I recently went through piles of old pieces of paper, and found a list of quotes I’d collected from high school through college. To eliminate one less piece of paper, I’ve decided to hold them here.
“Dripping water on a rock wears a hole” - Barbara Slade
“Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever” - Napolean Bonaparte
“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted” - Albert Einstein
“A life gets halfway around the world before truth has a chance to get its pants on” - Winston Churchill
“In the end, we will remember not the word of our enemies, but the silence of our friends” - MLK
“Whether you think you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right” - Henry Ford
“Do or do not. There is no try” - Yoda
“Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake” - Henry David Thoreau
“The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it” - Oscar Wilde
“A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems” - Paul Erdos
“Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws” - Plato
“The power of accurate observatism is frequently called cynicism by those who don’t have it” - George Bernard Shaw
“Whenever I climb, I am followed by a dog called ‘Ego’” - Nietzshe
“Talent does what it can; genius does what it must” - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
“I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter” - Winston Churchill
“When you do common things in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world” - George Washington Carver
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 way that won’t work” - Thomas Edison
“I’ve had a wonderful time, but this wasn’t it” - Groucho Marx
“We didn’t lose the game; we just ran out of time” - Vince Lombardi
“Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down” - Jimmy Durante
“Many a man’s reputation would not know his character if they met on the street” - Elbert Hubbard
“There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life” - Frank Zappa
“Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome” - Isaac Asimov
“It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one’s doubts” - G.G. Burgin
“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance” - O. Wilde
“Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens” - Jimi Hendrix
“I have often regretted my speech, never my silence” - Xenocrates
“If everything seems under control, you’re just not going fast enough” - Mario Andretti
“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal” - H. Ford
“I’ll sleep when I’m dead” - Warren Zevon
“Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together” - Georg Lichtenberg
“While we are postponing, life speeds by” - Seneca
“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win” - M. Gandhi
“Wit is educated insolence” - Aristotle
“The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows” - A. Onassis
“In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience” - W.B. Prescott
“Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names” - JFK
“The nice thing about egotists is that they don’t talk about other people” - Lucille S. Harper
“You can pretend to be serious, you can’t pretend to be witty” - Sacha Guitry
“There is no sincerer love than the love of food” - George Bernard Shaw
“When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I’ve never tried before” - Mae West
“Happiness is good health and a bad memory” - Ingrid Bergman
“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you” - Winnie the Poo
“It is not enough to say I have been there. A voyage is not just a journey, It’s period carved out of time, when the impossible can happen” - Unknown
“The ultimate adventure is to go beyond the point where one cannot go” - Bruce Chatwin
“We drive into the future using only our rear view mirror” - Marshall Mcluhan
“Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying “I will try again tomorrow’” - Mary Anne Radmacher
“Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye” - Helen Keller
“To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved” - George MacDonald
“The best mirror is an old friend” - Peter Nivio Zarlenga
“Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island…to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing” - Baltasar Gracian
“What would life be like if we had no courage to attempt anything?” - Van Gogh
“We’re never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy” - Walter Anderson
“It is not enough to take steps which may some day lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise” - Goethe
“Don’t be afraid to take a big step if indicated. You can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps” - David Lloyd George
“Wherever you go, go with all your heart” - Confucius
“Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought” - Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi
“Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall” - Oliver Goldsmith
“The will to do, the soul to dare” - Sir Walter Scott
“It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to has tried and succeeded” - Anne Morrow Lindbergh
“Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion” - Hegel
“There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth: not going all the way, and not starting” - Buddha
“My sun sets to rise again” - Robert Browning
“The ghost of the mountain runs silently through the field in his pale white coat” - JoAnn Byrd
“Courage is being scared to death…and saddling up anyway” - John Wayne