Tim's favorite quotes

"The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means."
— Oscar Wilde (The Importance of Being Earnest)

tags: fiction

111 people liked it

"Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must."
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

18 people liked it

"If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be. "
— Yogi Berra

tags: humor, philosophical

38 people liked it

"Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying."
— Arthur C. Clarke

17 people liked it

"A witty saying proves nothing. "
— Voltaire

55 people liked it

"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be."
— Douglas Adams

tags: life

3,947 people liked it

"He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career."
— George Bernard Shaw

11 people liked it

"Living is like tearing through a museum. Not until later do you really start absorbing what you saw, thinking about it, looking it up in a book, and remembering - because you can't take it in all at once."
— Audrey Hepburn

103 people liked it

"Chaos is the score upon which reality is written."
— Henry Miller

20 people liked it

"You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'"
— George Bernard Shaw

tags: inspirational

223 people liked it

"Inside of a ring or out, ain't nothing wrong with going down. It's staying down that's wrong."
— Muhammad Ali

13 people liked it

"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."
— Mark Twain

tags: humor

2,102 people liked it

"The only difference between Salvador Dali and a crazy man is that Salvador Dali is not crazy!"
— Salvador Dali

tags: insanity, sanity

15 people liked it

"Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are not as they ought to be."
— Ambrose Bierce (The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary)

tags: cynicism, honesty

21 people liked it

"He who can does - he who cannot, teaches. "
— George Bernard Shaw

7 people liked it

"If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them."
— Isaac Asimov

39 people liked it

"Patriotism is the conviction that your country is superior to all others because you were born in it. "
— George Bernard Shaw

29 people liked it

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe."
— Albert Einstein

tags: einstein, human, humor, infinity, nature, philosophy, science, stupidity, universe

12,610 people liked it

"I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself."
— Aldous Huxley (Point Counter Point)

tags: change

83 people liked it

"Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it."
— Samuel Butler

1 person liked it

"The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug."
— Mark Twain (The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain: A Book of Quotations)

tags: writing

969 people liked it

" I don't think I've mastered anything.I'm still wrestling with the same frustrations, the same issues, the same problems as I always did. That's what life is like. "
— Harrison Ford

2 people liked it

"If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself."
— Albert Einstein

2,035 people liked it

"Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards."
— Aldous Huxley

tags: technology

14 people liked it

"An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex."
— Aldous Huxley

tags: intellectualism

66 people liked it

"Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself."
— Mark Twain

tags: humor, politics

1,575 people liked it

"There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more. "
— Woody Allen

58 people liked it

"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please."
— Mark Twain

tags: facts, humor

358 people liked it

"God is subtle but he is not malicious."
— Albert Einstein

tags: inspirational

82 people liked it

"Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking."
— John Maynard Keynes

13 people liked it

"Never tell a story because it is true: tell it because it is a good story."
— John Pentland Mahaffy

1 person liked it

"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts."
— Albert Einstein

823 people liked it

"In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness."
— George Bernard Shaw

3 people liked it

"When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity."
— Albert Einstein

tags: humor

1,735 people liked it

"The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life."
— Muhammad Ali

5 people liked it

"Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone."
— John Maynard Keynes

tags: politics

3 people liked it

"It is too difficult to think nobly when one thinks only of earning a living."
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

tags: poverty

2 people liked it

"The difference between genius and stupidity is; genius has its limits."
— Albert Einstein

tags: humor

2,263 people liked it

"Nothing travels faster than the speed of light, with the possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own set of laws."
— Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy)

tags: fiction, humor, novelist, science

184 people liked it

"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man."
— Mark Twain

tags: animals, dogs

505 people liked it

"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."
— Aristotle

tags: art

17 people liked it

"A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done."
— Fred Allen

2 people liked it

"Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see."
— Arthur Schopenhauer

tags: inspirational, talent

963 people liked it

"Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed."
— Albert Einstein

57 people liked it

"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
— Mark Twain

tags: greatness

2,081 people liked it

"Opportunity: A favorable occasion for grasping a disappointment."
— Ambrose Bierce

3 people liked it

"All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant."
— Aldous Huxley

tags: life

22 people liked it

"Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim. "
— George Santayana

2 people liked it

"When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained."
— Mark Twain

176 people liked it

"To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing."
— Aristotle

tags: criticism

39 people liked it

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