitment to being a trader.",
"author": "Ed Seykota"
},
{
"quote": "The trend is your friend except at the end when it bends.",
"author": "Ed Seykota"
},
{
"quote": "All profitable systems trade trends; the difference in price necessary to create the profit implies a trend.",
"author": "Ed Seykota"
},
{
"quote": "To avoid losses, stop trading.",
"author": "Ed Seykota"
},
{
"quote": "a. Cut losses.^nb. Ride winners.^nc. Keep bets small.^nd. Follow the rules without question.^ne. Know when to break the rules.",
"author": "Ed Seykota"
},
{
"quote": "Be sensitive to the subtle differences between intuition and \"into wishing.\"",
"author": "Ed Seykota"
},
{
"quote": "Surrender to the reality that volatility exists or volatility will introduce you to the reality that surrender exists.",
"author": "Ed Seykota"
},
{
"quote": "The four most expensive words in the English language are \"this time it's different.\"",
"author": "Sir John Templeton"
},
{
"quote": "The best time to invest is when you have money.",
"author": "Sir John Templeton"
},
{
"quote": "Bull markets are born on pessimism, grow on skepticism, mature on optimism, and die on euphoria.",
"author": "Sir John Templeton"
},
{
"quote": "Improvement makes straight roads, but the crooked roads without improvement are works of genius.",
"author": "William Blake"
},
{
"quote": "I must make my own system or be enslaved by another's.",
"author": "William Blake"
},
{
"quote": "A truth that's told with bad intent beats all the lies you can invent.",
"author": "William Blake"
},
{
"quote": "Every harlot was a virgin once.",
"author": "William Blake"
},
{
"quote": "He who binds to himself a joy^nDoes the winged life destroy;^nBut he who kisses the joy as it flies^nLives in eternity's sunrise.",
"author": "William Blake"
},
{
"quote": "Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.",
"author": "William Blake"
},
{
"quote": "The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.",
"author": "William Blake"
},
{
"quote": "Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.",
"author": "William Blake"
},
{
"quote": "Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.",
"author": "William Blake"
},
{
"quote": "To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour.",
"author": "William Blake"
},
{
"quote": "What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate?",
"author": "William Blake"
},
{
"quote": "Where mercy, love, and pity dwell, there God is dwelling too.",
"author": "William Blake"
},
{
"quote": "I sometimes try to be miserable that I may do more work.",
"author": "William Blake"
},
{
"quote": "The class of those who have the ability to think their own thoughts is separated by an unbridgeable gulf from the class of those who cannot.",
"author": "Ludwig von Mises"
},
{
"quote": "There is no means of avoiding the final collapse of a boom brought about by credit expansion. The alternative is only whether the crisis should come sooner as the result of voluntary abandonment of further credit expansion, or later as a final and total catastrophe of the currency system involved.",
"author": "Ludwig von Mises"
},
{
"quote": "With the increasing specialization in modern times, professional losers are now commonplace.",
"author": "Victor Niederhoffer"
},
{
"quote": "The vast majority of persons have a natural tendency to shrink from the responsibility of acting alone. They exalt the vox populi even when they know it to be the utterance of a mob of nobodies.",
"author": "Francis Galton"
},
{
"quote": "When I was young people called me a gambler. As the scale of my operations grew, I became known as a speculator. Now I am called a banker. But I have been doing the same thing all the time.",
"author": "Ernest Cassel"
},
{
"quote": "Either mathematics is too big for the human mind or the human mind is more than a machine.",
"author": "Kurt Goedel"
},
{
"quote": "If you have to ask what it symbolized, it didn't.",
"author": "Roger Ebert"
},
{
"quote": "The integer that describes the entropy of the visible universe, the number of bits in the universe, is written as 1 followed by 88 zeros...But how big was the entropy at the Planck time [Big Bang]? If we regard this completely newborn universe as a black hole, its entropy--ie its hidden information--is equal to one bit....One bit is enough information to answer yes or no to a question. But not to ask it. What was the question?",
"author": "Tor Norretranders"
},
{
"quote": "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.",
"author": "Brian Kernighan"
},
{
"quote": "I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.",
"author": "Stephen Roberts"
},
{
"quote": "When you give food to the poor, they call you a saint. When you ask why the poor have no food, they call you a communist.",
"author": "Helder Camara"
},
{
"quote": "We keep arming these little countries, then we go and blow the shit out of them. We're like the bullies of the world, y'know. We're like Jack Palance in the movie Shane, throwing the pistol at the sheepherder's feet. 'Pick it up.' 'I don't wanna pick it up, mister, you'll shoot me.' 'Pick up the gun.' 'Mister, I don't want no trouble, I just came downtown here to get some hard rock candy for my kids, some gingham for my wife. I don't even know what gingham is, but she goes through about ten rolls a week of that stuff. I ain't looking for no trouble, Mister.' 'Pick up the gun.' The sheepherder picks up the gun, three shots ring out. 'You all saw him, he had a gun.'",
"author": "Bill Hicks"
},
{
"quote": "Somehow we find it hard to sell our values, namely that the rich should plunder the poor.",
"author": "John Foster Dulles"
},
{
"quote": "Written laws are like spider's webs; they will catch, it is true, the weak and poor, but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful.",
"author": "Anacharsis"
},
{
"quote": "If you believe in the existence of fairies at the bottom of the garden you are deemed fit for the bin. If you believe in parthenogenesis, ascension, transubstantiation and all the rest of it, you are deemed fit to govern the country.",
"author": "Jonathan Meades"
},
{
"quote": "Know all and you will pardon all.",
"author": "Thomas &agrave; Kempis"
},
{
"quote": "At the Day of Judgment, we shall not be asked what we have read, but what we have done.",
