Famous, Inspirational, Wisdom Quotes

“It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.”

“Love is handing someone a gun and letting it point to your head, believing that he won’t pull the trigger.” – Spongebob

“I will love you as misfortune loves orphans, as fire loves innocence, and as justice loves to sit and watch while everything goes wrong.” – Lemony Snicket

“I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.”

– Wilson Mizner

"Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?" – Edgar Bergen

"In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on – This person must be fired." – Conway’s Law

"Every day I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I’m not there, I go to work." – Robert Orben

"Satisfaction Guaranteed or Double Your Garbage Back." – Garbage Truck

"Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‘em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and find out how to do it." – Theodore Roosevelt

"Business conventions are important because they demonstrate how many people a company can operate without." – Unknown

"I am a friend of the workingman, I would rather be his friend than be one." – Clarence Darrow

"The world is divided into people who do things–and people who get the credit." – Dwight Morrow

"The remaining work to finish in order to reach your goal increases as the deadline approaches." – Bove’s Theorem

"If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire." – Cannon’s Law

"No project was ever completed on time and within budget." – Cheops Law "People are always available for work in the past tense." – Zymurgy’s Law of Volunteer Labour

"If hard work were such a wonderful thing, surely the rich would have kept it all to themselves." – Lane Kirkland

“We live in fear and forget to walk with hope. But hope has not forgotten you. So ask it to dinner. It’s probably hungry and would appreciate the invitation.” – Going Bovine

“There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily. So do dreams and hearts.” – Neil Gaiman

“When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished a how much he had learned in seven years.” – Mark Twain “At 19, everything is possible and tomorrow looks friendly.” – Jim Bishop “It was my 16th birthday – my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do – write songs and sing them to people.” – Stevie Nicks

“From birth to age eighteen, a girl needs good parents. From eighteen to thirty-five, she needs good looks. From thirty-five to fifty-five, she needs a good personality. From fifty-five on, she needs good cash.” – Sophie Tucker

“I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You’re young enough to get away with things, but you’re old enough, too.” – Liv Tyler

“Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.” – Albert Einstein

"When you are seventeen you aren’t really serious." – Arthur Rimbaud

"The big mistake that men make is that when they turn thirteen or fourteen and all of a sudden they’ve reached puberty, they believe that they like women. Actually, you’re just horny. It doesn’t mean you like women any more at twenty-one than you did at ten." – Jules Feiffer

"In the life of children there are two very clear-cut phases, before and after puberty. Before puberty the child’s personality has not yet formed and it is easier to guide its life and make it acquire specific habits of order, discipline, and work: after puberty the personality develops impetuously and all extraneous intervention becomes odious, tyrannical, insufferable. Now it so happens that parents feel the responsibility towards their children precisely during this second period, when it is too late: then of course the stick and violence enter the scene and yield very few results indeed. Why not instead take an interest in the child during the first period?" – Antonio Gramsci

"Having a thirteen-year-old in the family is like having a general-admission ticket to the movies, radio and TV. You get to understand that the glittering new arts of our civilization are directed to the teen-agers, and by their suffrage they stand or fall." – Max Lerner

"Teenage boys, goaded by their surging hormones run in packs like the primal horde. They have only a brief season of exhilarating liberty between control by their mothers and control by their wives." – Camille Paglia

"I would there were no age between ten and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the anciently, stealing, fighting." – William Shakespeare

"To an adolescent, there is nothing in the world more embarrassing than a parent." – Dave Barry

"I think we’re seeing in working mothers a change from "Thank God it’s Friday" to "Thank God it’s Monday." If any working mother has not experienced that feeling, her children are not adolescent." – Ann Diehl

"People want you to be a crazy, out-of-control teen brat. They want you miserable, just like them. They don’t want heroes; what they want is to see you fall." – Leonardo DiCaprio

"You can only be young once. But you can always be immature." – Dave Barry