The World’s Greatest Quotes Collection

Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence.

I have often depended on the blindness of strangers.

An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do.

The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased, and not impaired, in value.

— Theodore Roosevelt

Address at the Conference on the Conservation of Natural Resources, 1908

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts.

— Voltaire

Dialogues et entretiens philosophiques," 1717

The greatest mistake is trying to be more agreeable than you can be.

— Walter Bagehot

Physics and Politics, 1869

Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?

Either I've been missing something or nothing has been going on.

I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.

It matters not whether you win or lose; what matters is whether I win or lose.

It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true.

Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.

It is a far, far better thing to have a firm anchor in nonsense than to put out on the troubled sea of thought.

Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.