"author": "Thomas &agrave; Kempis"
},
{
"quote": "Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.",
"author": "Thomas &agrave; Kempis"
},
{
"quote": "First keep peace with yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.",
"author": "Thomas &agrave; Kempis"
},
{
"quote": "Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.",
"author": "Hector Berlioz"
},
{
"quote": "Happiness is an imaginary condition, formerly attributed by the living to the dead, now usually attributed by adults to children, and by children to adults.",
"author": "Thomas Szasz"
},
{
"quote": "When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.",
"author": "Thomas Szasz"
},
{
"quote": "Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.",
"author": "Thomas Szasz"
},
{
"quote": "With or without religion, you'd have good people doing good things and evil people doing bad things, but for good people to do bad things, it takes religion.",
"author": "Steven Weinberg"
},
{
"quote": "An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy.",
"author": "Steven Weinberg"
},
{
"quote": "The effort to understand the universe is one of the very few things that lifts human life a little above the level of farce, and gives it some of the grace of tragedy.",
"author": "Steven Weinberg"
},
{
"quote": "How many people here have telekenetic powers? Raise my hand.",
"author": "Emo Phillips"
},
{
"quote": "Some mornings, it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps.",
"author": "Emo Phillips"
},
{
"quote": "When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.",
"author": "Emo Phillips"
},
{
"quote": "You know what I hate? Indian givers... no, I take that back.",
"author": "Emo Phillips"
},
{
"quote": "Some people possess talent, others are possessed by it. When that happens, a talent becomes a curse. ",
"author": "Rod Serling"
},
{
"quote": "Christ died for our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?",
"author": "Jules Feiffer"
},
{
"quote": "Rules are made for people who aren't willing to make up their own.",
"author": "Chuck Yeager"
},
{
"quote": "If we don't fight hard enough for the things we stand for, at some point we have to recognize that we don't really stand for them.",
"author": "Paul Wellstone"
},
{
"quote": "Being on the tightrope is living. Everything else is waiting.",
"author": "Karl Wallenda"
},
{
"quote": "Fortune favors the bold.",
"author": "Virgil"
},
{
"quote": "Loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.",
"author": "Tom Wolfe"
},
{
"quote": "I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.",
"author": "Susan B. Anthony"
},
{
"quote": "What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof.",
"author": "Christopher Hitchens"
},
{
"quote": "You do not need the Bible to justify love, but no better tool has been invented to justify hate.",
"author": "Richard A. Weatherwax"
},
{
"quote": "What's \"God\"? Well, you know, when you want something really bad and you close your eyes and you wish for it? God's the guy that ignores you.",
"author": "Steve Buscemi"
},
{
"quote": "To say that atheism requires faith is as dim-witted as saying that disbelief in pixies or leprechauns takes faith. Even if Einstein himself told me there was an elf on my shoulder, I would still ask for proof and I wouldn't be wrong to ask.",
"author": "Geoff Mather"
},
{
"quote": "Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the impossible, the unknowable, the absurd, and nothing but a vacuum remains.",
"author": "Robert G. Ingersoll"
},
{
"quote": "Religion is like a virus that affects the behaviour of its host in such a way as to propagate itself further.",
"author": "Jack Pritchard"
},
{
"quote": "Bad companies are destroyed by crisis. Good companies survive them. Great companies are improved by them.",
"author": "Andy Grove"
},
{
"quote": "I spent 90% of my money on women and drink. The rest I just wasted.",
"author": "George Best"
},
{
"quote": "Next to a battle lost, the deepest misery is a battle gained.",
"author": "The Duke of Wellington"
},
{
"quote": "God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of his own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e., everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time.",
"author": "Terry Pratchett"
},
{
"quote": "There is nothing fair in this world There is nothing safe in this world And there's nothing sure in this world And there's nothing pure in this world Look for something else in this world Start again",
"author": "Billy Idol"
},
{
"quote": "There's a certain Buddhistic calm that comes from having a lot of money in the bank.",
"author": "Tim Robbins"
},
{
"quote": "Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.",
"author": "George Jackson"
},
{
"quote": "The biggest risk is not being in the market when it drops, but being out of the market when it rises.",
"author": "Jim Jorgensen"
},
{
"quote": "I only go to work on the days that make sense to go to work...And I really do something on that day. But you go to work and you do something every day and you don't realize when it's a special day.",
"author": "George Soros"
},
{
"quote": "When foreign brokers brought derivatives to Japanese financial institutions, it was like the white man bringing firewater to the Indians.",
"author": "George Soros"
},
{
"quote": "Misconceptions and mistakes play the same role in human affairs as mutation does in biology.",
"author": "George Soros"
},
{
"quote": "My principle is to survive first and make money afterwards.",
"author": "George Soros"
},
{
"quote": "Foreign investors acting as a herd always prove to be wrong.",
"author": "George Soros"
},
{
"quote": "To be in the game, you have to endure the pain.",
"author": "George Soros"
},
{
"quote": "Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition there is no shame in being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.",
"author": "George Soros"
},
{
"quote": "I assume that markets are always wrong. Even if my assumption is occasionally mistaken, I use it as a working hypothesis.",
"author": "George Soros"
},
{
"quote": "A market is the combined behavior of millions of people responding to information, misinformation, and whim.",
"author": "Kenneth Chang"
},
{
"quote": "The stock market is an index of how investors feel about the future, not the present. In other words, it is a barometer, not a thermometer.",
