Clichés / Quotes / Sayings

Imagination is more important than knowledge.     -     Albert Einstein

Imagination rules the world.     -     Napoleon Bonaparte

Everything you can imagine is real.     -     Pablo Picasso

Confidence is not trying the knob after you've locked the door.     -     William McFee

All you need in life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.     -     Mark Twain

Eighty percent of success is showing up.     -     Woody Allen

To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.     -     Benjamin Franklin

Things may come to those who wait...but only the things left by those who hustle.     -     Abraham Lincoln

If you wish to be a success in the world, promise everything, deliver nothing.     -     Napoleon Bonaparte

Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.     -     Mick Jagger

I'm teaching you to realize life as it is. I'm teaching you to be hard and ruthless - like I am. That's the secret of strength - and the secret of success.     -     Agatha Christie

Ignorance is the night of the mind, a night without moon or star.     -     Confucius

We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.     -     Benjamin Franklin

Our knowledge can only be finite, while our ignorance must necessarily be infinite.     -     Karl Popper

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.     -     William Shakespeare

The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.     -     Wilhelm Stekel

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.     -     Pablo Picasso

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.     -     Steve Jobs

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.     -     Napoleon Bonaparte

You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.     -     Pablo Picasso

Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.     -     Confucius

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.     -     Thomas Alva Edison

There is nothing impossible to him who will try.     -     King Alexander The Great

When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.     -     Confucius

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.     -     Mark Twain

If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.     -     Benjamin Franklin

Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.     -     Karl Popper

I don't believe in science. Science is an intellectual dead end. You know, it's a lot of little guys in tweed suits cutting up frogs on foundation grants.     -     Woody Allen

Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.     -     Karl Popper

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.     -     Pablo Picasso

What 's done is done.     -     William Shakespeare

There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality; and then there are those who turn one into the other.     -     Douglas H. Everett

Men stumble over truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.     -     Winston Churchill

Most writers regard truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use.     -     Mark Twain

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.     -     Oscar Wilde

You never find yourself until you face the truth.     -     Pearl Bailey

Art is a lie that makes us realize truth.     -     Pablo Picasso

If anything can go wrong, it will - at the worst possible time.     -     Murphy's Law

By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. ... Another man's, I mean.     -     Mark Twain

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.     -     Benjamin Franklin

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.     -     Mark Twain

I don't know how religious you are, but if there is a greater power, He either has a very unusual sense of humour, or way too much time on his hands.     -     Steve Smith (Red Green)

The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.     -     James Branch Cabell

I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them.     -     Pablo Picasso

A picture is worth a thousand words.     -     Napoleon Bonaparte

Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.     -     Madonna

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.     -     Abraham Lincoln

Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.     -     Benjamin Franklin

It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood.     -     Karl Popper

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.     -     Abraham Lincoln

To stand in silence when they should be protesting makes cowards out of men.     -     Abraham Lincoln

Sod Off!     -     old English saying

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.     -     Napoleon Bonaparte

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.     -     Napoleon Bonaparte

And now, do you Bluto promise that you will wash the windows, paint the house, mop the floors, obey your spouse, do the laundry, feed the cat, mow the lawn, and stuff like that, give up smoking, never chew, pay your bills before they're due, never argue, never roam, spend each single night at home?     -     Popeye

Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.     -     J. B. Priestley

Home is where you hang your hat.     -     Lord John Whorfin or Dr. Emilio Lizardo

Home is where you hang your head.     -     Groucho Marx

Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be.     -     Abraham Lincoln

Nothing left to do but smile, smile, smile.     -     Robert Hunter

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.     -     George Burns

I'd rather have fun than pretending to be bored.     -     Chris Bulger

I like this place and willingly could waste my time in it.     -     William Shakespeare

I just want to be where I'm not, at the time that I'm where I am.     -     Woody Allen

It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.     -     Benjamin Franklin

Somebody was using the pencil.     -     Dorothy Parker, excuse for missing a deadline

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.     -     Napoleon Bonaparte

To do nothing is also a good remedy.     -     Hippocrates

Many an attack of depression is nothing but the expression of regret at having to be virtuous.     -     Wilhelm Stekel

I am dying from the treatment of too many physicians.     -     King Alexander The Great

It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens.     -     Woody Allen