Edmund Burke
“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.”
Year: 2009
Sir William Drummond
“He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.”
Michael Friedman
“The scientific name for an animal that doesn’t either run from or fight its enemies is lunch.”
Hermann Hesse
“If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn’t part of ourselves doesn’t disturb us.”
Benjamin Disraeli
“The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.”
John Cleese
“I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.”
Wilson Mizner
“A fellow who is always declaring he’s no fool usually has his suspicions.”
Joan Baez
“The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one.”
Voltaire
“I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: ‘O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.’ And God granted it.”
Alfred Hitchcock
“In films murders are always very clean. I show how difficult it is and what a messy thing it is to kill a man.”
Sholem Asch
“Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.”
Etty Hillesum
“We have to fight them daily, like fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies.”
Marva Collins
“Trust yourself. Think for yourself. Act for yourself. Speak for yourself. Be yourself. Imitation is suicide.”
Erich Segal
“True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.”
Tom Masson
“Think of what would happen to us in America if there were no humorists; life would be one long Congressional Record.”
Ann Landers
“Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high, look it quarely in the eye and say, ‘I …
Edith Sitwell
“Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man …
Wallace Stevens
“The summer night is like a perfection of thought.”
Brian Adams
“Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement …
Japanese Proverb
“Don’t stay long when the husband is not at home.”
Epictetus
“Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you, and be silent.”
General Douglas MacArthur
“There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.”
Lynn Johnston
“You don’t have to die in order to make a living.”
Isaac Newton
“Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy.”
Lillian Hellman
“Nobody outside of a baby carriage or a judge’s chamber believes in an unprejudiced point of view.”
Clare Booth Luce
“Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.”
Dale Carnegie
“all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon – instead of enjoying the …
Sidney J. Harris
“A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.”
Bob Hope
“People who throw kisses are hopelessly lazy.”
Margo Kaufman
“The only thing worse than a man you can’t control is a man you can.”
Joseph Heller
“Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.”
Dr. Seuss
“Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.”
Real Live Preacher
“We think having faith means being convinced God exists in the same way we are convinced a chair exists. People who cannot be completely convinced …
Abigail Van Buren
“Wisdom doesn’t automatically come with old age. Nothing does – except wrinkles. It’s true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were …
William Blake
“I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man’s.”
Frederick Douglass
“People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.”
Sir Arthur Eddington
“We are bits of stellar matter that got cold by accident, bits of a star gone wrong.”
Eric Wald
“Did I ever tell you about a nasty habit that flight attendants pick up on the job? We learn to always keep smiling, even when …
Willa Cather
“She used to drag her mattress besider her low window and lie awake for a long while, vibrating with excitement, as a machine vibrates from …