Quotes to inspire and reflect

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

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

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.

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.

Horses lend us the wings we lack.

 

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

 

I am a part of all I have seen.

Paranoia means having all the facts. William S.

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

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

 

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

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

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.

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

A good listener is usually thinking about something else.

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

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

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

 

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

I can’t sleep.

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

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.

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

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.

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

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!

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.

For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty forever beyond its reach.

Failure is unimportant. It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.

Courage is found in unlikely places.

The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That's the deal.

There is a general prejudice to the effect that lawyers are more honorable then politicians but less honorable than prostitutes. That is an exaggeration.

Well, I don't know as I want a lawyer to tell me what I cannot do. I hire him to tell how to do what I want to do.

French is the language that turns dirt into romance.

Opera does not call so much for an imaginative ear as for an imaginative eye, an eye which can see beyond little absurdities toward great truths.

If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing.

Movies are a fad. Audiences really want to see live actors on a stage.

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.

It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise.

Truth is not only violated by falsehood; it may be equally outraged by silence.

If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilized morality to savage morality.

If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.