Category: Quotes

“Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. …

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“Millions of words are written annually purporting to tell how to beat the races, whereas the best possible advice on the subject is found in …

“The computing field is always in need of new cliches.”

“Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.”

“Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It’s just not done.”

“If I’ve learned one thing in the 14 years I’ve been a full-time cartoonist, it’s that you can not let anyone else define your professionalism. …

“Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.”

“It takes a planet to explore the universe.”

“Be bold and mighty powers will come to your aid.”

“Reading this book is like waiting for the first shoe to drop.”

“The secret of happiness is to make others believe they are the cause of it.”

“Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.”

“‘So you think *I’m* the murderer? What do I have to do to convince you that I’m not, be the next victim?’/ ‘Well, that would …

“The man who has confidence in himself gains the confidence of others.”

“Each handicap is like a hurdle in a steeplechase, and when you ride up to it, if you throw your heart over, the horse will …

“If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee — that will do them in.”

“One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have is to wake up feeling healthy after we have been sick.”

“While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.”

“The trouble with normal is it always gets worse.”

“The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces.”

“It is better to wear out than to rust out.”

“To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart – and to keep them in parallel vigor …

“It’s the possibility that when you’re dead you might still go on hurting that bothers me.”

“Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.”

“Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.”

“The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don’t screw around, and don’t smoke.”

“Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.”

“I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.”

“This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action – I will write it out.”

“Beware so long as you live, of judging people by appearances.”

“When we are angry or depressed in our creativity, we have misplaced our power. We have allowed someone else to determine our worth, and then …

“The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field – and keep on doing it.”

“Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them.”

“A bully is not reasonable – he is persuaded only by threats.”

“Mustard’s no good without roast beef.”

“It is said that power corrupts, but actually it’s more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than …

“It is possible to be below flattery as well as above it.”

“Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because they didn’t.”

“Don’t let the bastards grind you down.”