Manuel > Manuel's Quotes

“You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?”
― George Bernard Shaw, Back to Methuselah

“There is a tide in the affairs of men
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
On such a full sea are we now afloat;
And we must take the current when it serves,
Or lose our ventures.”
― William Shakespeare , Julius Caesar

“Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.”
― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

“You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.”
― Malcolm Forbes

“Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.”
― Woody Allen

“The guy with the biggest stomach will be the first to take off his shirt at a baseball game.”
― Glenn Dickey

“To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.”
― Soren Kierkegaard

“If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss Bank.”
― Woody Allen

“Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies.”
― Honore de Balzac

“Hypocrisy is a fashionable vice, and all fashionable vices pass for virtue.”
― Moliere

“The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.”
― Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

“Every man's memory is his private literature.”
― Aldous Huxley

“No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld

“There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.”
― Benjamin Disraeli

“Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
― Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
― Andre Gide, Autumn Leaves

“I'm completely in favor of the
separation of Church and State.
... These two institutions screw us up enough
on their own, so both of them together is
certain death.”
― George Carlin