These are some of my favorite quotes listed in no particular order

Winston Churchill
• The human story does not always unfold like a mathematical calculation on the principle that two and two make four. Sometimes in life they make five or minus three; and sometimes the blackboard topples down in the middle of the sum and leaves the class in disorder and the pedagogue with a black eye.
• However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.
• I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
• I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.
• If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time-a tremendous whack.
• Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.
• The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.
• The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
• There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you.
• You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
• We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

Albert Camus
• Don't walk behind me; I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
• It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.

Miguel de Cervantes
• In order to attain the impossible, one must attempt the absurd.
• Valor lies just halfway between rashness and cowardice.

Anton Chekov
• Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.

John Kenneth Galbraith
• It is not necessary to advertise food to hungry people, fuel to cold people, or houses to the homeless.
• In the choice between changing ones mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof.
• Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.
• One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.
• The process by which banks create money is so simple that the mind is repelled.

John Maynard Keynes
• Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite.
• If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.
• The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that carries any reward.

Plutarch
• The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits.

Thomas Edison
• Results? Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.

Thomas Sowell
• The first rule of economics is that there is an infinite number of desires chasing a finite number of goods, services and resources. The first rule of politics is to ignore the first rule of economics.

George Orwell
• Sloppiness of language both reflects and reinforces the sloppiness of underlying thoughts.

Mark Twain
• Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
• Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.

Douglas Adams
• I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
• In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.
• You live and learn. At any rate, you live.
• Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.