Quotes 5

"Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together."
G. C. Lichtenberg

"America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar, and use it up in two weeks." 
Anonymous 

"Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought." 
Dwight Morrow 

"Death is a low chemical trick played on everybody except sequoia trees." 
J. J. Furnas 

"Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die." 
Joe Louis 

A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic. 
Joseph Stalin 

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing. 
Maurice Maeterlinck 

"Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it." 
W. Somerset Maugham 

"Death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down. The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you." 
Woody Allen 

"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen." 
Albert Einstein 

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

"Before God we are equally wise, and equally foolish." 
Albert Einstein 

"As soon as man does not take his existence for granted, but beholds it as something unfathomably mysterious, thought begins." 
Albert Schweitzer 

"Discovery conceits in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought." 
Albert Szent-Gyorgi 

"Experience is not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you." 
Aldous Huxley 

"Education: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding." 
Ambrose Bierce

"Academy: A modern school where football is taught." 
Ambrose Bierce 

"Copying extensively from one source is plagiarism; copying extensively from several is research." 
Anonymous 

"Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first and the lessons afterwards." 
Anonymous 

"Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones." 
Anonymous 

"Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago?"
Bernice Fitz-Gibbon 

"Any clod can have the facts; having opinions is an art." 
Charles McCabe 

"Even if you do learn to speak correct English, whom are you going to speak it to?"
Clarence Darrow 

"Experience is what allows us to repeat our mistakes, only with more finesse!" 
Derwood Fincher 

"As long as your going to be thinking anyway, think big."
Donald Trump 

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

"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell, where his influence stops." 
Henry B. Adams 

"Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it."
Jimmy Connors 

"A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students." 
John Ciardi 

"A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on."
John F. Kennedy 

"Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so." 
Lord Chesterfield 

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

"Argue for your limitations and sure enough they're yours." 
Richard Bach 

"A witty saying proves nothing." 
Voltaire 

"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance." 
Will Durant 

"A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something."
Wilson Mizner

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