Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.|Stephen King

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.|T. E. Lawrence

Action is the foundational key to all success.|Pablo Picasso

There is no substitute for hard work.|Thomas Edison

Focused, hard work is the real key to success. Keep your eyes on the goal, and just keep taking the next step towards completing it.|John Carmack

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.|Ann Landers

It's hard to beat a person who never gives up.|Babe Ruth

The mind is everything. What you think you become.|Buddha

Eighty percent of success is showing up.|Woody Allen

Fall seven times and stand up eight.|Japanese proverb

The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The second best time is now.|Chinese Proverb

We don't make movies to make money, we make money to make more movies.|Walt Disney

A person who chases two rabbits catches neither.|Confucius

Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.|Pablo Picasso

If there is no wind, row.|Latin Proverb

Life is about making an impact, not making an income.|Kevin Kruse

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.|Napoleon Hill

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.|Albert Einstein

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. |Robert Frost

I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse.|Florence Nightingale

You miss of the shots you don’t take.|Wayne Gretzky

I’ve missed more than shots in my career. I’ve lost almost games. times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.|Michael Jordan

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.|Amelia Earhart

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.|Babe Ruth

Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.|W. Clement Stone

Life isn’t about getting and having, it’s about giving and being.|Kevin Kruse

Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.|John Lennon

We become what we think about.|Earl Nightingale

14.Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails.  Explore, Dream, Discover.|Mark Twain

15.Life is what happens to me and of how I react to it.|Charles Swindoll

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.|Alice Walker

The mind is everything. What you think you become. |Buddha

The best time to plant a tree was years ago. The second best time is now.|Chinese Proverb

An unexamined life is not worth living.|Socrates

Eighty percent of success is showing up.|Woody Allen

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.|Steve Jobs

Winning isn’t everything, but wanting to win is.|Vince Lombardi

I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.|Stephen Covey

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

You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.|Christopher Columbus

Either you run the day, or the day runs you.|Jim Rohn

Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.|Henry Ford

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out why.|Mark Twain

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.  Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.|Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The best revenge is massive success.|Frank Sinatra

People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing.  That’s why we recommend it daily.|Zig Ziglar

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.|Anais Nin

If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.|Vincent Van Gogh

There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.|Aristotle

Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock and the door will be opened for you.|Jesus

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.|Ralph Waldo Emerson

Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.  Live the life you have imagined.|Henry David Thoreau

When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left and could say, I used everything you gave me.|Erma Bombeck

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him. |Booker T. Washington

Certain things catch your eye, but pursue only those that capture the heart.| Ancient Indian Proverb

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.|Theodore Roosevelt

Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.|George Addair

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.|Plato

Teach thy tongue to say, “I do not know,” and thous shalt progress.|Maimonides

Start where you are. Use what you have.  Do what you can.|Arthur Ashe

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.  When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up.  I wrote down ‘happy’.  They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.|John Lennon

Fall seven times and stand up eight.|Japanese Proverb

When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.|Helen Keller

Everything has beauty, but not everyone can see.|Confucius

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.|Anne Frank

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.|Lao Tzu

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.|Maya Angelou

Happiness is not something readymade.  It comes from your own actions.|Dalai Lama

If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat! Just get on.|Sheryl Sandberg

First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.|Aristotle

If the wind will not serve, take to the oars.|Latin Proverb

You can’t fall if you don’t climb.  But there’s no joy in living your whole life on the ground.|Unknown

We must believe that we are gifted for something, and that this thing, at whatever cost, must be attained.|Marie Curie

Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.|Les Brown

Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.|Joshua J. Marine

If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.|Booker T. Washington

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.|Leonardo da Vinci

Limitations live only in our minds.  But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.|Jamie Paolinetti

You take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing, no one to blame.|Erica Jong

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

I didn’t fail the test. I just found ways to do it wrong.|Benjamin Franklin

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.|Bill Cosby

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.| Albert Einstein

The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person who is doing it.|Chinese Proverb

There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.|Roger Staubach

It is never too late to be what you might have been.|George Eliot

You become what you believe.|Oprah Winfrey

I would rather die of passion than of boredom.|Vincent van Gogh

A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty.|Unknown

It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings. |Ann Landers

If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money.|Abigail Van Buren

Build your own dreams, or someone else will hire you to build theirs.|Farrah Gray

The battles that count aren’t the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself–the invisible battles inside all of us–that’s where it’s at.|Jesse Owens

Education costs money.  But then so does ignorance.|Sir Claus Moser

I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear.|Rosa Parks

It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.|Confucius

If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.|Oprah Winfrey

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.|Dalai Lama

You can’t use up creativity.  The more you use, the more you have.|Maya Angelou

Dream big and dare to fail.|Norman Vaughan

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.|Martin Luther King Jr.

