Archive for the 'Sobering Quotes' Category

09 Nov

“All human situations have their…” Benjamin Franklin

“All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.” Benjamin Franklin
Popularity: 73% [?]

Popularity: 73% [?]

08 Nov

“All that is necessary for…” Edmund Burke

“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” Edmund Burke
Popularity: 78% [?]

Popularity: 78% [?]

26 Oct

“Any fool can criticize, condemn…” Dale Carnegie

“Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.” Dale Carnegie
Popularity: 75% [?]

Popularity: 75% [?]

30 Jul

“Egotism is the anesthetic…” Frank Leahy

“Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity.” Frank Leahy
Popularity: 55% [?]

Popularity: 55% [?]

08 Nov

“Enjoy life. There’s plenty of…” Anonymous

“Enjoy life. There’s plenty of time to be dead.” Anonymous
Popularity: 80% [?]

Popularity: 80% [?]

29 Jun

“Even if you are…” Will Rogers

“Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” Will Rogers
Popularity: 81% [?]

Popularity: 81% [?]

21 Jul

“Even if you’re on the…” Will Rogers

“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” Will Rogers
Popularity: 76% [?]

Popularity: 76% [?]

21 Jul

“Happiness is not achieved…” Aldous Huxley

“Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.” Aldous Huxley
Popularity: 57% [?]

Popularity: 57% [?]

30 Jul

“He had discovered a great…” Mark Twain

“He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.” Mark Twain, in “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”
Popularity: 51% [?]

Popularity: 51% [?]

18 Oct

“I am an old man…” Mark Twain

“I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them have never happened.” Mark Twain
Popularity: 80% [?]

Popularity: 80% [?]

18 Nov

“I have often depended on…” Adrienne E. Gusoff

“I have often depended on the blindness of strangers.” Adrienne E. Gusoff
Popularity: 67% [?]

Popularity: 67% [?]

17 May

“I’m fed up to the…” George McGovern

“I’m fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.” George McGovern
Popularity: 42% [?]

Popularity: 42% [?]

17 May

“If ‘progress’ keeps up…” Frank Lloyd Wright

“If ‘progress’ keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs except for the push-button finger.” Frank Lloyd Wright
Popularity: 36% [?]

Popularity: 36% [?]

30 Jul

“If God did not exist…” Voltaire

“If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him.” Voltaire
Popularity: 50% [?]

Popularity: 50% [?]

08 Oct

“If you want to know…” Dorothy Parker

“If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.” Dorothy Parker
Popularity: 29% [?]

Popularity: 29% [?]

20 Oct

“It is even harder for…” H. L. Mencken

“It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.” H. L. Mencken
Popularity: 65% [?]

Popularity: 65% [?]

09 Nov

“Loving people live in a…” Wayne Dyer

“Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. But it’s the same world. How come?” Wayne Dyer
Popularity: 75% [?]

Popularity: 75% [?]

09 Oct

“Man can climb…” Bernard Shaw

“Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.”   Bernard Shaw
Popularity: 41% [?]

Popularity: 41% [?]

30 Jul

“Man is equally incapable…” Blaise Pascal

“Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed.” Blaise Pascal
Popularity: 51% [?]

Popularity: 51% [?]

26 Sep

“Man is the only animal…” William Hazlitt

“Man is the only animal that laughs and weeps, for he is the only animal that is struck with the difference between what things are and what they ought to be.” William Hazlitt
Popularity: 30% [?]

Popularity: 30% [?]

12 Nov

“Mediocrity knows nothing higher than…” Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

“Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.” Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, (Sherlock Holmes) Valley of Fear
Popularity: 64% [?]

Popularity: 64% [?]

09 Oct

“Men of ill judgement…” Sophocles

“Men of ill judgement often ignore the good that lies within their hands.” Sophocles
Popularity: 39% [?]

Popularity: 39% [?]

09 Nov

“Most human beings have an…” Aldous Huxley

“Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.” Aldous Huxley
Popularity: 64% [?]

Popularity: 64% [?]

