Famous Quotes & Sayings

Scott Adams

Am I getting smart with you? How would you know?

Scott Adams

Tell me what you need, and I'll tell you how to get along without it.

Scott Adams

Management is nature's way of removing idiots from the productive flow.

Scott Adams

There are very few personal problems that cannot be solved through a suitable application of high explosives.

Thomas Jefferson

The whole commerce between master and slave is a perpetual exercise of the most boisterous passions, the most unremitting despotism on the one part, and degrading submissions on the other. Our children see this, and learn to imitate it.

Thomas Jefferson

The only way to win money out of a casino is to own one.

Thomas Jefferson

The possession of facts is knowledge; the use of them is wisdom.

Thomas Jefferson

To take from one because it is thought that his own industry and that of his father's has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association-the guarantee to every one of a free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it.

Thomas Jefferson

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

Thomas Jefferson

Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual.

Thomas Jefferson

It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.

Thomas Jefferson

To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

Robert Holden

You are what you seek.

Robert Holden

People will treat you the way YOU treat you.

Robert Herrick

Happy is the bride that the sun shines on.

Tad Williams

The wisdom of our parents, grandparents, ancestors. In each individual life, it seems, we must first reject that wisdom, then later come to appreciate it.

Ron White

I didn't get where I am today by worryin about how I'd feel tomorrow.

Stephen King

... don't let your elders and supposed betters tell you any different. Sure, you've never been to Paris. No, you never ran with the bulls at Pamploma. Yes, you're a pissant who had no hair in your armpits until three years ago - but so what? If you don't start out too big for your britches, how are you gonna fill 'em when you grow up? Let it rip regardless of what anybody tells you, that's my idea; sit down an smoke that baby.

Stephen Vincent Benet

We thought we were done with these things but we were wrong. We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Stephen Breyer

The best clue to what a person thinks is what he says.

Stephen Colbert

If someone does offer you a job, say 'yes.' You can always quit later. Then at least you'll be one of the unemployed as opposed to one of the never-employed. Nothing looks worse on a resume than nothing.

Thomas Hobbes

Wisdom, properly so called, is nothing else but this: the perfect knowledge of the truth in all matters whatsoever.

Thomas Friedman

Tap into people's dignity and they will do anything for you. Ignore it, and they won't lift a finger.

Woody Allen

Nothing worth knowing can be understood with the mind.

Woody Allen

Whosoever loveth wisdom is righteous, but he that keepeth company with fowl is weird.

William Wordsworth

Wisdom married to immortal verse.

William Wordsworth

Great men have been among us; hands that penn'd And tongues that utter'd wisdom--better none

William Wordsworth

Knowledge and increase of enduring joy From the great Nature that exists in works Of mighty Poets.

William Wordsworth

Wisdom sits with children round her knees.

William J. Clinton

That all depends on what "is" is.

William James

At bottom, the whole concern of religion is with the manner of our acceptance of the universe.

William James

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

William Gilmore Simms

The fool is willing to pay for anything but wisdom. No man buys that of which he supposes himself to have an abundance already.