Image by St. Murse via FlickrRashness succeeds often, still more often fails. – Napoleon Bonaparte




If you leap into a well, providence is not bound to fetch you out. – Thomas Fuller



To get profit without risk, experience without danger, and reward without work, is as impossible as it is to live without being born.



The strength of Monaco is the weakness of the world. – H.A. Gibbons



Poker exemplifies the worst aspects of capitalism that have made our country so great. – Walter Matthau



God does not play dice. – Albert Einstein

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secure an independent income and then practice virtue?

Image via WikipediaHe was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody. – Joseph Heller




A man isn’t a man until he has to meet a payroll. – Ivan Shaffer



He found it inconvenient to be poor. – William Cowper



The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost. – Gilbert Keith Chesterton



If I would be a young man again and had to decide how to make my living, I would not try to become a scientist or a scholar or teacher. I would rather choose to be a plumber or a peddler, in the hope to find that modest degree of independence still available under present circumstances. – Albert Einstein



Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee. – English Proverb



First secure an independent income and then practice virtue. – Greek Proverb

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The End of Thought as We Know It

Image by swanksalot via FlickrIf I wished to punish a province, I would have it governed by philosophers. – Frederick the Great




Men are much more apt to agree in what they do than in what they think. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe



Dogma does not mean the absence of thought, but the end of thought. – Gilbert Keith Chesterton



Every man is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day. – Bertrand Russell



Common sense is the collection of prejudices by the age of eighteen. – Albert Einstein



Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing. – Ralph Waldo Emerson



Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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It's Bad for the Mind to Always be part of a Unanimity

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It is well to read everything of something and something of everything. – Lord Brougham

Reading after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. – Albert Einstein

Reading should be in proportion to thinking, and thinking in proportion to reading. – Nathaniel Emmons

Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man. – Benjamin Franklin

We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide. – Marcus Favius Quintilianus

I read for three things: first to know what the world has done during the last twenty-four hours, and is about to do today; second, for the knowledge that I specifically want in my work; and third, for what will bring my mind into a proper mood. – Henry Ward Beecher

Read every day something no one else is reading. Think every day something no one else is thinking. It is bad for the mind to be always a part of a unanimity. – Christopher Morley

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Albert Einstein - A Groper? Say it ain't So!

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That’s always the way when you discover something new; everybody thinks you’re crazy. – Evelyn E. Smith




Many things are not believed because their current explanation is not believed. – Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche



One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. – Andrew Gide



The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it intuition or what you will, and the solution comes to you and you don’t know how or why. – Albert Einstein



No man can produce great things who is not thorougly sincere in dealing with himself. – James Russell Lowell



A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something. – Frank Capra



How do I work? I grope. – Albert Einstein

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A Radical New World of Discontinuity

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Men despise great projects when they do not feel themselves capable of great success. – Marquis de Vauvenargues




One must change one’s tactics every ten years if on wishes to maintain one’s superiority. – Napoleon Bonaparte.



We are entering a very radical world of discontinuities. – Eugene Cafiero



If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. - Albert Einstein



Henry Ford was a thinker; he wasn’t a repeater. – W.J. Cameron



Understanding is the beginning of approving. – Andrew Gide



I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right. – Albert Einstein

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The Most Petrifying of Medusas

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Jesus of Nazareth was the most scientific man that ever trod the globe. He plunged beneath the material surface of things, and found the spiritual cause. – Mary Baker Eddy




Art is I; Science is We. – Claude Bernard



Whenever science makes a discovery, the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it. – Alan Valentine



Anyone who is practically acquainted with scientific work is aware that those who refuse to go beyond fact rarely get as far as fact. – Thomas Henry Huxley



Why does this magnificent applied science which saves work and makes life easier bring us so little happiness? The simple answer runs: Because we have not yet learned to make sensible use of it. – Albert Einstein



