Witty quotes

The beginning is the most important part of the work.
- Plato

Sometimes you gotta create what you want to be a part of.
- Geri Weitzman

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

Choose a job you like, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
- Confucius

Computers are uselss. They can only give you answers.
- Pablo Picasso

A well-spent day brings happy sleep.
- Leonardo da Vinci

Islam is a religion in which Allah demands you send your son to die for him; Christianity is the faith in which God sent his son to die for you.
- John Ashcroft

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
- John Adams

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To prophesy is extremely difficult - especially with regard to the future.
- Chinese proverb

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
- Shakespeare

There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.
- Henry Kissinger

It is not the horse that draws the cart, but the oats.
- Russian proverb

I was married by a judge. I should have asked for a jury.
- George Burns

All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.
- Samuel Butler

Your true value depends entirely on what you are compared with.
- Bob Wells

The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
- Albert Einstein

"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?"
- Albert Einstein

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.
- Bob Edwards

If you think education is expensive, try Ignorance.
- Andy McIntyre

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
- Will Rogers

Lady Nancy Astor: Winston, if you were my husband, I'd put arsenic in your morning coffee.
Churchill: Madam, if you were my wife, I'd drink it.

Bessie Braddock: Winston, you are drunk!
Churchill: And Madam, you are ugly. And tomorrow, I'll be sober, and you will still be ugly.

Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.
- H. L. Mencken

My wife dresses to kill. She cooks the same way.
- Henny Youngman

The greatest risk is to risk nothing at all.
- Leo Buscaglia

God does not play dice with the universe.
- Albert Einstein

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
- Albert Einstein

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo.
- James Klass

Not all those who wander are lost.
- J R R Tolkien

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
- Lao-Tsu

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves.
- Gilbert Highet

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
- Albert Einstein