"author": "John Train"
},
{
"quote": "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on him not understanding it.",
"author": "Upton Sinclair"
},
{
"quote": "When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross.",
"author": "Sinclair Lewis"
},
{
"quote": "Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death.",
"author": "Auntie Mame"
},
{
"quote": "It is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.",
"author": "William Wordsworth"
},
{
"quote": "From fanaticism to barbarism is just one step.",
"author": "Denis Diderot"
},
{
"quote": "In order to shake a hypothesis, it is sometimes not necessary to do anything more than push it as far as it will go.",
"author": "Denis Diderot"
},
{
"quote": "Man will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.",
"author": "Denis Diderot"
},
{
"quote": "The God of the Christians is a father who makes much of his apples, and very little of his children.",
"author": "Denis Diderot"
},
{
"quote": "The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find.",
"author": "Denis Diderot"
},
{
"quote": "The blood of Jesus Christ can cover a multitude of sins, it seems to me.",
"author": "Denis Diderot"
},
{
"quote": "Our observation of nature must be diligent, our reflection profound, and our experiments exact. We rarely see these three means combined; and for this reason, creative geniuses are not common.",
"author": "Denis Diderot"
},
{
"quote": "Whatever needs to be maintained through force is doomed.",
"author": "Henry Miller"
},
{
"quote": "There are people who have money and people who are rich.",
"author": "Coco Chanel"
},
{
"quote": "Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.",
"author": "Coco Chanel"
},
{
"quote": "Cause change and lead; accept change and survive; resist change and die.",
"author": "Ray Noorda"
},
{
"quote": "It is right to be contented with what we have, but never with what we are.",
"author": "Sir James Mackintosh"
},
{
"quote": "If you don't like change, you are going to like irreleveance even less.",
"author": "General Eric Shinseki"
},
{
"quote": "You make most of your money in a bear market, you just don't realize it at the time.",
"author": "Shelby Cullom Davis"
},
{
"quote": "No horse can go as fast as the money you put on it.",
"author": "Earl Wilson"
},
{
"quote": "Investment Management: An exercise where you make major decisions, in public, on the basis of flimsy information in a system largely governed by chance, when you may be wrong slightly more than 50% of the time, and ... you have to go back and do it again. ",
"author": "Richard Vancil"
},
{
"quote": "There are three classes of people who don't think markets work: the Cubans, the North Koreans, and active managers.",
"author": "Rex Sinquefield"
},
{
"quote": "It does not matter whether the cat is black or white, only that it catches mice.",
"author": "Deng Xiaoping"
},
{
"quote": "Contrary thinking is a deliberate shaking of the mind back and forth, reversing and reaffirming plausible views to separate out the nonessential, much as the gold panner shakes out unwanted pebbles",
"author": "Bradbury Thurlow"
},
{
"quote": "Unless a capacity for thinking be accompanied by a capacity for action, a superior mind exists in torture.",
"author": "Benedetto Croce"
},
{
"quote": "Value (like beauty) is in the eye of the beholder.",
"author": "Dean LeBaron"
},
{
"quote": "Any decision that comes to the captain will not be made on facts; otherwise it would already have been made at lower levels. So the captain's job is to make the decision on the basis of principles and to be decisive.",
"author": "Dean LeBaron"
},
{
"quote": "Unless you become right within twenty-four months, you were wrong.",
"author": "Dean LeBaron"
},
{
"quote": "There is a serious tendency toward capitalism among the well-to-do peasants.",
"author": "Mao Zedong"
},
{
"quote": "A revolution is not a dinner party.",
"author": "Mao Zedong"
},
{
"quote": "Despise the enemy strategically, but take him seriously tactically.",
"author": "Mao Zedong"
},
{
"quote": "We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.",
"author": "Mao Zedong"
},
{
"quote": "Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.",
"author": "James M. Barrie"
},
{
"quote": "Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.",
"author": "James M. Barrie"
},
{
"quote": "Life is a long lesson in humility.",
"author": "James M. Barrie"
},
{
"quote": "Those who do not find time for exercise will have to find time for illness.",
"author": "Earl of Derby"
},
{
"quote": "Kind hearts are more than coronets, and simple faith than Norman blood.",
"author": "Alfred, Lord Tennyson"
},
{
"quote": "The thing that impresses me most about America is the way parents obey their children",
"author": "Duke of Windsor"
},
{
"quote": "The best description of \"utter waste\" would be a busload of lawyers going over a cliff with three empty seats.",
"author": "Lamar Hunt"
},
{
"quote": "Riches get their value from the mind of the possessor; they are blessings to those who know how to use them, and curses to those who do not.",
"author": "Terence"
},
{
"quote": "In life as in the dance, grace glides on blistered feet.",
"author": "Alice Abrams"
},
{
"quote": "He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality.",
"author": "Anwar Sadat"
},
{
"quote": "Unless you're tolerant, you can't have an open mind. If you don't have an open mind, you can't be a good investor. You've got to let everything in and be willing to digest it.",
"author": "Mark Mobius"
},
{
"quote": "In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.",
"author": "Longinus"
},
{
"quote": "No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.",
"author": "Victor Hugo"
},
{
"quote": "In science, read by preference the newest works, in literature the oldest. The classics are always modern.",
"author": "Lord Lytton"
},
{
"quote": "Everyone complains of his memory, no one of his judgment.",
"author": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld"
},
{
"quote": "It is more necessary to study men than books.",
"author": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld"
},
{
"quote": "It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.",
"author": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld"
