More collected quotes

"Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young." - W. Somerset Maugham

"Do your damnedest in an ostentatious manner all the time." -General George S. PattonAmerican general in World War I and II, 1885-1945

"Humor is a rubber sword - it allows you to make a point without drawing blood." - Mary Hirsch

"Much learning does not teach understanding." – Heraclitus

"There are years that ask questions and years that answer." - Zora Neale Hurston, folklorist and writer (1891-1960)

"Laughter is a strong medicine, maybe the most powerful medicine of all. It takes great people and remarkable individuals to be able to laugh at themselves, especially in times of terrible adversity, but those who do usually manage to survive." - Pedro Cue

"You can live a lifetime and, at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself." - Beryl Markham

"A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him." - David Brinkley

"Passion, not pedigree, will win the end." - Jon Bon Jovi

"Nothing in recent years, on television or anywhere else, has improved on a good story that begins 'Once upon a time. . .'" - William J. Bennett, "The Children's Book of Virtues"

"He who thinks by the inch and talks by the yard deserves to be kicked by the foot." – Anonymous

"Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy." -Nora EphronScreenwriter and director

"No man ever listened himself out of a job." - Calvin Coolidge

Life's disappointments are harder to take when you don't know any swear words.- Calvin & Hobbes. Fictional characters from the comic series created by Bill Watterson.

"People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools." - Alice Walker

"In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins. Not through strength, but through persistence." –Unknown

"The most likely moment for something incredible to happen to me was the moment I was most certain nothing ever would." - Jane Pauley

"Pursue one great decisive aim with force and determination." -Karl von Clausewitz

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer." - Albert Camus (1913-1960)

"Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it." - E. B. White

"Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined." - Johnny Carson

"Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it." - Andre Gide

"A man who builds his own pedestal had better use strong cement." - Anna Quindlen, writer

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.- Katherine Mansfield. New Zealander Writer, 1888-1923

"Only if we are secure in our beliefs can we see the comical side of the universe." - Flannery O'Connor

"A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd." - Max Lucado "And the Angels Were Silent"

"To achieve the marvelous, it is precisely the unthinkable that must be thought." - Tom Robbins, "Jitterbug Perfume"

"Opportunity dances with those who are already on the dance floor." - Jackson Brown

"A person without a sense of humor is like a wagon without springs. It's jolted by every pebble on the road." - Henry Ward Beecher

"People and things do not upset us, rather we upset ourselves by believing that they can upset us." - Albert Ellis

Quotes: batch 2

"The writer has to take the most used, most familiar objects -- nouns, pronouns, verbs, adverbs - ball them together and make them bounce." - Maya Angelou


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


"The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom." - H.L. Mencken


"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing." - Agatha Christie


"Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience." - Comte de Buffon


Find out who you are and do it on purpose.- Dolly Parton. Popular American country Singer and Actress, b.1946


"Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives." - William Dement


"It's hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning." - Bill Watterson, comic strip artist (1958- ), in his comic strip Calvin & Hobbes


"Adventure today means finding one's way back to the silence and stillness of a thousand years ago." - Pico Iyer


"Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated; you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps." - David Lloyd George


"Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over." - F. Scott Fitzgerald


"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 opened for us." - Helen Keller


"Words are mere bubbles of water, but deeds are drops of gold." - Chinese proverb


"Never believe anything until it has been officially denied." - Claud Cockburn


"Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself." - Friedrich Nietzsche


"Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficulty for some people, nor for others, easier." - Baltasar Gracian


"Never fight an inanimate object." - P.J. O'Rourke


“The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake - you can't learn anything from being perfect.” - Anonymous


"When you don't know what you're talking about, it's hard to know when you're finished." - Tommy Smothers


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


"The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart." - Helen Keller


“I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.” - Billy Joel


“Show up, pay attention, speak from the heart, and don't be attached to the outcome.” - Lynne Rorsche


“All mortals tend to turn into the things they are pretending to be.” - C.S. Lewis. British Scholar and Novelist. 1898-1963


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


“I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.” - Edith Sitwell


“If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.” - Virginia Woolf


“God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.” - Chester W. Nimitz


“The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.” - Henry Kissinger


“One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.” - Will Durant


“You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.” - Cecil Baxter


"If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else" - Marvin Gaye


“If we are facing the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.” - Buddhist proverb


"It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary." - Winston Churchill


“Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not get bent out of shape.” - Anonymous


“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.” - Virginia Woolf


“When you realize you've made a mistake, make amends immediately. It's easier to eat crow while it's still warm.” = Dan Heist


"Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body." - Seneca


“Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.” - Virginia Woolf


"Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so." - Lord Chesterfield


"Tell a man he is brave, and you help him to become so" - Thomas Carlyle


"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." - William Butler Yeats


Graham Greene was born on October 2, 1904English novelist, short-story writer, playwright, and journalist, 1904-1991Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those, who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, the melancholia, the panic fear, which is inherent in a human condition


"Be the change you want to see in the world." - Mahatma Gandhi


"Sometimes when people are under stress, they hate to think, and it's the time when they most need to think." - Bill Clinton


"Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do" -Voltaire


“Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” -Abraham Lincoln


"One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you." -Larry Gelbart

“The best time to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.” -Josh Billings


“He who angers you conquers you.” -Elizabeth Kenny


“You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.” -Michael Pritchard


“Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.” -Malcolm Muggeridge


"When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take - choose the bolder." -Ezra Pound

