Favourite Quotes

• Character is what you have left when you've lost everything you can lose.

  Evan Esar

  Character, Personality, Lost Everything

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• The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Friendship, Hate, Lost Love

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Thus spake Zarathustra - A Book for All and None”, p.101, Friedrich Nietzsche

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• God has no religion.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Spiritual, Religion

  Speech by H.E. Vicki Treadell, British High Commissioner to Malaysia, at 16th Gandhi Memorial Lecture, www.gov.uk. October 13, 2016.

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• I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either.

  Jack Benny

  Funny, Success, Crazy

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• The way to succeed is to double your error rate.

  Thomas J. Watson

  Motivation, Failure, Inspiration

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• History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Inspirational, War, Past

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• No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

  Bertrand Russell

  Respect, Keeping Secrets, People

  Bertrand Russell (2014). “On Education”, p.50, Routledge

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• When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Wise, Humor, Funny Witty

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• The very best thing you can do for the whole world is to make the most of yourself.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Crazy, Successful, Positivity

  Wallace D. Wattles, General Press (2016). “The Science of Getting Rich”, p.33, GENERAL PRESS

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• A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

  Robert Frost

  Funny, Humor, Law

  "Fire and Ice: The Art and Thought of Robert Frost". Book by Lawrence Thompson, 1942.

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• Only the mediocre are always at their best.

  Jean Giraudoux

  Inspirational, Motivational, Mediocrity

  Jean Giraudoux (2002). “Choice of the Elect”

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• When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.

  Thomas Szasz

  Laughter, Drinking, Laughing

  Thomas Szasz (2017). “Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary”, p.260, Routledge

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• Time is the stuff life is made of.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Stuff, Life Is, Made

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• When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Death, Children

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• Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Lost Love, Reputation, Realizing

  1936 Rhett Butler. Gone with the Wind, ch.9.

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• Originality is the fine art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Funny, Positive, Witty

  "Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time". Book by Laurence J. Peter, p. 362, 1977.

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• A good tool improves the way you work. A great tool improves the way you think.

  Jeff Duntemann

  Thinking, Tools, Way

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• It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.

  Dick Cavett

  Listening To Others, Rare Person, Want

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• Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.

  Hermann Hesse

  Inspirational, Children, Writing

  Hermann Hesse, Sherab Chödzin (2002). “Siddhartha: A New Translation”, p.59, Shambhala Publications

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• Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.

  Ben Hecht

  Time, Business, Reading

  Ben Hecht (1954). “A child of the century”, Signet

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• The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.

  Douglas Horton

  Art, Simplicity, Simple Life

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• I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.

  Fred Allen

  Funny, Writing, Years

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• I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few.

  Adolf Hitler

  Mein Kampf, Use, Emotion

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• In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Success, Business, Military

  Quoted in Richard Nixon, Six Crises (1962)

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• I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world because they'd never expect it.

  Jack Handey

  Hate, War, Deep Thought

  "Deep Thoughts" by Jack Handey, Berkley Publishing Group, 1992.

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