Mar 13, 2011 -- posted by Navin
Quotable quotes
I have this habit of collecting quotes that I find interesting here are 50 randomly selected quotes:
- It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer. —Albert Einstein
- Eighty percent of success is showing up. —Woody Allen
- I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education. —Wilson Mizner
- The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance; it is the illusion of knowledge —Daniel J. Boorstin
- The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. —William Arthur Ward
- If you don’t make mistakes, you’re not working on hard enough problems. And that’s a big mistake. —Frank Wilczek
- You can never get enough of what you don’t really need. —Eric Hoffer
- Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. —Albert Einstein
- Do not confuse motion and progress. A rocking horse keeps moving but does not make any progress. —Alfred A. Montapert
- I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. —Bill Cosby
- Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week. —Spanish Proverb
- Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. —Oscar Wilde
- There is a great difference between worry and concern. A worried person sees a problem, and a concerned person solves a problem. -Harold Stephens
- It is easier to fight for one’s principles than to live up to them. —Alfred Adler
- I hear: I forget / I see: I remember / I do: I understand —Chinese Proverb
- Discipline is just choosing between what you want now and what you want most.
- The very best thing you can do for the whole world is to make the most of yourself. —Wallace Wattles
- Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment. —Barry LePatner
- When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion. —Abraham Lincoln
- Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm. —Winston Churchill
- If it weren’t for my lawyer, I’d still be in prison. It went a lot faster with two people digging. —Joe Martin
- Acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. —Ambrose Bierce
- I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me. —Noel Coward
- The difference between death and taxes is death doesn’t get worse every time Congress meets. —Will Rogers
- You know you’re getting old when you stop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you’re down there. —George Burns
- Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana. —Groucho Marx
- Those are my principles. If you don’t like them I have others. —Groucho Marx
- Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped. —Sam Levenson
- Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur. (Whatever is said in Latin sounds profound.)
- The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found. —Calvin Trillin
- The tooth fairy teaches children that they can sell body parts for money. —David Richerby
- My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don’t really know me. —Garry Shandling
- I don’t deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don’t deserve that either. —Jack Benny
- I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific. —Lily Tomlin
- If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets. —Mel Brooks
- If I only had a little humility, I’d be perfect. —Ted Turner
- When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading. —Henny Youngman
- The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made. —Groucho Marx
- Hofstadter’s Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law. —Douglas Hofstadter
- Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger. —Franklin P. Jones
- Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. —Albert Einstein
- Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. —Susan Erz
- Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. —Pablo Picasso
- A genius! For 37 years I’ve practised fourteen hours a day, and now they call me a genius! —Pablo Sarasate
- There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have. —Don Herold
- The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot. —Michael Althsuler
- The little I know I owe to my ignorance. —Orville Mars
- The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. —George Bernard Shaw
- The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. —Mark Twain
- Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference. —Mark Twain
Leave a list of your favorite quotes……

Woody Allen and Oscar Wilde are my personal faves. The rest of the collections are great though. Worth Sharing. thanks!