Famous Quotes

There two things that are infinite, human stupidity and the universe, I don't know about the universe

If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

I am not afraid of death, I just don't want to be there when it happens.

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on.

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.

The unexamined life is not worth living.

Wise men speak because they have something to say Fools because they have to say something

Nobody can hurt me without my permission.

God has no religion.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.

The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.

There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

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

Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

Love is a serious mental disease.

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Let him that would move the world first move himself.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.

If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.

When men speak ill of thee, live so as nobody may believe them.

Don't be dismayed by good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.

The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.

I want to live like a poor man with lots of money.

I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.

If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank.

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures.

You always admire what you really don't understand.

I am the literary equivalent of a Big Mac and fries.

The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

A good speech should be like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest

Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.

I don't try to imagine a personal God; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it."

There is a place you can touch a woman that will drive her crazy. Her heart.

You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.

At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet.

A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier. That is why Chippendale is famous.

I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.

Money doesn't make you happy. I now have $50 million but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.

It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.

Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.

The worst thing I can be is the same as everybody else. I hate that.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S relativity.

True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable.

Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity. From discord find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

Be the change you want to see.

Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live.

Any idiot can get laid when they're famous. That's easy. It's getting laid when you're not famous that takes some talent.

Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

There are two types of actors: those who say they don't want to be famous, and those who are liars.

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.

First I went left, he did too. Then I went right, and he did too. Then I went left again, and he went to buy a hot dog.

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit quiet in a room alone.

I totally related to Cole Porter's magnetic pull to any piano that was in the room, which he was famous for doing, as was Gershwin. You couldn't drag them away from a piano.

That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.

To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the happiness of her marriage: what could possibly be more prestigious?

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Sometimes I wish I weren't famous.