All Quotes

No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.

—Henry Adams

Psychology helps to measure the probability that an aim is attainable.

—Edward Thorndike

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

—Oscar Wilde

Language is the source of misunderstandings.

—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Conscience is what makes a boy tell his mother before his sister does.

—Evan Esar

I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision.

—Eleanor Roosevelt

If you don't love me, it does not matter, anyway I can love for both of us.

—Stendhal

Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun.

—Jim Bishop

A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.

—Dwight D. Eisenhower

There is no love that is not an echo.

—Theodor W. Adorno

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

—Winston Churchill

As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it.

—Dick Cavett

We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.

—Dennis Miller

Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.

—George Santayana

Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.

—Jane Austen