FAMOUS & NOT SO FAMOUS QUOTES

1. "A beautiful woman is the hell of the soul, the purgatory of the purse, and the paradise of the eyes." - Fontenelle

   
   

2. "The poorer you are, the more ghosts you see" - ancient Chinese proverb, trans. by Esmond Chan, Macau, Christmas 1998
   

   

3. "A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody has read." - Mark Twain
   

   

4. "A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking." - Arthur Block
   

   

5. "A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author." - G. K. Chesterton
   

   

6. "A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something." - Frank Capra
   

   

7. "A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way." - John Tudor
   

   

8. "A woman is only a woman after all, but a good cigar is a smoke." - Rudyard Kipling
   

   

9. "All rising to great place is by a winding stair." - Francis Bacon
   

   

10. "All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream." - Edgar Allen Poe
    

    

11. "Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest." - Mark Twain
    

    

12. "An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it." - Paul Valary
    

    

13. "Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom." - Soren Kierkegaard, Philospher
    

    

14. "Art is the lie that makes us realize the truth." - Pablo Picasso
    

    

15. "Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you will cease to be so." - John Stewart Mill
    

    

16. "At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet." - Plato
    

    

17. "Beyond each corner new directions lie in wait." - Stanislaw Lec
    

    

18. "Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life." - Robert Louis Stevenson
    

    

19. "Brain: an apparatus with which we think we think." - Ambrose Bierce
    

    

20. "Chance makes a plaything of a man's life." - Seneca, 3rd Century B.C.
    

    

21. "The more I practice, the lukier I get - Gary Player
    

    

22. "Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum: I think that I think, therefore I think that I am" - Ambrose Bierce
    

    

23. "Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is Genius." - George Bernard Shaw
    

    

24. "Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking." - H. L. Mencken
    

    

25. "Creative minds always have been known to survive any kind of bad training." - Anna Freud
    

    

26. "Decay is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence." - Buddha's last words
    

    

27. "Don't be so humble. You're not that great." - Golda Meir
    

    

28. "Dreaming with a heart full of wonder and a mind full of knowledge, our thirst for life and love does not set with the sun behind us. - Aaron White
    

    

29. "Each day a day goes by." - Carlo Goldoni
    

    

30. "Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." - Will Rogers
    

    

31. "Everything is possible to him that dares." - Albert Goodwill Spaulding
    

    

32. "Every age is fed on illusions, lest men should renounce life early and the human race come to an end." - Joseph Conrad
    

    

33. "Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist after one grows up." - Pablo Picasso
    

    

34. "Every worm has to turn and every mouse must bite the elephant" - Michael Basman, Chess I.M.
    

    

35. "Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes." - Edgard Varese
    

    

36. "Failure is not an option." - Ed Harris, from the film Apollo 13
    

    

37. "Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains." - Jane Hopkins
    

    

38. "Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please." - Mark Twain
    

    

39. "Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities." - Frank Lloyd Wright
    

    

40. "Goodness is the only investment that never fails." Henry David Thoreau
    

    

41. "He that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools." - Confucius
    

    

42. "He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder." - M. C. Escher
    

    

43. "Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads." - Henry David Thoreau
    

    

44. "Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe." - H. G. Wells
    

    

45. "I always say that, next to a battle lost, the greatest misery is a battle gained." - the Duke of Wellington
    

    

46. "I am not sincere, even when I say I am not." - Jules Renard
    

    

47. "I can resist everything except temptation." - Oscar Wilde
    

    

48. "I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way." - Mark Twain
    

    

49. "I don't necessarily agree with everything I say." - Marshall McLuhan
    

    

50. "I don't pretend to anything more than harmony." - Anatoly Karpov, World Chess Champion
    

    

51. "I gave my genius to my life, but my talent to my art." - Oscar Wilde
    

    

52. "I have nothing to say and I am saying it and that is poetry." - John Cage
    

    

