Quotes

Love your neighbors, but don't pull down the fence. - Chinese proverb.

Luck can't last a lifetime unless you die young. - Russell Banks

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

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well dance with it. - George Bernard Shaw

If you give me six lines written by the most honest man, I will find something in them to hang him. - Cardinal Richelieu

If you hear a wise sentence or an apt phrase, commit it to your memory. - Sir Henry Sidney

If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex? - Art Hoppe

If time be of all things most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality, since lost time is never found again; and what we call time enough always proves little enough. - Benjamin Franklin

If we make peaceful revolution impossible, we make violent revolution inevitable. - John F. Kennedy

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

If I were a medical man, I should prescribe a holiday to any patient who considered his work important. - Bertrand Russell

If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree, it better not come at all. - John Keats

I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works. - Samuel Johnson

I'm opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position. - Mark Twain

I've been trying for some time to develop a life style that doesn't require my presence. - Gary Trudeau

I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom. - Anatole France

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

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

I have taken more good from alcohol than alcohol has taken from me. - Winston Churchill

I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that! - Tom Lehrer

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

I don't have any solution, but I certainly admire the problem. - Ashleigh Brilliant

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

I have made mistakes, but have never made the mistake of claiming I never made one. - James G. Bennet

I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty. - John D. Rockefeller

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them. - Isaac Asimov

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

I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today. - William Allen White

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

I avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep going forward. - Charlotte Bronte

Frequent punishments are always a sign of weakness or laziness on the part of a government. - Jean Jacques Rousseau

Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration. - Thomas Alva Edison

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

Exclusiveness is a characteristic of recent riches, high society, and the skunk. - O'Malley

Experience is the hardest kind of teacher. It gives you the test first, and the lesson afterward. - Anonymous

Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim. - George Santayana

A man who seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society. - Frederick the Great.

A nation. . . is just a society for hating foreigners. - Olaf Stapledon

A painting in a museum probably hears more foolish remarks than anything else in the world. - Edmond & Jules Goncourt

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