Quotes

Note: Most of these are sourced from the QuotationsPage website. I’ve included appropriate links to the specific pages.

Adam Eban

“History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.”

Albert Guinon

“When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong– or absolutely right.”

E. B. White

“Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.”

Edward Abbey

“One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain’t nothin’ can beat teamwork.”

G. K. Chesterton

“The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.”

Jean-Paul Sartre

“Three o’clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.”

Jerome K. Jerome

“It is always the best policy to speak the truth–unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.”

Jules Renard

“Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.”

Laurence J. Peter

“The incompetent with nothing to do can still make a mess of it.”

Louise Beal

“Love thy neighbour as yourself, but choose your neighbourhood.”

Richard Feynman

“I believe that a scientist looking at nonscientific problems is just as dumb as the next guy.”

Russel Baker

“People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out of the pleasure.”

Samuel Butler

“The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.”


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