53. "I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend, to the death, your right to say it." - Voltaire
    

    

54. "I struggle to be brief and I become obscure." - Horace
    

    

55. "I think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability." - Oscar Wilde
    

    

56. "I use not only all the brains I have, but all I can borrow." - Woodrow Wilson
    

    

57. "If I have seen farther than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants." - Sir Isaac Newton
    

    

58. "If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him." - Voltaire
    

    

59. If you live right, death is a joke to you as far as fear is concerned." - Will Rogers
    

    

60. "If you live your life in fear of regrets, you may live to regret it." - Scot Boyd
    

    

61. "If you would create something, you must be something." - Goethe
    

    

62. "Imagination is more important than knowledge." - Albert Einstein
    

    

63. "Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life." - Joseph Conrad
    

    

64. "In a painting I want to say something comforting." - Vincent van Gogh
    

    

65. "In anything without it's meaning, 'tis but true and in it's being." - LaShonda Hall
    

    

66. "Is there life before death?" - Belfast Graffito
    

    

67. "It ain't over 'till it's over!" - Yogi Berra
    

    

68. "It is better to be a stranger in a strange land than a tourist in your own home." - Scot Boyd
    

    

69. "It is better to sacrifice your opponent's men" - S. Tartakower, Chess Grandmaster
    

    

70. "It is not what we do, but also what we do not do, for which we are accountable." - Moliere
    

    

71. "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others." - John Andrew Holmes
    

    

72. "It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God but to create him." - Arthur C. Clarke
    

    

73. "It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to paint it." - Steven Wright
    

    

74. "Let us so endeavor to live, that when we come to die, even the undertaker will be sorry." - Mark Twain.
    

    

75. "Life is an unbroken succession of false situations." - Thornton Wilder, American playwright (1897-1975)
    

    

76. "Life is short; live it up." - Nikita S. Khrushchev, New York Times, August 8, 1958
    

    

77. "Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence." - Charles Kettering
    

    

78. "Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them." - David Riesman
    

    

79. "Love has many pains, but celebacy has no pleasures" - Dr. Samual Jackson
    

    

80. "Love reckons hours for months, and days for years, and every little absence an age. - Dryden
    

    

81. "Make things as simple as possible, but no simpler." - Albert Einstein
    

    

82. "Man is only happy as he finds a work worth doing, and does it well." - E. Merrill Root
    

    

83. "Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on." - Winston Churchill
    

    

84. "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." - Mae West
    

    

85. "Maybe this world is another planet's hell." - Aldous Huxley
    

    

86. "Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess." - Oscar Wilde
    

    

87. "Music washes away the dust of everyday life from your feet." - Art Blakey
    

    

88. "My life has a superb cast but I can't figure out the plot." - Ashleigh Brilliant
    

    

89. "No affectation of peculiarity can conceal a commonplace mind." - W. Somerset Maugham
    

    

90. "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." - Eleanor Roosevelt
    

    

91. "Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
    

    

92. "Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors." - Ludwig Van Beethoven
    

    

93. "Nothing so needs reforming as other peoples' habits." - Mark Twain
    

    

94. "Originality will be rewarded in any line." - Will Rogers
    

    

95. "Our bodies are our gardens, to which our wills are gardeners." - William Shakespeare
    

    

96. "Our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness." - Vladimir Nabokov
    

    

97. "Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding" - Albert Einstein
    

    

98. "Perfection, then, is finally achieved, not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." - Antoine de St. Exupury
    

    

99. "Prejudice is the reason of fools." - Voltaire
    

    

100. "Real knowledge is to know the extent of ones ignorance." - Confucius
     

     

101. "Really, we create nothing. We merely plagiarize nature." - Jean Baitaillon
     

     

102. "Rest is by no means a waste of time." - Sir J. Lubbock
     

     

103. "Sarcasim is the lowest form of humor." - John Lennon
     

     

104. "Sleep is conducive to beauty. Even velvet looks worn when it loses its nap." - Joan L. Zielin
     

     

105. "Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards." - Fred Hoyle
     

     

106. "Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret." - Ambrose Bierce
     

     

107. "Sports do not build character. They reveal it." - Haywood Hale Broun
     

     

108. "Take care to get what you like, or you will be forced to like what you get." - George Bernard Shaw
     

     

109. "Take from me the hope that I can change the future and you will send me mad." - Israel Zangwill
     

     

110. "Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in." - Andrew Jackson.
     

