Saki

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

I. F. Stone

If you live long enough, the venerability factor creeps in; first, you get accused of things you never did, and later, credited for virtues you never had.
- I. F. Stone

Daniel Webster

"It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters."
- Daniel Webster

John J. Plomp

You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.
- John J. Plomp

Tom Peters

If you're not confused, you're not paying attention.
- Tom Peters

Dr. Joyce Brothers

"Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success."
- Dr. Joyce Brothers

Robert F. Kennedy

"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."
- Robert F. Kennedy

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Stephen King

The road to hell is paved with adverbs.
- Stephen King

Louis L'Amour

Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content.
- Louis L'Amour

Jim Rohn

"Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person we become."
- Jim Rohn

Admiral Grace Hopper

If it's a good idea, go ahead and do it. It is much easier to apologize than it is to get permission.
- Admiral Grace Hopper

Kin Hubbard

The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
- Kin Hubbard

Aristotle

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.
- Aristotle

T. S. Eliot

Humankind cannot stand very much reality.
- T. S. Eliot

Dale Carnegie

"All life is a chance. So take it! The person who goes furthest is the one who is willing to do and dare."
- Dale Carnegie

George S. Patton

Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.
- George S. Patton

Walter Williams

A thief is more moral than a congressman; when a thief steals your money, he doesn't demand you thank him.
- Walter Williams

Lord Acton

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
- Lord Acton (1887)

Winston Churchill

Politics are almost as exciting as war and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics - many times.
- Winston Churchill

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Sigmund Freud

The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.
- Sigmund Freud

Harry S. Truman

It's a recession when your neighbour loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
- Harry S. Truman

Herbert Hoover

Every collectivist revolution rides in on a Trojan horse of "emergency". It was the tactic of Lenin, Hitler, and Mussolini. In the collectivist sweep over a dozen minor countries of Europe, it was the cry of men striving to get on horseback. And "emergency" became the justification of the subsequent steps. This technique of creating emergency is the greatest achievement that demagoguery attains.
- Herbert Hoover

Aldous Huxley

An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
- Aldous Huxley

Marlene Dietrich

I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.
- Marlene Dietrich

Thomas Edison

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."
- Thomas Edison

Albert Einstein

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
- Albert Einstein

Pablo Picasso

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
- Pablo Picasso

Al Capp

Abstract art is the product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.
- Al Capp

Mark Twain

Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.
- Mark Twain