Quotes and Sayings

Obstacles do not exist to be surrendered to, but only to be broken.

Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf

There is no need to sally forth, for it remains true that those things which make us human are, curiously enough, always close at hand. Resolve then, that on this very ground, with small flags waving and tiny blasts of tiny trumpets, we have met the enemy, and not only may he be ours, he may be us.

Walt Kelly

In the night all cats are gray.

Miguel de Cervantes

Is the chemical aftertaste the reason why people eat hot dogs, or is it some kind of bonus?

Neil Gaiman

And come he slow, or come he fast, It is but death who comes at last.

Sir Walter Scott, Marmion (1808)

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

Albert Einstein

The great thing about television is that if something important happens anywhere in the world, day or night, you can always change the channel.

From "Taxi".

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

Mother Teresa

People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.

Russell Bake

Did you know that every two hours the nations of this world spend as much on armaments as they spend on the children of this world every yea.

Peter Ustinov

Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue, But, like the shadow, proves the substance true.

Alexander Pope, Essay on Man

How good bad music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy!

Friedrich Nietzsche

Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone. For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything.

John Steinbeck

The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility.

Eric Hoffer, "The True Believer", 1951

There is no history of mankind, there are only many histories of all kinds of aspects of human life. And one of these is the history of political power. This is elevated into the history of the world.

Karl Poppe

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science.

Albert Einstein

We love in others what we lack ourselves, and would be everything but what we are.

Charles A. Stoddard

A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.

Alan J. Perlis

The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.

Salvador Dali

A good front is half the battle in love or war.

Kim Hubbard

Do what you fear and fear disappears.

David Schwartz

About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.

Herbert Hoove

All dogmas perish the thinking mind, especially ones you agree with.

Adam Richardson

Familiarity may breed contempt in some areas of human behavior, but in the field of social ideas it is the touchstone of acceptability.

J. William Galbraith

We take care of our health, we lay up money, we make our roof tight and our clothing sufficient, but who provides wisely that he shall not be wanting the best property of all - - Friends?

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Losers visualize the penalties of failure. Winners visualize the rewards of success.

William S. Gilbert

I broke something today, and I realized I should break something once a week... to remind me how fragile life is.

Andy Warhol

Religion is an illusion, and it derives its strength from its readiness to fit in with our instinctual wishful impulses.

Sigmund Freud

Of what shall a man be proud, if he is not proud of his friends.

Robert Louis Stephenson

There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

James Branch Cabell

Until you lose your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.

Margaret Mitchell

When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.

Bernard Bailey

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

George Bernard Shaw

These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man - Made sound never equaled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.

Alfred Hitchcock

My friends are my estate.

Emily Dickinson