},
{
"quote": "We have more power than will, and it is only to exculpate ourselves that that we often say things are impracticable.",
"author": "Francois de La Rochefoucauld"
},
{
"quote": "You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.",
"author": "John Nuveen"
},
{
"quote": "Have you not learned that not stocks or bonds or stately homes, or products of mill or field are our country? It is the splendid thought that is within our minds.",
"author": "Benjamin Harrison"
},
{
"quote": "$1,000 left to earn interest at 8% a year will grow to $43 quadrillion in 400 years, but the first hundred years are the hardest.",
"author": "Sidney Homer"
},
{
"quote": "Love at first sight is easy to understand. It's when two people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes a miracle. ",
"author": "Sam Levinson"
},
{
"quote": "We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about.",
"author": "Charles Kingsley"
},
{
"quote": "In investing money, the amount of interest you want should depend on whether you want to eat well or sleep well.",
"author": "J. Kenfield Morley"
},
{
"quote": "Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.",
"author": "Alexis Carrel"
},
{
"quote": "Worry affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system. I have never known a man who died form overwork, but many who died from doubt.",
"author": "Charles Mayo"
},
{
"quote": "There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.",
"author": "Tennessee Williams"
},
{
"quote": "Miracles sometimes occur, but one has to work terribly hard for them.",
"author": "Chaim Weizmann"
},
{
"quote": "Trying to determine what's going on in the world by reading newsapers is like trying to tell time by watching the second hand of the clock.",
"author": "Ben Hecht"
},
{
"quote": "America has the world's best money. Every US dollar is secured by the universal demand for it.",
"author": "Cullen Hightower"
},
{
"quote": "The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. Instead of altering their views to fit the facts, they alter the facts to fit their views... which can be very uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the facts that needs altering.",
"author": "Dr. Who"
},
{
"quote": "What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient, but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, of uniting a love of detail to foresight; and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.",
"author": "Victor Cherbuliez"
},
{
"quote": "What I admire in Columbus is not his having discovered a world, but his having gone to search for it on the faith of an opinion. ",
"author": "A. Robert Turgot"
},
{
"quote": "The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows whither he is going.",
"author": "David S. Jordan"
},
{
"quote": "We work not only to produce but to give value to time.",
"author": "Eugene Delacroix"
},
{
"quote": "My soul has wings, but the brutal jailer is strict.",
"author": "Eugene Delacroix"
},
{
"quote": "Every time one man buys, another sells, and both think they are astute.",
"author": "William Feather"
},
{
"quote": "The search for truth is really a lot of good fun.",
"author": "Vernon Howard"
},
{
"quote": "If an idea is fashionable, that is by itself a pretty good reason to regard it with extreme skepticism.",
"author": "Paul Krugman"
},
{
"quote": "When the rate of change outside exceeds the rate of change inside, the end is in sight.",
"author": "Jack Welch"
},
{
"quote": "The public is right during trends, but wrong at both ends.",
"author": "Humphrey Neill"
},
{
"quote": "Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.",
"author": "Donald Trump"
},
{
"quote": "Opposition inflames the believer, never converts him.",
"author": "Friedrich von Schiller"
},
{
"quote": "He who walks in another's tracks leaves no footprints.",
"author": "Joan L. Brannon"
},
{
"quote": "My advice to you, if you should every be in a holdup, is to line up with the cowards and save your bravery for an occasion when it may be of some benefit to you.",
"author": "O. Henry"
},
{
"quote": "There are only two ways to be quite unprejudiced and impartial. One is to be completely ignorant. The other is to be completely indifferent.",
"author": "Charles Curtis"
},
{
"quote": "Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.",
"author": "Demosthenes"
},
{
"quote": "Polish doesn't change quartz into diamond.",
"author": "Wilma Askinas"
},
{
"quote": "There can be no legislation against stupidity.",
"author": "Fred Schwed"
},
{
"quote": "Speculation is an effort, probably unsuccessful, to turn a little money into a lot. Investment is an effort, which should be successful, to prevent a lot of money from becoming a little.",
"author": "Fred Schwed"
},
{
"quote": "Investment and speculation are said to be two different things, and the prudent man is advised to engage in one and avoid the other. This is something like explaining to the troubled adolescent that love and passion are two different things. He perceives that they are different but they don't seem quite different enough to clear up his problems.",
"author": "Fred Schwed"
},
{
"quote": "Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.",
"author": "Cyril Connolly"
},
{
"quote": "Most people like hard work. Particularly when they are paying for it.",
"author": "Franklin P. Jones"
},
{
"quote": "I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe.",
"author": "J. M. Straczynski"
},
{
"quote": "No one would ever have crossed the ocean if he could have gotten off the ship in the storm.",
"author": "Charles Kettering"
},
{
"quote": "In America we can say what we think, and even if we can't think, we can say it anyhow.",
"author": "Charles Kettering"
},
{
"quote": "Knowing is not understanding. There is a great difference between knowing and understanding: you can know a lot about something and not really understand it.",
"author": "Charles Kettering"
},
{
"quote": "The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.",
"author": "Charles Kettering"
},
{
"quote": "Global capital markets pose the same kinds of problems that jet planes do. They are faster, more comfortable, and they get you where you are going better. But the crashes are much more spectacular.",
"author": "Lawrence Summers"
},
{
