Modern Wisdom quotes and sayings

Winston Churchill quotes


The maxim of the British people is 'Business as usual'

Winston Churchill quotes


Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

Douglas MacArthur quotes


There's no security on this earth, only opportunity.

Ovid quotes


The sharp thorn often produces delicate roses.

Alexander Pope quotes


Order is Heaven's first law; and this confessed, some are, and must be, greater than the rest, more rich, more wise; but who infers from hence that such are happier, shocks all common sense. Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; bliss is the same in subject or in king.

Alexander Pope quotes


A man should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Alexander Pope quotes


Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

Alexander Pope quotes


To err is human, to forgive is divine.

Bertrand Russell quotes


What men want is not knowledge, but certainty.

Arthur Schopenhauer quotes


The present is the only reality and the only certainty.

Arthur Schopenhauer quotes


To free a person from error is to give, and not to take away.

Margaret Thatcher quotes


Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

Douglas Adams quotes


Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Douglas Adams quotes


Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast.

Aesop quotes


Our insignificance is often the cause of our safety.

Albert Camus quotes


The real passion of the twentieth century is servitude.

Albert Camus quotes


The world in which we were called to exist was an absurd world, and there was no other in which we could take refuge.

Albert Camus quotes


It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it --just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.

Albert Einstein quotes


Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.

Albert Einstein quotes


Many of the things you can count, don't count. Many of the things you can't count, really count.

Henry Ford quotes


Never complain. Never explain.

Henry Ford quotes


Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

Henry Ford quotes


You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.

Anne Frank quotes


The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

Anne Frank quotes


Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

Thomas Frank quotes


A wise man turns chance into good fortune.

Samuel Johnson quotes


Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging.

Samuel Johnson quotes


Worth seeing? Yes; but not worth going to see.

Ayn Rand quotes


Compromise does not satisfy, but dissatisfies everybody; it does not lead to any general fulfillment, but to general frustration; those who try to become everything to all people end up by not being anything to anyone.

Patrick Moore quotes


At my age I do what Mark Twain did. I get my daily paper, look at the obituaries page and if I'm not there I carry on as usual.

Patrick Moore quotes


I'm only a four-dimensional creature. Haven't got a clue how to visualise infinity. Even Einstein hadn't. I know because I asked him.

Carl Sagan quotes


Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.

Albert Einstein quotes


A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depends on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the measure as I have received and am still receiving.

George Clemenceau quotes


In order to act, you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

Fridtjof Nansen quotes


Never stop because you are afraid - you are never so likely to be wrong.

Fridtjof Nansen quotes


The difficult is what takes a little time; the impossible is what takes a little longer.

Wislawa Szymborska quotes


Nothing can ever happen twice. In consequence, the sorry fact is that we arrive here improvised and leave without the chance to practice.

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