     

111. "The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it." - Benjamin Disraeli
     

     

112. "The eternal mystery about the world is it's comprehensiblity." - Albert Einstein.
     

     

113. "The greatest experience we can have is the mysterious." - Albert Einstein
     

     

114. "The greatness of a man can nearly always be measured by his willingness to be kind." - G. Young
     

     

115. "The important thing is not to stop questioning." - Albert Einstein
     

     

116. "The mistake you make is in trying to figure it out." - Tennessee Williams
     

     

117. "The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation." - Plato
     

     

118. "The one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous" - Salvador Dali
     

     

119. "The problem for an artist is deciding what is art, and what art is not." - Scot Boyd
     

     

120. "The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten." - Cesare Pavese, diary
     

     

121. "The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat." - Lily Tomlin
     

     

122. "The universe is looking less and less like a great machine and more and more like a great thought." - Ortega y Gasset
     

     

123. "The unnatural, that too is natural." - Goethe
     

     

124. "The world being illusive, one must be deluded in some way if one is to triumph in it." - W.B. Yeats
     

     

125. "The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going." - David Starr Jordan
     

     

126. "The worst of madmen is a saint run mad." - Alexander Pope
     

     

127. "There is nothing good or bad, but thinking makes it so." - Shakespeare
     

     

128. "There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad." - Salvador Dali
     

     

129. "There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line." - Oscar Levant
     

     

130. "They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." - Andy Warhol
     

     

131. "Things are more like they are now than they ever were before." - Dwight D. Eisenhower
     

     

132. "This world is comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel." - Horace Walpole
     

     

133. "Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." - Edgar Allan Poe
     

     

134. "Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it within us or we will find it not." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
     

     

135. "Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils." - Hector Berlioz
     

     

136. "To be seen is the ambition of ghosts, and to be remembered is the ambition of the dead." - Norman O. Brown
     

     

137. "To define a thing is to substitute the definition for the thing itself." - Georges Braque, French artist (1882-1963)
     

     

138. "Try not to become a man of success, but rather, try to become a man of value." - Albert Einstein.
     

     

139. "Up is, by definition, the direction which broadens horizons." - A. Cygni
     

     

140. "Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set." - Francis Bacon
     

     

141. "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." - Oscar Wilde
     

     

142. "We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems." - John W. Gardner
     

     

143. "We are what we pretend to be." - Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
     

     

144. "We live and die in the midst of marvels." - Napoleon Bonaparte
     

     

145. "What ever you do, make a go of it." - Jack Boyd
     

     

146. "What is art, what is life, who am I?" - Salvador Dali
     

     

147. "Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it." - W. H. Murray
     

     

148. "When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth." - George Bernard Shaw
     

     

149. "When you're through changing, you're through." - Bruce Barton
     

     

150. "Why is it that we rejoice at a wedding and cry at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved." - Mark Twain
     

     

151. "Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?" - Frank Scully
     

     

152. "Wonder rather than doubt is the root of knowledge." - Abraham Joshua Heschel
     

     

153. "Work to become, not to acquire." - Confucius
     

     

154. "You can observe a lot just by watchin'." - Yogi Berra
     

     

155. "You can't have everything. Where would you put it?" - Steven Wright
     

     

156. "You've no idea of what a poor opinion I have of myself, and how little I deserve it." - W.S. Gilbert

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