QOTD category archive

Collen Hightower:

Talk is cheap – except when Congress does it.

Reggie Jackson:

I don’t mind getting beaten, but I hate to lose.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):

Even a dog distinguishes between being stumbled over and being kicked.

Luther Burbank, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):

It is well for people who think to change their minds occasionally in order to keep them clean. For those who do not think, it is best to at least rearrange their prejudices once in a while.

Daniel Kahneman, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):

We’re not aware of changing our minds even when we do change our minds. and most people, after they change their minds, reconstruct their past opinion — they believe they always thought that.

Solomon Ibn Gabirol:

If you want to keep something concealed from your enemy, don’t disclose it to your friend.

Aside:

Doubly true in Facebook world.

Anais Nin:

When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons.

Paul Valery:

A man who is “of sound mind” is one who keeps the inner madman under lock and key.

Edward Everett Hale:

‘Do you pray for the senators, Dr. Hale?’

No, I look at the senators and I pray for the country.

Stephen King:

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

Soren Kierkegaard:

Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

Buddy Hackett:

I’ve had a few arguments with people, but I never carry a grudge. You know why? While you’re carrying a grudge, they’re out dancing.

Albert Einstein:

Time is what prevents everything from happening at once.

Robert Quillen:

Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance.

Oliver Wendell Holmes:

Beware how you take away hope from another human being.

Felix Frankfurter:

Answers are not obtained by putting the wrong question and thereby begging the real one.

Robert Orben, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):

A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that “individuality” is the key to success.

Marian Anderson, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):

The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.

Linus Pauling, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):

Facts are the air of scientists. Without them you can never fly.

Saul Alinsky:

We must believe that it is the darkest before the dawn of a beautiful new world. We will see it when we believe it.