Famous, Inspirational, Wisdom Quotes

- “The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightening and the lightening bug.” – Mark Twain

- “The elevator to success is out of order. You’ll have to use the stairs… one step at a time.” – Joe Girard

- “The first rule of baseball is to get a good ball to hit.” – Rogers Hornsby

- “The main thing is keeping the main thing the main thing.” – German Proverb

- “The next best thing to winning is losing! At least you’ve been in the race.” – Nellie Hershey Tullis

- “The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.” – George Will

- “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vidal Sassoon

- “The only thing that ever sat its way to success was a hen.” – Sarah Brown

- “The past is a guidepost, not a hitching post.” – Thomas Holcroft

- “Certainly the plagiarism, and dealing with the fallout of it, was the most difficult thing I’ve ever faced since I started writing.” – Nora Roberts

- “Composers shouldn’t think too much – it interferes with their plagiarism.” – Howard Dietz

- “I could tell you which writer’s rhythms I am imitating. It’s not exactly plagiarism, it’s falling in love with good language and trying to imitate it.” – Charles Kuralt

- “I think almost every newspaper in the United States has lost circulation due to the Internet. I also think the Internet will lead to a lot of plagiarism in journalism.” – Will McDonough

- “Ideas improve. The meaning of words participates in the improvement. Plagiarism is necessary. Progress implies it. It embraces an author’s phrase, makes use of his expressions, erases a false idea, and replaces it with the right idea.” – Guy Debord

- “If we steal thoughts from the moderns, it will be cried down as plagiarism; if from the ancients, it will be cried up as erudition.” – Charles Caleb Colton

- “If you steal from one author it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many it’s research.” – Wilson Mizner

- “Mr. Fitzgerald, I believe that is how he spells his name, seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.” – Zelda Fitzgerald

- “No, generally I think influence is used as a nice word for plagiarism.” – Gilbert Gottfried

- “Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism.” – George A. Moore

- “What is originality? Undetected plagiarism.” – Dean Inge

- “When you take stuff from one writer it’s plagiarism; but when you take it from many writers, it’s research.” – Wilson Mizner

- “Nowadays, anyone who cannot speak English and is incapable of using the Internet is regarded as backward.” – Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud

- “If you look at the top 20 companies of the world, 19 of them are still brick-and-mortar companies. I have nothing against tech companies. What I am saying is that if you have a car manufacturer or an oil and gas manufacturer, you won’t get the supply over the Net.” – Anil Ambani

- “Some say Google is God. Others say Google is Satan. But if they think Google is too powerful, remember that with search engines unlike other companies, all it takes is a single click to go to another search engine.” – Sergey Brin

- “It’s important for us to explain to our nation that life is important. It’s not only life of babies, but it’s life of children living in, you know, the dark dungeons of the Internet.” – George Bushism

- “The Internet is based on a layered, end-to-end model that allows people at each level of the network to innovate free of any central control. By placing intelligence at the edges rather than control in the middle of the network, the Internet has created a platform for innovation.” – Vinton Cerf

- “They say a year in the Internet business is like a dog year.. equivalent to seven years in a regular person’s life. In other words, it’s evolving fast and faster.” – Vinton Cerf

- “Science fiction does not remain fiction for long. And certainly not on the Internet.” – Vinton Cerf

- “The remarkable social impact and economic success of the Internet is in many ways directly attributable to the architectural characteristics that were part of its design. The Internet was designed with no gatekeepers over new content or services.” – Vinton Cerf

- “I must confess that I’ve never trusted the Web. I’ve always seen it as a coward’s tool. Where does it live? How do you hold it personally responsible? Can you put a distributed network of fiber-optic cable “on notice”? And is it male or female? In other words, can I challenge it to a fight?” – Stephen Colbert

- “I think it’s a good thing that there are bloggers out there watching very closely and holding people accountable. Everyone in the news should be able to hold up to that kind of scrutiny. I’m for as much transparency in the newsgathering process as possible.” – Anderson Cooper

- “There are managers so preoccupied with their e-mail messages that they never look up from their screens to see what’s happening in the nondigital world.” – Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

- “The new information technology, Internet and e-mail, have practically eliminated the physical costs of communications.” – Peter Drucker

