Quotes to inspire and reflect

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

 

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed.

There are one-story intellects, two-story intellects, and three-story intellects with skylights. All fact collectors with no aim beyond their facts are one-story men. Two-story men compare reason and generalize, using labors of the fact collectors as well as their own. Three-story men idealize, imagine, and predict. Their best illuminations come from above through the skylight.

Discouragement is simply the despair of wounded self-love.

Junk is the ultimate merchandise. The junk merchant does not sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to the product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise, he degrades and simplifies the client. William S.

Thus, in a real sense, I am constantly writing autobiography, but I have to turn it into fiction in order to give it credibility.

 

Where there is hatred, let me sow love. Where there is injury, pardon. Where there is doubt, faith.

Because he once wrote, "We must love one another or die," he can command me to follow him. E.M.

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

I think there are innumerable gods. What we here on earth call God is a little tribal God who has made an awful mess. Certainly forces operating through human consciousness control events. William S.

 

It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him. J. R. R.

My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.

For I dipped into the future, as far as human eye could see, saw a vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be.

I feel sure that no girl would go to the altar if she knew all.

it is better to succeed with success than failure. George W.

 

Greatness is not in where we stand, but in what direction we are moving. We must sail sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it - but sail we must. And not drift, nor lie at anchor.

I am a part of all I have seen.

Horses lend us the wings we lack.

 

Paranoia means having all the facts. William S.

Nothing is more depressing than the conviction that one is not a hero.

Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

 

If there were no husbands, who would look after our mistresses?

A woman will buy anything she thinks the store is losing money on.

Of all the unbearable nuisances, the ignoramus that has travelled is the worst.

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

A good listener is usually thinking about something else.

The fellow that agrees with everything you say is either a fool or he is getting ready to skin you.

It is well to write love letters. There are certain things for which it is not easy to ask your mistress face to face, like money for instance.

Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth.

Classical music is the kind we keep hoping will turn into a tune.

Oh, this age! How tasteless and ill-bred it is!

A country where men despise sex, and live for it.

 

Life…is like a cup of tea; the more heartily we drink, the sooner we reach the dregs.

 

No matter how bad things get, you got to go on living, even if it kills you.

I can’t sleep.

Wherever you go in the world, you just have to say you’re a Canadian and people laugh.

Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union.

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.

We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn’t want to meet.

I like half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve!

Accuracy to a newspaper is what virtue is to a lady; but a newspaper can always print a retraction.

Oh that press will have me now!

A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.

Hope is not victory.

It is time for a new direction...

Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.