Sudde’s
Quotes
Quotes on Friends,
Love and Relations
Quotes on Music,
Theatre and Acting
Quotes on Happiness
and Sadness and Worries
Quotes on Food, Health and Wealth
Quotes on writing
and language
Quotes on learning
and teaching
Quotes on
Criticism, Compliments, Insults, Rumours and Flattery
Quotes on Humour,
Wit, Charm and Inspiration …and Quotes
Quotes on Democracy
and Politics
Quotes on Moral,
Duty, Courage, Conscience and Principles
Quotes on Wisdom
and Stupidity
Quotes on
Management and Change
Quotes on
Discipline, Desire, Success and Failure
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"Every man has a right to his opinion, but
no man has a right to be wrong in his facts."
--Bernard M. Baruch
"One major obligation is not to mistake
slogans for solutions."
--Edward R. Murrow
"The best thinking has been done in
solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil."
--Thomas Edison
"Be not the first by whom the new are
tried, /Nor yet the last to lay the old aside."
--Alexander Pope
"Trendy is emulating your children while
they emulate your parents."
--Bill Greenwell
"When I fly I always fly first class. Not
the whole way but just until they kick me out."
-Pauly Shore
"Any intelligent fool can make things
bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius – and a lot
of courage – to move in the opposite direction."
--E. F. Schumacher
"Our life is frittered away by detail...
Simplify, simplify.
--Henry David Thoreau
"Everything should be made as simple as
possible, but not simpler." --Albert Einstein
"I have a rock garden. Last week three of
them died."
- Richard Diran
"A good scare is worth more to a man than
good advice."
--Edgar Watson Howe
"The greatest mistake you can make in life
is to continually fear that you will make one."
--Elbert Hubbard
"Forgive your enemies, but never forget
their names."
--John F. Kennedy
"Ceremony and ritual spring from our heart
of hearts: those who govern us know it well, for they would sooner deny us
bread than dare alter the observance of tradition."
-- F. Gonzalez-Crussi, Mexican
professor of pathology, author
"It wasn't raining when Noah built the
ark."
--Howard Ruff
”I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But
this wasn't it.”
-- Groucho Marx (1890-1977)
"It is better to ask some of the questions
than to know all the answers."
--James Thurber
"When it is not necessary to make a
decision, it is necessary not to make a decision."
--Lord Falkland
"No one will ever win the battle of the
sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy."
-- Henry Kissinger
“Yesterday is history. Tomorrow a mystery.
Today is a gift. That's why it's called the present!”
“Everything is okay in the end. If it's not
okay, then it's not the end.”
“Never test the depth of the water with both
feet.”
“If you tell the truth you don't have to
remember anything.”
“If you lend someone $20, and never see that
person again; it was probably worth it.”
“Good judgement comes from bad experience and a
lot of that comes from bad judgement.”
"Experience is a great advantage. The
problem is that when you get the experience, you're too old to do anything
about it."
-- James Scott "Jimmy" Connors, Ammerican tennis player
“The quickest way to double your money is to
fold it in half and put it back in your pocket.”
“A closed mouth gathers no foot.”
“Don't be irreplaceable; if you can't be replaced,
you can't be promoted.”
-- Dilbert
"Det är
löjligt att påstå att TV-spel påverkar barn. Om t.ex.
Pac-Man påverkade barn födda på 80-talet skulle vi idag ha en
massa ungdomar som springer runt i ett mörkt rum och äter piller
medans de lyssnar på monoton och enformig musik." Läge att
flytta till en öde ö innan Quake-generationen växer upp?
"Never let the future disturb you. You
will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason, which today arm
you against the present."
-- Marcus Aurelius Antonius, Roman Emperor
"If in the last few years you haven't
discarded a major opinion or acquired a new one, check your pulse, you may be
dead."
-- Frank Gelett Burgess, American writer, illlustrator
"When a man you like switches from what he
said a year ago, or 4 years ago, he is a broad-minded person who has courage
enough to change his mind with changing conditions. When a man you don't like
does it, he is a liar who has broken his promises."
-- Franklin P. Adams, American
journalist, humorist
"There is a theory which states that if
ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it
will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and
inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already
happened."
-- Douglas Noel Adams, British author,
"Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
"From what we get, we can make a living;
what we give, however, makes a life."
-- Arthur Ashe, American tennis champion
“The demeaning word dishonors only the utterer”
-- Chinese Proverb
"Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from
the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad
taste of the smoker."
-- George Eliot, English
novelist
"If you must play, decide on three things
at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time."
-- Chinese Proverb
"I never had a policy; I have just tried
to do my very best each and every day."
--Abraham Lincoln
"My ambition is to do a good job. I never
plan anything."
-- Ilie Nastase, professional tennis player,, said while running for mayor of
"Everyone thinks of changing the world,
but no one thinks of changing himself."
-- Leo Tolstoy:
”After all is said and done, more is said than
done.”
–Unknown
"Socialdemokraterna
har det ungefär som duvorna på Marcusplatsen.
När de är nere
på marken äter de ur handen på folk, när de är uppe
i luften skiter de på dem."
• Dario Fo
"Att spana på
Internet är som att få i uppdrag att fotpatrullera i Europa en
förmiddag."
- Anders Persson på Uppsalapolisen.
“Det är alltid gratis
ost i råttfällan”
-- Okänd
“Att spela ensam är
exhibitionism. Att spela tillsammans, det är musik.”
– Igor Stravinskij
"The vast majority of human beings
dislikes and even dreads all notions with which they are not familiar. Hence it
comes about, that at their first appearance, innovators have always been
divided as fools and madmen."
-- Aldous Leonard Huxley, British writer
“One of the principal functions of a friend is
to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishment that we should like,
but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies.”
– from “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley
“If you feel you are in control, you are not
driving fast enough”
--Emerson Fittipaldi, Formula 1 driver
“You have no choice but to operate in a world
shaped by globalization and the information revolution. There are two options:
adapt or die”
--Andy Growe, Chairman, Intel
"It is not the strongest of the species
that survive, nor the most intelligent, it is the one that is most adaptable to
change"
--Charles Darwin, Author of "The
Origin of the Species"
“Somewhere out there is a bullet with your
company’s name on it. The competition is not between products, it’s between
business models”
--Gary Hamel, Professor,
Before marriage, a man will lie awake all
night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll fall asleep
before you finish saying it.
...Helen Roland
"I haven't spoken to my wife in years.
I didn't want to interrupt her."
...Rodney Dangerfield.
Marriage is a wonderful institution...if,
of course, you like living in an institution.
...Groucho Marx
To keep your marriage brimming,, With love
in the loving cup,
Whenever you’re wrong admit it; Whenever you’re right shut up.
...
"A friend knows the song in my heart and
sings it to me when my memory fails."
--Donna Roberts
"An apology is the superglue of life. It
can repair just about anything."
--Lynn Johnston
"It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
"You can always tell a real friend: when
you've made a fool of yourself he doesn't feel you've done a permanent
job."
-Laurence Peter"
If you were going to die soon and had only one
phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why
are you waiting?"
--Stephen Levine
"No one is useless in this world who
lightens the burdens of another."
--Charles Dickens
"Wise sayings often fall on barren ground;
but a kind word is never thrown away."
