Famous Quotes
“Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think” - Niels Bohr
“Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity”- Charles Mingus
“Act in the valley so that you need not fear those who stand on the hill”- Danish proverb
“The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made”- Groucho Marx
“Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open” - Sir James Dewar, Scientist
“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing; it was here first” - Mark Twain
“Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example” - Mark Twain
“Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises” - Samuel Butler
“If you can’t describe what you are doing as a process, you don’t know what you’re doing” - W. Edwards Deming
“We think in generalities, but we live in details” - Alfred North Whitehead
“Do the right thing. It will gratify some people and astonish the rest” - Mark Twain
“It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best” - W. Edwards Deming
“If all pulled in one direction, the world would keel over” - Yiddish proverb
“There is only one success: to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims upon it”- Christopher Darlington Morley
“Do just once what others say you can’t do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again” - James R. Cook
“If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing” - Anatole France
“When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other” - Eric Hoffer
“The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust” - Samuel Butler
“When all think alike, no one is thinking very much” - Walter Lippmann
“You must believe in free will; there is no choice” - Isaac Bashevis Singer
“This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read” - Winston Churchill
“I haven’t failed, I’ve found 10,000 ways that don’t work” - Thomas Edison
“Useless laws weaken necessary laws” - Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu
“All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience” - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Half the work that is done in this world is to make things appear what they are not” - Elias Root Beadle
“Work expands to fill the time available for its completion” C. Northcote Parkinson
“Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new” - Henry David Thoreau
“It’s kind of fun to do the impossible” - Walt Disney
“We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove” - Mark Twain
“Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect” - Mark Twain
“It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong” - Voltaire
“The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch somebody else doing it wrong, without comment” - T. H. White
“Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact” - George Eliot
“Of those who say nothing, few are silent” - Thomas Neill
“What orators lack in depth they make up for in length” - Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu
“Lots of times you have to pretend to join a parade in which you’re not really interested in order to get where you’re going” - Christopher Darlington Morley
“The secret of being tiresome is to tell everything” - Voltaire
“The fellow who thinks he knows it all is especially annoying to those of us who do” - Harold Coffin
“Too bad all the people who know how to run this country are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair” - George Burns
“Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd” - Voltaire
“The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him” - Stanislaw Jerszy Lec
“To be absolutely certain about something, one must know everything or nothing about it.” - Olin Miller
“Deal with the faults of others as gently as with your own” - Chinese proverb
“I will not condemn you for what you did yesterday, if you do it right today” - Sheldon S. Maye
“We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions” - Isaac Bashevis Singer
“As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do” - Andrew Carnegie
“A memorandum isn’t written to inform the receiver, but to protect the writer” - Dean Acheson
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it” - George Santayana
“A classic is a book which people praise and don’t read” - Mark Twain
“It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech” - Mark Twain
“A jury consists of twelve people who determine which client has the better lawyer” - Robert Frost
“Those are my principles. If you don’t like them I have others” - Groucho Marx
“I can’t understand why people are frightened by new ideas. I’m frightened of old ones” - John Cage
“History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon” - Napoleon Bonaparte
“The nice thing about standards is, there are so many to choose from”
“Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality” - Jules de Gaultier
Read More:



A autora deste blog é especialista em teorias de bolso e há quem diga que algumas são dignas de um livro de capa rija.