Quotes

Quotes

Quotes to inspire and reflect

Warren Buffett
Warren Buffett
A horse that can count to ten is a remarkable horse—not a remarkable mathematician.
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Laurence J. Peter
Laurence J. Peter
Some problems are so complex that you have to be highly intelligent and well informed just to be undecided about them.
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Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill
He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
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Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill
I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.
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Fred Allen
Fred Allen
What’s on your mind if you will forgive the overstatement.
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Noël Coward
Noël Coward
Dear Randolph, utterly unspoiled by failure.
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George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
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Mark Twain
Mark Twain
I don't know anything about this man. Anyhow, I only know two things about him. One is, he has never been in jail, and the other is, I don't know why.
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P. G. Wodehouse
P. G. Wodehouse
If men's minds were like dominoes, surely his would be the double blank.
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Groucho Marx
Groucho Marx
From the moment I picked your book up until I put it down I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.
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Groucho Marx
Groucho Marx
I could dance with you until the cows come home... on second thoughts, I'll dance with the cows and you go home.
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George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw
Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend - if you have one.
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Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
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Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill
A modest little person, with much to be modest about.
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William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare
I would challenge you to a battle of wits, but I see you are unarmed.
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Warren Buffett
Warren Buffett
What we learn from history is that people don't learn from history.
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Joan Rivers
Joan Rivers
I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes–and six months later you have to start all over again.
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George Orwell
George Orwell
The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Controversy equalizes fools and wise men ... and the fools know it.
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Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan
It’s true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?
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Spike Milligan
Spike Milligan
Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.
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Samuel Goldwyn
Samuel Goldwyn
If I could drop dead right now, I’d be the happiest man alive.
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H. L. Mencken
H. L. Mencken
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
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George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw
Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
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Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill
The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
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Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan
The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
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George Carlin
George Carlin
One good reason to only maintain a small circle of friends is that three out of four murders are committed by people who know the victim.
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W. H. Auden
W. H. Auden
Between friends, differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.
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W. C. Fields
W. C. Fields
I always cook with wine. Sometimes I even add it to the food.
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Groucho Marx
Groucho Marx
No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend.
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Orson Welles
Orson Welles
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what’s for lunch.
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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.
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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
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Spike Milligan
Spike Milligan
My Father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic.
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George Carlin
George Carlin
A lot of gay men stay in the closet because they are interested in fashion.
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Georges Clemenceau
Georges Clemenceau
Middle Age: When you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms
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William Golding
William Golding
Nature gives us twelve years to develop a love for our children before turning them into teenagers
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John Wilmot
John Wilmot
Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
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Mark Twain
Mark Twain
Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.
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Woody Allen
Woody Allen
His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.
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John Dryden
John Dryden
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
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Groucho Marx
Groucho Marx
I read in the newspapers they are going to have 30 minutes of intellectual stuff on television every Monday from 7:30 to 8. to educate America. They couldn't educate America if they started at 6:30.
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Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan
But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret.
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P. G. Wodehouse
P. G. Wodehouse
The ideas of debtor and creditor as to what constitutes a good time never coincide.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.
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Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
Creditors have better memories than debtors.
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Spike Milligan
Spike Milligan
Life is a long agonized illness only curable by death.
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