Everything Quotes

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.

Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.

The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.

Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

If you're not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can't be of very much use to yourself.

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.

I want to be all used up when I die.

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.

A Prius is not a true hybrid, really. The current Prius is, like, 2 percent electric. It's a gasoline car with slightly better mileage.

It is theoretically possible to warp spacetime itself, so you're not actually moving faster than the speed of light, but it's actually space that's moving.

It's not as though we can keep burning coal in our power plants. Coal is a finite resource, too. We must find alternatives, and it's a better idea to find alternatives sooner then wait until we run out of coal, and in the meantime, put God knows how many trillions of tons of CO2 that used to be buried underground into the atmosphere.

The pace of progress on Mars depends upon the pace of progress of SpaceX.

The rumours of the demise of the U.S. manufacturing industry are greatly exaggerated.

The U.S. automotive industry has been selling cars the same way for over 100 years, and there are many laws in place to govern exactly how that is to be accomplished.

If you think back to the beginning of cell phones, laptops or really any new technology, it's always expensive.