Here are some interesting quotes that I have come across. Another page of longer quotes is now also available.

  Marriage is a thing of commitment. Interestingly, so is insanity.

 I believe in Chistianity as I believe that the Sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.
- C.S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is.
- Jan L.A. van de Snepscheut

There are people in the world so hungry that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
- Mahatma Ghandi

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
- Albert Einstein

The less men think, the more they talk.
- Montesquieu

Life is, for the most part, either an ennui or an anxiety.
- B. Disraeli.

You will never have perfect men until you have perfect circumstances.
- Plato.

What shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue!
- Edmund Burke.

We can not control the evil tongues of others; but a good life enables us to despise them.
- Cato.

Work is not man’s punishment. It is his reward and his strength, his glory
and his pleasure.
- George Sand.
 

Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has not heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.
- Sir Winston Churchill

 A doctor can bury his mistakes but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

 It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
- George Bernard Shaw

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
- General George Patton

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
- Napoleon Bonaparte

People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard

This book fills a much-needed gap.
- Moses Hadas (1900-1966) in a review

One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell

The covers of this book are too far apart.
- Ambrose Bierce

Reading makes a full man, conversation a ready man, and writing an exact man.
- Bacon.

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.
- Flannery O'Connor

Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
- Voltaire

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
- Abraham Lincoln

Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
- Mark Twain

 I am become death, shatterer of worlds.
- Robert J. Oppenheimer (1904-1967) (citing from the Bhagavadgita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear explosion)

 I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
- Mark Twain

 The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke

 He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.
-Abraham Lincoln

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- Aristotle

Take no notice of what the critics say. No one ever put up a statue to a critic.
- Sibelius

When one word leads to another, it generally ends up in a quarrel, a speech, or a dictionary.
- Edmund Burke

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
- F.Scott Fitzgerald, U.S. novelist

 It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. - Mark Twain

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