Do what you can, where you are, with what you have.|Teddy Roosevelt

If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.|Tony Robbins

Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.|Gloria Steinem

It’s your place in the world; it’s your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live.|Mae Jemison

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don’t try.|Beverly Sills

Remember no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.|Eleanor Roosevelt

Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.|Grandma Moses

The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.|Ayn Rand

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

It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.|Abraham Lincoln

Change your thoughts and you change your world.|Norman Vincent Peale

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.|Benjamin Franklin

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, “I’m possible!”|Audrey Hepburn

The only way to do great work is to love what you do.|Steve Jobs

If you can dream it, you can achieve it.|Zig Ziglar

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.|H. G. Wells

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.|Napoleon Bonaparte

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.|Bertrand Russell

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

Don't be so humble - you are not that great.|Golda Meir

His ignorance is encyclopedic|Abba Eban

If a man does his best, what else is there?|General George S. Patton

Political correctness is tyranny with manners.|Charlton Heston

You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.|Ayn Rand

When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity; when many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion.|Robert Pirsig

Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer.|Saint Thomas More

I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better.|A. J. Liebling

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

Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.|Saint Augustine

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

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

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

You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.|Leon Trotsky

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

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

This book fills a much-needed gap.|Moses Hadas

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

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.|EE Cummings

Give me a museum and I'll fill it.|Pablo Picasso

Assassins!|Arturo Toscanini  to his orchestra

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is.|Yogi Berra

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.|Thomas Jefferson

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

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

Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right.|Henry Ford

Do, or do not. There is no 'try'.|Yoda

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.|Oscar Wilde

Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.|George Burns

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

There are no facts, only interpretations.|Friedrich Nietzsche

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

The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.|Edsgar Dijkstra

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg.|Bjarne Stroustrup

A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.|Paul Erdos

Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back.|Paul Erdos

Happiness equals reality minus expectations.|Tom Magliozzi

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

Dancing is silent poetry.|Simonides

The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.|Salvador Dali

If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.|George Bernard Shaw

But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near.|Andrew Marvell

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

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

Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.|Friedrich Nietzsche

Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn.|Arnold Schwarzenegger

Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.|Friedrich von Schiller

We have art to save ourselves from the truth.|Friedrich Nietzsche

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

I have never killed anyone, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.|Clarence Darrow

I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it.|John F. Kennedy

I have nothing to declare except my genius.|Oscar Wilde

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.|H. G. Wells

Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.|Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

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

Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake a whole relationship.|Sharon Stone

If you are going through hell, keep going.|Sir Winston Churchill

Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass; it's about learning to dance in the rain.|Vivian Greene

He who has a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how'.|Friedrich Nietzsche

Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.|Frank Lloyd Wright

I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.|Frank Lloyd Wright

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

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.|Voltaire

He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.|H. H. Munro (Saki)

I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.|Sir Winston Churchill

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

If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.|J. Paul Getty

Facts are the enemy of truth.|Don Quixote - Man of La Mancha

When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.|George Washington Carver

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

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

I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.|Frederick (II) the Great

Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.|Aldous Huxley

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

Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.|Sherlock Holmes

Black holes are where God divided by zero.|Steven Wright

I've had a wonderful time, but this wasn't it.|Groucho Marx

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

We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.|Vince Lombardi

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.|James Branch Cabell

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship.|John D. Rockefeller

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.|Ambrose Bierce

You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.|Gilbert Keith Chesterton

An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered.|Gilbert Keith Chesterton

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.|Umberto Eco

Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down.|Jimmy Durante

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.|Samuel Johnson

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.|Dwight D. Eisenhower

The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.|Albert Einstein

Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working.|Albert Giacometti

There's a limit to how many times you can read how great you are and what an inspiration you are, but I'm not there yet.|Randy Pausch

It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.|Carl Sagan

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.|Arthur Schopenhauer

Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.|Elbert Hubbard

There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.|Frank Zappa

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.|Antoine de Saint Exupery

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.|Isaac Asimov

If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.|Carl Sagan

It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts.|G. B. Burgin

Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.|Auric Goldfinger

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance|Oscar Wilde

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.|Jimi Hendrix

A clever man commits no minor blunders.|Goethe

Unable to suppress love, the Church wanted at least to disinfect it, and it created marriage.|Charles Baudelaire

Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours.|Richard Bach

A witty saying proves nothing.|Voltaire

Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.|James Stephens

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

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.|Will Durant

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.|Xenocrates

It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.|Albert Einstein

If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.|Mario Andretti

I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means.|Clarence Darrow

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.|Henry Ford

I'll sleep when I'm dead.|Warren Zevon

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.|Mahatma Gandhi

When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.|Friedrich Nietzsche

The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, they finish by loading honors on your head.|Jean Cocteau

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

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it|Henry David Thoreau

While we are postponing, life speeds by.|Seneca

Where are we going, and why am I in this handbasket?|Bumper Sticker

God, please save me from your followers!|Bumper Sticker

Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.|the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.|Mahatma Gandhi

Luck is the residue of design.|Branch Rickey - former owner of the Brooklyn Dodger Baseball Team

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.|Mel Brooks

Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.|Bertrand Russell

Wit is educated insolence.|Aristotle

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.|Socrates

Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't|Erica Jong

Show me a woman who doesn't feel guilty and I'll show you a man.|Erica Jong

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.|Maya Angelou

Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me.|Ambrose Bierce

A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.|Gore Vidal

Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.|Samuel Palmer

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.|Albert Einstein

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

Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.|Guy Davenport

When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.|Sir Winston Churchill

Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has no heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.|Sir Winston Churchill

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.|Niels Bohr

We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?|Niels Bohr

When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.|Buckminster Fuller

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite.|Paul Dirac

I would have made a good Pope.|Richard M. Nixon

In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience.|W.B. Prescott

Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin.|John von Neumann

The mistakes are all waiting to be made.|Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.|Aristotle

Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.|Bob Metcalfe

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.|Albert Einstein

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.|Bertrand Russell

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.|H. H. Munro (Saki)

There are two ways of constructing a software design; one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.|C. A. R. Hoare

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.|Albert Einstein

What do you take me for, an idiot?|General Charles de Gaulle , when a journalist asked him if he was happy

I heard someone tried the monkeys-on-typewriters bit trying for the plays of W. Shakespeare, but all they got was the collected works of Francis Bacon.|Bill Hirst

Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.|Jean-Paul Sartre

A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.|Frank Lloyd Wright

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.|George Bernard Shaw

If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.|Alice Roosevelt Longworth

A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.|Oscar Wilde

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.|John F. Kennedy

Logic is in the eye of the logician.|Gloria Steinem

No one can earn a million dollars honestly.|William Jennings Bryan

Everything has been figured out, except how to live.|Jean-Paul Sartre

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.|Martin Fraquhar Tupper

Thank you for sending me a copy of your book - I'll waste no time reading it.|Moses Hadas

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

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.|Oscar Wilde

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.|Goethe

In the end, everything is a gag.|Charlie Chaplin

The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.|Lucille S. Harper

You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.|Yogi Berra

I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.|Walt Disney

He who hesitates is a damned fool.|Mae West

Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater.|Gail Godwin

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.|Henry Kissinger

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.|Charles de Gaulle

You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.|Sacha Guitry

Behind every great fortune there is a crime.|Honore de Balzac

If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.|Aristotle Onassis

I am not young enough to know everything.|Oscar Wilde

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.|Oscar Wilde

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.|General George Patton

Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.|Ralph Waldo Emerson

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.|George Bernard Shaw

I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking.|Katherine Cebrian

I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.|Steven Wright

Mr. Wagner has beautiful moments but bad quarters of an hour.|Gioacchino Rossini

Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.|Oliver Herford

I have read your book and much like it.|Moses Hadas

The covers of this book are too far apart.|Ambrose Bierce

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.|Flannery O'Connor

Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.|Igor Stravinsky

Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.|Voltaire

When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before.|Mae West

I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.|Elvis Presley

No Sane man will dance.|Cicero

Hell is a half-filled auditorium.|Robert Frost

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.|Carl Gustav Jung

Vote early and vote often.|Al Capone

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

Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.|Mark Twain

Hell is other people.|Jean-Paul Sartre

Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.|Robert J. Oppenheimer

Happiness is good health and a bad memory.|Ingrid Bergman

Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.|Thomas Jones

You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone.|Al Capone

The gods too are fond of a joke.|Aristotle

Distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.|Henry David Thoreau

The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.|Gloria Leonard

It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man.|Professor Scott Elledge

Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work.|Robert Orben

The cynics are right nine times out of ten.|Henry Louis Mencken

There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.|George Bernard Shaw

Attention to health is life's greatest hindrance.|Plato

Plato was a bore.|Friedrich Nietzsche

Nietzsche was stupid and abnormal.|Leo Tolstoy

I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.|Ernest Hemingway

Hemingway was a jerk.|Harold Robbins

Men are not disturbed by things, but the view they take of things.|Epictetus

What about things like bullets?|Herb Kimmel, Behavioralist

How can I lose to such an idiot?|Aaron Nimzovich

I don't feel good.|Luther Burbank

Nothing is wrong with California that a rise in the ocean level wouldn't cure.|Ross MacDonald

