Anonymous Quotes

A closed mind is a good thing to lose.

A closed mouth gathers no feet.

A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good.

A friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.

A good exercise for the heart is to bend down and help another up.

A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice.

A groundless rumor often covers a lot of ground.

A guilty conscience needs no accuser.

A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats.

A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.

A man is known by the company he avoids.

Always imitate the behavior of the winners when you lose.

Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of.

Be alert to give service. What counts a great deal in life is what we do for others.

Better to get up late and be wide awake than to get up early and be asleep all day.

Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. Plan more than you can do, then do it.

By courage I repel adversity. (Adversa Virtute Repello)

Concern should drive us into action and not into depression.

Contentment is not the fulfillment of what you want, but the realization of how much you already have.

Dare to be wise. (Sapere Aude)

Discretion is the better part of valor.

Don't let yourself forget what it's like to be sixteen.

Efficiency is intelligent laziness.

God helps those who help themselves.

Going to church doesn't make you a Christian any more than standing in a garage makes you a car.

Good friends are hard to find, harder to leave, and impossible to forget.

If for a tranquil mind you seek, These things observe with care: Of whom you speak, to whom you speak, And how, and when and where.

If you enjoy the fruit, pluck not the flower.

If you hear that everybody is buying a certain stock, ask who is selling.

If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.

In every fat book there is a thin book trying to get out.

It is light grief that can take counsel.

Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

May no portent of evil be attached to the words I say.

No man deserves punishment for his thoughts.

Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better.

The best defense against the atom bomb is not to be there when it goes off.

There are no thanks for a kindness, which has been delayed.

Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.

Tis the advisor who suffers from bad advice.

To harken to evil conversation is the road to wickedness.. (Pravis Assuescere Sermonibus Est Via Ad Rem Ipsam)

Unity in things necessary, liberty in things doubtful, charity in everything.

Whatever you undertake, act with prudence, and consider the consequences.

When you point your finger at someone, three fingers are pointing back at you.

Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.

You add insult to injury. (Injuriae Addis Contumeliam)

He deserves Paradise who makes his companions laugh.

A little nonsense now and then, is relished by the wisest men.

I am a Marxist--of the Groucho tendency.

God is not dead but alive and well and working on a much less ambitious project.

Alas my love you do me wrong, To cast me of discurteously; And I have loved you so long, Delighting in your company.

Any piece of clothing can be sexy with a quietly passionate woman inside it.

A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.

If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.

To him that you tell your secret you resign your liberty.

A friend is someone who will help you move. A real friend is someone who will help you move a body.

A gentleman is a man who can play the accordion but doesn't.

A stitch in time would have confused Einstein.

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .

Accident, n.: A condition in which presence of mind is good, but absence of body is better.

After all is said and done, a lot more will be said than done.

All power corrupts, but we need the electricity.

All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.

An effective way to deal with predators is to taste terrible.

Anarchy - it's not the law, it's just a good idea.

Antonym, n.: The opposite of the word you're trying to think of.

Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.

Anyone who uses the phrase 'easy as taking candy from a baby' has never tried taking candy from a baby.

Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.

Barnum was wrong - it's more like every 30 seconds.

Cats are intended to teach us that not everything in nature has a function.

Don't use a big word where a diminutive one will suffice.

Don't worry if you're a kleptomaniac, you can always take something for it.

Eat a live toad the first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.

Every big problem was at one time a wee disturbance.

Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege.

Fashion is something that goes in one year and out the other.

Fools rush in where fools have been before.

He who hesitates is not only lost, but miles from the next exit.

He's the kind of a guy who lights up a room just by flicking a switch.

I have not lost my mind - it's backed up on disk somewhere.

I'm not worried about the bullet with my name on it... just the thousands out there marked 'Occupant.'

In a few minutes a computer can make a mistake so great that it would have taken many men many months to equal it.

It's hard to be nostalgic when you can't remember anything.

Most people rust out due to lack of challenge. Few people rust out due to overuse.

My Karma ran over your dogma.

Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional.

People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.

The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television.

The wages of sin are unreported.

Watch your thoughts, they become words. Watch your words, they become actions. Watch your actions, they become habits. Watch your habits, they become your character. Watch your character, it becomes your destiny.

What if this weren't a hypothetical question?

Whoever does not love his work cannot hope that it will please others.

We have staked the whole future of American civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it. We have staked the future of all of our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind of self-government; upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God.

Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

Just once, I wish we would encounter an alien menace that wasn't immune to bullets.

Oh, come on. If you can't laugh at the walking dead, who can you laugh at?

Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity.

He is not deemed to give consent who is under a mistake.

An act against my will is not my act.

I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. . . . Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.

Never lose hope.

Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vaccuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1.5 tons.

Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement.

If you don't find it in the index, look very carefully through the entire catalogue.

J.F.K.--The Man and the Airport

All general statements are false.

Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defence of peace must be constructed.