© selected from 1001 Quotations To Enlighten, Entertain, and Inspire, by Robert Arp
One man’s meat is another man’s poison. - Lucretius
Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes. - John Donne
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. - Walt Disney
Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin. - Mother Teresa
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love. - Laozi
The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it. - Anthony Burgess
You can never plan the future by the past. - Edmund Burke
Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present to live better in the future. - William Wordsworth
That sign of old age: extolling the past at the expense of the present. - Sydney Smith
I realise that patriotism is not enough. I must have no bitterness or hatred towards any one. - Edith Cavell
In the moment of crisis, the wise build bridges and the foolish build dams. - Nigerian Proverb
Man differs more from man, than man from beast. - John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
Birth is suffering, aging is suffering, illness is suffering, death is suffering. - Buddha
If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try again. - Thomas H. Palmer
Remember that time is money. - Benjamin Franklin
Business? It’s quite simple. It’s other people’s money. - Alexandre Dumas the Younger
A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. - Henry Ford
Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable. - Simone de Beauvioir
There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else. - Sam Walton
Man is a tool-using animal … Without tool he is nothing, with tool he is all. - Thomas Carlyle
Technology is useful servant but a dangerous master. - Christian Lous Lange
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. - Arthur C. Clarke
The important thing to remember is that the Internet is not a new form of life. It is just a new activity. - Esther Dyson
Chance favors only the prepared mind. - Louis Pasteur
Art is I; science is we. - Claude Bernard
Basic research is what I am doing when I don’t know what I am doing. - Wernher von Braun
God used beautiful mathematics in creating the world. - Paul Dirac
The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win, but to take part. - Pierre Frédy, Baron de Coubertin
One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it. - Knute Rockne
Dream as if you’ll live forever. Live as if you’ll die today. - James Dean
Everything will pass, and the world will perish, but the Ninth Symphony will remain. - Mikhail Bakunin
Continue to play Bach your way and I, his way. - Wanda Landowska