I love reading quotes. And enjoy collecting them. Here are some of them that I’ve collected beginning this year. – Nilesh Babu
We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action. – Frank Tibolt
I’m tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin deep. That’s deep enough. What do you want — an adorable pancreas? – Jean Kerr
My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I’m happy. I can’t figure it out. What am I doing right? – Charles M. Schulz
Someone’s boring me. I think it’s me. – Dylan Thomas
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment. – Barry LePatner
The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy – I mean that if you are happy you will be good. – Bertrand Russell
The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work. – Harry Golden
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh. – W. H. Auden
We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems. – John W. Gardner
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news. – A. J. Leibling
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. – Henry David Thoreau
In case you’re worried about what’s going to become of the younger generation, it’s going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation. – Roger Allen
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. – Martin Luther King Jr.
Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing. – Evan Esar
To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal. – Peter Ustinov
A cult is a religion with no political power. – Tom Wolfe
I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. – J. D. Salinger
Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves. – Rudyard Kipling
Humankind cannot stand very much reality. – T. S. Eliot
We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them. – Charles Caleb Colton
A lie told often enough becomes the truth. – Lenin
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter. – Mark Twain
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else’s can shorten it. – Cullen Hightower
It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear. – Dick Cavett
It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull. H. L. Mencken
No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you’ll see why. – Mignon McLaughlin
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends. – Friedrich Nietzsche
I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father’s religion, if they can find out what it is. – Charles Lamb
Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers. – Edward Shepherd Mead
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not. – Jules Renard
The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear. – Herbet Agar
It’s the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time. – Tallulah Bankhead
I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness. – James Thurber
Today’s scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality. – Nikola Tesla
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence. – Henry Adams
Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities. – Frank Llyod Wright
The ‘Net is a waste of time, and that’s exactly what’s right about it. – William Gibson
I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something. – Jackie Mason
No one can earn a million dollars honestly. – William Jennings Bryan
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory. – Rita Mae Brown
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work. – Peter Drucker
The price of freedom of religion, or of speech, or of the press, is that we must put up with a good deal of rubbish. – Robert Jackson
Happiness isn’t something you experience; it’s something you remember. – Oscar Levant
Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible. – Stanislaw Lem
No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues. – Bertrand Russell
You probably wouldn’t worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do. – Olin Miller
The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority. – Ralph W. Sockman
Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century. – Dame Edna Everage
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time. – H. L. Mencken
Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them. – Paul Valery
Ethics are so annoying. I avoid them on principle. – Darby Conley
Adventure is just bad planning. – Roald Amundsen
People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy. – Bob Hope
A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her. – Oscar Wilde
I want to find a voracious, small-minded predator and name it after the IRS. – Robert Bakker
War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace. – Thomas Mann
You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance. – Ray Bradbury
I’m living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. – E E Cummings
I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. – Sir Winston Churchill
If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions? – Scott Adams
One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done. – Marie Curie
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. – P. B. Medawar
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. – Thomas A. Edison
Society, my dear, is like salt water, good to swim in but hard to swallow. – Arthur Stringer
Facts are the enemy of truth. – Miguel de Cervantes
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome. – Isaac Asimov
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. – Dale Carnegie
My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven’t met yet. She’s now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia. – Dame Edna Everage
Friends have all things in common. – Plato
Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend. – Unknown
The best way to predict the future is to invent it. – Alan Kay
If you cannot convince them, confuse them. – Harry S Truman
Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems. – Rene Descartes
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away. – Ronald Reagan
Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own. – Doug Larson
Laughter is the closest distance between two people. – Victor Borge
If you don’t have a competitive advantage, don’t compete. – Jack Welch
TV is chewing gum for the eyes. – Frank Lloyd Wright
I’ve gone into hundreds of [fortune-teller's parlors], and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her. – New York City detective
The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership. – Colin Powell
The Internet is like alcohol in some sense. It accentuates what you would do anyway. If you want to be a loner, you can be more alone. If you want to connect, it makes it easier to connect. – Esther Dyson
The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority. – Ralph W. Sockman
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. – Dwight D. Eisenhower
These days an income is something you can’t live without–or within. – Tom Wilson
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored. – Evelyn Waugh
To err is human–and to blame it on a computer is even more so. – Robert Orben
Life is an unbroken succession of false situations. – Thornton Wilder
Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand. – Putt’s Law
When ideas fail, words come in very handy. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. – Oscar Wilde
If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur. – Doug Larson
Lies are like children: they’re hard work, but it’s worth it because the future depends on them. – Pam Davis
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. – Ernest Hemingway
I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve. – J. R. R. Tolkien
There’s no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn’t tell you about it? – Kin Hubbard
Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next? – Richard Feynman
The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible. – Jean Kerr
What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to. – Hansell B. Duckett
These days an income is something you can’t live without–or within. – Tom Wilson
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field. – Niels Bohr
Favorite Quotes
I love reading quotes. And enjoy collecting them. Here are some of them that I’ve collected beginning this year. – Nilesh Babu
We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action. – Frank Tibolt
I’m tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin deep. That’s deep enough. What do you want — an adorable pancreas? – Jean Kerr
My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I’m happy. I can’t figure it out. What am I doing right? – Charles M. Schulz
Someone’s boring me. I think it’s me. – Dylan Thomas
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment. – Barry LePatner
The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy – I mean that if you are happy you will be good. – Bertrand Russell
The only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work. – Harry Golden
Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh. – W. H. Auden
We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems. – John W. Gardner
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news. – A. J. Leibling
Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it. – Henry David Thoreau
In case you’re worried about what’s going to become of the younger generation, it’s going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation. – Roger Allen
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. – Martin Luther King Jr.
Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing. – Evan Esar
To refuse awards is another way of accepting them with more noise than is normal. – Peter Ustinov
A cult is a religion with no political power. – Tom Wolfe
I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. – J. D. Salinger
Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves. – Rudyard Kipling
Humankind cannot stand very much reality. – T. S. Eliot
We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them. – Charles Caleb Colton
A lie told often enough becomes the truth. – Lenin
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter. – Mark Twain
Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else’s can shorten it. – Cullen Hightower
It’s a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn’t want to hear. – Dick Cavett
It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull. H. L. Mencken
No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you’ll see why. – Mignon McLaughlin
The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends. – Friedrich Nietzsche
I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father’s religion, if they can find out what it is. – Charles Lamb
Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers. – Edward Shepherd Mead
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not. – Jules Renard
The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear. – Herbet Agar
It’s the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time. – Tallulah Bankhead
I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness. – James Thurber
Today’s scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality. – Nikola Tesla
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence. – Henry Adams
Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities. – Frank Llyod Wright
The ‘Net is a waste of time, and that’s exactly what’s right about it. – William Gibson
I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something. – Jackie Mason
No one can earn a million dollars honestly. – William Jennings Bryan
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory. – Rita Mae Brown
So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work. – Peter Drucker
The price of freedom of religion, or of speech, or of the press, is that we must put up with a good deal of rubbish. – Robert Jackson
Happiness isn’t something you experience; it’s something you remember. – Oscar Levant
Faith is, at one and the same time, absolutely necessary and altogether impossible. – Stanislaw Lem
No one gossips about other people’s secret virtues. – Bertrand Russell
You probably wouldn’t worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do. – Olin Miller
The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority. – Ralph W. Sockman
Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century. – Dame Edna Everage
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time. – H. L. Mencken
Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them. – Paul Valery
Ethics are so annoying. I avoid them on principle. – Darby Conley
Adventure is just bad planning. – Roald Amundsen
People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy. – Bob Hope
A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her. – Oscar Wilde
I want to find a voracious, small-minded predator and name it after the IRS. – Robert Bakker
War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace. – Thomas Mann
You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance. – Ray Bradbury
I’m living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart. – E E Cummings
I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. – Sir Winston Churchill
If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions? – Scott Adams
One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done. – Marie Curie
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it. – P. B. Medawar
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. – Thomas A. Edison
Society, my dear, is like salt water, good to swim in but hard to swallow. – Arthur Stringer
Facts are the enemy of truth. – Miguel de Cervantes
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome. – Isaac Asimov
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. – Dale Carnegie
My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven’t met yet. She’s now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia. – Dame Edna Everage
Friends have all things in common. – Plato
Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend. – Unknown
The best way to predict the future is to invent it. – Alan Kay
If you cannot convince them, confuse them. – Harry S Truman
Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems. – Rene Descartes
The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them away. – Ronald Reagan
Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own. – Doug Larson
Laughter is the closest distance between two people. – Victor Borge
If you don’t have a competitive advantage, don’t compete. – Jack Welch
TV is chewing gum for the eyes. – Frank Lloyd Wright
I’ve gone into hundreds of [fortune-teller's parlors], and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her. – New York City detective
The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help them or concluded that you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership. – Colin Powell
The Internet is like alcohol in some sense. It accentuates what you would do anyway. If you want to be a loner, you can be more alone. If you want to connect, it makes it easier to connect. – Esther Dyson
The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority. – Ralph W. Sockman
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it. – Dwight D. Eisenhower
These days an income is something you can’t live without–or within. – Tom Wilson
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored. – Evelyn Waugh
To err is human–and to blame it on a computer is even more so. – Robert Orben
Life is an unbroken succession of false situations. – Thornton Wilder
Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand. – Putt’s Law
When ideas fail, words come in very handy. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. – Oscar Wilde
If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur. – Doug Larson
Lies are like children: they’re hard work, but it’s worth it because the future depends on them. – Pam Davis
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know. – Ernest Hemingway
I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve. – J. R. R. Tolkien
There’s no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn’t tell you about it? – Kin Hubbard
Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next? – Richard Feynman
The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible. – Jean Kerr
What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to. – Hansell B. Duckett
These days an income is something you can’t live without–or within. – Tom Wilson
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field. – Niels Bohr
Related posts: