QUOTATION COLLECTION


  • Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought. -John F. Kennedy

  • It sometimes happens with people, as with commodities, that the packaging is worth more than the contents. -Richard Needham

  • [As she was helped over the rail of the Titanic:] I rang for ice, but THIS is ridiculous. -Madeline Talmadge Astor

  • To admit that disability and illness are hard doesn't mean that they are wholly negative experiences, meaningless. -Anne Finger

  • The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive and more constructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person. -Dr. Frank Barron

  • In matters of principle, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current. -Thomas Jefferson

  • If you're yearning for the good old days, just turn off the air conditioning. -Griff Niblack

  • I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains. My advice is: Go outside, to the fields, enjoy nature and the sunshine, go out and try to recapture happiness in yourself and in God. -Anne Frank

  • Unexpressed feelings never die; they just get buried and come forth later in uglier form. -Linda & Richard Eyre

  • It's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude. -Alexander Haig

  • Things are for us only what we hold them to be. Which is to say that our attitude toward things is more likely in the long run to be more important than the things themselves. -A. W. Tozer

  • It is true that wealth won't make a man virtuous, but I notice there ain't anybody who wants to be poor just for the purpose of being good. -Josh Billings

  • If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought. -Dennis Roth

  • Ambition is the subtlest beast of the intellectual and moral field. It is wonderfully adroit in concealing itself from its owner. -John Adams

  • Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. -Mark Twain

  • If life begins at 40, what is it that ends at 39? -Jim Fiebig

  • It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich. -Alan Alda

  • Whenever you observe an animal closely, you feel as if a human being sitting inside were making fun of you. -Elias Canetti

  • Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other. -Erma Bombeck

  • Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate. -Albert Schweitzer

  • Each day a few more lies eat into the seed with which we are born, little institutional lies from the print of newspapers, the shock waves of television, and the sentimental cheats of the movie screen. -Norman Mailer

  • Odd as it may seem, you will not find the word "democracy" in the Declaration of Independence or the US Constitution. Nor is education a right mentioned in the Constitution. -Deane Jordan

  • I'd rather be a failure at something I enjoy than a success at something I hate. -George Burns

  • The chief function of an executive is to keep those who really do the work from doing it in peace. -Mignon McLaughlin

  • Never mistake motion for action. -Ernest Hemingway

  • To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did; I ought to know because I've done it a thousand times. -Mark Twain

  • Propaganda is the art of persuading others of what you don't believe yourself. -Abba Eban

  • There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice. -Mark Twain

  • One always has the air of someone who is lying when one speaks to a policeman. -Charles Louis Philippe

  • If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed. If you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed. -Mark Twain

  • Despite the historic hysteria, non-rabid wolves do not attack humans. -Deane Jordan

  • As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality. -Albert Einstein

  • The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what preceded it. -Mary Catherine Bateson

  • The true secret of giving advice is -after you have honestly given it- to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not and never persist in trying to set people right. -Hannah Whitall Smith

  • Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates. -Samuel Johnson

  • For those who do not think, it is best at least to rearrange their prejudices once in a while. -Luther Burbank

  • The only kind of dignity which is genuine is that which is not diminished by the indifference of others. -Dag Hammarskjold