Applied Science is a conjuror, whose bottomless hat yeilds impartially the softest of Angora rabbits and the most petrifying of Medusas. – Aldous Leonard Huxley

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In Search of a Great Perhaps

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Research is cheap if you want to stay in business, expensive if you don’t. – anonymous




Enough research will tend to support your theory. – Arthur Bloch



No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong. – Albert Einstein



Basic research is when I’m doing what I don’t know what I’m doing. – Wernher von Braun



I am going in search of a great perhaps. – Francois Rabelais



You can’t make a baby in a month by getting nine women pregnant. – anonymous



The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment. – Celia Green

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It's Hard to put up with the Annoyance of a Good Example

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Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind. – Louis Pasteur

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. – Andrew Carnegie

If self-interest is your goal, you don’t understand the problem. You also don’t know the law: Give to get. – Jeffrey G. Allen

The president of our company says he’s surrounded by yes men. He told me so himself, and I agreed with him. – Anonymous

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

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. – Albert Einstein

All empty souls tend to extreme opinion. – William Butler Yeats

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Pablo Picasso and an Act of Destruction

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Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident. – Mark Twain

Imagination is more important than knowledge. – Albert Einstein

We must either find a way or make one. – attributed to Hannibal

Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction. – Pablo Picasso

To think is to act. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Few people do business well who do nothing else. – Philip Dormer Stanhope

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. – Pablo Picasso

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The Only Way to Cut Governmental Spending

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They say there are only two certainties in life, taxes and death. The only difference is, death doesn’t get worse every time Congress meets. – Spark M. Matsunaga

The only way to cut governmental spending is not to give them the money to spend in the first place. – Howard Jarvis

I’m proud to pay taxes in the United States. The only thing is, I could be just as proud for half the money. – Arthur Godfrey

Tax reform means: “Don’t tax me. Don’t tax thee. Tax that guy behind the tree.” – Russell Long

Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation. – Milton Friedman

Why does a tax increase cost you $200 and a substantial tax cut save you 30 cents? – Peg Bracken

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery. – Calvin Coolidge

The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. – Albert Einstein

The Only Satisfaction Comes from Survival

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Holidays are an expensive trial of strength. The only satisfaction comes from survival. – Jonathan Miller

I’ve been asked if I ever get the DTs; I don’t know; it’s hard to tell where Hollywood ends and the DTs begin. – W.C. Fields

In Hollywood if you don’t have happiness, you send out for it. – Rex Reed

He who has never envied the vegetable has missed the human drama. – E.M. Cioran

It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of men. – Albert Einstein

It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly. – Anatole France

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race. – Don Marquis

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility. – James Thurber

Darkly Comical Quotes

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Possesions, outward success, publicity, luxury – to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for every one, best both for the body and the mind. – Albert Einstein

Part of human nature resents change, loves equilibrium, while another part welcomes novelty, loves the excitement of disequilibrium. There is no formula for the resolution of this tug-of-war, but it is obvious that absolute surrender to either of them invites disaster. – J. Bartlet Brebner

One of the strongest characteristics of genius is the power of lighting its own fire. – John Foster

As you cherish the things most worthwhile in your family life, cherish the things most worthwhile in your company. – Wm B. Given, Jr.

Our best friends and our worst enemies are our thoughts. A thought can do us more good than a doctor or a banker or a faithful friend. It can also do us more harm than a brick. – Dr. Frank Crane

The sense of humor is the oil of life’s engine. Without it, the machinery creaks and groans. No lot is so hard, no aspect of the life is so grim, but it relaxes before a hearty laugh. – G.S. Merrimen

One of the most devastating experiences in human life is disillusionment. Of course there are some illusions the disillusionment of which is healthy. It takes two things to bowl over a tree – a heavy wind outside and decay inside. Much of the moral wreckage is caused by inner cynicism – a disgust with life’s futility, an inability to see sense in it. A person in that mood is an easy mark for the next high wind. – Art Sisson