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Sometimes I get the feeling the whole world is against me, but deep down I know that's not true. Some smaller countries are neutral.
Robert Orben

A cynic is a person who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
Oscar Wilde

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Leo Tolstoy

When a man says he approves of something in principle, it means he hasn't the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.
Otto von Bismarck 

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
Bertrand Russell

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

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.
Sir Winston Churchill

Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy and the lash.
Sir Winston Churchill

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
Sir Winston Churchill

Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Sir Winston Churchill

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
Sir Winston Churchill

Wit is educated insolence.
Aristotle

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
Napoleon Bonaparte

I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.
Frederick the Great

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
Ronald Reagan

It is much more secure to be feared than to be loved.
Niccolo Machiavelli

Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
John F. Kennedy 

If you see a snake, just kill it. Don't appoint a committee on snakes.
H. Ross Perot

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in.
Greek Proverb 

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
Arthur C Clarke

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Albert Einstein

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

Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.
Mark Twain

Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
Isaac Asimov

First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.
Greek Proverb

When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.
Japanese Proverb

What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.
Vilhjalmur Stefansson

Black holes are where God divided by zero.
Steven Wright


Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Oscar Wilde

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