All Quotes

If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend.

—Doug Larson

It is a sign of a creeping inner death when we no longer can praise the living.

—Eric Hoffer

Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite.

—Oliver Wendell Holmes

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not.

—Thomas Henry Huxley

The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.

—Rudyard Kipling

To live is like to love — all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

—Samuel Butler

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

—Gertrude Stein

A signature always reveals a man's character - and sometimes even his name.

—Evan Esar

I've done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you play or not.

—Fran Lebowitz

The maxims of men reveal their characters.

—Luc de Clapiers

One does not fall in love; one grows into love, and love grows in him.

—Karl A. Menninger

One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.

—Robert F. Kennedy

Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.

—Frank Lloyd Wright

I don’t owe people anything, and I don’t have to talk to them any more than I feel I need to.

—Ned Vizzini in It’s Kind of a Funny Story

Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

—Sigmund Freud