--Sir Arthur Helps
"The way to love anything is to realize
that it may be lost."
--G. K. Chesterton
"Getting people to like you is merely the
other side of liking them."
--Norman Vincent Peale
"Live so that your friends can defend you,
but never have to."
--
"In the end, the love you take is equal to
the love you make."
--Paul McCartney
"We are inclined to believe those whom we
do not know because they have never deceived us."
-- Samuel Johnson, 1709-84,
English author
"Love does not consist in gazing at each
other but in looking together in the same direction."
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery,
1900-1944, French aviator, author
"Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a
tender look which becomes a habit."
-- Peter Ustinov, b. 1921,
British actor, writer, director
"Do you want me to tell you something
really subversive? Love is everything
it's cracked up to be. That's why people
are so cynical about it... It really is
worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk
anything, you risk even more."
-- Erica Jong, b. 1942, American
author
"I choose my friends for their good looks,
my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their
intellects. A man cannot be too careful
in the choice of his enemies."
-- Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900,
Anglo-Irish playwright, author
"To have friends, you know, one need only
be good-natured; but when a man has no enemy left there must be something mean
about him."
-- Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900,
Anglo-Irish playwright, author
"The wise learn many things from their
foes."
-- Aristophanes, 448?-385 B.C., Athenian playwright
"Jag har aldrig trott
på så kallade bekännelseromaner. Så fort någon
skriver om hur han är vet man att han skriver om hur han skulle vilja
vara, och smörjan han producerar formas till ett långt jävla
försvarstal från början till slut. Vem fan bryr sig. Tacka vet
jag Strindberg, han skyllde allt på sin fru. Alltså förstod
alla att han var ett svin. En sann männsiska.
Så är det
också i verkliga livet. Så snart någon häller upp ett
glas rödvin och börjar blinka förtroligt mot en vet man att det
han pratar om bara går ut på att visa vilken fin jävla
missförstådd stackars människa han är. Det är
då man kan börja gäspa. Ge fanskapet ett rejält glas
öl och han börjar skryta istället. Jag föredrar skrytet. Det
är sannare. Alla vet att den som skryter skarvar, och den som skarvar vet
att han skryter. Alla är överens och everybody goes home in a
limousine."
- Arne Anka i "Bombad &
Sänkt")
"Man behöver
inte vara bög för att man dricker vin, bara om man känner
skillnad på sorterna."
- Arne Anka i "Bombad &
Sänkt")
"Man säger att
män är burdusa och ouppfostrade. Detta är så sant som det
är sagt, särskilt om dagens män, och de är det i en mycket
högre grad än kvinnorna, och i vissa fall är det att beklaga.
Å andra sidan måste man se till vad denna burdusitet är
värd. Om någon berusad skitskalle någon fuktig afton skulle
daska dig kvinna i stjärten, så gå för i helvete inte hem
och gråt! Ta det inte personligt! Du är inget luder i hans
ögon! Du är antagligen det vackraste han just råkat fästa
blicken på! Slå fanskapet på käften för att han
inte beter sig som han ska! Kom inte dragandes med lagar och förordningar
kring din röv, då är det ingen som tar åt sig. Sätt
dig i respekt! Är det något en man har respekt förså
är det den kvinna han försöker göra sin kur. Han är
livrädd för henne. Såvida han inte är den rutinerade
charmörtypen, en teaterskådis, plingeliplong-musiker eller helt
enkelt den gamla vanliga cromagnonen, men sådana brukar ju kvinnor
å andra sidan aldrig ha något emot."
- Arne Anka i "Bombad &
Sänkt")
"Det krävs inte
mycket för att vara man. Allt som krävs är att alltid vara mest
eller värst"
- Arne Anka i "Bombad &
Sänkt")
"Det bästa jag
vet är att vara full. Vi män dricker oss fulla, ser vem som blir
fullast, vem som dricker mest, spyr mest och vem som vaknar upp med den
värsta baksmällan och den snyggaste bruden. Sedan berättar vi
det för varandra, och så har vi skitkul."
- Arne Anka i "Bombad &
Sänkt")
"Vad vi män
än gör så har vi roligt åt det. Det är bara kvinnor
som påstår att vi bär oss illa åt. Om män bara
umgås med män förvandlas de till lyckliga, fjärtande,
kräkande och kravlande svin."
- Arne Anka i "Bombad &
Sänkt")
"Man säger att
det är "kulturen" och "disciplinen" som skiljer oss
från djuren.Själv tror jag att det är kvinnan. Så fort en
man gör det han egentligen vill kommer en kvinna och säger åt
honom att skärpa sig. Det är därför jag inte tror på
äktenskapet. Kvinnorna tar allting på allvar, männen ingenting.
Utom sig själva. Svår kombination."
- Arne Anka i "Bombad &
Sänkt")
"So many persons who think divorce a
panacea for every ill find out, when they try it, that remedy is worse than the
disease."
-Dorothea Dix
"A divorce is like an amputation: you
survive it, but there's less of you."
--Margaret Atwood
"Being divorced is like being hit by a
Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the
right and to the left."
--Jean Kerr
"The primary condition for being sincere
is the same as for being humble: not to
boast of it, and probably not even to be aware of it."
-- Henri Peyre, French novelist
"Sincerity is an opening of the heart,
found in very few people. What we usually see is merely a cunning deceit to
gain another's confidence."
-- La Rochefoucauld, French
epigrammatist and moralist
"The spontaneity of a slap is sincerity,
whereas the ceremony of a caress is largely conventional."
-- Ugo Betti, Italian writer
"If a person gives you his time, he can
give you no more precious gift."
--Frank Tyger
"People ask you for criticism, but they
only want praise."
--W.
"You can flatter any man by telling him
he's the kind of man who can't be flattered."
--Laurence J. Peter
"A good friend who points out mistakes and
imperfections and rebukes evil is to be respected as if he reveals a secret of
hidden treasure."
-- Buddha, Indian religious leader
"If two friends ask you to judge a
dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other hand, if
two strangers come with the same request, accept because you will gain one
friend."
--
"Gratitude is not only the greatest of
virtues, but the parent of all the others."
-- Cicero, Roman orator and
statesman
"Gratitude is merely the secret hope of
further favors."
-- Francois duc de la
Rochefoucauld, French writer
“I have no interest in sailing around the
world. Not that there is any lack of requests for me to do so. “
--Edward Heath
“If one does not know to which port one is sailing,
no wind is favorable. “
--Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“I try to look at this music career thing as
the means to an end. And really, at the end of it, I see myself on a sailboat,
sailing off the edge of the world. “
--Michelle Shocked
"My specialty is being right when other
people are wrong."
--George Bernard Shaw
"One of my chief regrets during my years
in the theater is that I couldn't sit in the audience and watch me."
--John Barrymore
"To love oneself is the beginning of a
lifelong romance."
--Oscar Wilde
"Madam, you have between your legs an
instrument capable of giving pleasure
to thousands and all you can do is scratch it."
-- Sir Thomas Beecham to a lady cellist
"Jack Benny played Mendelssohn last night.
Mendelssohn lost."
—Anonymous
"Parsifal - the kind of opera that starts
at six o'clock and after it has
been going three hours, you look at your watch and it says 6:20."
