Man is more ape than many of the apes.\!Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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Woman was God's second mistake.\!Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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The last Christian died on the cross.\!Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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Faith: not *wanting* to know what is true.\!Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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Without music, life would be a mistake.\!Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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I will not go down to posterity talking bad grammar.\!Benjamin Disraeli
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There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics.\!Benjamin Disraeli
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Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions.\!Benjamin Disraeli
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Knowledge of mankind is a knowledge of their passions.\!Benjamin Disraeli
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Change is inevitable in a progressive country. Change is constant.\!Benjamin Disraeli
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It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.\!Benjamin Disraeli
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A Conservative Government is an organised hypocrisy.\!Benjamin Disraeli
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The profound thinker always suspects that he is superficial.\!Benjamin Disraeli
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Is man an ape or an angel? Now I am on the side of angels.\!Benjamin Disraeli
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No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.\!Benjamin Disraeli
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Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; Old Age a regret.\!Benjamin Disraeli
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Read no history; nothing but biography, for that is life without theory.\!Benjamin Disraeli
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What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens.\!Benjamin Disraeli
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Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.\!Benjamin Disraeli
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Man is not the creature of circumstances. Circumstances are the creatures of men.\!Benjamin Disraeli
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I feel a very unusual sensation - if it is not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.\!Benjamin Disraeli
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I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true.\!Dorothy Parker
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My land is bare of chattering folk; the clouds are low along the ridges, and sweet's the air with curly smoke from all my burning bridges.\!Dorothy Parker
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Ducking for apples -- change one letter and it's the story of my life.\!Dorothy Parker
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I require three things in a man. He must be handsome, ruthless and stupid.\!Dorothy Parker
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I never see that prettiest thing--- A cherry bough gone white with Spring--- But what I think, "How gay 'twould be To hang me from a flowering tree."\!Dorothy Parker, "Cherry White" from "Death and Taxes".
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When asked to use the word 'horticulture' in a sentence: You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.\!Dorothy Parker
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Imagination is more important than knowledge.\!Albert Einstein
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Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.\!Albert Einstein
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I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details.\!Albert Einstein
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The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.\!Albert Einstein
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Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.\!Albert Einstein
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The only real valuable thing is intuition.\!Albert Einstein
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Be and not seem.\!Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A man is related to all nature.\!Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The less government we have the better.\!Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Every man has his own vocation, talent is the call.\!Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.\!Ralph Waldo Emerson
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To be great is to be misunderstood.\!Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A man is a god in ruins.\!Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Life is a festival only to the wise.\!Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Knowledge is the only elegance.\!Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We boil at different degrees.\!Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Infancy conforms to nobody; all conform to it.\!Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.\!Ralph Waldo Emerson
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What is the hardest thing in the world? To think.\!Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Accept your genius and say what you think.\!Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Make yourself necessary to somebody.\!Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The only way to have a friend is to be one.\!Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Insist on yourself; never imitate.\!Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Music causes us to think eloquently.\!Ralph Waldo Emerson
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To live without duties is obscene.\!Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It is not length of life, but depth of life.\!Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The greatest homage to truth is to use it.\!Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The only reward of virtue is virtue.\!Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Go oft to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.\!Ralph Waldo Emerson
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We become what we think about all day long.\!Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.\!Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There is no knowledge that is not power.\!Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.\!Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet.\!Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The one thing in the world, of value, is the active soul.\!Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Who so would be a man must be a nonconformist.\!Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm\!Ralph Waldo Emerson
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This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.\!Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.\!Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In art the best is good enough.\!Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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All our knowledge is symbolic.\!Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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The deed is all, the glory nothing.\!Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.\!Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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I am not omniscient, but much is known to me.\!Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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When ideas fail, words come in very handy.\!Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.\!Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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Who thinks little of himself, is often more than he thinks.\!Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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There is nothing worse than aggressive stupidity.\!Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.\!Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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I can promise to be frank, I cannot promise to be impartial.\!Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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Art is long, life short; judgment difficult, opportunity transient.\!Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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A man that all the world hates, there must be something about him.\!Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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A man with a new idea is a crank until he succeeds.\!Mark Twain
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There is no security in life, only opportunity.\!Mark Twain
