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.