Miscellaneous Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

99,217 Miscellaneous Quotes
“Never settle with words what you can accomplish with a flame-thrower.”
Bruce Feirstein Quotes
“Figures won't lie, but liars will figure.”
Charles H. Grosvenor Quotes
“There are three schools of magic. One: State a tautology, then ring the changes on its corollaries; that's philosophy. Two: Record many facts. Try to find a pattern. Then make a wrong guess at the next fact; that's science. Three: Be aware that you live.”
Fortune Quotes
“You are no better than you should be.”
Francis Beaumont Quotes
“Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.”
Fred Allen Quotes
“If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.”
Henny Youngman Quotes
“The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer.”
Henry Kissinger Quotes
“The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.”
Nelson Henderson Quotes
“Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.”
John Wesley Quotes
“Journalism is popular, but it is popular mainly as fiction. Life is one world, and life seen in the newspapers is another. - "On the Cryptic and the Elliptic", 1908.”
G. K. Chesterton Quotes
“News is history shot on the wing. The huntsmen from the Fourth Estate seek to bag only the peacock or the eagle of the swifting day. - Skyline, 1961.”
Gene Fowler Quotes
“Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war. - Wisdom in Small Doses.”
John Andrew Holmes Quotes
“There is no way to peace; peace is the way.”
A. J. Muste Quotes
“I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. - "Trees".”
Joyce Kilmer Quotes
“Success on any major scale requires you to accept responsibility... in the final analysis, the one quality that all successful people have... is the ability to take on responsibility.”
Michael Korda Quotes
“I was taught very early that I would have to depend entirely upon myself; that my future lay in my own hands.”
Darius Ogden Mills Quotes
“A car crash harnesses elements of eroticism, aggression, desire, speed, drama, kinesthetic factors, the stylizing of motion, consumer goods, status -- all these in one event. I myself see the car crash as a tremendous sexual event really: a liberation of human and machine libido (if there is such a thing).”
J. G. Ballard Quotes
“We are the men of intrinsic value, who can strike our fortunes out of ourselves, whose worth is independent of accidents in life, or revolutions in government: we have heads to get money, and hearts to spend it.”
George Farquhar Quotes
“An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.”
Fred A. Allen Quotes
“I've learned any fool can write a bad ad, but it takes a real genius to keep his hands off a good one.”
Leo Burnett Quotes
“Advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on.”
Jerry Della Femina Quotes
“The unlived life is not worth examining.”
Tom Morris Quotes
“The man who has nothing to do is always the busiest.”
French Proverb Quotes
“Candor is a proof of both a just frame of mind, and of a good tone of breeding. It is a quality that belongs equally to the honest man and to the gentleman.”
James F. Cooper Quotes
“No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi.”
Ben Elton Quotes