-- David Randolph
"One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin
after a first hearing, and I
certainly don't intend hearing it a second time."
-- Gioacchino Rossini
"I liked the opera very much. Everything
but the music."
-- Benjamin Britten on Stravinsky's The Rakees's Progress
"Anton Bruckner wrote the same symphony
nine times, trying to get it
just right. He failed."
-- Edward Abbey
"It's important not to indicate. People
don't try to show their feelings; they try to hide them."
-- Robert De Niro, American
motion-picture actor
"I made some mistakes in drama. I thought
the drama was when the actors cried. But drama is when the audience
cries."
-- Frank Capra, American film director
"Life beats down and crushes the soul, and
art reminds you that you have one."
-- Stella Adler, American actress, founded &"Stella Adler Conservatory of
Acting"
"Never get a mime talking. He won't
stop."
-- Marcel Marceau
"No man would listen to you talk if he
didn't known it was his turn next."
-- Edgar Watson Howe, 1853-1937, American edditor and author
"We have two ears and only one tongue in
order that we may hear more and speak less."
-- Laertius Diogenes, c.412-323 B.C.,
Greek Cynic philosopher
"The most important thing in communication
is to hear what isn't being said."
-- Peter F(erdinand) Drucker, Austrian writeer, author, educator
"Every man ... should periodically be
compelled to listen to opinions which are infuriating to him. To hear nothing
but what is pleasing to one is to make a pillow of the mind."
-- John Ervine, saint
“The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make
other organs weep.”
--Henry Maudsley
“Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.”
--Natalie Clifford Barney
“The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.”
--John Vance Cheney
"Life is a romantic business. It is
painting a picture, not doing a sum."
--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
"The art of being wise is the art of
knowing what to overlook."
--William James"
Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there
is something for you to do in the world.
So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain."
--Helen Keller
"Practice being excited."
--Bill Foster
"Worry compounds the futility of being
trapped on a dead-end street. Thinking opens new avenues."
--Cullen Hightower
"How much pain they have cost us, the
evils which have never happened."
--Thomas Jefferson
"What is there to be afraid of? The worst
thing that can happen is you fail. So what? I failed at a lot of things. My
first record was horrible."
--John Mellencamp
"Every difficulty slurred over will be a
ghost to disturb your repose later on."
--Frederic Chopin
"The truth will set you free, but first it
will make you miserable."
--James A. Garfield
"Flowers grow out of dark moments."
--Corita
"Shall we make a new rule of life from
tonight: Always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?"
-- J.M. Barrier (1860-1937)
"Do the thing you believe in. Do the best
you can in the place where you are and be kind."
-- Scott Nearing (1883-1983)
"If you always do what interests you, at
least one person is pleased."
--Katharine Hepburn
"Few rich men own their own property. The
property owns them."
--Robert G. Ingersoll
"One of the keys to happiness is a bad
memory."
--Rita Mae Brown
"It isn't our position, but our disposition,
that makes us happy."
--Anon.
"Life is 10 percent what you make it, and
90 percent how you take it."
--Irving Berlin
"Perhaps one has to be very old before one
learns to be amused rather than shocked."
-- Pearl S. Buck, 1892-1973, American authorr
"We are all in the gutter, but some of us
are looking at the stars."
-- Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish author and wit
"Cherish all your happy moments: They make
a fine cushion for old age."
- Christopher Morley, playwright
(1564-1593).
"To me, old age is always fifteen years
older than I am."
-- Bernard Baruch, 1870-1965, American finanncier
"Ask yourself whether you are happy, and
you cease to be so."
--John Stuart Mill
"Man must choose whether to be rich in
things or in the freedom to use them."
--Ivan Illich
"Striving to be better, oft we mar what's
well."
--William Shakespeare ("King Lear";)
"It is not true that we have only one life
to live; if we can read we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of
lives as we wish."
--S.
"To live is the rarest thing in the
world. Most people exist, that is
all."
-- Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900,
Anglo-Irish playwright, author
"Don't be afraid of death so much as an
inadequate life."
-- Bertolt Brecht, 1898-1956,
German dramatist, poet
"I'm an optimist, but an optimist who
carries a raincoat."
--Harold Wilson
"Cats are intended to teach us that not
everything in nature has a function."
--Garrison Keillor
"As I grow to understand life less and
less, I learn to live it more and more."
--Jules Renard
"An optimist is the human personification
of spring."
--Susan J. Bissonette
"Life is like a game of cards. The hand
that is dealt you represents determinism; the way you play it is free
will."
--Jawaharlal Nehru
"Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise."
--G. K. Chesterton
"Hardly anyone knows how much is gained by
ignoring the future."
--Bernard de Fontenelle
"Virtue is simply happiness, and happiness
is a by-product of function. You are happy when you are functioning."
-- William S. Burroughs, American writer
"The one happiness is to shut one's door
upon a little room, with a table before one, and to create; to create life in
that isolation from life."
-- Eleonora Duse, Italian actress
"The crowning fortune of a man is to be
born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to
make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson, American philosopherr, poet, and essayist
"I have discovered the secret of happiness
-- it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something
to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy."
-- John Burroughs, American author and naturralist
You can't be a real country unless you have a
beer and an airline; It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some
nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.
-- Frank Zappa
Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your
mouth shut.
-- Ernest Hemmingway
Always remember that I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken
out of me.
-- Winston Churchill
He was a wise man who invented beer.
-- Plato
Time is never wasted when you're wasted all the time.
-- Catherine Zandonella
Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink.
-- Lady Astor to Winston Churchill
Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it.
-- His reply.
If God had intended us to drink beer, He would have given us stomachs.
-- David Daye
Work is the curse of the drinking class.
-- Oscar Wilde
When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading.
-- Henny Youngman
Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
-- Benjamin Franklin
If you ever reach total enlightenment while drinking beer, I bet it makes beer
shoot out your nose.
-- Deep Thought, Jack Handy
Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh,
I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go
nearly as well with pizza.
-- Dave Barry
The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.
-- Humphrey Bogart
Why is American beer served cold? So you can tell it from urine.
-- David Moulton
People who drink light "beer" don't like the taste of beer; they just
like to pee a lot.
-- Capital Brewery,
Give me a woman who loves beer and I will conquer the world.
-- Kaiser Wilhelm
I would kill everyone in this room for a drop of sweet beer.
-- Homer Simpson
Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for
example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer.
-- Dave Barry
I drink to make other people interesting.
-- George Jean Nathan
They who drink beer will think beer.
-- Washington Irving
An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his
fools.
-- For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ernest Hemmingwaay
You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.
-- Dean Martin
“A man's health can be judged by which he takes
two at a time - pills or stairs.”
--Joan Welsh
"Health nuts are going to feel stupid
someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing."
--Redd Foxx
"It is a common experience that a problem
difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has
worked on it."
--John Steinbeck
"There is only one thing people like that
is good for them; a good night's sleep."
--Edgar Watson Howe
"That money talks / I'll not deny, / I
heard it once: / It said, 'Goodbye.' "
--Richard Armour
"You don't get ulcers from what you eat.
You get them from what's eating you."
-- Vicki Baum, 1888-1960, American writer
"Old age and sickness bring out the
essential characteristics of a man."