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


“Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy, you must have somebody to divide it with.” -Mark Twain


"If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story." -Orson Welles


“Even the fish wouldn't have been caught if he'd kept his mouth shut.” -Anonymous


"Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes." -Oscar Wilde

Collected Quotes

"The voice of conscience is so delicate that it is easy to stifle it; but it
is also so clear that it is impossible to mistake it." - Madame De Stael,
writer (1766-1817)

"I am an artist. I am here to live out loud." - Emile Zola

"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it." - Margaret Thatcher, British politician and prime minister. b.1925

"All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous, unpremeditated act without
benefit of experience." - Henry Miller

"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." - Albert Einstein

"You've done it before and you can do it now. See the positive
possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn
it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination." - Ralph Marston

"The imagination must not be given too much material. It must be denied food
so that it can work for itself." - Macedonlo de la Torre

"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity." - Dorothy Parker

"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit
there." - Will Rogers

"If you are too careful, you are so occupied in being careful that you are
sure to stumble over something." - Gertrude Stein

"However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the
results." - Winston Churchill, British orator, author and prime minister during World War II. 1874-1965

"You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a
man is wise by his questions." - Naguib Mahfouz, writer (1911- )

"Progress results from persistence with purpose" - Frank Tyger (also 11-21-05 post)

"Not all who wander are lost." - J.R.R. Tolkien. English Writer and Author of richly inventive epic fantasy
The Lord of the Rings, 1892-1973

"I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less
time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness
and respecting her seniority." - E.B. White

"Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human
intelligence long enough to get money from it." - Unknown

"I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it
comes from within. It is there all the time." - Anna Freud

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

"You will never change your life until you change something you do daily." -Mike Murdock

"You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was
because you didn't want to." -Robert H. Schuller, American reformed church minister, entrepreneur and author, b. b.1926

"Even though we can't have all we want, we ought to be thankful we don't get
what we deserve." -Anonymous


"Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where
teacher and pupil are located in the same individual." - Arthur Koestler,
novelist and journalist (1905-1983)

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting
started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable
tasks, and then starting on the first one." -Mark Twain, American humorist,
writer and lecturer. 1835-1910

"The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we
miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it." - Michelangelo

"After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able
to deal with the irritating details of outer life" -Evelyn Underhill, English
theologian and mystic 1875-1941

"If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?"" -Will Rogers,
American entertainer, famous for his pithy and homespun humour, 1879-1935

"There is no element of genius without some form of madness." - Leonardo
DiCaprio

"Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility." -James Thurber, American
writer, 1894-1961

"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." - Aldous Huxley

"Just living is not enough, said the Butterfly. One must have sunshine,
freedom and a little flower." - Hans Christian Anderson (1805 - 1875)

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." -Oscar Wilde, Irish poet, novelist, dramatist and critic, 1854-1900

"Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than
you imagine" -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German playwright, poet, novelist and dramatist. 1749-1832

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

"I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing
I had" -Margaret Mead, American anthropologist whose great fame owed as much to the force of her
personality and her outspokenness as it did to the quality of her scientific
work, 1901-1978

"If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it." -Andy Rooney, American journalist, correspondent, writer and producer, b.1919


"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest." - Ben Franklin

"Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with
insecurity is the only security." -John Allen Paulos

"A chief event of life is that day on which we have encountered a mind that
startled us." - R.W. Emerson

"I owned the world that hour as I rode over it. free of the earth, free of the mountains, free of the clouds, but how inseparably I was bound to them." -Charles Lindbergh quotes (American aviator remembered for the first nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic, from New York to Paris, in 1927. 1902-1974)

"In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different." - Coco Chanel

"In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit." - Albert Schweitzer

"The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis'. One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger - but recognize the opportunity." - Richard Nixon

"What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable." - Joseph Addison

"A good laugh and a long sleep are the best cures in the doctor's book." - Irish proverb

"The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves." - Carl Gustav Jung

"Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein

"Tradition is a guide and not a jailer." - W. Somerset Maugham

You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know.- Oscar Wilde. Irish Poet, Novelist, Dramatist and Critic, 1854-1900

"Great effort springs naturally from great attitude."Pat Riley

"Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it."Bill Cosby

"The best way out is always through." - Robert Frost

"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."Oscar Wilde

"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence." - Robert Frost

"In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted." - Bertrand Russell

"There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity."Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Never forget that only dead fish swims with the stream"Malcolm Muggeridge

"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower." - Steve Jobs

"I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning." - J. B. Priestly (1894-1984) English author

"A man needs a little madness, or else he never dares cut the rope and be free." - Nikos Kazantzakis, writer (1883-1957)

"Doubt can only be removed by action."Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"When humor goes, there goes civilization."Erma BombeckU.S. humorist, 1927-1996

"Without enough sleep, we all become tall two-year-olds." - JoJo Jensen, "Dirt Farmer Wisdom"

"Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute." - Josh Billings

"A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind." - Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi (1893-1986)

"To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong." - Joseph Chilton Pearce

"Reality is the leading cause of stress among those in touch with it." - Lily Tomlin

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

"A mask tells us more than a face."Oscar Wilde

"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education." - Albert Einstein

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

"The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness, you'll never find it." - C. P. Snow

"Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts." - Arnold Bennett

"People prefer to follow those who help them, not those who intimidate them." - C. Gene Wilkes

"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards." - Vernon Sanders Law