Assorted quotes

~ Assorted Quotes ~
'I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.'
(Woody Allen)
'Theory is when things can be explained but do not work. Practise is when things work but cannot be explained. We have put theory into practise. Nothing works and no one knows why.'
(Amaury)
'Generally, nobody behaves decently when they have power.'
(Kingsley Amis)
'Those who do nothing are never wrong.'
(Theodore Banville)
'The thing women have got to learn is that nobody gives you power. You just take it.'
(Roseanne Barr)
'If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.'
(Milton Berle)
'Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.'
(Hector Berlioz)
'We should live as if we were going to live forever, yet at the back of our minds remember that our time is short.'
(Gerald Brenan)
'If Jesus Christ were alive today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner and hear what he had to say and make fun of it.'
(Thomas Carlyle)
'The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.'
(Chinese proverb)
'All charming people have something to conceal - usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.'
(Cyril Connolly)
'What do you take me for an idiot?'
(Charles de Gaulle when a journalist asked him if he was happy)
'The value of life does not lie in the number of years but in the use you make of them.'
(Michel de Montaigne)
'Experience shows us that love is not looking into one another's eyes but looking together in the same direction.'
(Antoine de Saint Exupery)
'In order to achieve great things we must live as if we were never going to die.'
(Marquis de Vaunvenargues)
'If there is no struggle, there is no progress.'
(Frederick Douglas)
'Solitude is a kind of freedom.'
(Umberto Eco)
'One thing's end is another's beginning.'
'Even the darkest night will be broken by morning.'
'Be patient with liars, they will expose themselves soon enough.'
'I won't die until I see who will come to replace me.'
'When pain is greatest, relief will follow.'
'Disarm your enemy by greeting him first.'
'Even the worst life is better than death.'
'Unpleasant things cannot be avoided forever.'
'What embarrasses me today, may embarrass you tomorrow.'
'He who doesn't taste bitterness, will never recognise sweetness.'
'He who fears monkeys will have one jump on his back.'
'If you are scared, don't tell the truth, but if you tell the truth, then don't be scared of anything.'
(Egyptian proverbs)
'If at first you don't suceed, try again. Then give up - there's no point in making a damn fool of yourself.'
(WC Fields)
'Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.'
(Henry Ford)
'Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.'
(Benjamin Franklin)
'Nothing lasts forever, not even your troubles.'
(Arnold H Glasgow)
'To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have.'
(Ken S Hayes Jnr)
'The man who runs away lives to die another day.'
(AE Housman)
'Loneliness is to endure the presence of one who does not understand.'
(Elbert Hubbard)
'It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.'
(Dolores Ibarruri)
'Learn to listen. Opportunity sometimes knocks very softly.'
(H Jackson Brown Jnr)
'Imagination is the eye of the soul.'
(Joseph Joubert)
'Shyness is merely egoism out its depth.'
(Penelope Keith)
'I'm sick of sin, sin, sin. I'm a real believer, even too much of a believer but one mustn't condemn someone to death for having fun. I've studied the Koran and as far as I'm concerned he who wants to pray has his mosque in front of him, and he who wants to have fun goes his own way and that's all there is to it.'
(Khaled)
'Better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.'
(Abraham Lincoln)
'Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.'
(Peter T McIntyre)
'It is better for aged diplomats to be bored than for young men to die.'
(Warren Robinson Austin)
'Everything is funny as long as it is happening to someone else.'
(Will Rogers)
'Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.'
(George Santayana)
'Some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice. But still the place you live in is that much more drab and empty that they are gone.'
'I hope I can make it across the border. I hope to see my friend and shake his hand. I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams. I hope.'
(The Shawshank Redemption)
'English is a simple, yet hard language. It consists entirely of foreign words pronounced wrongly.'
(Kurt Tucholsky)
'A good book is the best of friends, the same today and forever.'
(Martin Tupper)
'Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.'
(Unknown)
'Poetry is to words as dancing is to walking.'
(John Wain)
'There is always room at the top.'
(Daniel Webster)
'He who hesitates is a damned fool.'
(Mae West)
'Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.'
(Oprah Winfrey)
'Men play the game; women know the score.'
(Roger Woddis)