"quote": "All bad precedents begin with justifiable measures.",
"author": "Julius Caesar"
},
{
"quote": "It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.",
"author": "Julius Caesar"
},
{
"quote": "Men easily believe that which they desire.",
"author": "Julius Caesar"
},
{
"quote": "The original of all great and lasting societies consisted not in the mutual good will men had toward each other, but in the mutual fear they had of each other.",
"author": "Thomas Hobbes"
},
{
"quote": "You may proclaim, good sirs, your fine philosophy. But till you feed us, right and wrong can wait. Grub first, then ethics.",
"author": "Bertolt Brecht"
},
{
"quote": "The defeats and victories of the fellows at the top aren't always defeats and victories for the fellows at the bottom.",
"author": "Bertolt Brecht"
},
{
"quote": "Whenever something becomes worth more than the whole state of California, sell it.",
"author": "Alan Blinder"
},
{
"quote": "It is just as easy, if not more, to lose money through the click of a button as it is to make it.",
"author": "Arthur Levitt"
},
{
"quote": "The one absolute requirement of a money manager is emotional maturity. If you don't know who you are, the stock market is an expensive place to find out.",
"author": "George \"Adam Smith\" Goodman"
},
{
"quote": "Nobody knows anything.",
"author": "William Goldman"
},
{
"quote": "There are no answers in this business. There's just a hell of a lot of information.",
"author": "George Russell"
},
{
"quote": "Politicians don't move the economy, the economy moves the politicians.",
"author": "Richard Russell"
},
{
"quote": "If you are charging little, you should charge more because a low fee predicts low value, and in this field hope is very, very important.",
"author": "Charles Ellis"
},
{
"quote": "The market is the sum of all the toughest, smartest minds in the business. When you come to market to sell, the only buyers you'll find are the ones who are thrilled that you just came into the hairs of their sniper scopes.",
"author": "Charles Ellis"
},
{
"quote": "Experts internalize decisions but beginners learn rules of procedure. Therefore, an amateur can precisely explain what he is doing and why, while an expert just knows when it's right.",
"author": "Jeremy Grantham"
},
{
"quote": "Value investing has always had a hidden but serious risk - the 60-year flood. The so-called price/book effect (and the small stock effect) sound like a free lunch, but in 1929-33, 20% of all companies went bankrupt. They were not the large high quality blue chips but small \"cheap stocks\" with low price/book ratios.",
"author": "Jeremy Grantham"
},
{
"quote": "Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.",
"author": "Robert Benchley"
},
{
"quote": "We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we already have done.",
"author": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow"
},
{
"quote": "I've been married to one Marxist and one Fascist, and neither would take the garbage out.",
"author": "Lee Grant"
},
{
"quote": "Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.",
"author": "Karl Marx"
},
{
"quote": "A reliable way to make people believe falsehoods is repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth.",
"author": "Daniel Kahneman"
},
{
"quote": "When action is needed, optimism, even of the mildly delusional variety, may be a good thing.",
"author": "Daniel Kahneman"
},
{
"quote": "We're not aware of changing our minds even when we do change our minds. And most people, after they change their minds, reconstruct their past opinion - they believe they always thought that.",
"author": "Daniel Kahneman"
},
{
"quote": "The internal incentives that shape how the group perceives risks and rewards may be very different from the reality of the risks and rewards in the external marketplace. Those incentives can distort risk perception.",
"author": "Daniel Kahneman"
},
{
"quote": "Many people will admit that they made a mistake. But that doesn't mean that they've changed their mind about anything in particular. It doesn't mean that they are now able to avoid that mistake.",
"author": "Daniel Kahneman"
},
{
"quote": "In many cases, what looks like risk-taking doesn't take courage at all; it's just unrealistic optimism. Courage is a willingness to take the risk once you know the odds; optimistic overconfidence means you are taking the risk because you don't know the odds. There's a big difference.",
"author": "Daniel Kahneman"
},
{
"quote": "People assign much higher probability to the truth of their opinions than is warranted.",
"author": "Daniel Kahneman"
},
{
"quote": "I have yet to meet a successful scientist who lacks the ability to exaggerate the importance of what he or she is doing, and I believe that someone who lacks a delusional sense of significance will wilt in the face of repeated experiences of multiple small failures and rare successes.",
"author": "Daniel Kahneman"
},
{
"quote": "Lucky risk takers use hindsight to reinforce their feeling that their gut is very wise. Hindsight also reinforces others' trust in that individual's gut. That's one of the real dangers of leader selection in many organizations: leaders are selected for overconfidence. We associate leadership with decisiveness. That perception of leadership pushes people to make decisions fairly quickly, lest they be seen as dithering and indecisive.",
"author": "Daniel Kahneman"
},
{
"quote": "A single cockroach will completely wreck the appeal of a bowl of cherries, but a cherry will do nothing at all for a bowl of cockroaches.",
"author": "Paul Rozin"
},
{
"quote": "Grownups have a strange way of putting themselves in compartments and groups. They build up barriers of religion, of caste, of color, of party, of nation, of province, of language, of custom and of wealth and poverty. Thus they live in prisons of their own making.",
"author": "Jawaharlal Nehru"
},
{
"quote": "It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.",
"author": "William Cobbett"
},
{
"quote": "Thousands are yearly brought into a state of real poverty by their great anxiety not to be thought poor.",
"author": "William Cobbett"
},
{
"quote": "In the first third of your life, you should learn. In the second third, you should earn. And in the third, you should serve.",
"author": "John English"