--Felix Frankfurter
"As a cure for worrying, work is better
than whiskey."
--Thomas A. Edison
"Eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a
prince, and dinner like a pauper."
--Adelle Davis
“Åh mat! Min favoriträtt!”
--Affe Häst…
"If you have a garden and a library, you
have everything you need."
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman
statesman, scholar, orator
"I once had a sparrow alight upon my
shoulder for a moment while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I
was more distinguished by that circumstance than I should have been by any
epaulet I could have worn."
-- Henry David Thoreau, American
essayist, poet, and naturalist
"We have probed the earth, excavated it,
burned it, ripped things from it, buried things in it.. That does not fit my
definition of a good tenant. If we were here on a month-to-month basis, we
would have been evicted long ago."
-- Rose Elizabeth Bird, former
California Chief Justice
"Fish, to taste good, must swim three
times: in water, in butter, and in wine."
-- Polish Proverb
"Food is our common ground, a universal
experience."
-- James Beard, American chef and author
"Part of the secret of success in life is
to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside."
-- Mark Twain, American novelist, journalist
"There is no sincerer love than the love
of food."
-- George Bernard Shaw, Irish critic,
dramatist
"In
-- John Levee, American journalist
"He who has health has hope; and he who
has hope, has everything."
-- Arabian Proverb
"Too often we underestimate the power of a
touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the
smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life
around."
-- Dr. (Felice) Leo(nardo) Buscaglia, Americcan Professor of Education at USC
"The toughest thing about success is that
you've got to keep on being a success."
-- Irving Berlin, Russian-born American
songwriter
"I dread success. To have succeeded is to
have finished one's business on earth….
I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not
behind."
-- George Bernard Shaw, Irish-born
British playwright, Nobel Prize winner
"Success is getting what you want;
happiness is wanting what you get."
-- Dale Carnegie, Scottish-born American
industrialist, philanthropist, educator
"Admitting errors clears the score and
proves you wiser than before."
--Arthur Guiterman
"The strongest of all warriors are these
two – Time and Patience."
--Leo Tolstoy
"One of the sources of pride in being a
human being is the ability to bear present frustrations in the interests of
longer purposes."
--Helen Merrell Lynd
"To know that one has a secret is to know
half the secret itself."
-- Henry Ward Beecher,
"A secret is not something unrevealed, but
something told privately, in a whisper."
-- Marcel Pagnol, French dramatist
"The most difficult secret for a man to
keep is his own opinion of himself."
-- Marcel Pagnol, French dramatist
"To whom you tell your secrets, to him you
resign your liberty."
-- Spanish proverb
"The most pathetic person in the world is
someone who has sight, but has no vision."
-- Helen Adams Keller, American
memoirist, lecturer
"Perception is strong and sight weak. In
strategy, it is important to see distant things as if they were close and to
take a distanced view of close things."
-- Miyamoto Musashi, Japanese warrior
and strategist
"Allow children to be happy in their own
way, for what better way will they find?"
--Dr, Samuel Johnson
"Don't limit a child to your own learning,
for he was born in another time."
--Rabbinic saying
"Something you consider bad may bring out
your child's talents; something you consider good may stifle them."
–Chateaubriand
"Before I got married, I had six theories
about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories."
-- Lord Rochester, Poet and courtier
"Making the decision to have a child --
it's momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around
outside your body."
-- Elizabeth Stone
“Children do what you do and they say what you
say, but they never do what you say”
–Mikhail Nikolayevich
"Literature is mostly about having sex and
not much about having children. Life is the other way around."
--David Lodge
"Children have neither a past nor a
future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us."
--Jean de La Bruyere
"There are times when parenthood seems
nothing but feeding the mouth that bites you."
--Peter de Vries
"Children begin by loving their parents.
After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them."
--Oscar Wilde
"I have found the best way to give advice
to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do
it."
--Harry Truman
You spend the first 2 years of their life
teaching them to walk and talk. Then you spend the next 16 telling them to sit
down and shut-up.
Grandchildren are God's reward for not killing
your children.
Cleaning your house while your kids are still
growing is like clearing the driveway before it has stopped snowing.
The main purpose of holding children's parties
is to remind yourself that there are children more awful than your own.
Be nice to your kids. They'll choose your nursing home
“Jag tror inte att
“kvalitetstid” kan uppväga kvantitetstid när det gäller att vara
tillsammans med sina barn. Tänk dig själv att du ligger på
långvården och barnen kommer för att hälsa på. Tror
du då att du skulle vilja att dom tog med dig till tivoli en timme, eller
att dom satt fem timmar hos dig och bara höll din hand även om dom
läste en bok eller pratade i telefon samtidigt? “
"What feeling is so nice as a child's hand
in yours? So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in the shelter of
your clasp."
-- Marjorie Holmes, writer
För att få
kärleken att hålla är det jätteviktigt att vara en bra
kyssare.
Då kan det hända att din fru glömmer att du aldrig går ut
med soporna.
-- Erik, 8 år
En hästkraft är
den energi som går åt för att dra en häst femhundra meter
på en sekund.
-- Eyvind, 10 år
Vatten visslar vid hundra
grader.
-- Mons, 9 år
Svampar växer
på fuktiga ställen. Det är därför dom ser ut som
paraplyer.
-- Henrik, 8 år
Blåbär är
jättegott, för det är sylt i dom.
– Björn, 5 år
Några män har
hår på ryggen. Speciellt förbrytare och badvakter.
-- Stina, 6 år
"A man ought to read just as inclination
leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good."
--Dr. Samuel Johnson
"No two people read the same book."
--Edmund Wilson
"Generally the theories we believe we call
facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call theories."
--Felix Cohen
"As a matter of fact is an expression that
precedes many an expression that isn't."
--Laurence Peter"
You can pretend to be serious; you can't
pretend to be witty."
--Sacha Guitry
"Cut out all these exclamation points. An
exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke."
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1896-1940,
American author
"As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word
that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler."
-- Calvin Trillin, 1935-, American journalisst, author
"Think twice before you speak - and you'll
find everyone talking about something else."
--Francis Rodman
"Make sure you have finished speaking
before your audience has finished listening."
--Dorothy Sarnoff
“The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist
sees what he has come to see.”
--G.K. Chesterton
"Good people are good because they've come
to wisdom through failure."
--William Saroyan
"I have learned throughout my life as a
composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not my
exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge."
-- Igor Stravinsky, Russian composer
"The obvious is that which is never seen
until someone expresses it simply."
--Kahlil Gibran
"Try to know everything of something, and
something of everything."
--Henry Peter
"Experience is a good teacher, but she
sends in terrific bills."
--Minna Antrim
"A man who is so dull that he can learn
only by personal experience, is too dull to learn anything important by
experience."
--Don Marquis
"Simplicity is the ultimate
sophistication."
--Leonardo da Vinci
"The trouble about man is twofold. He
cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too
simple."
--Rebecca West
"Everything should be made as simple as
possible... but not simpler."
--Albert Einstein
"The important thing is not to stop
questioning."
--Albert Einstein
"What we have to learn to do, we learn by
doing."
-- Aristotle, 384-322 B.C., Greek
philosopher
"Education is when you read the fine
print, experience is what you get when you don't."
