Quotes

Here you will find some quotes to ponder.

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General

1. "Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." — Albert Einstein
    
2. "Everything should be made as simple as possible. But not simpler." — Albert Einstein
3. "The significant problems we face can never be solved at the level of thinking that created them." — Albert Einstein
4. "If A equals success, then the formula is A=X+Y+Z, where X is work, Y is play, and Z is keep your mouth shut." — Albert Einstein
5. "Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." — Albert Einstein
6. "Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial
   and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved." — Helen Keller
7. "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." — Martin Luther King, Jr.
8. "To the world, you might be one person... but to one person, you just might be the world." — Author Unknown
9. "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." — Abraham Lincoln
10. "The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out." — Thomas B. Macaulay
11. "All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing." — Edmund Burke, 18th-century English political philosopher
12. "When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us." — Helen Keller
13. "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth." ~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
14. "The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." — Martin Luther King, Jr.
15. "We must live together as brothers, or perish together as fools." — Martin Luther King Jr.
16. "Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed." — Booker T. Washington
17. "Diplomacy is the art of saying 'nice doggie' until you can find a rock." — Will Rogers
18. "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." — Abraham Lincoln
19. "The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not." — Thomas Jefferson
20. "It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself." — Thomas Jefferson (Notes on Virginia)
21. "I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it." — Thomas Jefferson
22. "I have only made this longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter." — Blaise Pascal (1623-62) French Scientist, philosopher
23. "He who laughs, lasts." — Author Unknown
24. "You can measure a man by the amount of opposition it takes to discourage him." — Author Unknown
25. "Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." — Mark Twain (1835-1910)
26. "Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant." — Robert Louis Stevenson
27. "Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart." — Eleanor Roosevelt
28. "Success requires three bones — a wishbone, a backbone, and a funny bone." — Kobi Yamada
29. "There are no shortcuts to any place worth going." - Anonymous
30. "Success comes from wisdom, wisdom comes from experience, experience comes from really screwing up!" - Author Unknown
31. "Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one." — Thomas Jefferson
32. "No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session" — Mark Twain
33. "Grandmas are moms with lots of frosting." — Author Unknown
34. "A grandmother is a babysitter who watches the kids instead of the television." — Author Unknown

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Humorous

1. "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, but teach him how to fish and he'll sit out in a boat and drink beer." — Author Unknown
2. "Every dark cloud has a silver lining, but lightning kills hundreds of people each year who try to find it." — Author Unknown
3. "Build a man a fire and he's warm for a night. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life." — Author Unknown
4. "Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them, and you have their shoes. — Frieda Norris
5. "If you water it and it dies, it's a plant. If you pull it out and it grows back, it's a weed." — Gallagher
6. "That which does not kill me only postpones the inevitable." — Author Unknown
7. "I once felt sorry for myself because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet, so I asked him, Since you're not using your shoes, could I have them?" — Author Unknown
8. "Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are driving taxi cabs and cutting hair." — George Burns (1896-1996)

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Inspirational/Religious

1. "Millions of Americans seek guidance every day in prayer to the Almighty God. I am one of them." — George W. Bush (President of the United States of America)
2. "I shall always be convinced that a watch proves a watchmaker, and that a universe proves a God." - Voltaire
3. "Pray as if everything depended on God, and work as if everything depended upon man." — Francis J. Spellman
4. "All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
5. "Our heavenly Father never takes anything from his children unless He means to give them something better." — George Muller
6. "The enemies of truth are always awfully nice." — Christopher Muller
7. "To the WORLD, YOU may be ONE person. But to ONE person, YOU may be the WORLD..." — Author Unknown
8. "Friendship is like two clocks keeping the same time." — Author Unknown
9. "The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it." — William James
10. "Some people say you don't have to go to church to be a Christian. You don't have to go to the grocery store to eat but it sure does help." - Pastor Lewis R. Shelton
11. "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use." — Galileo Galilei (1564-1642)
12. "God has created the past; God has created the future; God has also created today and given it to us as a "present." — Daniel Rozenberg
13. "Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged" — President Ronald Reagan (1911-2005)
14. "God does not ask your ability or your inability. He asks only your availability." — Mary Kay Ashe
15. "If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere." — Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887)

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Patriotic

Note: These are American patriotic quotes. This is in no way intended to put down any other nation regardless of where you live. I am a proud American and I love my country and that is why these are included.

