Monday, 21 November 2011

Part III - A Collection of Quotes


Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. - Albert Einstein #quotes #quote

Perhaps the angels who fear to tread where fools rush in, used to be fools who rushed in. - Franklin P. Jones #quotes #quote

When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion. - Abraham Lincoln #quotes #quote

The poor complain about the money they can't get and the rich complain about the money they can't keep. - Joe Moore #quotes #humor

You can't test courage cautiously. - Annie Dillard #quotes #quote

The only people you should want to get even with are those who have helped you. - Joe Moore #quotes

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out. - Thomas Macaulay #quotes #quote

A discussion is an exchange of knowledge. An argument is an exchange of ignorance. - Joe Moore #quotes #quote

One of the great labor saving devices of today is tomorrow. - Joe Moore #quotes #humor #quote

The older you get, the greater you were. - Lee Grosscup #quotes #quote

Some people battle their way to the top, while others bottle their way to the bottom. - Joe Moore #quotes #humor #quote

Trouble is only opportunity in work clothes. - Henry J. Kaiser #quotes #quote

Friendships multiply joys and divide griefs. - H. G. Bohn #quotes #quote

The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken. - Samuel Johnson #quotes #quote

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it appears afterward. - Arthur Koestler #quotes #quote

A sharp mind and a dull tongue are usually found in the same head. - Joe Moore #quotes #humor #quote

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. - Albert Einstein #quotes #quote

Rich people miss one of the greatest thrills of life?.paying the last installment. - Joe Moore #quotes #humor

Time is precious, but truth is more precious than time. - Benjamin Disraeli #quotes #quote

Wisdom is knowing the right path to take? Integrity is taking it. - M. H. McKee #quotes #quote

If you risk nothing, then you risk everything. - Geena Davis #quotes #quote

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows for those who don't. - Blaise Pascal #quotes #quote

You must get involved to have an impact. No one is impressed with the won-lost record of the referee. - John H. Holcomb #quotes #quote

There are two times of the day when fishing is at it's best?before you get there, and after you leave. - Joe Moore #quotes #humor #quote

You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life. Winston Churchill

What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget? Winston Churchill

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it. Winston Churchill

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival. Winston Churchill

We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender. Winston Churchill

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. Winston Churchill

We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect. Winston Churchill

We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty. Winston Churchill

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out. Winston Churchill

War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.

Victory at all costs, victory inspite of all terror, victory however long & hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information. Winston Churchill

Often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often. Winston Churchill

To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day. Winston Churchill

Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure. Winston Churchill

There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true. Winston Churchill

The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is. Winston Churchill

The price of greatness is responsibility. Winston Churchill

The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself. Winston Churchill

The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty. Winston Churchill

The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read. Winston Churchill

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see. Winston Churchill

Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. Winston Churchill

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. Winston Churchill

Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft. Winston Churchill

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon. Winston Churchill

Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong. Winston Churchill

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.

Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. Winston Churchill

Play the game for more than you can afford to lose... only then will you learn the game. Winston Churchill

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong. Winston Churchill

One ought never to turn one's back on a threatened danger and try to run away from it. If you do that, you will double the danger. But if you meet it promptly and without flinching, you will reduce the danger by half. Never run away from anything. Never! Winston Churchill

Never, never, never give up. Winston Churchill

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me. Winston Churchill

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on. Winston Churchill

Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning. Winston Churchill

Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it. Winston Churchill

It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary. Winston Churchill

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see. Winston Churchill

It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right. Winston Churchill

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies. Winston Churchill

In war, you can only be killed once, but in politics, many times. Winston Churchill

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might. Winston Churchill

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet. Winston Churchill

If you have ten thousand regulations you destroy all respect for the law. Winston Churchill

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack. Winston Churchill

I was only the servant of my country and had I, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, should have been cast aside.

I never worry about action, but only inaction. Winston Churchill

I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk. Winston Churchill

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. Winston Churchill

I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught. Winston Churchill

However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results. Winston Churchill

He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. Winston Churchill

Eating words has never given me indigestion. Winston Churchill

Difficulties mastered are opportunities won. Winston Churchill

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain. It calls attention to an unhealthy state. Winston Churchill

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. Winston Churchill

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities... because it is the quality which guarantees all others. Winston Churchill

Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential. Winston Churchill

Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter.

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. Winston Churchill

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. Winston Churchill

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. - Henry David Thoreau #quotes #quote

When you buy something for a song, you may have to face the music later. - Joe Moore #quotes #quote

You don't need to take a person's advice to make him feel good; just ask for it. - Laurence J. Peter #quotes #quote

There's something to be said for the egotist?..and he's usually saying it. - Joe Moore #quotes #quote

We never get so rich that we can afford to lose a friend. - Joe Moore #quotes #quote

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. - Abraham Lincoln #quotes #quote

Experience is what you get when you're looking for something else. - Joe Moore #quotes #quote

Money is like sex. If you don't have it, you think of nothing else. If you do have it, you think of other things. - Joe Moore #quotes #humor

Heroism consists of hanging on one minute longer. - Norwegian saying #quotes #quote

If there is anything more difficult than making a name for yourself, it is keeping it. - Joe Moore #quotes #quote

You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take. - Wayne Gretzky #quotes #quote

Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last. - Charles De Gaulle #quotes #quote

Making a fool of yourself isn't so bad?if you realize who did it. - Joe Moore #quotes #quote

Money may be a curse, but you can always find someone to take the curse away from you. - Joe Moore #quotes #humor

When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. - John Ruskin #quotes #quote

It's better to be right half the time than to be half-right all the time. - Joe Moore #quotes #quote

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. - Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. #quotes #quote

If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't. - Emerson M. Pugh #quotes #quote

What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree? - Logan P. Smith #quotes #quote

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof. - James Russell Lowell #quotes #quote

The better we feel about ourselves, the fewer times we have to knock somebody else down to feel tall. - Odetta #quotes #quote

There is a guaranteed formula for failure?try to please everybody. - Joe Moore #quotes #quote

The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot. - Michael Althsuler #quotes #quote

If you're never scared or embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take any chances. - Julia Sorel #quotes #quote

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