-- Pete Seeger, 1919-, American
folksinger and composer
"The things we know best are the things we
haven't been taught."
-- George Santayana, 1863-1952,
American philosopher, poet
"Nothing ever becomes real 'til it is
experienced. Even a proverb is no
proverb to you 'til your life is illustrated by it."
-- John Keats, 1795-1821, English
poet
"We often discover what will do, by
finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never
made a discovery."
--Samuel Smiles
"Statistics are no substitute for
judgment."
--Henry Clay
"There can be no knowledge without
emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet
until we have felt its force, it is not ours.
To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the
soul."
-- Arnold Bennett, English novelist "
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind
with an open one."
- Malcolm S. Forbes, publisher (1919-1990).
"Education is leading human souls to what
is best, and no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate, no despotism can
enslave. At home a friend, abroad an
introduction, in solitude a solace, and in society an ornament. It chastens vice, it guides virtue, it gives
at once grace and government to genius.
Without it, what is man? A splendid slave, a reasoning savage."
-- Joseph Addison, English
essayist, poet, and statesman
"If you can react the same way to winning
and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it
stays with you the rest of your life."
--Chris Evert
"The young always have the same problem --
how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying
their parents and copying one another."
-- Quentin Crisp, English-born American
author
"Conformity is the jailer of freedom and
the enemy of growth."
-- John F. Kennedy, 35th president of
the
“Experience is something you don't get until
just after you need it.”
-- Unknown
"Correction does much, but encouragement
does more."
-- Goethe, German poet, dramatist, and
scientist
"The truth is more important than the
facts."
-- Frank Lloyd Wright, architect
"There's a world of difference between
truth and facts. Facts can obscure truth."
-- Maya Angelou, American poet, writer,
and actress
“Jag har aldrig mött
en man som varit så dum att jag inte kunnat lära mig något av
honom.”
--
Sokrates(?)
"Education is the ability to listen to
almost anything without losing your temper."
-- Robert Frost, poet
"Learning... should be a joy and full of
excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion
into the mind of noble and learned men, not a conducted tour through a
jail."
-- Taylor Caldwell, English novelist
"It is the supreme art of the teacher to
awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge."
-- Albert Einstein, mathematical
physicist
"Perhaps the most valuable result of all
education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it
ought to be done, whether you like it or not."
- Walter Bagehot (1826-77) British economistt, journalist
"Change is the end result of all true
learning. Change involves three things: first, a dissatisfaction with self -- a
felt void or need; second, a decision to change -- to fill the void or need;
and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the
willful act of making the change: doing something."
-- Dr. (Felice) Leo(nardo) Buscaglia, Americcan Professor of Education at USC
"Pay attention to your enemies, for they
are the first to discover your mistakes."
-- Antisthenes, Greek philosopher
"Men of sense often learn from their
enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson
of building high walls and ships of war..."
-- Aristophanes, Greek dramatist
"Sympathy is never wasted except when you
give it to yourself."
--John W. Raper
"The man who reads nothing at all is
better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers."
--Thomas Jefferson
"Newspaper editors are men who separate
the wheat from the chaff, and then print the chaff."
--Adlai Stevenson
"Journalism: A profession whose business
is to explain to others what it personally does not understand."
--Lord Northcliffe
"Many folk like to know beforehand what is
to be set on the table; but those who have laboured to prepare the feast like
to keep their secret; for wonder makes the words of praise louder."
-- Gandalf the Grey
"If malice or envy were tangible and had a
shape, it would be the shape of a boomerang."
--Charley Reese
"The biggest liar in the world is They
Say."
--Douglas Malloch
"Do you want to injure someone's
reputation? Don't speak ill of him, speak too well."
--Andre Siegfried
"A flatterer is a man who tells you your
opinion and not his own."
--Anon.
"Compliments were made for strangers, not
for friends."
--Anon.
"To show resentment at a reproach is to
acknowledge that one may have deserved it."
--Tacitus
"Judge a man by his questions rather than
by his answers."
--Voltaire
"There is nothing you can say in answer to
a compliment. I have been complimented myself a great many times, and they
always embarrass me -- I always feel that they have not said enough."
--
"Nothing is so silly as the expression of
a man who is being complimented."
-- Andre Gide, French novelist
"Women are never disarmed by compliments.
Men always are."
-- Oscar Wilde, Irish dramatist, novelist, ppoet
"Nobody will keep the thing he hears to
himself, and nobody will repeat just what he hears and no more."
--Seneca
"Doubt whom you will, but never
yourself."
--Christian Bovee
"Be advised that all flatterers live at
the expense of those who listen to them."
-- Jean de la Fontaine, 1621-95,
French poet
"I think, what has this day brought me,
and what have I given it?"
--Henry Moore
"If you have no will to change it, you
have no right to criticize it."
--Anon.
"Be wary of the man who urges an action in
which he himself incurs no risk."
--Joaquin Setanti
"When a man points a finger at someone
else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at
himself."
--Louis Nizer
"I have offended God and mankind because
my work didn't reach the quality it should have."
--Leonardo da Vinci
"There will be no proof that I ever was a
writer."
--Franz Kafka
"My life has been nothing but a
failure."
--Claude Monet
"The only gracious way to accept an insult
is to ignore it; if you can't ignore it, top it; if you can't top it, laugh at
it; if you can't laugh at it, it's probably deserved."
-- J. Russel Lynes, American
author and editor
"The first human being who hurled an
insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization."
-- Sigmund Freud, founder of
psychoanalysis
"There are two insults no human being will
endure: that he has no sense of humor, and that he has never known
trouble."
-- Sinclair Lewis, American
novelist and playwright
“Speglosan vanärar endast upphovsmannen.”
-- Kinesiskt ordspråk
“The demeaning word dishonours only the
utterer”
-- Chinese Proverb
"Pay no attention to what the critics say;
no statue has ever been put up to a critic."
--Jean Sibelius
"A critic is someone who never actually
goes to the battle, yet who afterwards comes out shooting the wounded."
--
"Humour is the great thing, the saving
thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away
and a sunny spirit takes their place"
...Mark Twain
"The easiest way to save face is to keep
the lower half shut."
--Anon.
"Better lose a jest than a friend."
--Thomas Fuller
"I hate quotations. Tell me what you
know."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
How to Stand up to wine mavens and drink what
you like:
"A good general rule is to state that the bouquet is better than the
taste, and vice versa."
--Stephen Potter
"Personally, I would sooner have written
--Stephen Leacock
"I often quote myself. It adds spice to my
conversation."
*-- George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish
playwright and critic
"To be occasionally quoted is the only
fame I care for."
-- Alexander Smith, 1830-67, Scottish poet
"When I examine myself and my methods of
thought, I come close to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more
to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge."
--Albert Einstein
"The real art of conversation is not only
to say the right thing at the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing
at the tempting moment."
--Dorothy Nevill
"Give me a man who sings at his
work."
--Thomas Carlyle
"If you aren't fired with an enthusiasm,
you will be fired with enthusiasm."
--Vince Lombardi
"I never lose sight of the fact that just
being is fun."
-- Katharine Hepburn, American actress
"I discovered I always have choices and
sometimes it's only a choice of attitude."