- “Thousands of people were producing new Web sites every day. We were just trying to take all that stuff and organize it to make it useful.” – David Filo

- “We’re not in this for the fast money. Really, what we want is to be part of this industry.” – David Filo

- “We started Yahoo in about April 1994. It started out as a way for us to keep track of things that we were interested in.” – David Filo

- “First of all we had very few users. We might have had a hundred accesses a day. So there was really no demand from the users to add their own links. Things changed over time though as our access rates doubled every month. Through word of mouth on the Net more and more people began using it.” – David Filo

- “The Net as a whole is not that reliable, so our blips in service don’t cause major problems. However, we are certainly working on improving our own reliability as well as those sites that we depend on.” – David Filo

- “The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more difficult for government to collect taxes.” – Milton Friedman

- “Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren’t so exciting.” – Bill Gates

- “Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don’t think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.” – Bill Gates

- “I think it’s fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we’ve ever created. They’re tools of communication, they’re tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.” – Bill Gates

- “The Internet will help achieve “friction free capitalism” by putting buyer and seller in direct contact and providing more information to both about each other.” – Bill Gates

- “Paper is no longer a big part of my day. I get 90% of my news online, and when I go to a meeting and want to jot things down, I bring my Tablet PC. It’s fully synchronized with my office machine so I have all the files I need.” – Bill Gates

- “We’re at the point now where the challenge isn’t how to communicate effectively with e-mail, it’s ensuring that you spend your time on the e-mail that matters most.” – Bill Gates

- “Some people develop a wish bone where their back bone should be.” – Unknown

- “Some people not only expect opportunity to knock, they expect it to beat down the door.” – Unknown

- “Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.” – Ambrose Bierce

- “Start off every day with a smile and get it over with.” – W. C. Fields

- “Success comes in cans, failure in can’ts.” – Unknown

- “Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.” – Earl Nightingale

- “The best measure of a man’s honesty isn’t his income tax return. It’s the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.” – Arthur C. Clarke

- “The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does not stop until you get into the office.” – Robert Frost

- “The difference between a mountain and a molehill is your perspective.” – Al Neuharth

- “The difference between an optimist and a pessimist is that an optimist thinks this is the best possible world. A pessimist fears that this is true.” – Unknown

- “There is a garden in every childhood, an enchanted place where colors are brighter, the air softer, and the morning more fragrant than ever again.” – Elizabeth Lawrence

- “Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights, before the dark hour of reason grows.” – John Betjeman

- “Sweet childish days, that were as long
As twenty days are now.” – William Wordsworth, “To a Butterfly”

- “Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth – two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.” – Ambrose Bierce, The Devil’s Dictionary, 1911

- “We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.” – George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss, 1860

- “Childhood is the most beautiful of all life’s seasons.” – Unknown

- “Childhood is a promise that is never kept.” – Ken Hill

- “Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down to essentials and that essential shaped for good.” – Katherine Anne Porter

- “There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.” – Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory

- “When you finally go back to your old hometown, you find it wasn’t the old home you missed but your childhood.” – Sam Ewing

- “In childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking out. In memories of childhood, we press our nose to the pane, looking in.” – Robert Brault

- “The greatest poem ever known
Is one all poets have outgrown:
The poetry, innate, untold,
Of being only four years old.” – Christopher Morley, To a Child

- “If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.” – Tom Stoppard

- “I’d give all wealth that years have piled,
The slow result of Life’s decay,
To be once more a little child
For one bright summer day.” – Lewis Carroll, “Solitude”

- “It is never too late to have a happy childhood.” – Tom Robbins

- “What we remember from childhood we remember forever – permanent ghosts, stamped, inked, imprinted, eternally seen.” – Cynthia Ozick

- “The childhood shows the man
As morning shows the day.” – John Milton, Paradise Regained

- “Childhood is a short season.” – Helen Hayes

- “He carried his childhood like a hurt warm bird held to his middle-aged breast.” – Herbert Gold

- “Childhood is that wonderful time of life when all you need to do to lose weight is take a bath.” – Unknown

- “The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.” – Ellen Glasgow

- “Old age lives minutes slowly, hours quickly; childhood chews hours and swallows minutes.” – Malcolm de Chazal

- “Tell me what company thou keepst, and I’ll tell thee what thou art.” – Miguel de Cervantes (1547 – 1616) Spanish novelist.

