Q1. To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance - Oscar Wilde
Q2. I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
- Thomas Edison
Q3. Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.
Brendan Gill
Q4. The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. - Samuel Johnson
Q5. Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together. - Georg Lichtenberg
Q6. If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Q7. As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take the course he will. He will be sure to repent.
Socrates
Q8. Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- Oscar Wilde
Q9. Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.
Mae West
Q10. Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.
Oscar Wilde
Q11. An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
Gandhi
Q12. He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
Lao Tsu
Q13. Never invest your money in anything that eats or needs painting. Billy Rose
Q14. A rich man's joke is always funny.
Proverb
Q15. Never insult an alligator until after you have crossed the river. Cordel Hull
Q16. When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.
Dylan Thomas
Q17. I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
Winston Churchill
Q18. Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.
William Shakespeare
Q19. A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.
Oscar Wilde
Q20. There are three faithful friends—an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
Benjamin Franklin
Q21. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
Oscar Wilde
Q22. I can resist everything except temptation.
Oscar Wilde
Q23. To cease smoking is the easiest thing. I ought to know. I've done it a thousand times.
Mark Twain
Q24. Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.
Martin Luther King
Q25. Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Albert Einstein
Q26. Children are unpredictable. You never know what inconsistency they're going to catch you in next.
Franklin P. Jones
Q27. What is a committee? A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary. Richard Harkness
Q28. Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Gandhi
Q29. The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it.
Franklin P. Jones
Q30. All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should
have been more specific. Jane Wagner
Q31. Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same. Oscar Wilde
Q32. I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because
I hate plants. A. Whitney Brown
Q33. Experience is that marvellous thing that enables you recognise a mistake
when you make it again. F. P. Jones
Q34. "Sure, everyone always said 'Socrates what is the meaning of life?' or
'Socrates how can I find happiness?', did
anyone ever say 'Socrates
hemlock is poison.'???????" Socrates right before his death
Q35. When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before. - Mae West
Q36. The direct use of force is such a poor solution to any problem, it is
generally employed only by small children
and large nations. David Friedman
Q37. We must become the change we want to see. Gandhi
Q38. Start every day off with a smile and get it over with. W. C. Fields
Q39. The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new
discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!)
but 'That's funny ...' Isaac Asimov
Q40. I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation
where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. Martin Luther King
Q41.
Do just once what others say you can't do and you will never pay attention to their limitations again. James R. Cook
Q42. Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
--Albert Einstein
Q43. Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
--Albert Einstein
Q44. Its not whether
you get knocked down. Its whether you get up again.
-Vince Lombardi
Q45. Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds
discuss events; Small minds discuss people. -Eleanor Roosevelt
Q46. Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever. -
Napoleon Bonaparte
Q47. Don't be so humble - you are not that great. - Golda Meir
Q48. People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid. - Soren Kierkegaard
Q49. Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. - Albert Einstein
Q50. Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. - Albert Einstein
Q51. A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. - Sir Winston Churchill
Q52. I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended
us to forgo their use. - Galileo Galilei
Q53. In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in
practice, there is. - Jan van de Snepscheut
Q54. I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson
Q55. A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
- Paul Erdos
Q56. If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance. - George Bernard Shaw
Q57. Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. - Napoleon Bonaparte
Q58. Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. - H. G. Wells
Q59. Talent does what it can; genius does what it must. - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
Q60. The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved'
- the pig was 'committed'.
- unknown
Q61. If you are going through hell, keep going. - Sir Winston Churchill
Q62. God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
- Voltaire
Q63. Facts are the enemy of truth. - Don Quixote
Q64. We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time. - Vince Lombardi
Q65. All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher.
- Ambrose Bierce
Q66. All
truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being
self-evident.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Q67. Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. - Antoine
de Saint Exupery
Q68. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. - Will Durant
Q69. If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti
Q70. Wit is educated insolence. - Aristotle
Q71. Egotist: a person more interested in himself than in me. - Ambrose Bierce
Q72. It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. - Albert Einstein
Q73. Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. - Albert Einstein
Q74. Everything has been figured out, except how to live. - Jean-Paul Sartre
Q75. When ideas fail, words come in very handy. - Goethe
Q76. If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.
