Great Quotes and Sayings

The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.

I’ve failed over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

I can accept failure, but I can’t accept not trying.

Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.

Radio has no future.

A generous heart is good for the right sort of people.

If you love someone, put their name in a circle, instead of a heart, because hearts can break, but circles go on forever.

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living, the other helps you make a life.

An ideal cannot wait for its realization to prove its validity.

The only true wisdom consists in knowing that you know nothing.

Reality does not conform to the ideal, but confirms it.

We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.

Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow. And politics is the bow of idealism.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

There never was a good war or a bad peace.

Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.

The next best thing to being clever is being able to quote someone who is.

The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.

In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons.

You can’t shake hands with a clenched fist.

A short saying often contains much wisdom.

Charity begins at home and justice begins next door.

It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.

Married men live longer than single men. But married men are a lot more willing to die.

Happiness is your dentist telling you it won’t hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.

Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.

Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.

I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.

You are better off trusting gold than government.

People are quick to share their food when they realize they can’t eat it all.

Nothing bores the people more than last year’s war.

We don’t need to restore the American Dream; we need to wake up from it.

When the rich run out of money, it’s over.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

To accomplish great things we must not only act but also dream, not only plan but also believe.

Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.

“Don’t give your children too much money, too soon,” say the old timers. You may not care about the money itself, but you’d hate to see it ruin their lives.

To believe in one’s dreams is to spend all of one’s life asleep

Heavier than air flying machines are impossible.

Smart money and smart people are highly mobile, and they go to where the return on capital is highest.

A rich man’s joke is always funny.

I’ve failed over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

An alarm clock is a device that wakes you up just in time to go back to sleep.

There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will.

Whenever the government tells you to do something, it’s generally a good idea to do the opposite.

The standard of living of the common man is highest in those countries which have the greatest number of entrepreneurs.

If you can’t fix it with duck tape you have’nt used enough.

To cease smoking is the easiest thing. I ought to know. I’ve done it a thousand times.

Marriage is like pi – natural, irrational, and very important.

You’re not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.

Thoughts are but dreams till their effects be tried.

If you die in an elevator, be sure to push the Up button.

The best reason for having dreams is that in dreams no reasons are necessary.

Marriage is a three ring circus: engagement ring, wedding ring, and suffering.

Middle age is the time in life when, after pulling in your stomach, you look as if you ought to pull in your stomach.

Health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.