Awesome Quotes
Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.
- Henry David Thoreau
There is no security on this earth, there is only opportunity.
- General Douglas MacArthur
Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
- Groucho Marx
He that can have patience can have what he will.
- Benjamin Franklin
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
- Abraham Lincoln
It's amazing how much can be accomplished if no one cares who gets the credit.
- John Wooden
We do not inherit the world from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.
- Navajo proverb
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Each possession I own is but a stone around my neck.
- Albert Einstein
It's a fool who looks for logic in the chambers of the human heart.
- Ulysses Everett McGill
The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing.
- Isaac Asimov
Worry is a misuse of imagination.
- Dan Zadra
Stick your head above the crowd and eventually somebody will throw a rock at it.
- David Lee Roth
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Intellectuals say simple things in difficult ways. Artists say difficult things in simple ways.
- Charles Bukowski
A flute without holes, is not a flute. A donut without a hole, is a danish.
- Ty Webb
A good way to enslave a man is to make him obsess over trivia.
- Rousseau
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play.
- Lawrence Pearsall Jacks
The most dangerous thing you will ever do is drive a car.
- unknown
A problem well stated is a problem half solved.
- Charles F. Kettering
A witty saying proves nothing.
- Voltaire
Act as if what you do makes a difference.
- William James
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
- Mark Twain
He who knows how will always work for he who knows why.
- David Lee Roth
There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.
- Thomas Reid
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
- Kierkegaard
Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
- Henry David Thoreau
Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.
- Author Unknown
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler.
- Albert Einstein
For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
- H. L. Mencken
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
- Aristotle
He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.
- Douglas Adams
I do not know with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
- Albert Einstein
I mean what's the use of all that astronomy? There isn't any. It's curiosity that I'm satisfying.
- Richard Feynman
I think our planet's immune system is trying to get rid of us.
- Kurt Vonnegut
If everything seems under control, you just aren't going fast enough.
- Mario Andretti
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
- Mark Twain
In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
In times of change, the learners will inherit the world and the learned will find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.
- Eric Hoffer
It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
- Abraham Lincoln
It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.
- Henry Louis Mencken
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- Aristotle
Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
I've learned so much from my mistakes, I'm thinking of making a few more.
- Unknown
Life in Lubbock, Texas, taught me two things: One is that God loves you and you're going to burn in hell. The other is that sex is the most awful, filthy thing on earth and you should save it for someone you love.
- Butch Hancock
Life is like a shit sandwich. The more bread you have, the less shit you have to eat.
- Etched into a Burger King table, 1975
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
Nothing is as durable as a bad idea.
- H.L. Mencken
One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.
- Henry Miller
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
- Albert Einstein
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
- Aristotle
Prediction is very hard, especially about the future.
- Yogi Berra
Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.
- David McCullough
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
- Albert Einstein
School is just society breaking the spirit of the stupid.
- unknown
Security is mostly superstition. It doesn't exist in nature. Life is a great adventure or it is nothing.
- Helen Keller
Sex at age ninety is like trying to shoot pool with a rope.
- George Burns
Sometimes you get the best light from a burning bridge.
- Don Henley
The 1st thing to decide before you walk into any negotiation is what to do if the other fellow says no.
- Ernest Bevin
The important thing is not to stop questioning.
- Albert Einstein
The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold.
- Aristotle
The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year
- John Foster Dulles
There are 10 kinds of people. Those that understand binary and those that don't.
- Rethin
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure
- Colin Powell
There are only three things women need in life: food, water, and compliments.
- Chris Rock
Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
- Groucho Marx
If you aren't embarrassed by v1.0 you didn't release it early enough
- Andy Brice
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
- Albert Einstein
Why do you wake up in the morning and do things? If you can't answer that, you might as well end it now.
- Peter Baer
Vulnerability is the core of shame, fear, and our struggle for worthiness, but it appears that it's also the birthplace of joy, of creativity, of belonging, of love.
- Brene Brown
We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.
- T.S. Eliot
XML is like violence. If it doesn't solve your problem, you're not using enough of it.
- Anonymous Coward on slashdot.com
We share half our genes with the banana. This is a fact more evident in some of my acquaintances than others.
- Robert May
Whatever you are, be a good one.
- Abraham Lincoln
When given two competing explanations for an event----one involving conspiracy and the other incompetence----always choose incompetence.
- Dr. Richard Cottam
Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
- Confucius
There's only one song, and Adam and Eve wrote it; the rest is a variation on a theme.
- Keith Richards
If you are going to invite the crowd to the party, you might as well ask them to help with the planning and cleanup. The crowd likes to be involved.
- Jeff Howe
About Jonathan
Jonathan Stark is a mobile consultant and web evangelist who believes that wireless computing will transform every aspect of society.
Jonathan is the author of three books on mobile and web development, most notably O'Reilly's Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript which is available in seven languages.
His Jonathan's Card experiment made international headlines by combining mobile payments with social giving to create a "pay it forward" coffee movement at Starbucks locations all over the U.S.
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