Death, War, Problems, Marriage Quotes

DEATH
Andrew Aitken Rooney
Death is just a distant rumor to the young.

WAR
Jeannette Rankin
You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

PROBLEMS
Jerry Weinberg
No matter what the problem is, it’s a people problem.

MARRIAGE
Helen Rowland
When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn’t a sign that they “don’t understand” one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.

Creativity, The System, Goals, Life Style Quotes

CREATIVITY
Pablo Ruiz y Picasso
Good taste is the enemy of creativity.

THE SYSTEM
Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Jr.
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about the answers.

GOALS
Brian Tracy
The more reasons you have for achieving your goal, the more determined you will become.

LIFE STYLE
Christopher Morely
There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning, and yearning.

Cognition, Society, Go For It, Conversation Quotes

COGNITION
Jean Rostand
As well as thoughts of which are unworthy of us, we have thoughts of which we are unworthy.

SOCIETY
Will Rogers
We can’t all be heroes because somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by.

GO FOR IT
Neale Donald Walsch
Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.

CONVERSATION
Edgar Saltus
Men hate to be misunderstood, and to be understood makes them furious.

Belief, Socialism, Failure, Interactions Quotes

BELIEF
Anne Wilson
We lose so much when we try to limit the Creator to our own imagination.

SOCIALISM
Oscar Wilde
Socialism annihilates family life, for instance. With the abolition of private property, marriage in its present form must disappear.

FAILURE
Thomas John Watson
If you want to succeed, double your failure rate.

INTERACTIONS
Edward Noyes Westcott
I guess the’’s about as much human nature in some folks as the’ is in others, if not more.

Art, Religion, Expectations, Friends Quotes

ART
Harold Rosenberg
An artist is a person who has invented an artist.

RELIGION
Pierre-Jules Renard
I don’t know if God exists, but it would be better for his reputation if he didn’t.

EXPECTATIONS
Wendy R. Wellner
What can you expect from a day that starts with getting up?

FRIENDS
Rita Rudner
When I was a kid, I had two friends, and they were imaginary and they would only play with each other.

Zen, Media, Dreams, Drink Quotes

ZEN
Robert Mallet
Nothing is more moving than beauty which is unaware of itself, except for ugliness which is.

MEDIA
Italian Proverb
There’s no thief like a bad book.

DREAMS
Peter McWilliams
When we realize one Dream, sometimes a deeper Dream reveals itself. At other times a parallel Dream appears. The one that scares the hell out of you is probably it.

DRINK
William Butler YeatsThe worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.

Writing, Government, Degradation, Age Quotes

WRITING
William Somerset Maugham
It has been said that good prose should resemble the conversation of a well-bred man.

GOVERNMENT
Sheldon Richman
The more power government has to provide things, the more power it has to dictate terms.

DEGRADATION
Marvin Lee Minsky
Too much suffering diminishes us by restricting the complexities that constitute our very selves. It must be the same for pleasure as well.

AGE
Cesare Pavese
Every man over thirty identifies his youth with the worst fault he thinks he has discovered in himself.

Travel, Freedom, Decision, Women Quotes

TRAVEL
Antonio Machado y Ruiz
Traveler, there is no path – paths are made by walking.

FREEDOM
Ellen E. Ross
It was a great revelation to me when I realized I was ordinary, and so were we all. I have never felt such freedom.

DECISION
Harvey Mackay
People begin to become successful the minute they decide to be.

WOMEN
Elissa Melamed
Men look AT themselves in mirrors. Women look FOR themselves.

Time, Education, Change, Men Quotes

TIME
Zora Neale Hurston
There are years that ask questions, and years that answer.

EDUCATION
Burrhus Frederic Skinner
Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.

CHANGE
Henry Valentine Miller
All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous, unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.

MEN
Stephanie H. Piro
I like the concept of “men”. It’s the reality I have trouble with.

Self, Democracy, Attitude, Marriage Quotes

SELF
Dan Millman
Before you can see the light, you have to deal with the darkness.

DEMOCRACY
Betrand Russell
If one man offers you democracy and another offers you a bag of grain, at what stage of starvation do you prefer the grain to the vote?

ATTITUDE
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
The highest wisdom is continual cheerfulness; such a state, like the region above the moon, is always clear and serene.

MARRIAGE
George Mendoza
You never saw any husband writing an alimony check in Norman Rockwell’s America.

Science, Communism, Success, Love Quotes

SCIENCE
Fred Menger
If you torture data sufficiently, it will confess to almost anything.

COMMUNISM
Jean-Paul Sartre
Judge communism by its intentions, not its actions.

SUCCESS
Colin Luther Powell
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work and learning from failure.

LOVE
Henry Louis Mencken
Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another.

Philsophy, Capitalism, Striving, Interactions Quotes

PHILOSOPHY
Karl Heinrich Marx
Philosophy is to the real world as masturbation is to sex.

CAPITALISM
Ludwig von Mises
The inequality of income and fortunes is essential in capitalism.

STRIVING
Toni Morrison
If there’s a book you want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it.

INTERACTIONS
John W. Raper
Sympathy is never wasted except when you give it to yourself.

Perception, Business, Stagnation, Friends Quotes

PERCEPTION
Mark Fisher and Marc Allen
Life is exactly as you picture it. Everything that happens to you is a product of your thoughts. So if you want to change your life, you must start by changing your thoughts.

BUSINESS
Francis McInerney and Sean White
Turning labor from a liability into an asset: this is what the information economy is all about.

STAGNATION
A.J. Marshall
Many of us spending half our time wishing for things we could have if we didn’t spend half of our time wishing.

FRIENDS
Henry Louis Mencken
A man of active and resilient mind outwears his friendships just as certainly as he outwears his love affairs, his politics and his epistemology.