Miscellaneous

17 quotes.

• The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

  Bertrand Russell

• Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

  Attributed to Albert Einstein

• Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

  Attributed to Sigmund Freud

• Accident is the name of the greatest of all inventors.

  Mark Twain

• An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.

  Niels Bohr

• Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but it takes a slightly better man to acknowledge instantly and without reservation that he is in error.

  General Peyton C. March

• Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.

  Thomas Carlyle

• If you never change your mind, why have one?

  Edward De Bono

• Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

  Benjamin Franklin

• Memory moderates prosperity, decreases adversity, controls youth and delights old age.

  Lactantius Firmianus

• Men are what their mothers made them.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Prevention is better than cure.

  Desiderius Erasmus

• Tact is the art of making guests feel at home when that's really where you wish they were.

  George E. Bergman

• The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep.

  Woody Allen

• The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money.

  Unknown

• We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done.

  Longfellow

• When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.

  Christopher Morley

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