Your Favorite Quotes

I rather like quotations so when I see one I particularly like I tend to add it to my list, repeated in full below!

Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice Doggy' until you can find a rock.
- Will Rogers.

He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
- Sir Winston Churchill

Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
- Dylan Thomas

Kill one man and you are a murderer.
Kill millions you are a conquerer.
Kill all you are a god.
- Rostand

Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is impotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Whence then is evil?
-David Hume

Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.
- Tim Minchin

Now is not the time to be making new enemies.
- Voltaire, on his death-bed, being urged to make peace with god.

History is a series of lies on which we agree.
- Napolean Bonaparte

In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French . I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language.
- Mark Twain

A man who speaks three languages is trilingual. A man who speaks two languages is bilingual. A man who speaks one language is English.
- Claude Gagnière

I would rather have a German division in front of me than a French one behind me.
- George S. Patton

"A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing." - Oscar Wilde

"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." - Winston Churchill

"A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes." - Mark Twain

"Advertising is legalized lying." - H.G. Wells

"All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry." - Edgar Allan Poe

"All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream." - Edgar Allan Poe

"All thinking men are atheists." - Ernest Hemingway

"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much." - Oscar Wilde

"Anyone who says he can see through women is missing a lot." - Groucho Marx

"Art is always and everywhere the secret confession, and at the same time the immortal movement of its time" - Karl Marx

"As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death." - Leonardo da Vinci

"Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask whats for lunch." - Orson Welles

"Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing." - Benjamin Franklin

"Beer: The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems." - Homer Simpson

"Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth." - Will Rogers

"Civilization is a race between disaster and education." - H.G. Wells

"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear." - Mark Twain

"Cynicism is humour in ill health." - H.G. Wells

"Dad, you've done a lot of great things, but you're a very old man, and old people are useless." - Homer Simpson

"Democracy is the road to socialism." - Karl Marx

"Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage." - Niccolo Machiavelli

"Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do." - Voltaire

"Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects." - Will Rogers

"Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else." - Will Rogers

"Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth." - Albert Camus

"Friendship is love without his wings!" - Lord Byron

"Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company." - Mark Twain

"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know." - Ernest Hemingway

"Hatred is gained as much by good works as by evil." - Niccolo Machiavelli

"He who has a why to live can bear with almost any how." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"History is the devil's scripture." - Lord Byron

"History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce." - Karl Marx

"Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe." - H.G. Wells

"I am easily satisfied with the very best." - Winston Churchill

"I am not young enough to know everything." - Oscar Wilde

"I don't want to go to heaven. None of my friends are there." - Oscar Wilde

"I drink to make other people more interesting." - Ernest Hemingway

"I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it." - Alfred Hitchcock

"I have nothing but respect for you - and not much of that." - Groucho Marx

"I have nothing to declare except my genius." - Oscar Wilde

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. " - Albert Einstein

"I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didnt know." - Mark Twain

"I've been looking for a girl like you - not you, but a girl like you." - Groucho Marx

"I've had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn't it." - Groucho Marx

"If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you read the newspaper, you're mis-informed." - Mark Twain

"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man." - Mark Twain

"If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything." - Mark Twain

"If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." - Napoleon Bonaparte

"In Heaven, all the interesting people are missing." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"In politics, stupidity is not a handicap." - Napoleon Bonaparte

"It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both." - Niccolo Machiavelli

"It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles." - Niccolo Machiavelli

"Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand." - Homer Simpson

"Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you." - Walt Whitman

"Kids, you tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try." - Homer Simpson

"Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself." - George Bernard Shaw

"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth." - Oscar Wilde

"Maybe, just once, someone will call me 'Sir' without adding, 'You're making a scene.'" - Homer Simpson

"Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest" - Napoleon Bonaparte

"Moral indignation - jealousy with a halo." - H.G. Wells

"My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people." - Orson Welles

"My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world." - George Bernard Shaw

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." - Napoleon Bonaparte

"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow." - Mark Twain

"Never ruin an apology with an excuse." - Benjamin Franklin

"Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it." - Mark Twain

"Never tell your enemy he is doing the wrong thing." - Napoleon Bonaparte

"Never was anything great achieved without danger" - Niccolo Machiavelli

"No good deed goes unpunished." - Oscar Wilde

"No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible." - Voltaire

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted. " - Albert Einstein

"Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first understood." - Leonardo da Vinci

"Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge." - Winston Churchill

"People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it." - George Bernard Shaw

"Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich." - Napoleon Bonaparte

"Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand" - Karl Marx

"Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people." - Karl Marx

"Sell a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach a man how to fish, you ruin a wonderful business opportunity." - Karl Marx

"Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it." - Maya Angelou

"The best way to keep one's word is not to give it." - Napoleon Bonaparte

"The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow." - H.G. Wells

"The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also." - Mark Twain

"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time." - Mark Twain

"The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him." - Niccolo Machiavelli

"The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion" - Karl Marx

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them." - Mark Twain

"The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it." - Niccolo Machiavelli

"The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding." - Leonardo da Vinci

"The only real laughter comes from despair." - Groucho Marx

"The past is the best prophet of the future." - Lord Byron

"The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs." - Karl Marx

"The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made." - Groucho Marx

"There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it." - George Bernard Shaw

"There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it." - Alfred Hitchcock

"They say Rome wasn't built in a day, but I wasn't on that particular job." - Brian Clough

"Those are my principles, and if you don't like them...well I have others." - Groucho Marx

"Those who can not change their minds can not change anything." - George Bernard Shaw

"Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead." - Benjamin Franklin

"Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't." - Mark Twain

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." - Oscar Wilde

"When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home." - Winston Churchill

"Why, look at me. I've worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty." - Groucho Marx

"You can never be overdressed or overeducated." - Oscar Wilde

"You don't reason with intellectuals. You shoot them." - Napoleon Bonaparte

"You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?" - George Bernard Shaw

"You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul." - George Bernard Shaw

"Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone." - Alan Watts

"A man of honour should never forget what he is because he sees what others are." - Baltasar Gracian

"There's no sense being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about." - John von Neumann

"Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. - Marie Curie

"There's nothing in the world so demoralising as money." - Sophocles