Abraham Lincoln
"In the end it's not the years in your life that count; it's the life in your years."
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today."
"You can fool all of the people some of the time, some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time."
Aesop
"After all is said and done, more is said than done."
Albert Einstein
"Only two things are infinite - the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
"When you are courting a nice girl, an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder, a second seems like an hour. That's relativity."
"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits."
"It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."
"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
"Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish."
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."
"Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love."
Aldous Huxley
"Maybe this world is another planet's hell."
Alexander Graham Bell
"When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us."
Alexander Pope
"Fools rush in where angels fear to tread."
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"Can a man who is warm understand one who is freezing?"
Alexandre Dumas
"Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit. Alexandre Dumas All for one and one for all.""
Alfred Hitchcock
"Drama is life with the dull bits cut out."
Alfred Lord Tennyson
"Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all."
Anais Nin
"We don't see things as they are; we see things as we are."
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."
Anatole France
"To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan but also believe."
Anna Freud
"Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training."
Anonymous
"The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do."
"A real friend is someone who walks in when the rest of the world walks out."
"Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell."
"Good supervision is the art of getting average people to do superior work."
"There is safety in numbers."
"The only thing in life achieved without effort is failure."
"The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack."
"Many receive advice; only the wise profit from it."
"Remember, no one can make you feel inferior, without your consent."
"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals."
"Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple."
"The secret of happiness is not doing what one likes, but in liking what one does."
"Only those who keep trying eventually win."
"Getting something done is an accomplishment; getting something done right is an achievement."
"Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do."
"The best time to do something worthwhile is between yesterday and tomorrow."
Antoine de Saint Exupery
"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
"Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction."
Aristotle
"Wit is educated insolence."
"Education is the best provision for the journey to old age."
"One swallow does not make the spring."
"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work."
"We are what we repeatedly do."
Benjamin Disraeli
"Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours."
"The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to him his own."
"Little things affect little minds."
"The secret of success is constancy of purpose."
"Most fools think they are only ignorant."
Charles Darwin
"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."
Charles de Gaulle
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow; learn as if you were to live forever. Mahatma Gandhi Nothing strengthens authority as much as silence""
"Graveyards are full of indispensable men."
Coco Chanel
"There are people who have money and people who are rich."
Conficius
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."
"Respect yourself and others will respect you."
E.M. Cioran
"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others. Cicero Progress is the injustice each generation commits with regard to its predecessors."
Emile Zola
"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work."
Ernest Hemmingway
"Never confuse movement with action."
Euripides
"In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the other side."
"Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife."
F. de la Rochefoucauld
"Many people despise wealth but few know how to give it away."
"Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice."
F.W. Robertson
"Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life."
Francois Rabelais
"If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must break your mirror."
Franklin D. Roosevelt
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."
Friedrich Nietzche
"What doesn't kill you will make you stronger."
"The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time."
"When one has much to put into them, a day has a hundred pockets."
G. K. Chesterton
"Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up."
Galileo Galilei
"We cannot teach people anything; we can only help them discover it within themselves."
George Bernard Shaw
"Great Britain and the United States are nations separated by a common language."
"The greatest of our evils and the worst of our crimes is poverty."
"Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children!"
"Martyrdom ... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability."
"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing."
"Reasonable men adapt to the world. Unreasonable men adapt the world to themselves. That's why all progress depends on unreasonable men."
Gracie Allen
"When I was born, I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half."
Henry Ford
"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."
"You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do."
Henry Kissinger
"The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvellously."
"The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault."
Honore de Balzac
"Behind every great fortune there is a crime."
Immanuel Kant
"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life."
Ingrid Bergman
"Happiness lies in good health and a bad memory."
Isaac Newton
"Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy."
J. Paul Getty
"Money isn't everything but it sure keeps you in touch with your children."
"If you can actually count your money, then you're not a rich man."
Jacques Bossuet
"The heart has reasons that reason does not understand."
Jean Cocteau
"I believe in luck; how else can you explain the success of those you dislike?"