25 Jul

“Never look down on…” Jesse Jackson

“Never look down on a person unless you are helping him up.” Jesse Jackson
Popularity: 59% [?]

Popularity: 59% [?]

18 Nov

“No one who cannot rejoice…” Donald Foster

“No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar.” Donald Foster
Popularity: 63% [?]

Popularity: 63% [?]

26 Oct

“Only two things are infinite…” Albert Einstein

“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former.” Albert Einstein
Popularity: 67% [?]

Popularity: 67% [?]

04 Nov

“Real knowledge is to know…” Confucius

“Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.” Confucius
Popularity: 72% [?]

Popularity: 72% [?]

10 Jul

“The future depends on…” Mahatma Gandhi

“The future depends on what we do in the present.” Mahatma Gandhi
Popularity: 82% [?]

Popularity: 82% [?]

17 May

“The man who views…” Muhammad Ali

“The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.” Muhammad Ali
Popularity: 41% [?]

Popularity: 41% [?]

21 Oct

“The mind of a bigot…” Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr

“The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract.” Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr
Popularity: 72% [?]

Popularity: 72% [?]

30 Oct

“The significance of man is…” Carl Becker

“The significance of man is that he is insignificant and is aware of it.” Carl Becker
Popularity: 72% [?]

Popularity: 72% [?]

26 Sep

“The smaller the mind…” Aesop

“The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.” Aesop
Popularity: 25% [?]

Popularity: 25% [?]

26 Sep

“The truth does not change…” Flannery O’Connor

“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.” Flannery O’Connor
Popularity: 21% [?]

Popularity: 21% [?]

21 Oct

“The world is governed more…” Daniel Webster

“The world is governed more by appearances than realities, so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it.” Daniel Webster
Popularity: 62% [?]

Popularity: 62% [?]

30 Jul

“There are many who…” Cyril Connolly

“There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say.” Cyril Connolly
Popularity: 53% [?]

Popularity: 53% [?]

19 Jun

“There are no passengers…” Marshall McLuhan

“There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.” Marshall McLuhan
Popularity: 81% [?]

Popularity: 81% [?]

29 Sep

“There’s so much pollution…” Robert Orben

“There’s so much pollution in the air now that if it weren’t for our lungs there’d be no place to put it all.” Robert Orben
Popularity: 18% [?]

Popularity: 18% [?]

09 Oct

“Thou should’st eat to live…” Cicero

“Thou should’st eat to live; not live to eat.” Cicero
Popularity: 31% [?]

Popularity: 31% [?]

09 Oct

“Time is the coin of…” Carl Sandberg

“Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.” Carl Sandberg
Popularity: 44% [?]

Popularity: 44% [?]

26 Oct

“Trying to determine what is…” Ben Hecht

“Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.” Ben Hecht
Popularity: 66% [?]

Popularity: 66% [?]

10 Jul

“We become what we…” Wayne Dyer

“We become what we think about all day long. The question is, what do you think about?” Wayne Dyer
Popularity: 70% [?]

Popularity: 70% [?]

29 Sep

“We don’t see things…” Anais Nin

“We don’t see things as they are, we see things as we are.” Anais Nin
Popularity: 26% [?]

Popularity: 26% [?]

25 Jul

“What can you say about…” Irv Kupcinet

“What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?” Irv Kupcinet
Popularity: 48% [?]

Popularity: 48% [?]

21 Jul

“When they discover the…” Bernard Bailey

“When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.” Bernard Bailey
Popularity: 51% [?]

Popularity: 51% [?]

21 Nov

“Where we have strong emotions…” Carl Sagan

“Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.” Carl Sagan
Popularity: 66% [?]

Popularity: 66% [?]

18 Oct

“Worry is a thin stream…” Anonymous

“Worry is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained. Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength.” Anonymous
Popularity: 74% [?]

Popularity: 74% [?]

07 Nov

“You must learn from the…” Sam Levenson

“You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.” Sam Levenson
Popularity: 73% [?]

Popularity: 73% [?]