Who Quotes

In the United States, the majority undertakes to supply a multitude of ready-made opinions for the use of individuals, who are thus relieved from the necessity of forming opinions of their own.

There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there.

A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.

Obama's health care plan will be written by a committee whose head, John Conyers, says he doesn't understand it. It'll be passed by Congress that has not read it, signed by a president who smokes, funded by a Treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes, overseen by a Surgeon General who is obese, and financed by a country that's nearly broke. What could possibly go wrong?

I promise to be an excellent husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, will not appear every day in my sky.

Every woman should have four pets in her life. A mink in her closet, a jaguar in her garage, a tiger in her bed, and a jackass who pays for everything.

Nothing but heaven itself is better than a friend who is really a friend.

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision.

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.

Some of the most wonderful people are the ones who don't fit into boxes.

It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.

He has the most who is most content with the least.

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

I've never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. I don't understand people who hide from their past. Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.

I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.

I like a man who grins when he fights.

Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.

He who lives in our mind is near though he may actually be far away; but he who is not in our heart is far though he may really be nearby.

For a while, I thought a lot about lineage. Where do I belong? Who am I standing next to?

Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible.

I never learned from a man who agreed with me.

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.

No one can be happy who has been thrust outside the pale of truth. And there are two ways that one can be removed from this realm: by lying, or by being lied to.