Brevity is the soul of wit

Einstein was not only a scientific genius, but a creative originator of good quotes.

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and sings it back to you when you have forgotten how it goes.

—unknown

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.

—Abraham Lincoln

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

—Blaise Pascal

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

—Edith Wharton

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.

—Mark Twain

If the aborigine drafted an IQ test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it.

—Stanley Marion Garn, anthropologist

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

—Lao Tzu

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

—Robert Maynard Hutchins

Fictionary (fik' shun air ee) n. The word reference that engineers and software developers use when they write documentation.

—Kay Robart

Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.

—Samuel Butler

Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you.

—William Arthur Ward

So I accept these awards on behalf of the cake bakers and all of those other women who can do some things quite as important, if not more important, than flying, as well as in the name of women flying today.

—Amelia Earhart

Seven blunders of the world that lead to violence: wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, politics without principle.

—Mahatma Gandhi

The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.

—James D. Nicoll

Strange that creatures without backbones have the hardest shells.

—Kahlil Gibran

With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good idea.

—anon

Wit is educated insolence.

—Aristotle

Science is built with facts as a house is with stones—but a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.

—Jules Henry Poincare

Love is moral even without legal marriage, but marriage is immoral without love

—Ellen Key

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

—Joseph Joubert

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

—Mahatma Gandhi

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

—Mark Twain

Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.

—Jesse Louis Jackson

Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake.

—Viktor Frankl, author, neurologist and psychiatrist, Holocaust survivor (1905-1997)

The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is the reason He makes so many of them.

—Abraham Lincoln

I saw a sign the other day that said "Blasting Zone Ahead". Shouldn't it have read, "Road Closed"?

—Brian Regan

All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers... Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born.

—Francois Fenelon

Some authors should get paid for the quantity not written.

—Anonymous

Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won't come in.

—Alan Alda

It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.

—Samuel Johnson

It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

—Bertrand Russell

Plain women know more about men than beautiful ones do. But beautiful women don’t need to know about men. It’s the men who have to know about beautiful women.

—Katherine Hepburn

You have to dance like no one is watching, and love like it’s never going to hurt.

—Susanna Clark and Richard Leigh from the song "COME FOR THE HEART" (published and copyrighted 1988 Sugar Hill Records)

People say true friends must always hold hands, but true friends don’t need to hold hands because they know the other hand will always be there.

—Unknown

Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind. “Pooh!” he whispered. “Yes, Piglet?” “Nothing,” said Piglet, taking Pooh’s paw. “I just wanted to be sure of you.”

—A. A. Milne

Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, and a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

—Carl Zwanzig

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind.

—Albert Einstein

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not, “Eureka! (I found it!)”, but, “That’s funny...”

—Isaac Asimov

Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.

—Sign hanging in Einstein’s office at Princeton

We have to remember that what we observe is not nature in itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning.

—Werner Heisenberg

Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory.

—Betty Smith

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

—Aristotle

An educational system isn’t worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living but doesn’t teach them how to make a life.

—Unknown

Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.

—Arnold Edinborough

Laughter is the closest distance between two people.

—Victor Borge

I knew I’d been living in Berkeley too long when I saw a sign that said “Free firewood” and my first thought was who was Firewood and what did he do?

—John Berger

Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn’t the work he’s supposed to be doing at that moment.

—Robert Benchley

Our lives improve only when we take chances—and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.

—Walter Anderson

Don’t be afraid to go out on a limb. That’s where the fruit is.

—H. Jackson Browne, “P.S. I Love You”

Time spent laughing is time spent with the gods.

—Japanese proverb

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

—Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.

—W. Somerset Maugham

By necessity, by proclivity,—and by delight, we all quote.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

The 1983 handgun slump taught the industry that it could not take sales for granted and forced its members to rethink how they marketed their product. To improve sales they took two tacks.
The firearms industry decided to:

Expand the market beyond white males with the new target markets being women and youth. A niche marketing plan was undertaken similar to that employed by cigarette and alcohol manufacturers.
Redesign and expand its product line.

—Cease Fire: A Comprehensive Strategy to Reduce Firearms Violence, written by Josh Sugarmann and Kristen Rand (as found in Geoffrey Canada’s FistStickKnifeGun)