1. "With our eyes fixed on the future, but recognizing the realities of today... we will achieve our destiny to be as a shining city on a hill for all mankind to see" — President Ronald Reagan (1978)
2. "Good citizenship and defending democracy means living up to the ideals and values that make this country great." — President Ronald Reagan (1986)
3. "My fellow citizens, we now move forward, with confidence and faith. Our nation is strong and steadfast. The cause we serve is right, because it is the cause of all mankind. The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable, and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come, we can know that His purposes are just and true. May God bless the United States of America." — President George W. Bush (State of the Union Address in 2004)
4. "Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bosoms. Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere." — Abraham Lincoln, 1858 Speech in Illinois
5. "We stand for a culture of life in which every person counts, and every person matters. We will not stand for the treatment of any life as a commodity to be experimented upon, or exploited, or cloned." — President George W. Bush (2/23/04)
6. "I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant." —  1929-1968, American Leader, Nobel Prize, King Jr., Martin Luther
7. "There is something magnificent in having a country to love." — James Russell Lowell
8. "Our citizenship in the United States is our national character. Our citizenship in any particular state is only our local distinction. By the latter we are known at home, by the former to the world. Our great title is AMERICANS." — Thomas Paine
9. "Throughout its history, America has given hope, comfort and inspiration to freedom’s cause in all lands. The reservoir of good will and respect for America was not built up by American arms or intrigue; it was built upon our deep dedication to the cause of human liberty and welfare." Adlai Stevenson
10. "I shall know but one country. The ends I aim at shall be my country’s, my God’s and Truth’s. I was born an American; I live an American; I shall die an American." — Daniel Webster
11. "These acts shattered steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve." — President George W. Bush responding to the World Trade Center bombing
12. "Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world." — Woodrow Wilson
13. "Patriotism is easy to understand in America; it means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country." — Calvin Coolidge
14. "We are the standard-bearers in the only really authentic revolution, the democratic revolution against tyrannies. Our strength is not to be measured by our military capacity alone, by our industry, or by our technology. We will be remembered, not for the power of our weapons, but for the power of our compassion, our dedication to human welfare." — Hubert Humphrey
15. "Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty." — John F. Kennedy
16. "Driven from every other corner of the earth, freedom of thought and the right of private judgment in matters of conscience direct their course to this happy country as their last asylum." — Samuel Adams
17. "What constitutes an American? Not color nor race nor religion. Not the pedigree of his family nor the place of his birth. Not the coincidence of his citizenship. An American is one who loves justice and believes in the dignity of man. An American is one who will fight for his freedom and that of his neighbor. An American is one who will sacrifice property, ease, and security in order that he and his children may retain the rights of all free men." — Harold Ickes "I Am an American" speech
18. "The whole history of our continent is a history of the imagination. Men imagined land beyond the sea and found it. Men imagined the forests, the great plains, the rivers, the mountains – and found these plains and mountains. They came, as the great explorers crossed the Atlantic, because of the imagination of their minds – because they imagined a better, a more beautiful, a freer, happier world." — Archibald Macleish
19. "America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses." — Woodrow Wilson
20. "God had a divine purpose in placing this land between two great oceans to be found by those who had a special love of freedom and courage." — Ronald Reagan
21. "One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, One Nation, evermore!"— Oliver Wendell Holmes
22. "The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly." — John F. Kennedy
23. "We are a nation of many nationalities, many races, many religions – bound together by a single unity, the unity of freedom and equality." — Franklin D. Roosevelt
24. "America - The place where miracles not only happen, but where they happen all the time." — Thomas Wolfe
25. "The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself." — Benjamin Franklin
26. "Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal." — Abraham Lincoln The Gettysburg Address, 1863
27. "With all its faults, the American political system is the freest and most democratic in the world." — Eldridge Cleaver
28. "Sure I wave the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave? Sure I love my country with all her faults. I'm not ashamed of that, never have been, never will be." — John Wayne

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Yogi Berra Quotes

Yogi Berra's is known for being one of the most quoted figures in the sports world. He is credited with the deceptively simplistic observation, "It ain't over till it's over." Here is a collection of some of his better known quotes along with a few that are not so well known.

