Quotes by Famous People 名人語錄
The fundamental cause of trouble in the world is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
- Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems.
- Rene Descartes (1596-1650), Discours de la Methode
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.
- George Burns (1896-1996)
There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
- Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
- Walt Disney (1901-1966)
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
While we are postponing, life speeds by.
- Seneca (3BC - 65AD)
Fill what's empty, empty what's full, and scratch where it itches.
- the Duchess of Windsor, when asked what is the secret of a long and happy life
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
- Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.
- Socrates (470-399 B.C.)
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't
- Erica Jong (1942-)
A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
- Gore Vidal
Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
- Samuel Palmer (1805-80)
The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows.
- Aristotle Onassis (1906-1975)
I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. The always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.
-Ellen DeGeneres
The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.
-Muhammad Ali
That's one step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.
-Neil Armstrong ( stepping on to the Moon, July 31, 1969)
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
Imagination is more important than knowledge.Knowledge is limited.
Imagination encircles the world.
-Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
A faithful friend is the medicine of life.
-The Apocrypha, 6:16
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
-Saint Augustine (354-430)
The best and most beautiful things in the world
cannot be seen, nor touched...but are felt in the heart.
-Helen Keller (1880-1968)
Life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.
-Grandma Moses (1860-1961)
You are the people who are shaping a better world.
One of the secrets of inner peace is the practice of compassion.
-Dalai Lama (1935 -)
We all live with the objective of being happy;
our lives are all different and yet the same.
-Anne Frank (1929-1945)
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it,
no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own
reason and your own common sense.
-Buddha (536 B.C.-483 B.C.)
Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.
-Oprah Winfrey (1954 -)
Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
-Oprah Winfrey (1954 -)
Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done today.
-Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)
As a tale, so is life; not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
-Seneca (4? B.C.-65 A.D.)
Love is doing small things with great love.
-Mother Teresa (1910-1997)
Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go,and it makes the end so easy.
-Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888)
\We may affirm absolutely that nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
-Hegel
The life which is unexamined is not worth living.
-Socrates
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
-M.K. Gandhi
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
-Zig Ziglar
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