Men have become the tools of their tools.|Henry David Thoreau

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.|Mark Twain

It is now possible for a flight attendant to get a pilot pregnant.|Richard J. Ferris, president of United Airlines

I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television.|Gore Vidal

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

Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.|Abba Eban

A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually.|Abba Eban

To sit alone with my conscience will be judgment enough for me.|Charles William Stubbs

Sanity is a madness put to good uses.|George Santayana

Imitation is the sincerest form of television.|Fred Allen

Always do right- this will gratify some and astonish the rest.|Mark Twain

In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.|Adlai Stevenson

Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research.|Wilson Mizner

Why don't you write books people can read?|Nora Joyce to her husband James

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.|T. S. Eliot

Criticism is prejudice made plausible.|Henry Louis Mencken

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

Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting.|Karl Wallenda

Opportunities multiply as they are seized.|Sun Tzu

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.|Lao-Tzu

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.|Alan Kay

Never mistake motion for action.|Ernest Hemingway

Hell is paved with good samaritans.|William M. Holden

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.|George Bernard Shaw

Silence is argument carried out by other means.|ErnestoCheGuevara

Well done is better than well said.|Benjamin Franklin

The average person thinks he isn't.|Father Larry Lorenzoni

Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.|William Congreve

A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.|Helen Rowland

Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.|Lewis Perelman

Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency.|Lewis Perelman

Sometimes it is not enough that we do our best; we must do what is required.|Sir Winston Churchill

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.|Henry David Thoreau

There is a country in Europe where multiple-choice tests are illegal.|Sigfried Hulzer

Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done.|Carl Friedrich Gauss

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.|Sir Winston Churchill

I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.|Thomas Watson

I think it would be a good idea.|Mahatma Gandhi , when asked what he thought of Western civilization

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.|Edmund Burke

I'm not a member of any organized political party, I'm a Democrat!|Will Rogers

If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?|Will Rogers

The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.|Von Clausewitz

Democracy does not guarantee equality of conditions - it only guarantees equality of opportunity.|Irving Kristol

There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.|Ken Olson

The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C', the idea must be feasible.|Yale Professor

Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?|H. M. Warner

We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.|Decca Recording Co.

Everything that can be invented has been invented.|Charles H. Duell

Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.|Mark Twain

A pint of sweat saves a gallon of blood.|General George S. Patton

After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.|Cato the Elder

He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.|Abraham Lincoln

Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.|last words of Pancho Villa

The right to swing my fist ends where the other man's nose begins.|Oliver Wendell Holmes

The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.|Tom Clancy

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.|Mark Twain

It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.|Niccolo Machiavelli

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.|Benjamin Franklin

The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep.|George Stephanopolous

We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees.|Jason Kidd

Half this game is ninety percent mental.|Yogi Berra

There is only one nature - the division into science and engineering is a human imposition, not a natural one. Indeed, the division is a human failure; it reflects our limited capacity to comprehend the whole.|Bill Wulf

There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.|Flannery O'Connor

He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.|Sir Winston Churchill

Write drunk; edit sober.|Ernest Hemingway

I criticize by creation - not by finding fault.|Cicero

Love is friendship set on fire.|Jeremy Taylor

Woman was God's second mistake.|Friedrich Nietzsche

This isn't right, this isn't even wrong.|Wolfgang Pauli

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.|Henry Louis Mencken

Pray, v.: To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.|Ambrose Bierce

Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.|Henry Louis Mencken

Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.|Voltaire

Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.|Rudyard Kipling

He would make a lovely corpse.|Charles Dickens

I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial.|Irvin S. Cobb

I worship the quicksand he walks in.|Art Buchwald

Wagner's music is better than it sounds.|Mark Twain

A poem is never finished, only abandoned.|Paul Valery

We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.|General Douglas MacArthur

With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people can do evil; but for good people to do evil, that takes religion.|Steven Weinberg

If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?|Seymour Cray

#3 pencils and quadrille pads.|Seymoure Cray

Interesting - I use a Mac to help me design the next Cray.|Seymoure Cray

Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis.|Pierre Laplace

I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.|Francois-Auguste Rodin

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.|Mark Twain

The truth is more important than the facts.|Frank Lloyd Wright

Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.|Wernher Von Braun

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.|Oscar Wilde

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.|Albert Einstein