- Aristotle Onassis
Q77. I am not young enough to know everything. - Oscar Wilde
Q78. If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one? - Abraham Lincoln
Q79. Few things are harder to put up with than a good example. - Mark Twain
Q80. I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. - Mark Twain
Q81. Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting. - Karl Wallenda
Q82. Well done is better than well said. - Benjamin Franklin
Q83. There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it. - Oscar Wilde
Q84. You must believe in free will; there is no choice. - Isaac Bashevis Singer
Q85. Be sincere; be brief; be seated. - Franklin D. Roosevelt
Q86. Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth. - Franklin D. Roosevelt
Q87. From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put. - Sir Winston Churchill
Q88. When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run. - Abraham Lincoln
Q89. You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of
the people all of the time. - Abraham Lincoln
Q90. A camel is a horse designed by committee. -Sir Alec Issigonis
Q91. Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open. - Sir James Dewar
Q92. Act in the valley so that you need not fear those who stand on the hill. - Danish proverb
Q93. Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. - Samuel Butler
Q94. If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. - Anatole France
Q95. Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd. - Voltaire
Q96. A jury consists of twelve people who determine which client has the better lawyer. - Robert Frost
Q97. The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch somebody else doing it wrong, without
comment. - T. H. White
Q98. It's kind of fun to do the impossible. - Walt Disney
Q99. What orators lack in depth they make up for in length. - Charles de Secondat
Q100. Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something. - Plato
Q102. Once a woman has given you her heart, you can never get rid of the rest of her body. - John Vanbrugh 1696
Q103. Give a woman an inch and she thinks she's a ruler. - Anonymous
Q104. I'm the girl who lost her reputation and never missed it. - Mae West
Q105. The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children. - Clarence Darrow
Q106. Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law. - Hubert Humphrey
Q107. I like children. If they're properly cooked. - W. C. Fields
Q108. I used to be Snow White, but I drifted. - Mae West
Q109. There is no reciprocity. Men love women, women love children, children love hamsters. - Alice Thomas Ellis
Q110. All you need in life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure. - Mark Twain
Q111. We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like. - Jean Cocteau
Q112. He who laughs, lasts. - Mary Pettibone Poole
Q113. Living with a saint is more grueling than being one. - Robert Neville
Q114. The right to be heard does not include the right to be taken seriously. - Hubert Humphrey
Q115. The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. - Bertrand Russell
Q116. Reality is for people who can't face drugs. - Laurence Peter
Q117. A chrysanthemum by any other name would be easier to spell. - William J. Johnston
Q118. Art is I; science is we. - Claude Bernard
Q119. Only the shallow know themselves. - Oscar Wilde
Q120. Jogging is for people who aren't intelligent enough to watch television. - Victoria Wood
Q121. Income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf. - Will Rogers
Q122. Let's forget about the six feet and talk about the seven inches. - Mae West
Q123. When everyone's somebody, then no one's anyone. - W. S. Gilbert
Q124. A camel is a horse designed by committee. - Alec Issigonis
Q125. If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun. - Katharine Hepburn
Q126. It's a recession when you neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours. - Harry S Truman
Q127. You must come again when you have less time. - Walter Sickert
Q128. Friends are God's apology for relations. - Hugh Kingsmill
Q129. Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore and you sleep alone. - Anthony Burgess
Q130. Work is the curse of the drinking classes. - Oscar Wilde
Q131. Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory. - Albert Schweitzer
Q132. It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure why take the chance. - Ronald Regan
Q133. Death is nature's way to telling you to slow down. - Anonymous
Q134. I'm preparing to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter. - Winston
Churchill
Q135. The meaning of life is that it stops. - Franz Kafka
Q136. Retirement means twice as much husband and half as much money. - Anonymous
Q137. Early to rise and early to bed makes a man healthy, wealthy and dead. - James Thurber
Q138. The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all your time. - William de Kooning
Q139. The meek shall inherit the earth, but not the mineral rights. - John Paul Getty
Q140. Whenever I feel the need for exercise I go and lie down for half an hour until the feeling passes. - Will Rogers
