Who Quotes

All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.

One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom.

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

Insane people are always sure that they are fine. It is only the sane people who are willing to admit that they are crazy.

A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.

My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger.

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.

Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.

Entrepreneurs are simply those who understand that there is little difference between obstacle and opportunity and are able to turn both to their advantage.

Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything.

If you really want to make a friend, go to someone's house and eat with him... the people who give you their food give you their heart.

The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.

There's something safe about playing a character, but then it's like, 'Who am I underneath it all?'

I cannot trust a man to control others who cannot control himself.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.

A teacher who is not dogmatic is simply a teacher who is not teaching.

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

A true friend is someone who is always there during the ups and downs, I actually have a song called 'True Friend'.

Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl?

We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.

I think it's important to get your surroundings as well as yourself into a positive state - meaning surround yourself with positive people, not the kind who are negative and jealous of everything you do.

Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.