Quotes For You

  Image of Frank Zappa created by ChatGPT Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence. - Frank Zappa You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take. - Wayne Gretzky Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public. - H. L. Mencken Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles. - Charlie Chaplin An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Sir Winston Churchill Silence is more musical than any song. - Christina Rossetti To be 70 years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be 40 years old. - Oliver Wendell Holmes Well done is better than well said. - Benjamin Franklin I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time. - Orson Welles Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain. - Jo...

  Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. - William Shakespeare, Hamlet, 1600 Be generous, be delicate, and always pursue the prize. - Henry James, from his essay about the rules of writing Complain to one who can help you. - Yugoslav Proverb A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water. - Carl Reiner Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood. - William Penn A witty saying proves nothing. - Voltaire Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something. - Henry David Thoreau Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them. - Aristotle Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer. - Mark Twain Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith. - Saint Francis of Assisi...

  Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people. - William Butler Yeats If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot. - Italian Proverb Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content. - Louis L'Amour Waste not fresh tears over old griefs. - Euripides Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress. - Mahatma Gandhi You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand. - Leonardo da Vinci The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen. - Frank Lloyd Wright In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you. - Leo Tolstoy I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice. - Abraham Lincoln, speech in Washington D.C., 1865 We are an impossibility in an impossible universe. - Ray Bradbury READ MORE

  Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. - Robert Frost Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body. - Seneca Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. - Benjamin Franklin Never spend your money before you have it. - Thomas Jefferson When anger rises, think of the consequences. - Confucius Mistakes are part of the dues one pays for a full life. - Sophia Loren Laws are like sausages. It's better not to see them being made. - Otto von Bismarck If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see. - Henry David Thoreau Take what you can use and let the rest go by. - Ken Kesey The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums. - G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy; p. 14 READ MORE

  Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control. - Don Marquis Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question. - Albert Camus I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy. - J. D. Salinger Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought necessary. - Robert Louis Stevenson Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain. -Mark Twain This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson The best way to teach your kids about taxes is by eating 30% of their ice cream. - Bill Murray The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity. - Walt Whitman I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting. - Ronald ...

  A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. - Mark Twain It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed! - Walt Whitman The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible. - Oscar Wilde If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting. - Benjamin Franklin I've known what it is to be hungry, but I always went right to a restaurant. - Ring Lardner The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it. - Daniel Webster I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship. - Louisa May Alcott The graveyards are full of indispensable men. - Charles de Gaulle I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents. - Sir Winston Churchill READ MORE