Quotations by Famous People

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It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
— Abraham Lincoln

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Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein

Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.
- Albert Einstein

To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.
- Albert Einstein

Try to become not a man of success, but try rather to become a man of value.
- Albert Einstein

Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
— Albert Einstein

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If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
- Benjamin Franklin

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
- Bill Cosby

Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.
— Bill Gates

It is not the strongest species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change.
- Charles Darwin

Give so much time to the improvement of yourself that you have no time to criticize others.
- Christian D. Larson

Music is the silence between the notes.
- Claude Debussy

Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.
- Dostoevsky

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
— Douglas Adams

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No one can make you feel inferior without your permission.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why we call it "The Present".
— Eleanor Roosevelt

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I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.
- Galileo

We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.
- George Bernard Shaw

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity.
- George Orwell

A dead thing can go with the stream, but only a living thing can go against it.
- G.K. Chesterton

Experience is a good school, but the fees are high.
- Heinrich Heine

Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder...
- Henry David Thoreau

A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition. Like money, books must be kept in constant circulation. Lend and borrow to the maximum.
- Henry Miller

Formal education will make you a living, self education will make you a fortune.
- Jim Rohn

Sometimes we have to choose between what is right and what is easy - Albus Dumbledore
— J.K. Rowling

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
- John Stuart Mill

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Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are your own fears.
- Kipling

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I thought it was impossible too before I did it.
- Lance Armstrong

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You must be the change you want to see in the world.
- Mahatma Gandhi

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
- Mahatma Gandhi

The only devils in this world are those running around in our own hearts, and that is where all our battles should be fought.
- Mahatma Gandhi

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
- Mahatma Gandhi

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A room without books is like a body without a soul.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
- Mark Twain

Buy land. They've stopped making it.
- Mark Twain

I never let my schooling get in the way of my education.
- Mark Twain

Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth.
— Mark Twain

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
- Mark Twain

Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.
— Mark Twain

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
— Mark Twain

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.
— Mark Twain

"Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow."
— Mark Twain

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Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
— Maya Angelou

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Talent wins games, but team work and intelligence win championships.
- Michael Jordan

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A life not lived for others is not a life.
- Mother Teresa

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Whenever people agree with me, I always think I must be wrong.
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

Anybody can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success.
- Oscar Wilde

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
— Oscar Wilde

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.
— Oscar Wilde

Be Yourself; everyone else is already taken.
— Oscar Wilde

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
- Oscar Wilde

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To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

Success is about turning stones into milestones.
- Sachin Tendulkar

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time.
- Thomas Edison

Advertisements... contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.
- Thomas Jefferson


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An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
- Victor Hugo

Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job.
- Victor Hugo

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It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
- Voltaire

Shun idleness. It is a rust that attaches itself to the most brilliant of metals.
- Voltaire

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Always and never are two words you should always remember never to use.
- Wendell Johnson

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
- William Faulkner

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Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
- William Shakespeare

Cowards die many times before their deaths, The valiant never taste of death but once.
- William Shakespeare

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
— William Shakespeare

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A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty
- Winston Churchill

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When the student is ready, the master appears.
- Buddhist Proverb

Do, or do not. There is no 'try'.
- Yoda ('The Empire Strikes Back')

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Random Quotations

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I used to hate writing assignments, but now I enjoy them.
I realized that the purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure poor reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little practice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!
- Calvin from "Calvin & Hobbes"

Save a little money each month and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have.
- Ernest Haskins

All my life, I always wanted to be somebody. Now I see that I should have been more specific.

On going places: It's hard to make a comeback when you haven't been anywhere.

The good thing about life is that it is never so bad that it can't get worse !

It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.

Last night I lay in bed looking up at the stars in the sky, and I thought to myself, "where the heck is the ceiling?

The main point is to keep the main point as the main point.

Don't tell God how big your problem is. Tell your problem how big your God is.

Some people get so rich they lose all respect for humanity. That's how rich I want to be.

A good rule of thumb is if you've made it to thirty-five and your job still requires you to wear a name tag, you've made a serious vocational error.

I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally.

Promises are meant to be broken, deadlines are made to be extended...ALWAYS!

On Meetings: Tell them how you gonna bore them, bore them, then tell them how you bored them.

The only constant in this world is Change !

Many a false step was made by standing still.

Experience is what you get when you do not get what you want.
- Anonymous

True learning occurs when knowledge is tempered with experience and experience is reinforced with knowledge.
- Anonymous

Lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.
- Anonymous

Every man has something that he can do better than others. Usually, it is reading his own hand-writing.
- Anonymous

Only five per cent people enjoy what they do, rest go to work.
- Anonymous

Meetings are events in which minutes are kept and hours are lost.
- Anonymous

Past is a great place to visit, but I wouldn't want to stay there forever.
- Anonymous

Children are like Project Managers - it's never their fault.
- Anonymous

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
- Anonymous

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
- Anonymous

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Toastmasters Quotations

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The more preparation you have ahead of time, the less perspiration you have during the speech.

I'm not here to speak. I'm here to change the way you think.

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Success Quotations

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If you try hard, your success would be as inevitable as the rising of the sun.

The temptation to quit will be greatest just before you are about to succeed.
- Old Chinese Proverb

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My Own Quotations

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Your achievements are only as good as your dreams.

Joining Toastmasters and avoiding to speak is like getting married and avoiding sex.

Being a Toastmaster and not participating in your club's speech contest is like going to Hawaii and locking yourself in a hotel room.

A Toastmaster who doesn't want to speak is like a Musician who doesn't want to compose music.

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Parenting Quotations

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When you have the first kid, you become a parent. When you get the second kid, you become a referee.

When a child is born, a parent is born.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.
- Jesse Jackson

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Wife - Worries Invited For Ever

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My wife dresses to kill. She also cooks the same way.
- Henny Youngman

My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.
- Rodney Dangerfield

A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong.
- Milton Berle

I bought my wife a new car. She called and said, "There was water in the carburetor." I asked her, "Where's the car?" She replied, "In the lake".
- Henny Youngman

A psychiatrist is a person who will give you expensive answers that your wife will give you for free.
- Anonymous

After a quarrel, a wife said to her husband, "You know, I was a fool when I married you". The husband replied, "Yes, dear, but I was in love and didn't notice".
- Anonymous

When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
- Anonymous

I haven't spoken to my wife in 18 months - I don't like to interrupt her.
- Anonymous

My girlfriend told me I should be more affectionate. So I got myself two girlfriends.
- Anonymous

A man said his credit card was stolen but he decided not to report it since the thief was spending much less than his wife did.
- Anonymous

Man is incomplete until he is married. Then he is finished.
- Anonymous

When a man opens the door of his car for his wife, you can be sure one thing: either the car is new or the wife.

A little boy asked his father, "Daddy, how much does it cost to get married?" The father replied, "I don't know son, I'm still paying."

Young Son: Is it true, Dad, that in some parts of Africa, a Man doesn't know his wife until he marries her? Dad: That happens in every country, son.

Then there was a man who said, "I never knew what real happiness was until I got married; then it was too late.

A man placed an ad in the classifieds: "Wife wanted." The next day he received a hundred letters. They all said the same: "You can have mine."

A woman was telling her friend, "I made my husband a millionaire." "And what was he before you married him?" asked the friend. "A billionaire." she replied,

Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

It's not true that married men live longer than single men. It only seems longer.

Losing a wife can be very hard. In my case, it was almost impossible.

Just think, if it weren't for marriage, men would go through life thinking they had no faults at all.

A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.

A man meets a genie. The genie tells him he can ask for whatever he wants, but his mother-in-law gets double of what he gets. The man thinks for a moment and says, "Okay, give me a million dollars and beat me till I'm half dead."

Men who have pierced ears are better prepared for marriage. They've experienced pain and bought jewelery.

The most effective way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.

I take my wife everywhere, but she keeps finding her way back.

I asked my wife, "Where do you want to go for our anniversary?"
She said, "Somewhere I have never been!"
I told her, "How about the kitchen?"

We always hold hands. If I let go, she shops.

My wife was in beauty saloon for two hours. That was only for the estimate.

She got a mudpack and looked great for two days. Then the mud fell off.

A man was complaining to a friend: "I had it all money, a beautiful house, a big car, the love of a beautiful woman; Then Pow! it was all gone!"
"What happened?" asked the friend.
"My wife found out..."

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Marriage - Life is Beautiful !

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Don't marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper.
- Scottish Proverb

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't, they'd be married too.
- H. L. Mencken

Men have a better time than women; for one thing, they marry later, for another thing, they die earlier.
- H. L. Mencken

The secret of a happy marriage remains a secret.
- Henny Youngman

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Bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others.
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

"Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same."
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

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Marriage is a three ring circus:
-engagement ring
-wedding ring
-suffering

When a newly married couple smiles, everyone knows why?
When a ten-year married couple smiles, everyone wonders why?

Love is blind but marriage is an eye-opener.

Every man should get married some time; after all, happiness is not the only thing in life !!
-Anonymous

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her.
- Agatha Christie

A man without a woman is like a fish without a bicycle.
- Anonymous

Women have a passion for mathematics. They divide their age in half, double the price of their clothes, and always add at least five years to the age of their best friend.

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