“If you’re in a war, instead of throwing a hand grenade at the enemy, throw one of those small pumpkins. Maybe it’ll make everyone think …
“Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.” – E. Joseph Cossman
“Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?” – George Carlin
“As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age …
“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.” – Henry Ward Beecher
“We will use at least four quartets on Valentine’s Day. Just about everyone wants theirs delivered on Valentine’s Day and usually at their sweetheart’s place …
“A man’s ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a …
“Nothing shows a man’s character more than what he laughs at.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.” – Groucho Marx
“Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make …
“Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.” – Samuel Johnson
“When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn’t work that way …
“Art is never finished, only abandoned.” – Leonardo da Vinci
“There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction” – Winston Churchill
“Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire” – Dale Carnegie
“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.” – Mark Twain
“Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it” – Albert Einstein
“Dream as if you’ll live forever, live as if you’ll die today.” – James Dean
“Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly …
“We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while …
“Patriotism … is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and falsehoods; a superstition that robs man of his self-respect and …
“An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you know …
“Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision” – Peter F. Drucker
“I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.” – Woody Allen
“Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept …
“Abstinence is as easy to me, as temperance would be difficult.” – Samuel Johnson
“The sweeter the apple, the blacker the core. Scratch a lover and find a foe!” – Dorothy Parker
“Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.” – Chogyam Trungpa
“My feeling is religious insofar as I am imbued with the consciousness of the insufficiency of the human mind to understand more deeply the harmony …
“Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.” – Leonardo da Vinci
“For all things difficult to acquire, the intelligent man works with perseverance.” – Lao Tzu
“True greatness consists in the use of a powerful understanding to enlighten oneself and others” – Voltaire
“Other things may change us, but we start and end with family” – Anthony Brandt
“Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them …
“There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.” – …
“The few bad poems which occasionally are created during abstinence are of no great interest.” – Wilhelm Reich
“Look in the face of the person to whom you are speaking if you wish to know his real sentiments, for he can command his …
“Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment” – Friedrich Nietzsche
“Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of the men who follow and of the man …
“The object of teaching a child is to enable them to get along without their teacher.” – Elbert Hubbard