Quotes
I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. [Sir Winston Churchill]
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. [Albert Einstein]
Imagination is more important than knowledge. [Albert Einstein]
Anyone who uses the phrase 'easy as taking candy from a baby' has never tried taking candy from a baby. [Unknown]
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. [Albert Einstein]
If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves. [Thomas A. Edison]
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened. [Sir Winston Churchill]
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. [Thomas A. Edison]
Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance. [Kurt Vonnegut]
Fish is the only food that is considered spoiled once it smells like what it is. [P.J.O'Rourke]
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be. [Kurt Vonnegut]
Political language -- and with variations this is true of all political parties, from Conservatives to Anarchists -- is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. [George Orwell 1946]
It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried. [Sir Winston Churchill]
Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it. [George Orwell]
All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why. [James Thurber]
I loathe the expression "What makes him tick." It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm. [James Thurber]
I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed. [James Thurber]
An opinion should be the result of thought, not a substitute for it. [Jef Mallett]
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb. [Sir Winston Churchill]
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room. [Sir Winston Churchill]
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. [Sir Winston Churchill]
The weirder you are going to behave, the more normal you should look. It works in reverse, too. When I see a kid with three or four rings in his nose, I know there is absolutely nothing extraordinary about that person. [P.J.O'Rourke]
The purpose of a funeral service is to comfort the living. It is important at a funeral to display excessive grief. This will show others how kind-hearted and loving you are and their improved opinion of you will be very comforting. [P.J.O'Rourke]
No problem is so formidable that you can't walk away from it. [Charles M. Schulz]
Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, "Where have I gone wrong?"
Then a voice says to me, "This is going to take more than one night."
[Charles M. Schulz (Charlie Brown in Peanuts)]
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top. [Unknown]