Quotes by famous Persons

"But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near."

- Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)

 

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

- Plato (427-347 B.C.)

 

"The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it."

- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

"Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'."

- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

"Everybody pities the weak; jealousy you have to earn."

- Arnold Schwarzenegger (1947-)

"Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain."

- Friedrich von Schiller (1759-1805)

"We have art to save ourselves from the truth."

- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

 

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."

- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

 

"I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it."

- John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) when asked what is his favorite song

 

"I have nothing to declare except my genius."

- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) upon arriving at U.S. customs 1882

 

"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."

- H. G. Wells (1866-1946)

 

"Talent does what it can; genius does what it must."

- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)

 

"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 (1874-1965)

 

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

- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

 

"Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions."

- Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)

 

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

- Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)

 

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."

- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

 

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

- Voltaire (1694-1778)

 

"He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death."

- H. H. Munro (Saki) (1870-1916)

 

"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 (1874-1965)

 

"I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them."

- Ian L. Fleming (1908-1964)

 

"If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars."

- J. Paul Getty (1892-1976)

 

"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 (1864-1943)

 

"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 (1903-1977)

 

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

- Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)

 

"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 (1894-1963)

 

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

- George Eliot (1819-1880)

 

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

- Sherlock Holmes (by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859-1930)

 

"Black holes are where God divided by zero."

- Steven Wright

 

"I've had a wonderful time, but this wasn't it."

- Groucho Marx (1895-1977)

 

"It's kind of fun to do the impossible."

- Walt Disney (1901-1966)

 

"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 (1874-1960)

 

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

- Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)

 

"You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it."

- Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936)

 

"An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered."

- Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936)

 

"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 (1709-1784)

 

"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."

- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969), Inaugural Address, January 20, 1953

 

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

- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)