A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Procrastination isn't the problem, it's the solution. So procrastinate now, don't put it off.
- Ellen DeGeneres

All science is either physics or stamp collecting.
- Ernest Rutherford

I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
- Emo Phillips

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.
- Laurence J. Peter

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
- Aldous Huxley

Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.
- Laurence J. Peter

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
- A. A. Milne

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
- Plutarch

Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.
- George Santayana

We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes.
- Doctor Who

Live out of your imagination, not your history.
- Stephen Covey

It was no wonder that people were so horrible when they started life as children.
- Kingsley Amis

In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
- Peter Drucker

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
- Hesketh Pearson

After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say "I want to see the manager."
- William S. Burroughs

Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.
- Robert Frost

Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.
- Albert Camus

Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling.
- Edna Ferber

There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
- Khalil Gibran

The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.
- P. G. Wodehouse

Government is too big and too important to be left to the politicians.
- Chester Bowles

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
- Euripides

Follow your own star!
- Dante Alighieri

There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.
- Kurt Vonnegut

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

Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
- Samuel Johnson

It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.
- Arthur C. Clarke

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
- Daniel J. Boorstin

Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

True change takes place in the imagination.
- Thomas Moore

Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
- William Butler Yeats

Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
- Bertrand Russell

It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.
- James Thurber

The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.
- Doug Larson

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Life is not an exact science, it is an art.
- Samuel Butler

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.
- George Bernard Shaw

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.
- Joseph Conrad

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.
- Jean Paul Richter

No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.
- John Donne

The follies which a man regrets most, in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.
- Helen Rowland

Acting is not being emotional, but being able to express emotion.
- Kate Reid

If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
- Laurence J. Peter

A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.
- Albert Schweitzer

Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
- Thomas H. Huxley

He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
- Saki

What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
- Henry David Thoreau

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We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid.
- William Faulkner

I look at what the phone company does and do the opposite.
- Craig Newmark

In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning.
- George Orwell

If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.
- Donald H. Rumsfeld

We can't command our love, but we can our actions.
- Arthur Conan Doyle

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
- Dick Cavett

Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet.
- Dave Barry

I could prove God statistically.
- George Gallup

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.
- Jane Austen

Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.
- Thomas Sowell

Man has to suffer. When he has no real afflictions, he invents some.
- Jose Marti

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
- Thomas A. Edison

If I am what I have and if I lose what I have who then am I?
- Erich Fromm

I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
- Mitch Hedberg

I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.
- George Bernard Shaw

If there's anything unsettling to the stomach, it's watching actors on television talk about their personal lives.
- Marlon Brando

When all you own is a hammer, every problem starts looking like a nail.
- Abraham Maslow

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

Love thy neighbour as yourself, but choose your neighbourhood.
- Louise Beal

Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.
- John Barrymore

The first duty of love is to listen.
- Paul Tillich

Love is an exploding cigar we willingly smoke.
- Lynda Barry

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein

Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.
- John Russell

A goal is a dream with a deadline.
- Napoleon Hill

You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a firefly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.
- Fred Allen

The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
- John Kenneth Galbraith

People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it.
- Ogden Nash

Experience is the teacher of all things.
- Julius Caesar

The only thing that lasts longer than a friend's love is the stupidity that keeps us from knowing any better.
- Randy K. Milholland

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
- Indira Gandhi

Partying is such sweet sorrow.
- Robert Byrne

Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.
- Blaise Pascal

The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.
- Aesop

If mankind minus one were of one opinion, then mankind is no more justified in silencing the one than the one - if he had the power - would be justified in silencing mankind.
- John Stuart Mill

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
- Calvin Trillin

Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense.
- Carl Sagan

We are what we believe we are.
- C. S. Lewis

Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.
- Peter Ustinov

If you believe everything you read, better not read.
- Japanese Proverb

Only the mediocre are always at their best.
- Jean Giraudoux