1. "This is like deja vu all over again."
2. "You can observe a lot just by watching."
3. "He must have made that before he died." -- Referring to a Steve McQueen movie.
4. "I want to thank you for making this day necessary." -- On Yogi Berra Appreciation Day in St. Louis in 1947.
5. "I'd find the fellow who lost it, and, if he was poor, I'd return it." -- When asked what he would do if he found a million dollars.
6. "Think! How the hell are you gonna think and hit at the same time?"
7. "You've got to be very careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there."
8. "I knew I was going to take the wrong train, so I left early."
9. "If you don't know where you are going, you will wind up somewhere else."
10. "If you can't imitate him, don't copy him."
11. "You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six."
12. "Baseball is 90% mental -- the other half is physical."
13. "It was impossible to get a conversation going; everybody was talking too much."
14. "Slump? I ain't in no slump. I just ain't hitting."
15. "A nickel isn't worth a dime today."
16. "Nobody goes there anymore; it's too crowded."
17. "It gets late early out there." -- Referring to the bad sun conditions in left field at the stadium.
18. Once, Yogi's wife Carmen asked, "Yogi, you are from St. Louis, we live in New Jersey, and you played ball in New York. If you go before I do, where would you like me to have you buried?" Yogi replied, "Surprise me."
19. "Do you mean now?" -- When asked for the time.
20. "I take a two hour nap, from one o'clock to four."
21. "If you come to a fork in the road, take it."
22. "You give 100 percent in the first half of the game, and if that isn't enough in the second half you give what's left."
23. "90% of the putts that are short don't go in."
24. "I made a wrong mistake."
25. "Texas has a lot of electrical votes." -- During an election campaign, after George Bush stated that Texas was important to the election.
26. "Thanks, you don't look so hot yourself." -- After being told he looked cool.
27. "I always thought that record would stand until it was broken."
28. "Yeah, but we're making great time!" -- In reply to "Hey Yogi, I think we're lost."
29. "If the fans don't come out to the ball park, you can't stop them."
30. "It's never happened in the World Series competition, and it still hasn't."
31. "How long have you known me, Jack? And you still don't know how to spell my name." -- Upon receiving a check from Jack Buck made out to "bearer."
32. "I'd say he's done more than that." -- When asked if first baseman Don Mattingly had exceeded expectations for the current season.
33. "The other teams could make trouble for us if they win."
34. "He can run anytime he wants. I'm giving him the red light." -- On the acquisition of fleet Ricky Henderson.
35. "I never blame myself when I'm not hitting. I just blame the bat, and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn't my fault that I'm not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?"
36. "It ain't the heat; it's the humility."
37. "The towels were so thick there I could hardly close my suitcase."
38. "You should always go to other people's funerals; otherwise, they won't come to yours."
39. "I didn't really say everything I said."
40. "Never answer an anonymous letter"
41. "He hits from both sides of the plate. He's amphibious."
42. "I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question."
43. "I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did."
44. "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is."
45. "Half the lies they tell about me aren't true."
46. "Why buy good luggage? You only use it when you travel."

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Famous Last Words from Short-Sighted People

1. "Computers in the future may weigh no more than 15 tons." — Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of Science, 1949
2. "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." — Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943
3. "I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won't last out the year." — The editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall, 1957
4. "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." — Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977
5. "This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us," — Western Union internal memo, 1876.
6. "The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?" — David Sarnoff's associates in response to his urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920s.
7. "The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a 'C,' the idea must be feasible," — A Yale University management professor in response to Fred Smith's paper proposing reliable overnight delivery service. (Smith went on to found Federal Express Corp.)
8. "I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not Gary Cooper," — Gary Cooper on his decision not to take the leading role in "Gone With The Wind."
9. "A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research reports say America likes crispy cookies, not soft and chewy cookies like you make." — Response to Debbie Fields' idea of starting her company, Mrs. Fields' Cookies.
10. "We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out." — Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962.
11. "Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau." — Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1929.
12. "Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value." — Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre.
13. "Everything that can be invented has been invented." — Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899.
14. "Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction". — Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, 1872

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Last revised: April 16, 2008