Jean-Paul Sartre
"Hell is other people."
Johann Wolfgang van Goethe
"Enjoy when you can and endure when you must."
"Whatever you can do or dream, begin it."
"A man can stand anything except a succession of ordinary days."
"Talent develops in tranquillity, character in the full current of human life."
John F. Kennedy
"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."
"When written in Chinese, the word crisis is composed of two characters. One represents danger, the other represents opportunity."
"Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all."
John Lennon
"Life is what happens to you when you are busy making other plans."
John Maynard Keynes
"Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain. John F. Kennedy Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent."
John Ruskin
"When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece."
John Saxe
"It is wise to learn; it is God-like to create."
Jonathan Swift
"Vision is the art of seeing things invisible."
Leo Tolstoy
"Love is real only when a person can sacrifice himself for another."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity."
"Life is a play. It's not its length, but its performance that counts."
Mahatma Gandhi
"I believe in equality for everyone, except reporters and photographers."
"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."
Malcolm Forbes
"The biggest mistake people make in life is not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy."
Marcel Proust
"The voyage to discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes."
Marie Curie
"Nothing in life is to be feared; it is only to be understood."
Mark Twain
"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."
"Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint."
"Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been."
Marlene Dietrich
"It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter."
Martin Luther King
"In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends."
Michael Pritchard
"You don't stop laughing because you grow old; you grow old because you stop laughing."
Miguel de Cervantes
"Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn."
Napoleon Bonaparte
"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever."
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
Niccolo Machiavelli
"No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution."
Orlando A. Battista
"An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it. "
Oscar Wilde
"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it."
"Some cause happiness wherever they go; other whenever they go."
"Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes."
"Wisdom is knowing how little we know."
"To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that's all."
"The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything."
"No man is rich enough to buy back his past."
"There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it."
Otto von Bismarck
"Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others."
Ovid
"Burdens become light when cheerfully borne."
Pablo Picasso
"The chief enemy of creativity is good taste."
Plutarch
"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled."
Robert Louis Stevenson
"Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap ... but by the seeds you plant!"
"Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary."
Rudyard Kipling
"Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves."
"Gardens are not made by sitting in the shade."
Salman Rushdie
"If it can't be cured, it must be endured."
Salvador Dali
"The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad."
"Have no fear of perfection; you'll never reach it."
Samuel Johnson
"Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks."
"When making your choices in life, do not forget to live."
"Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise."
Sigmund Freud
"Men are more moral than they think, and far more immoral than they can imagine."
Sir Francis Bacon
"The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship."
"Knowledge is power."
Talleyrand
"I am more afraid of an army of a hundred sheep led by a lion, than an army of a hundred lions led by a sheep."
Tennessee Williams
"All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness."
Theodore Roosevelt
"The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything."
Thomas Brackett Reed
"A statesman is a successful politician who is dead."
Thomas Edison
"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration."
Thomas Jefferson
"In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock."
Thomas Moore
"To the soul, there is hardly anything more healing than friendship."
Victor Hugo
"Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age."
"Life is the flower for which love is the honey."
Vincent Van Gogh
"Conscience is a man's compass."
Voltaire
"The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error."
"Anything that is too stupid to be spoken in sung."
"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh."
"The greatest consolation in life is to say what one thinks."
"Doubt is not an agreeable condition, but certainty is an absurd one."
"The secret of being a bore is to tell everything."
W. Somerset Maugham
"People ask for criticism, but they only want praise."
"It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late."
William Butler Yeats
"Education is not the filling of a pail, but rather the lighting of a fire."
William Faulkner
"A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth, and that is why we call what he writes fiction."
William Gladstone
"All the world over I will back the masses against the classes."
William Shakespeare
"Action is eloquence."
"All that glitters is not gold."
William Thackery
"A good laugh is sunshine in a house."
Winston Churchill
"The price of greatness is responsibility."
"We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give."
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
"Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm."
"If you are going through hell, keep going."
Woody Allen
"I'm not afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens."