-- Judith M. Knowlton, American tennis playeer and activist
"It's absurd to divide people into good
and bad. People are either charming or tedious."
-- Oscar Wilde, Irish dramatist, novelist, ppoet
"Charm is... a way of getting the answer
yes without having asked any clear question."
-- Albert Camus, French philosopher,
novelist, dramatist
"Once you make a decision, the universe
conspires to make it happen."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson,
"Courage is the first of human qualities
because it is the quality which guarantees the others."
-- Aristotle, Greek philosopher
"Wit is educated insolence."
-- Aristotle, Greek philosopher
"The next best thing to being witty one's
self, is to be able to quote another's wit."
-- Christian Nestell Bovee
"The real wit tells jokes to make others
feel superior, while the half-wit tells them to make others feel small."
-- Elmer Wheeler
"Inspiration? A hoax fabricated by poets
for their self-importance."
-- Jean Anouilh, French playwright
"A deadline is negative inspiration.
Still, it's better than no inspiration at all."
-- Rita Mae Brown, American writer and authoor
"Genius is one percent inspiration and
ninty-nine percent perspiration."
-- Thomas Alva Edison, American inventor
"Motivation is an external, temporary high
that pushes you forward. Inspiration is a sustainable internal glow which pulls
you forward."
-- Thomas Leonard, Scottish poet
"Acting is the expression of a neurotic
impulse. It's a bum's life. The principal benefit acting has afforded me is the
money to pay for my psychoanalysis."
--
"Tact is the ability to describe others as
they see themselves."
-- Abraham Lincoln, 16
"Good manners will open doors that the
best education cannot."
--
"Manners are a sensitive awareness of the
feelings of others. If you have that
awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use."
-- Emily Post, etiquette
authority
"Good manners and soft words have brought
many a difficult thing to pass."
-- John Vanbrugh, English
dramatist and architect
"Politeness is half good manners and half
good lying."
-- Mary Wilson Little, American author
"Imagination is more important than
knowledge."
-- Albert Einstein, German-born American theeoretical physicist, theories of
relativity, philosopher
"You can't depend on your judgement when
your imagination is out of focus."
-- Mark Twain, American author and humorist<
Never think that war, no matter how
necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime.
...Ernest Hemingway
Join the Army! Travel to exotic, distant
lands. Meet exciting, unusual people, and kill them.
... from "Full Metal Jacket"
"One cannot simultaneously prevent and
prepare for war."
...Albert Einstein
"Women constitute half the world's
population, perform nearly two-thirds of its work hours, receive one-tenth of
the world's income and own less than one-hundredth of the world's
property"
...United Nations report, 1980
"One of the penalties for refusing to
participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your
inferiors."
...Plato
"Politics is the art of looking for
trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it and then misapplying the wrong
remedies."
...Groucho Marx
"Pro is to con as progress is to
congress."
...Unknown
"Being powerful is like being a lady.
If you have to tell people you are, you aren't."
...Margaret Thatcher
"You can't shake hands with a clenched
fist."
--Indira Gandhi
When you've spent half your political life
dealing with humdrum issues like the environment...
it's exciting to have a real crisis on your hands.
-- Margaret Thatcher, on the
"If liberty and equality, as is thought by
some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all
persons alike share in the government to the utmost."
-- Aristotle, Greek philosopher and
scientist
"Democracy does not guarantee equality of
conditions -- it only guarantees equality of opportunity."
-- Irving Kristol, American editor and
educator
"Two cheers for Democracy: one because it
admits variety and two because it permits criticism."
-- E. M. Forster, English novelist and
essayist
"In a democracy, the individual enjoys not
only the ultimate power but carries the ultimate responsibility."
-- Norman Cousins, editor, humanitarian,
and author
"While democracy must have its
organization and controls, its vital breath is individual liberty."
-- Charles Evans Hughes, American jurist
and statesman
"As I would not be a slave, so I would not
be a master.This expresses my idea of democracy."
-- Abraham Lincoln, 16th president of
the
"Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of
history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only weapon
against bad ideas is better ideas."
-- A. Whitney Griswold,
1906-1963,
"You can cage the singer but not the
song."
-- Harry Belafonte, 1927,
"Don't join the book burners. Don't think you are going to conceal faults
by concealing evidence that they ever existed."
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower,
1890-1969, U.S. President,
"You know the world's gone mad when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the tallest guy in the NBA is Chinese, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the USA of arrogance and the Germans don't want to go to war!"
-- John Cleese (?)
"There are well-dressed foolish ideas just
as there are well- dressed fools."
--Nicolas Chamfort
"Man is ready to die for an idea, provided
that ideas is not quite clear to him."
--Paul Eldridge
"Every generation revolts against its
fathers and makes friends with its grandfathers."
-- Lewis Mumford, 1895-1990, American sociall philosopher
"Each generation imagines itself to be
more intelligent that the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that
comes after it."
-- George Orwell, 1903-50, British novelist and essayist
"Amongst democratic nations, each new
generation is a new people."
-- Alexis de Tocqueville, 1805-59, French poolitician and writer
"It is fortunate that each generation does
not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors
barbarous."
-- Charles Dudley Warner, 1829-1900, Americaan editor, author
"The longer I live, the more keenly I feel
that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us.
-- Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Anglo-Irish playwwright, author
"A fanatic is one who can't change his
mind and won't change the subject."
...Sir Winston Churchill
"In
and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't
a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a
Protestant.
Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up"
...Martin Niemoeller, German Lutheran Pastor
"If they give you ruled paper, write the
other way."
--Juan Ramon Jimenez
"Do not follow where the path may lead.
Go, instead, where there is no path and leave a trail."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Courage is clearly a readiness to risk
self-humiliation."
--Nigel Dennis
"The best way to keep one's word is not to
give it."
–Napoleon
"I believe half the unhappiness in life
comes from people afraid to go straight at things."
--William Lock
"I became more courageous by doing the
very things I needed to be courageous for – first, a little and badly. Then,
bit by bit, more and better." --Audre Lorde
"Courage is being scared to death… and
saddling up anyway."
--John Wayne
"He that tells a lie to save his credit,
wipes his mouth with his sleeve to spare his napkin."
-- Sir Thomas Overbury, 1581-1613, English aauthor and courtier
"He who tells a lie is not sensible of how
great a task he undertakes; for he must be forced to invent twenty more to
maintain that one."
-- Alexander Pope, 1688-1744, English poet
"If we believe absurdities, we shall
commit atrocities."
-- Voltaire, 1694-1778, French
philosopher and author
"Nothing is more dangerous than an idea,
because you can form an opinion without the facts."
-- Alain, c.1128-c.1202, French
scholastic philosopher
"Morality cannot be legislated but
behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they
can restrain the heartless."
-- Martin Luther King, Jr.,
American clergyman and civil rights leader
"What is morality in any given time or
place? It is what the majority then and
there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike."
-- Alfred North Whitehead,
British mathematician and metaphysician
"Foundations of morality are like all
other foundations; if you dig too much about them, the superstructure will come
tumbling down."
-- Samuel Butler, English poet
"Good habits, which bring our lower
passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to
explore the larger experiences of life."
-- Ralph W. Sockman, American
religious leader
"Be a first rate version of yourself, not
a second rate version of someone else."