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When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear. It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.\!Mark Twain
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Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.\!Mark Twain
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Truth is the most valuable thing we have -- so let us economize it.\!Mark Twain
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Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessaries.\!Mark Twain
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Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.\!Mark Twain
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The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.\!Mark Twain
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I've seen many troubles in my time, only half of which ever came true.\!Mark Twain
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Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.\!Mark Twain
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It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.\!Mark Twain
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Let us be thankful for the fools; but for them the rest of us could not succeed.\!Mark Twain
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A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.\!Mark Twain
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Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.\!Mark Twain
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Alimony: The ransom the happy pay to the devil.\!Henry Louis Mencken
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Archbishop: A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.\!Henry Louis Mencken
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Church: A place in which gentlemen who have never been to Heaven brag about it to people who will never get there.\!Henry Louis Mencken
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Clergyman: A ticket speculator outside the gates of Heaven.\!Henry Louis Mencken
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Conscience: The inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking.\!Henry Louis Mencken
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Confidence: The feeling that makes one believe a man, even when one knows that one would lie in his place.\!Henry Louis Mencken
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Creator: A comedian whose audience is afraid to laugh.\!Henry Louis Mencken
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Demagogue: One who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.\!Henry Louis Mencken
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Democracy: The worship of jackals by jackasses.\!Henry Louis Mencken
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Evil: That which one believes of others. It is a sin to believe evil of others, but it is seldom a mistake.\!Henry Louis Mencken
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Experience: A series of failures. Every failure teaches a man something, to wit, that he will probably fail again.\!Henry Louis Mencken
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Fine: A bribe paid by a rich man to escape the lawful penalty of his crime.\!Henry Louis Mencken
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Historian: An unsuccessful novelist.\!Henry Louis Mencken
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Husband: A No. 16 neck in a No. 15 1/2 collar.\!Henry Louis Mencken
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Idealist: One who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.\!Henry Louis Mencken
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History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.\!Winston Churchill
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No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.\!Winston Churchill
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The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.\!Winston Churchill
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I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.\!Winston Churchill
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Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.\!Winston Churchill
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I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.\!Winston Churchill
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Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed.\!Winston Churchill
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There is nothing more exhilarating than to be shot at without result.\!Winston Churchill
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It's a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.\!Winston Churchill
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The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.\!Winston Churchill
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A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.\!Winston Churchill
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Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.\!Winston Churchill
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I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.\!Winston Churchill
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The farther backwards you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.\!Winston Churchill
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Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which we will not put.\!Winston Churchill
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Don't talk to me about Naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash.\!Winston Churchill
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In war: resolution. In defeat: defiance. In victory: magnanimity. In peace: goodwill.\!Winston Churchill
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Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.\!Winston Churchill
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Virtue is insufficient temptation.\!George Bernard Shaw
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All great truths begin as blasphemies.\!George Bernard Shaw
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Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.\!George Bernard Shaw
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He who can, does. He who cannot teaches.\!George Bernard Shaw
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I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor.\!George Bernard Shaw
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Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.\!George Bernard Shaw
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The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.\!George Bernard Shaw
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What is virtue but the trades unionism of the married.\!George Bernard Shaw
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To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.\!George Bernard Shaw
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It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.\!George Bernard Shaw
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I often quote myself, it adds spice to my conversation.\!George Bernard Shaw
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It is most unwise for people in love to marry.\!George Bernard Shaw
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The 100% American is 99% an idiot.\!George Bernard Shaw
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Divorces are made in heaven.\!Oscar Wilde
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Artists, like the Greek gods, are only revealed to one another.\!Oscar Wilde
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The only beautiful things are the things that do not concern us.\!Oscar Wilde
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Comfort is the only thing our civilization can give us.\!Oscar Wilde
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Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.\!Oscar Wilde
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Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.\!Oscar Wilde
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Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief.\!Oscar Wilde
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Bore: a man who is never unintentionally rude.\!Oscar Wilde
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Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.\!Oscar Wilde
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I don't like principles. I prefer prejudices.\!Oscar Wilde
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I have nothing to declare but my genius.\!Oscar Wilde
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Work is the curse of the drinking classes.\!Oscar Wilde
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Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.\!Oscar Wilde
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All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling.\!Oscar Wilde
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Nothing is so aggravating as calmness.\!Oscar Wilde
