English Quotes

“There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.” Ken Olson

“One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“Whom the gods wish to destroy they send 40 years of success.” Ancient Proverb

“The French are funny, sex is funny, and comedies are funny, yet no French sex comedies are funny.” Matt Groening

“Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.” Laozi

“Because that's where the money is.” Willie Sutton

“We will never try to develop a strategy that wins on price. There is nothing unique about pricing.” Josh S. Weston

“Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“Under peaceful conditions the militant man attacks himself.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“Don't use that foreign word 'ideals.' We have that excellent native word 'lies.'” Henrik Ibsen

“If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging.” Will Rogers

“I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs.” Andy Warhol

“In business or in life, don't follow the wagon tracks too closely.” H. Jackson Brown

“Who is more foolish? The fool or the fool that follows it?” Alec Guinness

“Our greatest battles are that with our own minds.” Jameson Frank

“Realize that ultimate success comes from opportunistic, bold move which by definition, cannot be planned.” Ross Johnson

“To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have.” Ken S. Keyes

“The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.” Victor Hugo

“It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.” Henry Havelock Ellis

“When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.” Confucius

“Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.” William Goldman

“God is Man's stupidest idea.” Marcel Duchamp

“The only good writer was a dead writer. Then he couldn't surprise anyone any more, couldn't hurt anyone any more.” John Steinbeck

“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.” Albert Einstein

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” Aristotle

“We don't know what we want, but we are ready to bite somebody to get it.” Will Rogers

“One should part from life as Odysseus parted from Nausicaa: with a blessing rather than in love.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.” Benjamin Franklin

“God is dead: but considering the state Man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“I think women should never be more than 25. Men become more handsome as they age. Not women. It's greatly unfair for a woman to age.” Jean-Luc Godard

“All our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike--and yet it is the most precious thing we have.” Albert Einstein

“Even death is unreliable. Instead of zero it may be some ghastly hallucination, such as the square root of minus one.” Samuel Beckett

“Woman was God's second mistake.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“There is no substitute for hard work.” Thomas A. Edison

“Life has no meaning the moment you loose the illusion of being eternal.” Jean-Paul Sartre

“Friends are those people who know the words to the song in your heart and sing them back to you when you have forgotten the words.” Anonymous

“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” Thomas Stearns Eliot

“We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“A newspaperman wrote asking me to send'im my philosophy in a nutshell. Get out of whatever cage you happen to be in.” John Cage

“A man is what he thinks about all day long.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.” Woody Allen

“Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'” Laozi

“Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.” Aristotle

“Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.” Stella Adler

“Make no little plans. They have no magic to stir Men's blood.” David Hudson Burnham

“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.” Albert Einstein

“Whenever anyone says, 'theoretically,' they really mean, 'not really.'” Dave Parnas

“The happy people are failures because they are on such good terms with themselves they don't give a damn.” Agatha Christie

“Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“The enlightened ruler is heedful, and the good general full of caution.” Sunzi

“History is a set of lies agreed upon.” Napoleon Bonaparte

“Every Man and every Woman is a Star.” Aleister Crowley

“Learn what is true in order to do what is right.” Thomas Henry Huxley

“It's easier to go down a hill than up it but the view is much better at the top.” Henry Ward Beecher

“Life is tough, but it's tougher when you're stupid.” John Wayne

“Truly great friends are hard to find, difficult to leave, and impossible to forget.” G. Randolf

“No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.” Fernando Pessoa

“Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize.” Pauline Kael

“One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.” William Feather

“Old men should be able to agree so young men don't have to die.” James T. Conway

“To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.” Steve Roland Prefontaine

“To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“Take eloquence and wring its neck.” Paul Verlaine

“Hold a true friend with both your hands.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“There may be harm in risk but there also regret in doing nothing.” Unknown

“When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in batallions.” William Shakespeare

“Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.” Harold S. Geneen

“You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.” Charles F. Kettering

“Vision is the art of seeing the invisible.” Jonathan Swift

“The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.” Sunzi

“Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life. The evening beam that smiles the clouds away, and tints tomorrow with prophetic ray.” George Gordon Byron

“If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat.” Mark Twain

“Predictions of the future are never anything but projections of present automatic processes and procedures.” Hannah Arendt

“Do you know that places only yield up their secrets, their most profound mysteries, to those who are just passing through?” Salman Rushdie

“Life is what happens when you are making other plans.” John Lennon

“Vice is a wonderful thing.” Ernest Hemingway

“When we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them & fall in mutual weirdness & call it love.” Dr. Seuss

“Hope in reality is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs the torments of man.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“I really resent being liked openly. I don't find any challenge in being liked.” John Cassavetes

“Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.” Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton

“He who is faithful in what is least is faithful also in much.” Bible

“The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off.” Jean Cocteau

“As long as movies are depressing, life isn't.” Rainer Werner Fassbinder

“[Smoking is] hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs.” King James I

“Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody may be looking.” Henry Louis Mencken

“There's nothing quite like doing nothing.” John Ong

“We're in a confusion of books. Bonfire?” John Cage

“I have a face like the behind of an elephant.” Charles Laughton

“Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen.” Michael Jordan

“I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found...” John Steinbeck

“Much unhappiness has come into this world because of things left unsaid.” Fyodor Dostoevsky

“Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.” The Marquis de Sade

“The Woman does not exist.” Jacques Lacan

“These people abstain, it is true: but the bitch Sensuality glares enviously out of all they do.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“The best presenters have conversations with their audiences.” Robert Bly

“I don't care for sex. I find it an embarrassing, dull exercise. I prefer sports, where you can win.” Norm Macdonald

“Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.” Napoleon Bonaparte

“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not thru insensibility but thru greatness of mind.” Aristotle

“The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one.” Joan Baez

“Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“Dreaming of the person you want to be is wasting the person you already are.” Kurt Cobain

“The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.” William Shakespeare

“All I got in this world is my balls and my word and I don't break either of 'em for nobody!” Al Pacino

“Nobody helps anybody.” Martin Kippenberger

“When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.” Victor Hugo

“I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.” Thomas Alva Edison

“If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment.” Friedrich Nietzsche

“Luck never gives: it only lends.” Chinese Proverb

“Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.” Confucius

“He who knows when he can fight and when he cannot, will be victorious.” Sunzi

“Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.” Aristotle

“Is the cinema more important than life?” Francois Truffaut

“I want to die like my grandfather; peacefully in my sleep. Not screaming like his passengers.” Anonymous

“I would rather watch somebody buy their underwear than read a book they wrote.” Andy Warhol

“I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.” George Bernard Shaw