QOTD category archive

Baltasar Gracian:

The things we remember best are those better forgotten.

J. B. S. Haldane, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):

This is my prediction for the future – whatever hasn’t happened will happen and no one will be safe from it.

Happy New Year.

P. J. O’Rourke:

The proper behavior all through the holiday season is to be drunk. This drunkenness culminates on New Year’s Eve, when you get so drunk you kiss the person you’re married to.

Thomas Carlyle, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):

The aristocracy of feudal parchment has passed away with a mighty rushing, and now, by a natural course, we arrive at aristocracy of the money-bag.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

Ruth Gordon:

Never give up. And never, under any circumstances, face the facts.

Steven Wright, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):

If all the nations in the world are in debt, where did all the money go?

Freeman Dyson, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):

The world always needs heretics to challenge the prevailing orthodoxies.

Blaise Pascal, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):

In faith there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):

How can you expect a man who’s warm to understand one who’s cold?

George Carlin, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):

Electricity is really just organized lightning.

Charlie Chaplin, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):

I remain just one thing, and one thing only, and that is a clown. It places me on a far higher plane than any politician.

Thomas Carlyle, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Abbie Hoffman:

Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.

Friedrich Schiller, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):

It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.

Robert Benchley, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):

The most common of all antagonisms arises from a man’s taking a seat beside you on the train, a seat to which he is completely entitled.

Winston churchill, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):

I’m always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught.

Felix Frankfurter, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):

No court can make time stand still.

P. J. O’Rourke, from the Quotemaster (subscribe here):

Sloths move at the speed of congressional debate but with greater deliberation and less noise.

Daniel Ellsberg:

If monarchy is corrupting – and it is – wait till you see what overt empire does to us.