April 2017 Quotations (63)

"I think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability."
~~ Oscar Wilde [1854-1900]

"The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live."
~~ philosopher Ayn Rand [1905-82]

"The truth is that the insurance and pharmaceutical companies in this country are bribing the United States Congress."
~~ Sen. Bernie Sanders

"Lord, the money we do spend on Government and it's not one bit better than the government we got for one-third the money twenty years ago."
~~ Will Rogers [1879-1935]

“Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.”
~~ James Thurber [1894-1961]

“The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.”
~~ Blaise Pascal [1623-62]

“Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.”
~~ Sir Winston Churchill [1874-1965]

“Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.”
~~ Jorge Luis Borges [1899-1986]

“Joy shared is twice the joy. Sorrow shared is half the sorrow.”
~~ Swedish proverb

“Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.”
~~ Bertrand Russell [1872-1970]

“If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fully in the present.”
~~ Roy T. Bennett

“You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy. So let them go, let go of them. I tie no weights to my ankles.”
~~ C. JoyBell C.

"For 240 years it’s been a terrible mistake to bet against America, and now is no time to start."
~~ American capitalist Warren Buffett

“I must learn to be content with being happier than I deserve.”
~~ Jane Austen [1775-1817]

"When the other is lacking in fidelity in any and all of its forms, loyalty is foolish and as such speaks to vice, not virtue."
~~ Prof. Elly Pirocacos of Greece & Canada

"Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that."
~~ Norman Vincent Peale [1898-1993]

"All that is worth cherishing begins in the heart, not the head."
~~ Prof. Suzanne Chapin of Boston University

“Without property rights, no other rights are possible.”
~~ philosopher Ayn Rand [1905-82]

"Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions."
~~ Albert Einstein [1879-1955]

"The mind can make substance, and people planets of its own with beings brighter than have been, and give a breath to forms which can outlive all flesh."
~~ George Gordon, Lord Byron [1788-1824]

"Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope."
~~ Dr. Seuss {Theodor Geisel 1904-91}

"Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one."
~~ Terry Pratchett [1948-2015]

“I have too many fantasies to be a housewife . . . I guess I am a fantasy.”
~~ Marilyn Monroe [1926-62]

"All good stories deserve embellishment."
~~ character Gandalf, as written by J.R.R. Tolkien [1892-1973], in "The Hobbit" [1937]

“Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.”
~~ Jean-Paul Sartre [1905-80]

"Remember, no matter where you go, there you are."
~~ Chinese philosopher Confucius [551-479 B.C.E.]

"It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to your enemies, but a great deal more to stand up to your friends."
~~ character Professor Albus Dumbledore, as written by J.K. Rowling

"You got to do something they don't got'em in the world."
~~ Simon Rodia [1879-1965], builder of the Watts Towers, 1921-1954

"If I had my life to live over, I would start barefoot earlier in the spring and stay that way later in the fall."
~~ Nadine Stair {based on a 1953 poem by Don Herold [1889-1966]}

"I don't believe in the kind of magic in my books. But I do believe something very magical can happen when you read a good book."
~~ J.K. Rowling

“The reason I talk to myself is because I’m the only one whose answers I accept.”
~~ George Carlin [1937-2008]

“Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.”
~~ Aldous Huxley [1894-1963]

“The whole world is a series of miracles . . . but we’re so used to them we call them ordinary things.”
~~ Hans Christian Anderson [1805-75]

“We accept and welcome . . . as conditions to which we must accommodate ourselves, great inequality of environment; the concentration of business, industrial and commercial, in the hands of a few; and the law of competition between these, as being not only beneficial, but essential for the future progress of the race.”
~~ Andrew Carnegie [1835-1919]

“There’s a certain part of the contented majority who love anybody who is worth a billion dollars.”
~~ John Kenneth Galbraith [1908-2006]

“Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.”
~~ showman Phineas Taylor 'P.T.' Barnum [1810-91]

"My favorite literary heroine is Jo March. It is hard to overstate what she meant to a small, plain girl called Jo, who had a hot temper and a burning ambition to be a writer."
~~ J.K. Rowling

“Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart.”
~~ Charles Dickens [1812-70]

"I have always felt that if you know in advance what you are doing, then you are not going to do it."
~~ architect Frank Gehry

"You cannot change things by fighting existing reality: To change things you must build a new model to make the existing model obsolete."
~~ R. Buckminster Fuller [1895-1983]

"At the end of the day, cinema is an art form being, at the same time, a circus, a voyage to our souls, a mirage, and an illusion of life itself."
~~ Federico Fellini [1920-93]

“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.”
~~ Margaret Mead [1901-78]

"The difference between coffee and your opinion is that I asked for coffee."
~~ anonymous

"The logic of facts is always superior to any other logic."
~~ Sri Aurobindo [1872-1950]

"Don't run after this world thinking this is paradise when Adam was sent here as a punishment."
~~ Islamic proverb

"My friends tell me [that] I have an intimacy problem. But they don't really know me."
~~ Gary Shandling [ 1949-2016]

"Don't let the negatives of life control you. Rise above them. Use them as your stepping stones to go higher than you ever dreamed possible."
~~ cosmetics tycoon Mary Kay Ash [1918-2001]

"Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again."
~~ C.S. Lewis [1898-1963]

"You know that you're a book geek when you still get upset thinking about the Library of Alexandria."
~~ internet meme (with other variations)

"Talent is God-given. Be humble. Fame is Man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful."
~~ U.C.L.A. coach John R. Wooden [1910-2010]

"The secret of all great undertakings is hard work and self-reliance."
~~ meat-packing baron Gustavus Franklin Swift [1839-1903]

"Welders are always in heat" ~~ bumper sticker

"If you think organic food is expensive, have you priced cancer lately?"
~~ Joel Salatin

"I used to jog, but the ice cubes kept falling out of my glass."
~~ David Lee Roth

"Everyone should know how to program a computer, because it teaches you how to think."
~~ Steve Jobs [1955-2011], co-founder of Apple, Inc. [est. 1975]

"My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter and became Picasso."
~~ Pablo Picasso [1881-1973]

"Quality means do it right when no one is looking."
~~ Henry Ford [1863-1947]

"I always start writing with a clean sheet of paper and a dirty mind."
~~ Patrick Dennis [1921-76], creator of "Auntie Mame" [1955]

"It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell."
~~ Gautama Buddha [5th Century BCE]

"Love and work, work and love . . . that's all there is."
~~ Sigmund Freud [1856-1939]

"Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing."
~~ Robert Benchley [1889-1945]

"If you could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people."
~~ TV character Gregory House, MD

"Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success."
~~ Thomas Alva Edison [1847-1931]

{each set of posted quotations are then posted at the Working Minds website, alphabetical by author}