- “Have no friends not equal to yourself.” – Confucious (551 – 497 BC) Chinese philosopher.

- “Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.” – Jacques Delille (1738 – 1813) French poet.

- “A Friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of Nature.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882) US poet & essayist.

- “Keep your friendships in repair.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

- “A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

- “The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

- “It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

- “If a man does not make new acquaintance as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, Sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair.” – Samuel Johnson (1709 – 1784) British lexiographer.

- “True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in their worth and choice.” – Samuel Johnston

- “It is more shameful to distrust one’s friends than to be deceived by them.” – Duc de la Rochefoucauld (1613 – 1680) French writer.

- “If it is abuse – why one is always sure to here of it from one damned good-natured friend or other!” – Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751 – 1816) British dramatist.

- “Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for ’tis better to be alone than in bad company.” – George Washington (1732 – 1799) US Statesman.

- “True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.” – George Washington

- “I can never think of promoting my convenience at the expense of a friend’s interest and inclination.” – George Washington

- “Should auld aquaintance be forgot, And never brought to min’?” – Robert Burns (1759 – 1796) Scottish poet.

- “It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.” – Epicurus (341 – 270 BC) Greek philosopher.

- “It is not so much our friends’ help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.” – Epicurus

- “These are called the pious frauds of friendship.” – Henry Fielding (1707 – 1754) British novelist.

- “Always, Sir, set a high value on spontaneous kindness. he whose inclination prompts him to cultivate your friendship of his own accord, will love you more than one whom you have been at pains to attach to you.” – Samuel Johnston (1709 – 1784) British lexicographer.

- “Sir, I look upon every day to be lost, in which I do not make a new acquantaince.” – Samuel Johnston

- “I also care that the public are getting their 12 dollars` worth when they go to a movie, and that they`re not coming out not wanting to ever see a movie with me in it again. I don`t care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think… ”
- “A mate of mine told me recently, `It`s the first time I`ve seen you work, Worthington.` I thought that was quite funny, but he was right. [Empire magazine, October 2006]”
- “A lot of these people were getting to where they didn’t need help anymore. You have to start all over again.”
- “People care and are willing to help me out my desperate circumstances.”
- “You help families focus on the future through their children.”

- “To supply people for ages in camps makes no sense… You have to rebuild that cabana that they rent out to tourists on the weekend. They need help getting their fields repaired and their boats repaired.”

- “There has been much less work done in Sri Lanka because of the political problem. It may be a challenge for some donor countries to accept some exceptions amid restrictions on whom to work with.”

- “Our challenge is that we respond to stark events.”

Note: Sam Worthington is an American Hollywood actor. He is best known for his roles in Avatar (2009), Dirty Deeds (2002), Bootmen (2000)

- “Nature and wisdom never are at strife.” – Plutarch

- “It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.” – Francois De La Rochefoucauld

- “The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.” – William James

- “The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.” – Solomon Ibn Gabriol

- “Years teach us more than books.” – Berthold Auerbach

- “The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy.” – William Penn

- “The middle course is the best.” – Cleobulus

- “The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.” – Thomas Huxley

- “A wise man learns by the mistakes of others, a fool by his own.” – Latin Proverb

- “Silence does not always mark wisdom.” – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

- “No man was ever wise by chance.” – Seneca

- “Not to know at large of things remote
From use, obscure and subtle, but to know
That which before us lies in daily life,
Is the prime wisdom.” – John Milton

- “By associating with wise people you will become wise yourself.” – Menander

- “The seat of knowledge is in the head, of wisdom, in the heart.” – William Hazlitt

- “Of all parts of wisdom the practice is the best.” – John Tillotson

- “The more a man knows, the more he forgives.” – Catherine the Great

- “A loving heart is the truest wisdom.” – Charles Dickens

- “One who understands much displays a greater simplicity of character than one who understands little.” – Alexander Chase

- “How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!” – Homer

- “On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows,
In every rill a sweet instruction flows.
Edward Young

- “The man of wisdom is never of two minds;
the man of benevolence never worries;
the man of courage is never afraid.” – Confucius

- “Shopping is better than sex. At least if you’re not satisfied, you can exchange it for something you really like.” – Adrienne Gusoff

- “An archeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.” – Agatha Christie

