Demetri Martin Funny Quote
“I bought a cactus. A week later it died. And I got depressed, because I thought, Damn. I am less nurturing than a desert.”
Mark Twain Wisdom Quote
“Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.”
Robert W. Sarnoff on Finance
“Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.”
Winston Churchill on Law
“If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law.”
Sun Tzu on Fear
“Fear is the true enemy, the only enemy”
Elbert Hubbard on Experience
“Progress comes from the intelligent use of experience.”
Aristotle on Love
“Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.”
E. F. Schumacher on Innovation
“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.”
Albert Einstein on Education
“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death”
Bertrand Russell Cynical Quote
“Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.”
Evan Esar on Character
“A signature always reveals a man’s character – and sometimes even his name.”
Russell Baker on Misery
“Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.”
Edgar Bergen on Work
“Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?”
Plato on Poetry
“Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.”
Henry Kissinger on Politics
“Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.”
Aristotle on Age
“Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.”
Franklin Pierce Adams on Politics
“Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.”
Sophocles on Wisdom
“A short saying oft contains much wisdom.”
Voltaire on Freedom
“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
Hobart Brown on Money and Happiness
“Money doesn’t always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.”
Carl Sagan on Science
“I maintain there is much more wonder in science than in pseudoscience. And in addition, to whatever measure this term has any meaning, science has the additional virtue, and it is not an inconsiderable one, of being true.”
Confucius on Change
“Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.”
Nikola Tesla on Science
“Today’s scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.”
Omar N. Bradley on Technology and Wisdom
“If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.”
Robert Heinlein on Progress
“Progress isn’t made by early risers. It’s made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.”
