Good and Famous Quotes Page 2

"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever."

- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

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"Don't be so humble - you are not that great."

- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat

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"If a man does his best, what else is there?"

- General George S. Patton (1885-1945)

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"You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality."

- Ayn Rand (1905-1982)

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"I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better."

- A. J. Liebling (1904-1963)

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"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."

- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

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"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."

- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

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"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on." - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

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"The full use of your powers along lines of excellence."

- definition of "happiness" by John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)

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"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."

- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

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"Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems."

- Rene Descartes (1596-1650), "Discours de la Methode"

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

- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)

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"Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right."

- Henry Ford (1863-1947)

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"Do, or do not. There is no 'try'."

- Yoda ('The Empire Strikes Back')

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"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it."

- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

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"Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed."

- George Burns (1896-1996)

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"I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves."

- Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)

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"There are no facts, only interpretations."

- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

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"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."

- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)

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"Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back."

- Paul Erdos (1913-1996)

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"Try to learn something about everything and everything about something."

- Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-1895)

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"Dancing is silent poetry."

- Simonides (556-468bc)

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"The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad."

- Salvador Dali (1904-1989)

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"If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance."

- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

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"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws."

- Plato (427-347 B.C.)

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"The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it."

- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)