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Kwoted: Quality Quotations, Wise Words and Interesting Insights

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"Have no fear of perfection. You'll never reach it." ~ Salvador Dali

"I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make up box." ~ Betty Davis

"As you get older you become more understanding. When I was young it was all about me. I was very egocentric. Now it is a pleasure to work with young people who have talent. It is a continuity for me. It is a way to go on...and, I think, a way to grow old." ~ Zizi Jeanmaire

"Brass bands are all very well in their place - outdoors and several miles away." ~ Sir Thomas Beecham

"I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell." ~ Harry S Truman

"Sometimes the appropriate response to reality is to go insane." ~ Philip K. Dick

"I will not retire while I've still got my legs and my make-up box." ~ Bette Davis

"I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood." ~ Tom Hanks

"There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink." ~ Booth Tarkington

"You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men."~ Max Beerbohm

"Never explain. Your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe you anyway." ~ Elbert Hubbard

"Denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of their blood." ~ Logan Pearsall Smith

"Though women are angels, yet wedlock's the devil." ~ Lord Byron

"Old people like to give good advice, as solace for no longer being able to provide bad examples." ~v Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself." ~ Andre Gide

"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out." ~ Walter Winchell

"Youth is about the only thing worth having, and that is about the only thing youth has." ~ Edgar Watson Howe

"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be." ~ Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

"Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming." ~ Richard Branson

"If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming
must be the process of putting them in." ~ Dykstra

"It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs." ~ Margaret Thatcher

"When 'Do no Evil' has been understood, then learn the harder, braver rule, Do Good." ~ Arthur Guiterman

"If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut." ~ Albert Einstein

"Influence is like a savings account. The less you use it, the more you've got." ~ Andrew Young

"It is not the years in your life but the life in your years that counts! ~ Adlai E. Stevenson

"A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one." ~ Moliere

"Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected." ~ Mahatma Gandhi

"I was the first woman to burn my bra - it took the fire department four days to put it out." ~ Dolly Parton

"Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me." ~ Carol Burnett

"It is impossible for us to break the law. We can only break ourselves against the law. ~ Cecil B. De Mille

"My country is the world; my countrymen are mankind." ~ William Lloyd Garrison

"When a woman is speaking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes." ~ Victor Hugo

"In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility." ~ Eleanor Roosevelt

"Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society." ~ Mark Twain

"The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind." ~ John Allston

"Humor is an affirmation of dignity, a declaration of man's superiority to all that befalls him." ~ Romaine Gary

"You can take no credit for beauty at sixteen. But if you are beautiful at sixty, it will be your soul's own doing." ~ Marie Stopes

"Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once." William Shakespeare

"There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root." ~ Henry David Thoreau

"Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies." ~ Thomas Jefferson

"It is the highest form of self-respect to admit our errors and mistakes and make amends for them. To make a mistake is only an error in judgment, but to adhere to it when it is discovered shows infirmity of character." ~ Dale E. Turner

"True happiness is ... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future." ~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul." - Mark Twain

"Show me the books he loves and I shall know the man far better than through mortal friends." - S. Weir Mitchell

"I feel the same way about solitude as some people feel about the blessing of the church. It's the light of grace for me. I never close my door behind me without the awareness that I am carrying out an act of mercy toward myself." - Peter Hoeg

"Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent." - Marilyn Vos Savant

"Paradise is exactly like where you are right now...only much, much better" - Laurie Anderson

"A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business" - Henry Ford

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