General Quotations

• The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
• I don’t know what the future may hold, but I do know who holds the future.
• A false friend is more dangerous than an open enemy.
• A friend in power is a friend lost.
• Gardening is not a rational act
• Freedom is the recognition of necessity.
• Women and elephants never forget an injury.
• Nobody is forgotten when it is convenient to remember him.
• Oblivion is a sort of Annihilation.
• To conquer is not to convince.
• Let there be no violence in religion.
• Force is not a remedy.
• Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
• It is better to be a fool than to be dead.
• If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.
• Never eat anything at one sitting that you cannot lift.
• Food is an important part of a balanced diet.
• Man is what he eats.
• Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign that something is eating us.
• Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are.
• There are only two emotions in a plane : boredom and terror.
• A single flower could impress you with more gorgeousness than one hundred such.
• What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.
• Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
• Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.
• The novel is one bright book of life.
• When I want to read a novel, I write one.
• I feel a feeling which I feel you all feel.
• The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
• Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
• He has no hope who never had a fear.
• We only admit our little faults to persuade others that we have no great ones.
• One had as good be out of the world, as out of fashion.
• Every family has a skeleton in the cupboard.
• Good families are generally worse than any others.
• Fame is a mask that eats the face.
• I do loathe explanations.
• An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field.
• A moment’s insight is sometimes worth a life’s experience.
• Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.
• Experience is the comb that nature gives us when we are bald.
• Sometimes something worth doing is worth overdoing
• The road of excess leads to the palace of Wisdom.
• In examinations the foolish as questions that the wise cannot answer.
• One can only overcome an evil by means of another evil.
• Vice is its own reward.
• Error has never even come close to my mind.
• A real person is one who built a strong foundation with the bricks thrown to him by others
• "After all is said and done, more is said than done."
• The only thing in life achieved without effort is failure.
• The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack.
• Many receive advice; only the wise profit from it.
• Remember, no one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
• Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.
• The secret of happiness is not doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
• Only those who keep trying eventually win.
• Getting something done is an accomplishment; getting something done  right is an achievement.
• Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
• The best time to do something worthwhile is between yesterday and tomorrow.