Quotes & Quotations About Life
This is the home of our quotations and quotes pages. We have several of our favorite quotes and quotations about life in general on this page, and you can find quotations by topic on the right. Just click on the links. Enjoy.
"A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort." - Herm Albright
"No good deed goes unpunished." - Clare Booth Luce
"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants." - Isaac Newton
"The truth is more important than the facts." - Frank Lloyd Wright
"People who say they sleep like a baby usually don't have one." - Leo J. Burke
"The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war." - EB White
"All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it." - HL Mencken
"The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable." - John Kenneth Galbraith
"I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability." - Oscar Wilde
"The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale." - Arthur C. Clarke
"Things are more like they are now than they have ever been." - Gerald R. Ford
"The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it." - Franklin P. Jones
"When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both." - Al Franken
"I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves." - Bruce Grocott
"Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation." - Henry Kissinger
"I improve on misquotation." - Cary Grant
"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction." - Blaise Pascal
"To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it." - GK Chesterton
"Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice." - George Jackson
"Anybody caught selling macrame in public should be dyed a natural color and hung out to dry." - Calvin Trillin
"A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience." - Doug Larson
"A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success" - Doug Larson
"Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks." - Doug Larson
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Contributions to Quotations:
David Shein [06], Clark Moran, Geoffrey K. Braden [05]