More Inspiring, Insightful Or Funny Quotes From Famous People

by allinspiration.com

“I’m living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.”
– E E Cummings (1894-1962)

“The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense.”
– Edsgar Dijkstra (1930-2002)

“Talent does what it can; genius does what it must.”
– Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)

“Many a man’s reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.”
– Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915)

“The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.”
– Emile Zola (1840-1902)

“Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t”
– Erica Jong (1942-)

“Show me a woman who doesn’t feel guilty and I’ll show you a man.”
– Erica Jong (1942-)

“Many wealthy people are little more than janitors of their possessions.”
– Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)

“I’m all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let’s start with typewriters.”
– Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)

“There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.”
– Frank Zappa

“I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right.”
– Frederick (Ii) The Great

“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)

“We have art to save ourselves from the truth.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

“He who has a ‘why’ to live, can bear with almost any ‘how’.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

“When you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)

“Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.”
– Friedrich Von Schiller (1759-1805)

“It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one’s doubts.”
– G. B. Burgin

“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.”
– Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)

“If a man does his best, what else is there?”
– General George S. Patton (1885-1945)

“Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.”
– Georg Lichtenberg (1742-1799)

“If you can’t get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you’d best teach it to dance.”
– George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

“The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don’t have it.”
– George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

“Don’t stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.”
– George Burns (1896-1996)

“Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.”
– George Eliot (1819-1880)

“When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.”
– George Washington Carver (1864-1943)

“In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is.”
– Gi Berra

“You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.”
– Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936)

“An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered.”
– Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936)

“A clever man commits no minor blunders.”
– Goethe (1749-1832)

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