Favourite Quotations

​“Taking into account the public’s regrettable lack of taste, it is incumbent upon you not to fit in.”

— Janeane Garofalo 

“Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself.”

— Groucho Marx 

“In preparing for battle, I have always found that plans are useless but planning is indispensable.”

— Dwight E. Eisenhower

“A desk is a dangerous place from which to view the world.”

— John Le Carré 

“The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses.”

— Carl Sagan 

“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”

— Voltaire 

“To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but that an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop.”

— Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 

“Any man can make mistakes, but only a fool persists in his error.”

— Cicero 

“Where they burn books, they will also burn people.”

— Heinrich Heine 

“It is infinitely better to have a few good men than many indifferent ones.”

— George Washington 

 “The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.”

— Coco Chanel 

“Standing still is the fastest way of moving backwards in a rapidly changing world.”

— Lauren Bacall

"I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.”

— Stephen Hawking

“Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.”

— Franklin Pierce Adams 

“It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong.”

— Henry Longfellow 

“If you don’t listen to your customers, someone else will.”

— Sam Walton

“’Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.”

— Benjamin Franklin 

“The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.”

— John Maynard Keynes 

“More and more we are into communications; and less and less into communication.”

— Studs Terkel 

“The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in.”

— Dennis Potter 

“Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.”

— Malcolm X 

“Of course I talk to myself. I like a good speaker, and I appreciate an intelligent audience.”

— Dorothy Parker 

“Impossibilities are merely things of which we have not learned, or which we do not wish to happen.”

— Charles W. Chesnutt 

“A happy life consists not in the absence, but in the mastery of hardships.”

— Helen Keller 

“Men willingly believe what they wish to be true.”

— Julius Caesar 

“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”

— Nelson Mandela

“Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, but only saps today of its strength.”

— A.J. Cronin 

“Advice is like snow; the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.”

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“The void created by the failure to communicate is soon filled with poison, drivel and misrepresentation.”

— C. Northcote Parkinson 

“The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either—but right through every human heart.”

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn 

“You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.”

— John Bunyan 

“I speak and speak, but the listener retains only the words he is expecting. It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.”

— Marco Polo 

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.”

— Upton Sinclair 

“Democracy means government by discussion, but it is only effective if you can stop people talking.”

— Clement Attlee 

“The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.”

— John Kenneth Galbraith 

“Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.”

— James Michener