},
{
"quote": "Every one of the managers is able to give me a chart that shows me that he was in the first quartile or the first decile. I have never had a prospective manager come in and say, \"We're in the fourth quartile or bottom decile.\"",
"author": "John English"
},
{
"quote": "The road to ruin is broad, to accomodate the great amount of travel in that direction.",
"author": "Josh Billings"
},
{
"quote": "When events become too complex and move too rapidly, as appears to be the case today, human beings become demonstrably less able to cope.",
"author": "Alan Greenspan"
},
{
"quote": "Market know-how decreases as the surroundings become more plush.",
"author": "William A. Kent"
},
{
"quote": "A man who is \"of sound mind\" is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.",
"author": "Paul Valery"
},
{
"quote": "War: a massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who know each other but don't massacre each other.",
"author": "Paul Valery"
},
{
"quote": "What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.",
"author": "Paul Valery"
},
{
"quote": "You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.",
"author": "James Allen"
},
{
"quote": "Too many people send leters to Nero telling him he was fingering his fiddle wrong.",
"author": "Mark Harris"
},
{
"quote": "Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall.",
"author": "Oliver Goldsmith"
},
{
"quote": "Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.",
"author": "Oliver Goldsmith"
},
{
"quote": "When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?",
"author": "Oliver Goldsmith"
},
{
"quote": "Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.",
"author": "George F. Tilton"
},
{
"quote": "I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis.",
"author": "Humphrey Bogart"
},
{
"quote": "History is a story of growth, decay and change. If no provision, no allowance is made for change by peaceful means, it will come anyway - and with violence.",
"author": "Herbert Hoover"
},
{
"quote": "To whom nothing is given, of him nothing can be required.",
"author": "Henry Fielding"
},
{
"quote": "Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor.",
"author": "Henry Fielding"
},
{
"quote": "Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.",
"author": "Henry Fielding"
},
{
"quote": "Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.",
"author": "Washington Irving"
},
{
"quote": "Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them.",
"author": "Washington Irving"
},
{
"quote": "There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.",
"author": "Washington Irving"
},
{
"quote": "Who ever hears of fat men heading a riot, or herding together in turbulent mobs?",
"author": "Washington Irving"
},
{
"quote": "When the interval between the intellectual classes and the practical classes is too great, the former will possess no influence, the latter will reap no benefit.",
"author": "Thomas Buckle"
},
{
"quote": "The world is not interested in the storms you encountered, but did you bring in the ship?",
"author": "William McFee"
},
{
"quote": "A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by himself being the first person to be convinced of it.",
"author": "Alexandre Dumas"
},
{
"quote": "Anybody who plays the stock market not as an insider is like a man buying cows in the moonlight.",
"author": "Daniel Drew"
},
{
"quote": "He who sells what isn't his'n, Must buy it back or go to prison.",
"author": "Daniel Drew"
},
{
"quote": "As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn to love it more and more.",
"author": "Jules Renard"
},
{
"quote": "The hurricane is not more or less likely to hit because more hurricane insurance has been written. In the financial markets this is not true. The more people write financial insurance, the more likely it is that a disaster will happen, because the people who know you have sold the insurance can make it happen. So you have to monitor what other people are doing.",
"author": "Victor Haghani"
},
{
"quote": "A guru is someone who is lucky enough to be quoted in the right publication at the right time saying the right thing.",
"author": "Herb Greenberg"
},
{
"quote": "The odds of anyone calling you on the phone with good investment advice are about the same as winning Lotto without buying a ticket.",
"author": "Joel Greenblatt"
},
{
"quote": "The fact that a value approach doesn't always work in the short term is precisely the reason why it continues to work over the long term.",
"author": "Joel Greenblatt"
},
{
"quote": "The keys to profit are agressiveness, timing and skill, and someone who has enough aggressiveness at the right time doesn't need much skill.",
"author": "Howard Marks"
},
{
"quote": "Avoid the losers and the winners will take care of themselves.",
"author": "Howard Marks"
},
{
"quote": "An accurate opinion of valuation, loosely held, will be of limited help. An incorrect opinion of valuation, strongly held, is even worse.",
"author": "Howard Marks"
},
{
"quote": "The air goes out of the balloon much faster than it went in.",
"author": "Howard Marks"
},
{
"quote": "If riskier investments could be counted on to produce higher returns, they wouldn't be risker.",
"author": "Howard Marks"
},
{
"quote": "Well bought is half sold.",
"author": "Howard Marks"
},
{
"quote": "The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven.",
"author": "John Milton"
},
{
"quote": "There's something about getting up at 5am, feeding the stock and chickens, and milking a couple of cows before breakfast that gives you a life-long respect for the price of butter and eggs.",
"author": "William Vaughn Moody"
},
{
"quote": "Real difficulties can be overcome; it is only the imaginary ones that are unconquerable.",
"author": "Theodore N. Vail"
},
{
"quote": "People can generally make time for what they choose to do; it is not really the time but the will that is lacking.",
"author": "Sir John Lubbock"
},
{
"quote": "Don't condescend to unskilled labor. Try it for half a day first.",
"author": "Brooks Atkinson"
},
{
"quote": "After each war there is a little less democracy to save.",
"author": "Brooks Atkinson"
},
{
"quote": "A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.",
"author": "Charles Brower"
},
{
