I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.
– Thomas A. Edison
Look for the ridiculous in everything and you will find it.
– Jules Renard
Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.
– Jules Renard
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
– Sir Francis Bacon
When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.
– Albert Einstein
Character is what you have left when you’ve lost everything you can lose.
– Evan Esar
A goal is a dream with a deadline.
The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.
– Henry S. Haskins
Efficiency is intelligent laziness.
– Anonymous
The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
– Oscar Wilde
I’m kind of jealous of the life I’m supposedly leading.
– Zach Braff
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
– Jim Horning
If the human mind was simple enough to understand, we’d be too simple to understand it.
– Emerson Pugh
An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.
– Aldous Huxley
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
– Robert Frost
The only paradise is paradise lost.
– Marcel Proust
Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.
– Kurt Vonnegut
Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
– Aldous Huxley
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
– Martin Gardner
You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.
– Dave Barry
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
– Jane Austen
A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of.
– Ogden Nash
Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.
– Anthony Burgess
It’s never just a game when you’re winning.
– George Carlin
Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.
– Dame Edna Everage
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy and Jill a rich widow.
– Evan Esar
What if nothing exists and we’re all in somebody’s dream? Or what’s worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists?
– Woody Allen
You will do foolish things, but do this with enthusiasm.
-Collete
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I–/ I took the one less traveled by, / And that has made all the difference.
– Robert Frost
Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
– Laurence J. Peter
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but those most adaptive to change.
Charles Darwin
You must be the change you want to see in the world. -Gandhi
"It’s better to be a pirate than join the navy."
Steve Jobs
Laughter is the closest distance between two people.
– Victor Borge
Some have been thought brave because they were afraid to run away.
– Thomas Fuller
By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he’s wrong.
– Charles Wadsworth
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
– Willem de Kooning
The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.
– CS Lewis
At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.
– Emo Phillips
Most turkeys taste better the day after; my mother’s tasted better the day before.
– Rita Rudner
Men live in a fantasy world. I know this because I am one, and I actually receive my mail there.
– Scott Adams
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
– Robert Frost
You probably wouldn’t worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.
- Olin Miller
“敢问夫子恶乎长？”曰：“我知言，我善养吾浩然之气。”
“敢问何谓浩然之气？”
曰：“难言也。其为气也，至大至刚，以直养而无害，则塞于天地之间。…”
《孟子·公孙丑上》
A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.
– Oscar Wilde
When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
- Anatole France
It is always the best policy to speak the truth–unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.
– Jerome K. Jerome
Many a man who falls in love with a dimple make the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
– Evan Esar
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
– Sir Francis Bacon
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
– Albert Einstein
Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule.
– Stephen King
You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance.
– Ray Bradbury
Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.
– Laurence J. Peter
The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’
– Ronald Reagan
The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided.
– Casey Stengel
The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men.
– George Eliot
Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success.
– Christopher Lasch
Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn’t work out, you haven’t wasted a whole day.
– Mickey Rooney
