Quotations Quotes - Page 2

You will die but the words you speak or spoke, will live forever.

Speaking one’s mind once is more honorable than quoting a thousand men.

If we were not impressed by job titles, suits, and jargon, we would demand that financial advisors show us their personal bank statements before they tell us what we could or should do with our own money.

An expensive coffin does not decrease the deceased’s chances of going to hell.

If the food that one ate the night before were somehow able to be seen and identified through one’s clothes throughout the day, millions of employees would each fast ten or so days before their payday.

Some people who have been working out regularly for months or even years are still out of shape because the number of cheat days they have in a week exceeds six.

People who are not blessed with the ability to make others laugh compensate for that by saying (or trying to say) things that are profound.

Some people avoid thinking deeply in public, only because they are afraid of coming across as suicidal.

There is so much woman in many a girl and too much boy in many a man.

Do not make yourself a bridge for everyone to cross on you, because there are some people they put nail on their feet to cross on you.

Some of the people who hate me love some of the sentences that I have written, until they get to the name of the person to whom the sentences are attributed.

Most of us cling to life as if our existence were a result of our deed or choice.

Some people will hate you for not loving them.

By drinking, a boy acts like a man. After drinking, many a man acts like a boy.

Most people would instantly start feeling ten years older if someone were to convince them that they were actually born a decade before their birthdate.

The kind of lies that someone tells us gives us an idea of how stupid, knowledgeable, intelligent, or ignorant they are … or they think we are.

Death would not surprise us as often as it does, if we let go of the misbelief that newborns are less mortal than the elderly.

Weakness is weaker when discovered by others.

Unless they are off duty, no matter how wide it is, and even when it is sincere, a smile seems fake if the job description of the person who is smiling includes smiling.

Because he has finally realized that it is it and not him that is loved by the woman he loves, many a man is jealous of his own car, house, wardrobe, or salary.

Most of the very few people who would choose a good heart over riches would eventually use that to either make a lot of money, or attract men or women who are rich.

Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.

Some people hate people who are overconfident, only because their overconfidence reminds them of their underconfidence.

In our country religion is not different from philosophy and religion & philosophy don’t differ from science.

Some social ills are preserved by the common misbelief that things such as ignorance, greed, and stupidity do not have the stamina required to reach old age.

There is nothing morally wrong with buying stolen goods, unless you know that they were stolen.

It does not manifest so that you can believe in it. You believe in it so that it can manifest.

To some believers, being on the pill or using a condom is a nonverbal way of telling God to go to hell.

You can tell a really wonderful quote by the fact that it's attributed to a whole raft of wits.

When selecting a one-night stand, a heterosexual woman who is materialistic is a trillion times more likely to choose a sexually unattractive poor man who seems rich over a sexually attractive rich man who seems poor.

We are sometimes depressed by our failure to convince people who strongly believe that we are that we are definitely not depressed.

Most sane human beings who have managed to attain and retain fame each uses it to dramatically increase their name’s chances of being remembered until Jesus comes back, since their heart cannot do what they consciously or unconsciously lust for, that is to say, for it to beat until Jesus returns.

[T]he wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile.

Unrequited love is a billion times less intolerable than unrequited hate.

The least we each ought to do for someone who treats us like a king or a queen is to treat them like a prince or a princess.

The last time everyone loved or at least liked everyone was when the world had a population of about 4.

We are loved way more by some of the people who have not contacted us in the last twelve or so months than we are loved by some of those who contact us every twelve or so days … or hours.

For their never-ending endeavours to obtain or retain wealth, countries desperately need companies, because they—unlike most human beings—have the means of production, and human beings, because they—unlike all companies—have the means of reproduction.

Life curses some poor people with the love of luxury, while it blesses some with the very same thing.

If you can't make ends meet, meet them in the middle instead

You cannot be truly humble, unless you truly believe that life can and will go on without you.

Some people would regard people who look like they do as ugly if they did not look like them.

Showing off is more ridiculous in instances where the thing that is being shown off was bought on credit.

Loneliness tortures many if not most of the elderly more intensely and more frequently than it torments many if not most of us who will never be or have not yet been pushed or pulled into old age.

Every single person is a fool, insane, a failure, or a bad person to at least ten people.

It is too bad that most Olympians do not train as hard as the Lashkar jihadis whose main aim in life is to kill people.

Many obese people spend a significant amount of their energy on suppressing the urge to tell some of the people who are staring at them that they do not eat as much and as frequently as they seem to.

It’s easy to get caught up in where the world is going and lose sight of the direction we were headed.

The world economy would collapse if a significant number of people were to realize and then act on the realization that it is possible to enjoy many if not most of the things that they enjoy without first having to own them.

We call talking about other people’s personal lives ‘gossip’ only if we aren’t or weren’t part of the conversation.

Some people masturbate to temporarily replace their partners when they are absent, whereas some people do that to temporarily live in the present.

In the absence of a formally agreed, worldwide dictionary definition of 'Quotography' (in 2016), here are my two cents worth: 'Quotography is the art of pairing unique quotations with complementary images in order to express thought-provoking ideas, challenging concepts, profound sentiments'.

[A] quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.")

A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.

A relationship is likely to last way longer, if each partner convinces or has convinced themselves that they do not deserve their partner, even if that is not true.

Adults who use big words in order to seem intelligent are annoying, especially those who are not intelligent.

Greed is a contagious mental illness without which civilization as we know it would not have been possible.

Nothing is as irritating to a shy man as a confident girl.

Many millions of pregnancies—many if not most of which have each led to the birth of at least one child—were each used as nothing but a conspicuous means to a secret end called the evasion of abortion.

Most sane human beings who are over the age of six usually act or react not as per what they genuinely feel or really think but in accordance with the expectations of those around them.