Best Quotes Around the World

Nobody knows me.

I’m not interested in possible complexities. I regard song structure as a graph paper.

Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

No one saw the recession coming.

Humanitarianism consists in never sacrificing a human being to a purpose.

In a relationship each person should support the other; they should lift each other up.

For my own part, I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen the representative of our country. He is a bird of bad moral character. He does not get his living honestly.

I was brought up differently than the average American child because the average child is brought up expecting to be happy.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn’t know.

If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end.

I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.

Speed provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.

Why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only food: frequently there must be a beverage.

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

I have never felt that the one thing that I am ‚known for‘ is what I am.

Secretly we’re all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.

Time discovers truth.

I had no idea of the character. But the moment I was dressed, the clothes and the make-up made me feel the person he was. I began to know him, and by the time I walked onto the stage he was fully born.

It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.

Attention to health is life’s greatest hindrance.

The question of whether or not there is a God or truth or reality or whatever you like to call it, can never be answered by books, by priests, philosopher’s or saviours. Nobody and nothing can answer the question but you yourself, and that is why you must know yourself – Immaturity lies only in total ignorance of self.

For the general public or psychos on Facebook, for everyone who’s made one negative comment about me, I’ve probably gotten 250-300 positive comments.

To rule a country of a thousand chariots, there must be reverent attention to business, and sincerity; economy in expenditure, and love for men; and the employment of the people at the proper seasons.

There comes a time when the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge but can never prove how it got there.

Secrecy is the element of all goodness; even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.

Long-lived persons have one or two lines which extend through the whole hand; short-lived persons have two lines not extending through the whole hand.

The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.

For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

With the amount of money I have, it’s difficult raising children the way I was raised.

I don’t want you to apologize for being rich; I want you to acknowledge that in America, we all should have to pay our fair share.

The few who do are the envy of the many who only watch.

Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.

Medical costs are of concern, both in developing and developed countries.

Who can exhaust a man? Who knows a man’s resources?

As you know from school, it’s when you have not prepared for the test that you have the fear of failing. And if you have prepared, even if you fail, you’ve done your best.

The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.

Someday I want to have children and give them all the love I never had.

I was a punk before it got its name. I had that hairstyle and purple lipstick.

Nothing is more noble, nothing more venerable than fidelity. Faithfulness and truth are the most sacred excellences and endowments of the human mind.

He who walks in the eightfold noble path with unswerving determination is sure to reach Nirvana.

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green.

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn’t really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That’s because they were able to connect experiences they’ve had and synthesize new things.

Nothing cannot exist forever.

Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.

We Conservatives hate unemployment.

One thing I hope I’ll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again.

Fatigue is the best pillow.

You should treat a muse like a fairy.

I have hobbies. I like being active. I like to surf a lot, play a little bit of golf.

Nature cannot be tricked or cheated. She will give up to you the object of your struggles only after you have paid her price.

Yes, I’m still going to misbehave!

My life is not to be somebody else’s impact – you know what I mean?

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

I would like to see a future where artists think that they have a right to contemplate things like global warming.

The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.