--Judy Garland
"Consistency is the last refuge of the
unimaginative."
-- Oscar Wilde, Anglo-Irish
playwright and novelist
"Consistency requires you to be as
ignorant today as you were a year ago."
-- Bernard Berenson, American
art historian
"Goodness is the only investment which
never fails."
-- Henry David Thoreau, American essayist, ppoet, and naturalist
”Those are my principles, and if you don't like
them... well, I have others."
-- Groucho Marx (1890-1977)
"There is only one way to achieve
happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear
conscience or none at all."
-- Ogden Nash, American poet
"The one predominant duty is to find one's
work and do it."
-- Charlotte Perkins Gilman, American
economist, lecturer, author, and feminist
"How can you come to know yourself? Never
by thinking; always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away
what you amount to."
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German
poet and dramatist
"I long to accomplish a great and noble
task; but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great
and noble."
-- Helen Keller, American author and
lecturer
"Love all. Trust a few. Do wrong to
none."
...William Shakespeare
"It is better to keep your mouth shut
and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt."
...Mark Twain
"Never underestimate the power of
stupid people in large groups."
...Unknown
"I wish there were a knob on the TV to
turn up the intelligence.
There's a knob called 'brightness,' but that doesn't work."
--Anon
"Knowledge is a process of piling up
facts; wisdom lies in their simplification."
-- Martin Fischer, American philosopher,
poet, and essayist
"Believe nothing, no matter where you read
it, or who said it - even if I have said it - unless it agrees with your own
reason and your own common sense."
--Buddha
"If you believe everything you read, you
better not read."
--Japanese proverb
"It is amazing what you can accomplish
if you do not care who gets the credit."
...Harry S. Truman
"Pain is inevitable. Suffering is
optional."
--Anon.
"Planning is everything, the plan is
nothing"
Dwight Eisenhover, US General
"Something must be left to chance; nothing
is certain in a sea fight." --Horatio Nelson
"To be absolutely certain about something,
one must know everything, or nothing, about it."
--Olin Miller
"We can be absolutely certain only about
things we do not understand." --Eric Hoffer
"A diamond is a chunk of coal that made
good under pressure."
–Anon
"We must beware of needless innovations,
especially when guided by logic."
--Winston Churchill
"Learn to use ten minutes intelligently.
It will pay you huge dividends."
--William A. Irwin
"I recommend you to take care of the
minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves."
--Lord Chesterfield
"Good management consists of showing average people how to do the work of
superior people."
-- John D. Rockefeller, American
oil magnate, philanthropist
"Effective management always means asking
the right question."
-- Robert Heller, American
editor
· A
four-year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find me a
four-year-old child. I can't make head or tail out of it. (Duck Soup)
· A
man's only as old as the woman he feels.
· Age
is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to
do is live long enough. (Groucho and Me)
· Although
it is generally known, I think it's about time to announce that I was born at a
very early age. (Groucho and Me)
· Anyone
who says he can see through women is missing a lot.
· Blood's
not thicker than money.
· Bury
me next to a straight man.
· "Do
you believe in computer dating?" "Only if the computers really love
each other."
· Do
you suppose I could buy back my introduction to you? (Monkey Business)
· Don't
point that beard at me, it might go off. (A Day at the Races)
· Don't
look now, but there's one man too many in this room and I think it's you. (Duck
Soup)
· Either
he's dead or my watch has stopped. (A Day at the Races)
· From
the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down I was convulsed with
laughter. Someday I intend reading it.
· Gentlemen,
Chicolini here may talk like an idiot, and look like an idiot, but don't let
that fool you. He really is an idiot. (Duck Soup)
· Here's
to our wives and girlfriends...may they never meet!
· How
do you feel about women's rights ? I like either side of them.
· I
can't understand why you don't get any mail from me. Perhaps it's because I
haven't been writing.
· I
could dance with you till the cows come home. On second thoughts, I'd rather
dance with the cows till you came home. (Duck Soup)
· I
didn't like the play, but then I saw it under adverse conditions-the curtain
was up.
· I
don't have a photograph, but you can have my footprints. They're upstairs in my
socks.
· I
made a killing on Wall Street a few years ago...I shot my broker.
· I
married your mother because I wanted children, imagine my disappointment when
you came along.
· I
must say that I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it
on, I go to the library and read a book.
· I
never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.
· I
sent the club a wire stating, Please accept my resignation. I don't want to
belong to any club that will accept me as a member. (Groucho and Me)
· I
was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
· I
wish to be cremated. One tenth of my ashes shall be given to my agent, as
written in our contract.
· I
wish you'd keep my hands to yourself.
· I
worked myself up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty.
· I
write by ear. I tried writing with the typewriter, but I found it too unwieldy.
· Ice
Water? Get some Onions - that'll make your eyes water!
· If
he (Chico) made ten thousand dollars a day, he'd spend ten thousand dollars a
day. I don't mind that. What I do mind is that he still sleeps better than I
do.
· If
I hold you any closer, I'll be on the back of you. (A Day at the Races)
· If
you want to see a comic strip, you should see me in the shower.
· I'm
going to Iowa for an award. Then I'm appearing at Carnegie Hall, it's sold out.
Then I'm sailing to France to be honored by the French government. I'd give it
all up for one erection.
· I've
been around so long, I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin.
· I've
had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it
· I've
known and respected your husband for many years... and what's good enough for
him is good enough for me. (Monkey Business)
· Last night I shot an elephant in my Pajamas and how he got in my pajamas I'll never know.
· Madam,
before I get through with you, you will have a clear case for divorce and so
will my wife. (Monkey Business)
· Military
justice is to justice what military music is to music.
· Military
intelligence is a contradiction in terms.
· Marriage
is the chief cause of divorce.
· Marriage
is a wonderful institution...but who wants to live in an institution?
· Now
there's a man with an open mind - you can feel the breeze from here!
· Outside
of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
· Oh
are you from Wales ?? Do you know a fella named Jonah ?? He used to live in
whales for a while.
· Politics
is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it and then
misapplying the wrong remedies.
· Paying
alimony is like feeding hay to a dead horse.
· Politics
doesn't make strange bedfellows, marriage does.
· Quote
me as saying I was mis-quoted.
· Remember
you're fighting for this woman's honor - which is probably more than she ever
did. (Duck Soup)
· Room
service? Send up a larger room.
· She
got her good looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
· Send
two dozen roses to Room 424 and put 'Emily, I love you' on the back of the
bill.
· She's
afraid that if she leaves, she'll become the life of the party.
· There's
only one way to find out if a man is honest...ask him. If he says 'yes,' you
know he is a crook.
· There's
one thing I always wanted to do before I quit...retire!
· Those
are my principles. If you don't like them I have others.
· Time
flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
· The
husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his
checkbook open.
· We
took pictures of the native girls, but they weren't developed. . . But we're
going back next year. http://www.workinghumor.com/quotes/groucho_marx.shtml
· Whoever
called it necking was a poor judge of anatomy.
· Why
should I care about posterity? What's posterity ever done for me?
· Why,
I'd horse-whip you if I had a horse.
· Why
was I with her? She reminds me of you. In fact, she reminds me more of you than
you do!
