Galileo Galilei
● “I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.”
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
● “The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don’t have it.”
● Do not do unto others as you would they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
● He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
● If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.
● Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.
● Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
● The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
● Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
●My opportunities were still there, nay, they multiplied tenfold; but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail, and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience.
● A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.
● The test of a man or woman’s breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
● Self-denial is not a virtue, it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.
● You don’t learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.
● The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.
● It is easy – terribly easy – to shake a man’s faith in himself. To take advantage of that, to break a man’s spirit is devil’s work.
● In Heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
● As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
● You can lose a man like that by your own death, but not by his.
● England and America are two countries separated by the same language.
● An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
● Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
● Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
● Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.
● There is no love sincerer than the love of food.
George Washington Carver (1864-1943)
● “When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.”
George Eliot (1819-1880)
● “Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.”
Georg Lichtenberg (1742-1799)
● “Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.”
General George Patton (1885-1945)
● “The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.”
George-Louis De Buffon
● Genius is nothing but a great aptitude for patience.
George Jean Nathan
● Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.
General George S. Patton
● The Object Of War Is Not To Die For Your Country But To Make The Other Bastard Die For His.
● Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
● Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.
● Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.
Gary Player
● The harder you work, the luckier you get.
George Sand
● There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.
George Santayana
● A man’s feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.
Gilda Radner
● I wanted a perfect ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious Ambiguity.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936)
● “You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.” |