Q141. A diplomat is a man who thinks twice before he says nothing. - Frederick Sawyer
Q142. A politician is an animal that can sit on a fence and keep both ears to the ground. - H. L. Mencken
Q143. The process of scientific discovery is, in effect, a continual flight from wonder. - Albert Einstein
Q144. A speaker who does not strike oil in ten minutes should stop boring. - Louis Nizer
Q145. Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome. - Samuel Johnson
Q146. I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. - Thomas Carlyle
Q147. It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all. - Samuel Butler
Q148. I feel that one lies to oneself more than to anyone else. - Lord Byron
Q149. Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that he sometimes has to eat them. - Adlai Stevenson
Q150. Sin is dangerous in the hands of beginners. - Anonymous
Q151. Psychiatry: the care of the id by the odd. - Anonymous
Q152. Advertising: the rattling of a stick inside the swill bucket. - George Orwell
Q153. Diplomacy: the art of letting someone else have your way. - David Frost
Q154. Experimental Psychologist: a scientist who pulls habits out of rats. - Leonard Louis Stevenson
Q155. Let's get out of these wet clothes and into a dry martini. - Robert Benchley
Q156. I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them. - Somerset Maugham
Q157. Even paranoids have real enemies. - Delmore Schwartz
Q158. Some people pay a compliment as if they expect a receipt. - Frank McKinney Hubbard
Q159. An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support. - John Buchan
Q160. Somebody's boring me, I think it's me. - Dylan Thomas
Q161. I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end. - Margaret Thatcher
Q162. I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion. - Robert Louis Stevenson
Q163. The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public. - Sir
George Jessel
Q164. I am a deeply superficial person. - Andy Warhol
Q165. When choosing between two evils, I always like to take the one I've never tried before. - Mae West
Q166. I have nothing to declare except my genius. - Oscar Wilde
Q167. When in Turkey, do as the turkeys do. - Honore de Balzac
Q168. It's not only a race against the clock, it's a race against time itself. - BBC Presenter
Q169. A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her. --W.C. Fields
Q170. Always remember that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me. --Winston Churchill
Q172. I drink to make other people interesting. --George Jean Nathan
Q173. Four legs good, two legs bad. - George Orwell
Q174. Half the work that is done in this world is to make things appear what they are not. - Elias Root Beadle
Q175. The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn,
and relearn.
- Alvin Toffler
Q176. Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we've been bombing over the years been complaining?
- George Wallace
Q177. A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing. - Oscar Wilde
Q178. No person can be a great leader unless he takes genuine joy in the successes of those under him. - W. A. Nance
Q179. Only the suppressed word is dangerous. - Ludwig Börne
Q180. The important thing is never to stop questioning. - Albert Einstein
Q181. If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
- Woodrow Wilson
Q182. Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.
- Jules de Gaultier
Q183. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
- George Santayana
Q184. I can't understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I'm frightened of old ones. - John Cage
Q185. History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon. - Napoleon Bonaparte
Q186. What orators lack in depth they make up for in length.
- Charles de Secondat
Q187. The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch somebody else doing it wrong, without
comment.
- T. H. White
Q188. The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.
- Chinese proverb
Q189. Those are my principles. If you don't like them I have others.
- Groucho Marx
Q190. As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. - Andrew Carnegie
Q191. Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you're not really interested in order to get where you're
going.
- Christopher Darlington Morley
Q192. When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. - Eric Hoffer
Q193. Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest. - Mark Twain
Q194. Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. - Samuel Butler
Q195. Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example. - Mark Twain
Q196. Don't go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing; it was here first. - Mark Twain
Q197. The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made. - Groucho Marx
Q198. Speak when you're angry, and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Lawrence J. Peter
Q199. When I grow up I want to be a little boy. - Joseph Heller
Q200. Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble. - Frank Tyger
Q201. He who laughs, lasts. - Mary Poole