Thomas Szasz
“The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive but do not forget.”
Category: Quotes of the day
Edgar Watson Howe
“Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.”
Frances Moore Lappe
“Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.”
Laura Preble
“There are worse things than looking stupid. Sleeping through life is one of them.”
Millicent Fenwick
“Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.”
Bette Davis
“There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains. the people you can bravo or hiss. …
Bill Cosby
“The very first law in advertising is to avoid the concrete promise and cultivate the delightfully vague.”
David Letterman
“Sometimes when you look in his eyes you get the feeling that someone else is driving.”
Joseph Baretti
“I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I awoke this morning with devout thanksgiving for my friends, the old and the new.”
Leon Tec
“A sailor without a destination cannot hope for a favorable wind.”
David M. Ogilvy
“In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative original thinker unless you can also sell what you create. Management cannot …
Bible
“Forsake not an old friend; for the new is not comparable to him: a new friend is as new wine; when it is old, thou …
Abraham Lincoln
“It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.”
Aesop
“We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.”
John Barrymore
“Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him.”
Will Rogers
“On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government …
Thomas Paine
“He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent …
Margaret Cho
“Success is meaningless if you can’t sleep at night because of harsh things said, petty secrets sharpened against hard and stony regret, just waiting to …
Carol Burnett
“When you have a dream you’ve got to grab it and never let go.”
Oprah Winfrey
“The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.”
Michael Crichton
“Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you’re being had.”
Sean Stewart
“The present is a rope stretched over the past. The secret to walking it is, you never look down.”
Jawaharlal Nehru
“There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.”
Brenda Ueland
“Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.”
Margaret Atwood
“Another belief of mine: that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.”
Chinese Proverb
“He who is drowned is not troubled by the rain.”
Mother Teresa
“God doesn’t require us to succeed; he only requires that you try.”
Ayn Rand
“Thanksgiving is a typically American holiday…The lavish meal is a symbol of the fact that abundant consumption is the result and reward of production.”
Dave Barry
“Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.”
Ernest Hemingway
“I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to …
Louis Vermeil
“The prime purpose of eloquence is to keep other people from talking.”
Aimee Mullins
“Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It’s much sexier than any body part.”
Leontyne Price
“I am here and you will know that I am the best and will hear me.”
Gloria Steinem
“Evil is obvious only in retrospect.”
Florence Shinn
“The game of life is the game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later, with astounding accuracy.”
Jane Austen
“If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more …
Al Franken
“It’s easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world.”
Pythagoras
“It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle …
Ward Cleaver
“When you make a mistake, admit it. If you don’t, you only make matters worse.”