"quote": "In venture capital, the lemons ripen before the plums.",
"author": "William Hambrecht"
},
{
"quote": "Life begets life. Energy creates energy. It is only by spending oneself that one becomes rich.",
"author": "Sarah Bernhardt"
},
{
"quote": "Tiger got to hunt^nBird got to fly^nMan got to sit and wonder why, why, why^n^nTiger got to rest^nBird got to land^nMan got to tell himself he understand",
"author": "Kurt Vonnegut"
},
{
"quote": "Women don't want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think -- in a deeper voice.",
"author": "Bill Cosby"
},
{
"quote": "Never marry a man you wouldn't want to be divorced from.",
"author": "Nora Ephron"
},
{
"quote": "The United States was founded by the brightest people in the country - and we haven't seen them since.",
"author": "Gore Vidal"
},
{
"quote": "The two greatest obstacles to democracy in the United States are, first, the widespread delusion among the poor is that we have a democracy; and second, the chronic terror among the rich, lest we get it.",
"author": "Edward Dowling"
},
{
"quote": "In trading you have to be defensive and aggressive at the same time. If you are not aggressive, you are not going to make money, and if you are not defensive, you are not going to keep money.",
"author": "Ray Dalio"
},
{
"quote": "The more you think you know, the more closed-minded you'll be.",
"author": "Ray Dalio"
},
{
"quote": "I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone.",
"author": "Bjarne Stroustrup"
},
{
"quote": "Everybody has a plan till they get punched in the face.",
"author": "Mike Tyson"
},
{
"quote": "The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people recognize, that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation.",
"author": "Neil deGrasse Tyson"
},
{
"quote": "And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.",
"author": "Max Ehrmann"
},
{
"quote": "If you wake up thinking about a position, it's too big.",
"author": "Steve Clark"
},
{
"quote": "Your job as a trader is to make the equity line go from bottom left to top right. That's it. If the line goes down too much or too long, you were wrong.",
"author": "Steve Clark"
},
{
"quote": "Risk means more things can happen than will happen.",
"author": "Elroy Dimson"
},
{
"quote": "The word 'risk' derives from the early Italian risicare, which means 'to dare'. In this sense, risk is a choice rather than a fate.",
"author": "Peter Bernstein"
},
{
"quote": "The market's not a very accomodating machine. It won't provide high returns just because you need them.",
"author": "Peter Bernstein"
},
{
"quote": "It is not whether you are right or wrong that's important, but how much money you make when you're right and how much you lose when you're wrong.",
"author": "Stan Druckenmiller"
},
{
"quote": "Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless--like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, You put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash! Be water my friend.",
"author": "Bruce Lee"
},
{
"quote": "A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at. ",
"author": "Bruce Lee"
},
{
"quote": "A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.",
"author": "Bruce Lee"
},
{
"quote": "If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.",
"author": "Bruce Lee"
},
{
"quote": "If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.",
"author": "Bruce Lee"
},
{
"quote": "I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine. ",
"author": "Bruce Lee"
},
{
"quote": "Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.",
"author": "Bruce Lee"
},
{
"quote": "The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.",
"author": "Bruce Lee"
},
{
"quote": "Obey the principles without being bound by them.",
"author": "Bruce Lee"
},
{
"quote": "No matter how hard it looks, it\u2019s even harder to actually do.",
"author": "Ben Horowitz"
},
{
"quote": "The difference between vision and hallucination is that vision is something everyone can see. A breakthrough idea looks like a hallucination at first.",
"author": "Ben Horowitz"
},
{
"quote": "There\u2019s no crying in baseball, and there\u2019s no profit for number 2 in technology markets.",
"author": "Ben Horowitz"
},
{
"quote": "The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don\u2019t want it badly enough. They\u2019re there to stop the other people.",
"author": "Randy Pausch"
},
{
"quote": "The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have.",
"author": "Randy Pausch"
},
{
"quote": "People will forget what you said. People will forget what you did. But people will never forget how you made them feel.",
"author": "Maya Angelou"
},
{
"quote": "The first time someone shows you who they are, believe them.",
"author": "Maya Angelou"
},
{
"quote": "Don't fight forces, use them.",
"author": "Buckminster Fuller"
},
{
"quote": "There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.",
"author": "Buckminster Fuller"
},
{
"quote": "You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.",
"author": "Buckminster Fuller"
},
{
"quote": "People may expect too much of journalism. Not only do they expect it to be entertaining, they expect it to be true.",
"author": "Lewis Lapham"
},
{
"quote": "If God had meant there to be more than two factors of production, He would have made it easier for us to draw three-dimensional diagrams.",
"author": "Robert Solow"
},
{
"quote": "It never gets easier, you just go faster.",
"author": "Greg LeMond"
},
{
"quote": "Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.",
"author": "John Lennon"
},
{
"quote": "Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.",
"author": "John Lennon"
},
{
"quote": "Everybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground.",
"author": "John Lennon"
},
{
"quote": "Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.",
"author": "John Lennon"
},
{
"quote": "In the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.",
"author": "Paul McCartney"
},
{
"quote": "If you're unhappy, you should change what you're doing.",
"author": "Marc Andreessen"
},
{
"quote": "In the startup world, you're either a genius or an idiot. You're never just an ordinary guy trying to get through the day.",
"author": "Marc Andreessen"
},
{
"quote": "Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings.",
"author": "George Will"