· Women
should be obscene and not heard. http://www.workinghumor.com/quotes/groucho_marx.shtml
· Will
you marry me? Did he leave you any money? Answer the second question first. (Duck
Soup)
· Why
don't you go home to your wife? Better yet, I'll go home to your wife, and
outside of the improvement, she won't notice any difference.
· We
in the industry know that behind every successful screenwriter stands a woman.
And behind her stands his wife.
· You
can leave in taxi. If you can't leave in taxi you can leave in a huff. If
that's too soon, you can leave in a minute and a huff. (Duck Soup)
· You
haven't stopped talking since I came here! You must have been vaccinated with a
phonograph needle! (Duck Soup)
· You
know I could rent you out as a decoy for duck hunters?
· You've
got the brain of a four-year-old boy, and I'll bet he was glad to get rid of
it.
"Would the boy you were be proud of
the man you are?"
...Anonymous
“Perfection is the enemy of good enough”
--Anon.
“Quality means doing it right when no one is
looking.”
--Henry Ford
"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a
door."
--Milton Berle
"Act as if what you do makes a difference.
It does."
--William James
"Nobody wins unless everybody wins."
--Bruce Springsteen
"When I look back on all these worries I
remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had a lot of
trouble in his life, most of which had never happened."
--Winston Churchill
"It may be necessary temporarily to accept
a lesser evil, but one must never label a necessary evil as good."
--Margaret Mead
"Admitting Error clears the Score / And
proves you Wiser than before."
--Arthur Guiterman
"A wise man fights to win, but he is twice
a fool who has no plan for possible defeat."
--Louis L'Amour
"Starting out to make money is the greatest
mistake in life. Do what you feel you have a flair for doing, and if you are
good enough at it, the money will come."
--Greer Garson
"When fate hands you a lemon, make
lemonade."
--Dale Carnegie
"Golf is essentially an exercise in
masochism conducted out of doors..."
--Paul O'Neil
"
--Thomas Edison
“Det är bara att göra jobbet.”
--
Bo-Göte Pålsgård
"Even the woodpecker owes his success to
the fact that he uses his head and keeps pecking away until he finishes the job
he starts."
--Coleman Cox
"We have to live today by what truth we
can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood."
--William James
"I
don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please
everybody."
--Bill Cosby
"Perfection does not exist. To understand
this is the triumph of human intelligence; to expect to possess it is the most
dangerous kind of madness."
--Alfred de Musset
"He is lifeless that is faultless."
--English proverb
"Don't tell me how talented you are. Tell
me how hard you work."
--Artur Rubenstein
"The secret of joy in work is contained in
one word: excellence.
To know how to do something well is to enjoy it."
--Pearl Buck
"Despair is the price one pays for setting
himself an impossible aim."
--Graham Greene
"Do it big or stay in bed."
--Larry Kelly
"How can they say my life isn't a
success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped
being eaten?"
--
"When we begin to take our failures
non-seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is immense
importance to learn to laugh at ourselves." --Katherine Mansfield
"The person who says it cannot be done
should not interrupt the person doing it."
--Chinese proverb
"Striving for perfection is the greatest
stopper there is... It's your excuse to yourself for not doing anything.
Instead, strive for excellence, doing your best."
--Sir Laurence Olivier
"If animals are deprived of hope... they
are compensated by being given an almost endless patience for enduring, or
simply for waiting."
-- Joseph Wood Krutch, 1893-1970, American aauthor, editor, and teacher
"Few companies would have reached the
going concern stage without the inflated confidence of their founders.
Entrepreneurs tend to be like eighteen-year-old marines who believe the bullet
will go right through them without hurt or harm."
--Deaver Brown
"Chance favors those in motion."
--James H.
"The weak can never forgive.Forgiveness is
the attribute of the strong."
-- Mahatma Gandhi, Indian philosopher
"Forgiveness does not mean ignoring what
has been done or putting a false label on an evil act.It means, rather, that
the evil act no longer remains as a barrier to the relationship."
-- Martin Luther King Jr.
"He who reigns within himself and rules
passions, desires, and fears is more than a king."
-- John Milton, British poet
"I count him braver who overcomes his
desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over
self."
-- Aristotle
"Contentment is a pearl of great price,
and whoever procures it at the expense of ten thousand desires makes a wise and
a happy purchase."
-- John Balguy, Greek writer,
philosopher
"Seek freedom and become captive of your
desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty."
-- Frank Herbert, American science
fiction writer
"There are no secrets to success. It is
the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure."
--
"There is no failure except in no longer
trying."
-- Elbert Hubbard, Writer and craft
colonist
"It is no disgrace to start all over. It
is usually an opportunity."
-- George Matthew Adams, author
"Three failures denote uncommon strength.
A weakling has not enough grit to fail thrice."
-- Minna Thomas Antrim, author
"Keep in mind that neither success nor
failure is ever final."
-- Roger W. Babson, statistician,
columnist
"He that is good for making excuses is
seldom good for anything else."
-- Benjamin Franklin, statesman,
diplomat, inventor, and printer
"One of the most important tasks of a
manager is to eliminate his people's excuses for failure."
-- Robert Townsend, business executive
”Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said
something.”
-- The last words of Pancho Villa
"Why yes -- a bullet-proof vest."
- James Rodges, his final request before thee firing squad
"Go away...I'm all right."
- Last words of H. G. Wells
"Now comes the mystery."
- Last words of Henry Ward Beecher
"Friends applaud, the comedy is
over."
- Last words of Ludwig van Beethoven
"Drink to me."
Last words of Pablo Picasso
"And now, I am dying beyond my
means."
Oscar Wilde, sipping champagne on his deathbed
Aoccdrnig to a
rscheearch at Cmabrigde Uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers
in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteer be at
the rghit pclae. The rset can be a total mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit
porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae the huamn mnid deos not raed ervey lteter by istlef,
but the wrod as a wlohe.
asboutely amzanig!
(Written by Erna Bombeck after she found out
she was dying from cancer.)
• I would have gone to bed when I
was sick instead of pretending the earth would go into a holding pattern if I
weren't there for the day.
• I would have burned the pink
candle sculpted like a rose before it melted in storage.
• I would have talked less and
listened more.
• I would have invited friends
over to dinner even if the carpet was stained, or the sofa faded.
• I would have eaten the popcorn
in the 'good' living room and worried much less about the dirt when someone
wanted to light afire in the fireplace.
• I would have taken the time to
listen to my grandfather ramble about his youth.
• I would have sat on the lawn
with my children and not worried about grass stains.
• I would have cried and laughed
less while watching television – and more while watching life.
• Instead of wishing away nine
months of pregnancy, I'd have cherished every moment and realised that the
wonderment growing inside me was the only chance in life to assist God in a
miracle.
• When my kids kissed me
impetuously, I would never have said, "Later. Now go get washed up for
dinner."
• There would have been more
"I love you's.". More "I'm sorry's"...
• But mostly, given another shot
at life, I would seize every minute... look at it and really see it ... live
it...and never give it back.
• Stop sweating the small stuff.
• Don't worry about who doesn't
like you, who has more, or who's doing what. Instead, let's cherish the
relationships we have with those who Do love us.
• Life is too short to let it pass
you by. We only have one shot at this.