- “Women marry men hoping they will change.
Men marry women hoping they will not.
So each is inevitably disappointed.” – Albert Einstein

- “Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute. That’s relativity.” – Albert Einstein

- “Men make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.” – Unknown

- “You know it’s love when you want to keep holding hands even after you’re sweaty.” – Unknown

- “The four most important words in any marriage…«I’ll do the dishes.»” – Unknown

- “No man is truly married until he understands every word his wife is NOT saying.” – Unknown

- “Marriage is like jogging through a puddle of industrial strength rubber glue. You can work hard and make it through the struggles; however, you usually leave your bobby socks and sneakers behind along the way.” – Unknown

- “When a relationship goes flat, so does a couple of sets of car tires.” – Unknown

- “Men only have two faults….What they do, and what they say!” – Unknown

- “You can’t buy love on eBay.” – Unknown

- “If sex is such a natural phenomenon, how come there are so many books on how to do it?” – Bette Midler

- “A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.” – Brendan Francis

- “Love is an electric blanket with somebody else in control of the switch.” – Cathy Carlyle

- “Marriage is a romance in which the heroine dies in the first chapter.” – Cecilia Egan

- “The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing — and then marry him.” – Cher

- “Men aren’t necessities, they’re luxuries.” – Cher

- “By the time you swear you’re his,
Shivering and sighing,
And he vows his passion is infinite, undying -
Lady, make note of this: One of you is lying.” – Dorothy Parker

- “I’m always looking for meaningful one night stands.” – Dudley Moore

- “Marriage has no guarantees. If that’s what you’re looking for, go live with a car battery.” – Erma Bombeck

- “Romantic love is mental illness. But it’s a pleasurable one. It’s a drug. It distorts reality, and that’s the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.” – Fran Lebowitz

- “It is impossible to love and be wise.” – Francis Bacon

- “Marriage marks the end of many short follies – being one long stupidity.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

- “Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.” – Fulton J. Sheen

- “Men are from Earth. Women are from Earth. Deal with it.” – George Carlin

- “Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one.” – Glenn Beck

- “I was married by a judge.
I should have asked for a jury.” – Groucho Marx

- “To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all.” – Helen Rowland

- “Nobody will ever win the battle of the sexes.
There’s too much fraternizing with the enemy.” – Henry Kissinger

- “When we got married I told my wife “If you leave me, I’m going with you.
And she never did.” – James Fineous McBride

- “Marrying a man is like buying something you’ve been admiring for a long time in a shop window. You may love it when you get it home, but it doesn’t always go with everything else in the house.” – Jean Kerr

- “Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your heart or burn down your house, you can never tell.” – Joan Crawford

- “It’s been so long since I made love,
I can’t even remember who gets tied up.” – Joan Rivers

- “Trust your husband, adore your husband, and get as much as you can in your own name.” – Joan Rivers

- “You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover’s arms can only come later when you’re sure they won’t laugh if you trip.” – Jonathan Carroll

- “No matter how love-sick a woman is, she shouldn’t take the first pill that comes along.” – Joyce Brothers

- “If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.” – Katharine Hepburn

- “True love is like seeing ghosts; we all talk about it, but few of us have ever seen one.” – La Rochefoucauld

- “If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question.” – Lily Tomlin

- “The only people who make love all the time are liars.” – Louis Jordan

- “The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he’s a baby.” – Natalie Wood

- “Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humour in the woman.” – Oscar Wilde

- “Love is a grave mental disease.” – Plato

- “Whenever I date a guy, I think, is this the man that I want my children to spend their weekends with?” – Rita Rudner

- “Forget love, I’d rather fall in chocolate.” – Sandra J. Dykes

- “All marriages are happy. It’s trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.” – Shelley Winters

- “I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.” – Steve Martin

- “A love without indiscretion is no lover at all.” – Thomas Hardy

- “Marriage is a great institution for those who like institutions.” – Tommy Dewar

- “Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.” – W. Somerset Maugham

- “I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.” – Walt Disney

- “Love is the answer, but while you’re waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions.” – Woody Allen

- “The last time I was inside a woman was when I went to the Statue of Liberty.” – Woody Allen

- “Sex without love is an empty experience, but as empty experiences go, it’s one of the best.” – Woody Allen