I love to go to Washington - if only to be near my money. - Bob Hope
Bob Hope Quotes
A sense of humor is good for you. Have you ever heard of a laughing hyena with heart burn? - Bob Hope
Bob Hope Quotes
I have seen what a laugh can do. It can transform almost unbearable tears into something bearable, even hopeful. - Bob Hope
Bob Hope Quotes
A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it. - Bob Hope
Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror. - Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears. - Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry. - Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe Quotes
I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity. - Edgar Allan Poe
George Orwell Quotes
For a creative writer possession of the "truth" is less important than emotional sincerity. - George Orwell
George Orwell Quotes
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. - George Orwell
George Orwell Quotes
Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them. - George Orwell
George Orwell Biography
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| Orwell's press card portrait, taken in 1933 |
Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Orwell
Henry David Thoreau Quotes
As if you could kill time without injuring eternity. - Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau Quotes
An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day. - Henry David Thoreau
Lord Chesterfield Quotes
A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones. - Lord Chesterfield
Lord Chesterfield Quotes
A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat. - Lord Chesterfield
Lord Chesterfield Quotes
Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others. - Lord Chesterfield
George Burns Quotes
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city. - George Burns
George Burns Quotes
I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something. - George Burns
George Burns Quotes
I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life. - George Burns
George Burns Quotes
I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success at something you hate. - George Burns
Albert Einstein Quotes
Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves. - Albert Einstein
Amelia Earhart Quotes
There are two kinds of stones, as everyone knows, one of which rolls. - Amelia Earhart
Amelia Earhart Quotes
Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge to others. - Amelia Earhart
George Burns Quotes
Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made. - George Burns
George Burns Quotes
I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate. - George Burns
George Burns Quotes
I don't believe in dying. It's been done. I'm working on a new exit. Besides, I can't die now - I'm booked. - George Burns
George Burns Quotes
Everything that goes up must come down. But there comes a time when not everything that's down can come up. - George Burns
George Burns Biography
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| Portrait by Allan Warren, 1986 |
Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Burns
George Harrison Quotes
As far as I'm concerned, there won't be a Beatles reunion as long as John Lennon remains dead. - George Harrison
Jim Rohn Quotes
Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea. - Jim Rohn
Jim Rohn Quotes
Give whatever you are doing and whoever you are with the gift of your attention. - Jim Rohn
Jim Rohn Quotes
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. - Jim Rohn
Charles Kettering Quotes
Inventing is a combination of brains and materials. The more brains you use, the less material you need. - Charles Kettering
Charles Kettering Quotes
An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he's in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots. - Charles Kettering
Charles Kettering Quotes
I object to people running down the future. I am going to live all the rest of my life there. - Charles Kettering
Charles Kettering Quotes
High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation. - Charles Kettering
James Russell Lowell Quotes
Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor. - James Russell Lowell
James Russell Lowell Quotes
A weed is no more than a flower in disguise, Which is seen through at once, if love give a man eyes. - James Russell Lowell
James Russell Lowell Quotes
Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light. - James Russell Lowell
James Russell Lowell Quotes
Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found. - James Russell Lowell
Antisthenes Quotes
Not to unlearn what you have learned is the most necessary kind of learning. - Antisthenes
Antisthenes Quotes
The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue. - Antisthenes
Antisthenes Quotes
Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive. - Antisthenes
Antisthenes Quotes
Pay attention to your enemies, for they are the first to discover your mistakes. - Antisthenes
Ringo Starr Quotes
That's all drugs and alcohol do, they cut off your emotions in the end. - Ringo Starr
Ringo Starr Quotes
And in a marriage you can't TRY and be married. You're married or you're not married... as far as I'm concerned. - Ringo Starr
Ringo Starr Quotes
We will miss George for his sense of love, his sense of music and his sense of laughter. - Ringo Starr
Ringo Starr Quotes
I mean, women are very important to me. I don't know, they just drive me crazy. - Ringo Starr
George Harrison Quotes
All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much. - George Harrison
George Harrison Quotes
The nicest thing is to open the newspapers and not to find yourself in them. - George Harrison
George Harrison Biography
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| George Harrison at the White House in 1974. |
Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Harrison
Paul McCartney Quotes
I can't deal with the press; I hate all those Beatles questions. - Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney Quotes
George Martin, he's very good at a very sort of lush, sweet arrangement. - Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney Quotes
I saw that Meryl Streep said, I just want to do my job well. And really, that's all I'm ever trying to do. - Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney Quotes
Buy, buy, says the sign in the shop window; Why, why, says the junk in the yard. - Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney Quotes
I never really got on that well with Yoko anyway. Strangely enough, I only started to get to know her after John's death. - Paul McCartney
John Lennon Quotes
A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality. - John Lennon
John Lennon Quotes
If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace. - John Lennon
John Lennon Quotes
And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he's no longer God... They'll turn on him, and I hope he survives it. - John Lennon
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
A man is a method, a progressive arrangement; a selecting principle, gathering his like to him; wherever he goes. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau Quotes
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it. - Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau Quotes
All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning. - Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau Biography
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| Maxham daguerreotype of Henry David Thoreau made in 1856 |
Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau
Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes
A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes. - Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes
A philosopher who is not taking part in discussions is like a boxer who never goes into the ring. - Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes
It is an hypothesis that the sun will rise tomorrow: and this means that we do not know whether it will rise. - Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein Quotes
If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done. - Ludwig Wittgenstein
Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy. - Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame - Southern Methodist University game and doesn't care who wins. - Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
I despise people who go to the gutter on either the right or the left and hurl rocks at those in the center. - Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. - Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower Quotes
I deplore the need or the use of troops anywhere to get American citizens to obey the orders of constituted courts. - Dwight D. Eisenhower
Mohandas Gandhi Quotes
An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it. - Mohandas Gandhi
Mohandas Gandhi Quotes
A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes. - Mohandas Gandhi
Mohandas Gandhi Quotes
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave. - Mohandas Gandhi
Mohandas Gandhi Quotes
A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble. - Mohandas Gandhi
Aristotle Quotes
Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. - Aristotle
Aristotle Quotes
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. - Aristotle
Henry David Thoreau Quotes
All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man. - Henry David Thoreau
Janis Joplin Biography
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| Janis Lyn Joplin |
Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janis_Joplin
Lou Holtz Quotes
If he's got golf clubs in his truck or a camper in his driveway, I don't hire him. - Lou Holtz
Lou Holtz Quotes
I think everyone should experience defeat at least once during their career. You learn a lot from it. - Lou Holtz
Lou Holtz Quotes
I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions. - Lou Holtz
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