Notable Quotes
“Nothing, no one, is too small to matter. What you do is going to make a difference.”
— Madeline L’Engle
“Always read stuff that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.”
— P.J. O’Rourke
“This would be a great time in the world for some man to come along who knew what he was doing.”
— Will Rogers, The Quotable Will Rogers
“It comes from saying no to 1,000 things to make sure we don’t get on the wrong track or try to do too much.”
— Steve Jobs
" If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda,
it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.”
— Thomas Sowell
“It’s no use saying, ‘We are doing our best.’ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.”
— Winston Churchill
“Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical.”
— Yogi Berra
“History will be kind to me because I intend to write it.”
— Winston Churchill
“Ability will never catch up with the demand for it.”
— Malcom Forbes
“Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered,
and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.”
— Orison Swett Marden 1850-1924,
Founder of SuccessMagazine
“Get a few laughs and do the best you can… Live your life so that whenever you lose, you’re ahead.”
— Will Rogers,
Weekly Articles
“We seem to be moving steadily in the direction of a society where no one is responsible for what he himself did,
but we are all responsible for what somebody else did, either in the present or in the past.”
— Thomas Sowell
“The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.”
— Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries is not “eureka,” but “that’s funny…”
— Isaac Asimov
Most Americans are born drunk, and really require a little wine or beer to sober them.
They have a sort of permanent intoxication from within, a sort of invisible champagne.
Americans do not need to drink to inspire them to do anything, though they do sometimes,
I think, need a little for the deeper and more delicate purpose of teaching them how to do nothing.
– G.K. Chesterton
“The U.S. Constitution is less than a quarter the length of the owner’s manual for a Toyota Camry,
and yet it has managed to keep 300 million of the world’s most unruly,
passionate & energetic people safe, prosperous and free. ”
— P.J. O’Rourke
Altho’ thy teacher act not as he preaches
Yet ne’ertheless, if good, do what he teaches.
–Benjamin Franklin
Poor Richard’s Almanack