Quotes

-The following are some of my favorite Quotes in no particular order-

Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?
-Kurt Vonnegut

You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.
-Albert Einstein

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
-Eleanor Roosevelt

Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.
-Kurt Vonnegut

Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.
-Robert Half (1918-)

A scientist in his laboratory is not a mere technician: he is also a child confronting natural phenomena that impress him as though they were fairy tales.
-Marie Curie (Scientist, 1867-1934)

Being religious means asking passionately the question of the meaning of our existence and being willing to receive answers, even if the answers hurt.
-Paul Tillich (German Theologian 1886-1965)

Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed.
-Albert Einstein

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

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That’s relativity.
-Albert Einstein

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity and I’m not sure about the former.
-Albert Einstein

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

Better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.
-Mark Twain

The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.
-Albert Einstein

Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith.
-Paul Tillich (German Theologian 1886-1965)

War doesn’t determine who’s right – only who’s left.
-Bertrand Russell

In science, we must be interested in things, not in persons.
-Marie Curie

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
-Mahatma Gandhi

Human beings will be happier – not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That’s my utopia.
-Kurt Vonnegut

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
-Albert Einstein

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
-Kurt Vonnegut

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
-Winston Churchill

Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith.
-Paul Tillich (German Theologian 1886-1965)

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

Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.
-Albert Einstein

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
-Albert Einstein

The secret of creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-Albert Einstein

Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
-Mark Twain

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?
-Albert Einstein

If you’re going through hell, keep going.
-Winston Churchill

I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the time he killed himself.
-Johnny Carson

If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.
-George Bernard Shaw

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
-Mahatma Gandhi

He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being.
-Paul Tillich (German Theologian 1886-1965)

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
-Mark Twain

I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
-Winston Churchill

Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
-Arthur C. Clarke

If you’re playing a poker game and you look around the table and can’t tell who the sucker is, it’s you.
-Paul Newman

Of all the things I’ve lost, I miss my mind the most.
-Mark Twain

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
-Winston Churchill

Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he’s talking about.
-Sam Ewing

Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.
-Paul Tillich (German Theologian 1886-1965)

Don’t take life too seriously; you’ll never get out of it alive.
-Elbert Hubbard

I can’t give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.
-Herbert Bayard Swope

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your tricks of war.
-Napoleon

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
-Henry Ford

I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous – everyone hasn’t met me yet.
-Rodney Dangerfield

A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing.
-Emo Philips

The important thing is not to stop questioning.
-Albert Einstein

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
-Mark Twain

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does not stop until you get to the office.
-Robert Frost

Skill is successfully walking a tightrope over Niagara Falls. Intelligence is not trying.
-Anonymous

The difference between fiction and reality is that fiction has to make sense.
-Tom Clancy

It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never to use either.
-Mark Twain

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

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.
-Galileo Galilei

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.
-Mark Twain

How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
-Henry David Thoreau

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward.
-Franklin D. Roosevelt

A nation that destroys it’s soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.
-Franklin D. Roosevelt

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.
-Franklin D. Roosevelt

Remember you are just an extra in everyone else’s play.
-Franklin D. Roosevelt