R. Buckminster Fuller on Science
“Everything you’ve learned in school as ‘obvious’ becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There’s not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines.”
Henry Austin Dobson on Time
“Time goes, you say? Ah, no! alas, time stays, we go.”
Arthur Schopenhauer Cynical Quote
“Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.”
Erma Bombeck on Life
When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, “I used everything you gave me”.
Victor Hugo on Education
“He who opens a school door, closes a prison.”
Eugene McCarthy on Politics
“It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.”
An English Professor on Writing
“I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top.”
Mark Twain on Lies
“There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.”
Mark Twain on Courage
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.”
Dave Barry on Sports
“Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.”
Oscar Wilde on Experience
“Experience is one thing you can’t get for nothing.”
Ambrose Bierce on Acquaintances
“Acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.”
Evan Esar on Anger
“Anger is the feeling that makes your mouth work faster than your mind.”
Publius Tacitus on Laws
“The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.”
James F. Byrnes on Life
“Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.”
Thomas A. Edison on Failure
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger on Movies
“I have a love interest in every one of my films – a gun”
Mohandas K. Gandhi on Money
“Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.“
Randolph Bourne on Society
“Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue it likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.”
George Bernard Shaw on Liberty
“Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.”
Randall Jarrell on Children
“One of the most obvious facts about grownups to a child is that they have forgotten what it is like to be a child.”
Antoine de Saint-Exupery on Children
“Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.”
Bertrand Russell on Love and Happiness
“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”
C. P. Snow on Happiness
“The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you’ll never find it.”
Voltaire on Boredom
“The secret of being a bore is to tell everything.”
