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"Imitation is the sincerest form of television."
Fred Allen

"Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master."
Demosthenes

"Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong."
Dr. Thomas Fuller

"So much is a man worth as he esteems himself."
Francois Rabelais

"It is truly one of the most beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."
Galileo Galilei

"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."
Pablo Picasso

"I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best."
Frida Kahlo

"Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke."
Hermann Hesse

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
Napoleon Bonaparte

"I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice."
W. Somerset Maugham

"It's never too late to be who you might have been."
George Eliot

"If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee."
Abraham Lincoln

"The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes."
Frank Lloyd Wright

"Don't simply retire from something; have something to retire to."
Harry Emerson Fosdick

"To see what is in front of one's nose needs a constant struggle."
George Orwell

"Eat to live, don't live to eat."
Benjamin Franklin

"I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones."
John Cage

"Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars."
Hobart Brown

"We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming."
Wernher von Braun

"Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up."
Pablo Picasso

"If we attend continually and promptly to the little that we can do, we shall ere long be surprised to find how little remains that we cannot do."
Samuel Butler

"Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability."
George Bernard Shaw

"Invention is the mother of necessity."
Thorstein Veblen

"History will be kind to me for I intend to write it."
Winston Churchill

"For three days after death hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off."
Johnny Carson

"Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening."
Dorothy Sarnoff

"I know that my unity with all people cannot be destroyed by national boundaries and government orders."
Leo Tolstoy

"Because just as good morals, if they are to be maintained, have need of the laws, so the laws, if they are to be observed, have need of good morals."
Niccol

"I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong."
Bertrand Russell

"Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time."
Bernard Mannes Baruch

"Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others."
Groucho Marx

"Men despise great projects when they do not feel themselves capable of great successes."
Luc de Clarnes Vauvenargues

"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping that it will eat him last."
Winston Churchill

"When a politician changes his position it's sometimes hard to tell whether he has seen the light or felt the heat."
Robert Fuoss

"It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that things are difficult."
Seneca

"In the midst of great joy do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of great anger do not answer anyone's letter."
Chinese Proverb

"The brighter you are, the more you have to learn."
Don Herold

"It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It is the customer who pays the wages."
Henry Ford

"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't."
Anatole France

"The secret of success is constancy to purpose."
Benjamin Franklin

"It's not your blue blood, your pedigree or your college degree. It's what you do with your life that counts."
Millard Fuller

"In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone."
John Kenneth Gabraith

"There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there."
Indira Ghandi

"A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in."
Greek Proverb

"A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"Always forgive your enemies: nothing annoys them so much."
Oscar Wilde

"Fortune favours the brave."
Terence

"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it."
George Bernhard Shaw

"In the end it's the big picture which changes nations and whatever our opponents may say, Australia's changed inexorably for good, for the better."
Paul Keating

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