},
{
"quote": "Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.",
"author": "Pancho Villa"
},
{
"quote": "A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.",
"author": "Bill Vaughan"
},
{
"quote": "I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.",
"author": "Oliver Cromwell"
},
{
"quote": "Put your trust in God; but be sure to keep your powder dry.",
"author": "Oliver Cromwell"
},
{
"quote": "He who stops being better stops being good.",
"author": "Oliver Cromwell"
},
{
"quote": "Do not trust the cheering, for those persons would shout as much if you or I were going to be hanged.",
"author": "Oliver Cromwell"
},
{
"quote": "Not only strike while the iron is hot, but make it hot by striking.",
"author": "Oliver Cromwell"
},
{
"quote": "Give me six lines written by the most honorable of men, and I will find an excuse in them to hang him.",
"author": "Cardinal Richelieu"
},
{
"quote": "Some people made money studying artificial intelligence, I made a fortune studying natural stupidity.",
"author": "Carl Icahn"
},
{
"quote": "To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and whatever you hit, call it the target.",
"author": "Ashleigh Brilliant"
},
{
"quote": "If you want to view paradise, simply look around and view it.",
"author": "Willy Wonka"
},
{
"quote": "Success is not the result of spontaneous combustion. You must first set yourself on fire.",
"author": "Fred Shero"
},
{
"quote": "Anything that doesn\u2019t take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.",
"author": "Cormac McCarthy"
},
{
"quote": "There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion / That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble / Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, / Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.",
"author": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow"
},
{
"quote": "You owe no one an explanation.",
"author": "Will Roman"
},
{
"quote": "If everything seems under control, you\u2019re not going fast enough.",
"author": "Mario Andretti"
},
{
"quote": "A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.",
"author": "Paulo Coelho"
},
{
"quote": "Nobody important? 900 years of time and space, and I've never met anybody who wasn't important.",
"author": "The Doctor"
},
{
"quote": "We're all stories in the end. Just make it a good one.",
"author": "The Doctor"
},
{
"quote": "How odd I can have all this inside me and to you it\u2019s just words.",
"author": "David Foster Wallace"
},
{
"quote": "It takes less courage to criticize the decisions of others than to stand by your own.",
"author": "Attila the Hun"
},
{
"quote": "Focus on not getting beat by the market before you think about trying to beat it.",
"author": "Morgan Housel"
},
{
"quote": "When most people say they want to be a millionaire, what they really mean is \"I want to spend $1 million,\" which is literally the opposite of being a millionaire.",
"author": "Morgan Housel"
},
{
"quote": "There is a difference between, \"He predicted the crash of 2008,\" and \"He predicted crashes, one of which happened to occur in 2008.\" It's important to know the difference when praising investors. ",
"author": "Morgan Housel"
},
{
"quote": "The phrase \"double-dip recession\" was mentioned 10.8 million times in 2010 and 2011, according to Google. It never came. There were virtually no mentions of \"financial collapse\" in 2006 and 2007. It did come. A similar story can be told virtually every year.",
"author": "Morgan Housel"
},
{
"quote": "According to Bloomberg, the 50 stocks in the S&P 500 that Wall Street rated the lowest at the end of 2011 outperformed the overall index by 7 percentage points over the following year.",
"author": "Morgan Housel"
},
{
"quote": "In finance textbooks, \"risk\" is defined as short-term volatility. In the real world, risk is earning low returns, which is often caused by trying to avoid short-term volatility.",
"author": "Morgan Housel"
},
{
"quote": "Companies that focus on their stock price will eventually lose their customers. Companies that focus on their customers will eventually boost their stock price. ",
"author": "Morgan Housel"
},
{
"quote": "The single best three-year period to own stocks was during the Great Depression. Not far behind was the three-year period starting in 2009, when the economy struggled in utter ruin. The biggest returns begin when most people think the biggest losses are inevitable.",
"author": "Morgan Housel"
},
{
"quote": "No one on the Forbes 400 list of richest Americans can be described as a \"perma-bear.\"",
"author": "Morgan Housel"
},
{
"quote": "You have never lost money in stocks over any 20-year period, but you have wiped out half your portfolio in bonds [after inflation]. So which is the riskier asset?",
"author": "Jeremy Siegel"
},
{
"quote": "Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.",
"author": "Eric Hoffer"
},
{
"quote": "Simplicity is the ultimate form of sophistication.",
"author": "Leonardo da Vinci"
},
{
"quote": "Art is never finished, only abandoned.",
"author": "Leonardo da Vinci"
},
{
"quote": "There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see.",
"author": "Leonardo da Vinci"
},
{
"quote": "He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.",
"author": "Leonardo da Vinci"
},
{
"quote": "If people are not laughing at your goals, your goals are too small.",
"author": "Azim Premji"
},
{
"quote": "Arguing that you don't care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say.",
"author": "Edward Snowden"
},
{
"quote": "Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.",
"author": "Miles Davis"
},
{
"quote": "I'll play it first and tell you what it is later.",
"author": "Miles Davis"
},
{
"quote": "It's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead, you're made for life.",
"author": "Miles Davis"
},
{
"quote": "Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.",
"author": "Kurt Cobain"
},
{
"quote": "Writing about painting is like dancing about architecture.",
"author": "Martin Mull"
},
{
"quote": "Trying to catch falling knives always results in lost fingers\u2026 Better to let the knife hit the floor, bounce around a little and when it stops moving go pick it up.",
"author": "Mark Yusko"
}
]
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