Sir Winston Churchill

The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.

Adam Clayton Powell Jr.

A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.

Bertrand Meyer

Correctness is clearly the prime quality. If a system does not do what it is supposed to do, then everything else about it matters little.

Mark Twain

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

Thomas Jones

Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.

W. C. Fields

Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.

E.M.

Love is the illusion that one kiss is different from another.

Bertrand Russell

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

Venkatraman Ramakrishnan

But I, personally, am not important. The fact that I am of Indian origin is even less important. We are all human beings, and our nationality is simply an accident of birth.

Moses Hadas

I have read your book and much like it.

Marcus Brigstocke

To the people who've got iPhones: you just bought one, you didn't invent it!

Emo Phillips

I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.

Jay Leno

Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime. Teach a man to create an artificial shortage of fish and he will eat steak.

Fats Domino

A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don't have a J.O.B.

Peter McWilliams

To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

Bertrand Russell

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.

Hesketh Pearson

Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.

Clare Booth Luce

Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.