Max Quotes

• People complain that our generation has no philosophers. They are wrong. They now sit in another faculty. Their names are Max Planck and Albert Einstein. Upon appointment as the first president of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society, Berlin, formed for the advancement of science.

  Adolf von Harnack

  Our Generation, Names, People

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• Most artists come in and out of the country, they stay may be 2 weeks - or a month max and then they leave.

  Edwin Starr

  Country, Artist, May

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• No one can pray and worry at the same time.

  Max Lucado

  Prayer, Worry, Praying

  Max Lucado (2012). “Great Day Every Day: Navigating Life's Challenges with Promise and Purpose”, p.125, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.

  Max Beerbohm

  Inspirational, Greatness, Men

  Zuleika Dobson (1911) ch. 4

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• Halloween revolves around delicious candy, excessive alcohol, and horny women dressed as sluts. This also describes my vision of Heaven.

  Tucker Max

  Halloween, Alcohol, Heaven

  Tucker Max (2012). “Hilarity Ensues”, p.77, Simon and Schuster

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• Things always work out for me because I do whatever I want without worrying about the consequences.

  Tucker Max

  Work Out, Worry, Want

  Tucker Max (2012). “Hilarity Ensues”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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• To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people.

  Max Beerbohm

  Mean, Men, Vanity

  Max Beerbohm (2015). “The Prince of Minor Writers: The Selected Essays of Max Beerbohm”, p.94, New York Review of Books

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• I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.

  Max Beerbohm

  Boys, Oxford, Made

  More (1899) "Going Back to School"

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• One might well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.

  Max Beerbohm

  Two, Class, Might

  And Even Now (1920) "Hosts and Guests"

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• Lower your expectations of earth. This isn't heaven, so don't expect it to be.

  Max Lucado

  Expectations, Heaven, Earth

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• No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.

  Max Beerbohm

  Work, Sacrifice, Self

  Max Beerbohm (2006). “And Even Now”, p.70, 1st World Publishing

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• I wanna keep creating those situations for myself so I don't have to be out front all the time. Then when I do have to be out front, I can do it to the max.

  Bootsy Collins

  Creating, Boots, Situation

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• Did Mad freakin' Max just call me irritating?

  Joe Pesci

  Mad, Irritated, Call Me

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• I have a chef who makes sure that I'm getting the right amounts of carbs, proteins and fats throughout the day to keep me at my max performance level.

  Barry Bonds

  Sports, Ties, Levels

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Heisenberg, Max Plank and Einstein, they all agreed that science could not solve the mystery of the universe.

  Harry Dean Stanton

  Science, Mystery, Solve

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• Mel Gibson will always be Mad Max, and me, I will always be a Number.

  Patrick McGoohan

  Numbers, Mad, Mad Max

  "How star of the stage Patrick McGoohan became a Prisoner of his own success after switching to the screen" by Marcus Dunk, www.dailymail.co.uk. January 15, 2009.

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• My son walked up to Nicole on the beach and I was throwing the ball for the dogs in the ocean... I was like, Max you get the dogs. I’ll talk to the hot blondes.

  John C. McGinley

  Dog, Beach, Ocean

  "Scrubs Star John C. McGinley Engaged" by Carrie Borzillo-Vrenna, people.com. August 19, 2006.

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• We can either build a Star Trek future, in which our civilization rises to new heights, or descend into a Mad Max world. It is up to us.

  Vivek Wadhwa

  Stars, Civilization, Mad

  "The Coming Problem of Our iPhones Being More Intelligent Than We Are" by Vivek Wadhwa, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 27, 2015.

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• I just told Max flatly, "I had laser surgery last week to lighten my birthmark," as if it was no big deal. Oh yeah?" he said. Unexpectedly, Max swiveled around, yanked his pants down. The last thing I thought I had wanted to see tonight was Merc walking out the door. I was wrong. It was this stranger's rear end. "Please don't tell me this is one of those stripping telegrams?

  Justina Chen

  Doors, Lasts, Pants

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• I choose you, Max. -Fang

  James Patterson

  Fangs

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• -You're gloating, Max. It's not flattering. Somebody needs to teach you a little humility.- -A good woman could do that.- -She'd have to be armed and dangerous.-

  Janet Evanovich

  Humility, Good Woman, Needs

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• Max - "...Do me a favor, if the constable comes knocking, tell him I was here all morning, will you?" Dodsley - "Killed someone again, did we?" Max- "Never before luncheon, Dodsley. It's still early yet.

  Gaelen Foley

  Morning, Favors, Knocking

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• Max: "Okay guys, I had a couple thoughts I wanted to go over with you." Iggy: (pretends to snore loudy) Max: (throws another pinecone at him) Iggy: "Quit throwing things at me!" Max: "Glad you could join us.

  James Patterson

  Couple, Guy, Quitting

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• What happened to your tan?"--Fang "It was dirt." --Max

  James Patterson

  Dirt, Happened, Fangs

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• So there you have it, the extent of my charms: brown hair and eyes like unbarfed chocolate. I'm a lucky girl." -Max

  James Patterson

  Girl, Eye, Hair

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