Short Quotes, chosen by Sharcu

This list is compiled for all quotes under one line on the site. They may be used for "Moto"s on AllPoetry. I hope this is found helpful for some people as I know it is helpful for me.

1. My Karma ran over your dogma.
       Unknown   Best?
2. Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
       Herbert Henry Asquith   Best?
3. People can have the Model T in any colour--so long as it's black.
       Henry Ford   Best?
4. What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
       Unknown   Best?
5. The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.
       George Orwell   Best?
6. A country can be judged by the quality of its proverbs.
       German Proverb   Best?
7. A gentleman is a man who can play the accordion but doesn't.
       Unknown   Best?
8. A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.
       James Feibleman   Best?
9. A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.
       Joseph Stalin   Best?
10. A stitch in time would have confused Einstein.
        Unknown   Best?
11. After all is said and done, a lot more will be said than done.
        Unknown   Best?
12. All general statements are false.
        Unknown   Best?
13. All power corrupts, but we need the electricity.
        Unknown   Best?
14. All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
        Unknown   Best?
15. An effective way to deal with predators is to taste terrible.
        Unknown   Best?
16. Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
        Unknown   Best?
17. Barnum was wrong - it's more like every 30 seconds.
        Unknown   Best?
18. Don't use a big word where a diminutive one will suffice.
        Unknown   Best?
19. Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some abuse the privilege.
        Unknown   Best?
20. Fools rush in where fools have been before.
        Unknown   Best?
21. He who hesitates is a damned fool.
        Mae West   Best?
22. He who hesitates is not only lost, but miles from the next exit.
        Unknown   Best?
23. He's the kind of a guy who lights up a room just by flicking a switch.
        Unknown   Best?
24. History is the short trudge from Adam to atom.
        Leonard Louis Levinson   Best?
25. History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
        Franklin D. Roosevelt   Best?
26. If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
        Albert Einstein   Best?
27. If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
        Abraham Lincoln   Best?
28. Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet.
        Mae West   Best?
29. One man's folly is another man's wife.
        Helen Rowland   Best?
30. Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
        Woody Allen   Best?
31. Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
        Abraham Lincoln   Best?
32. The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
        Albert Einstein   Best?
33. Too much of a good thing is wonderful.
        Mae West   Best?
34. Vote early and vote often.
        Al Capone   Best?
35. Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts.
        Dan Quayle   Best?
36. The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down.
        Flip Wilson   Best?
37. I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.
        Steve Martin   Best?
38. First secure an independent income, then practice virtue.
        Greek Proverb   Best?
39. Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.
        Mae West   Best?
40. Imagination is more important than knowledge...
        Albert Einstein   Best?
41. Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.
        Benjamin Franklin   Best?
42. It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.
        Arthur C. Clarke   Best?
43. In these matters the only certainty is that nothing is certain.
        Pliny the Elder   Best?
44. For four-fifths of our history, our planet was populated by pond scum.
        J. W. Schopf   Best?
45. What luck for rulers that men do not think.
        Adolf Hitler   Best?
46. Biography lends to death a new terror.
        Muriel Strode   Best?
47. Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
        Napoleon Bonaparte   Best?
48. My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
        Christopher Morley   Best?
49. The wages of sin are unreported.
        Unknown   Best?
50. The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.
        Napoleon Bonaparte   Best?
51. Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in.
        Evan Davis   Best?
52. It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
        William Blake   Best?
53. Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
        Aldous Huxley   Best?
54. The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.
        Alice Roosevelt Longworth   Best?
55. It's hard to be nostalgic when you can't remember anything.
        Unknown   Best?
56. What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
        Dave Barry   Best?
57. Everybody lies, but it doesn't matter because nobody listens.
        Nick Diamos   Best?
58. Living in a vacuum sucks.
        Adrienne Gusoff   Best?
59. Fashion is something that goes in one year and out the other.
        Unknown   Best?
60. Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity.
        Nick Diamos   Best?
61. A book of quotations... can never be complete.
        Robert M. Hamilton   Best?
62. Never judge a book by its movie.
        J. W. Eagan   Best?
63. People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
        Sinclair Lewis   Best?
64. God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
        Voltaire   Best?
65. A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men.
        Roald Dahl   Best?
66. If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?
        Vince Lombardi   Best?
67. A cult is a religion with no political power.
        Tom Wolfe   Best?
68. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
        Albert Einstein   Best?
69. History is more or less bunk.
        Henry Ford   Best?
70. Never fight an inanimate object.
        P. J. O'Rourke   Best?
71. Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
        Albert Schweitzer   Best?
72. Simplicity is the peak of civilization.
        Jessie Sampter   Best?
73. Music has charms to soothe the savage breast
        William Congreve   Best?
74. Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error.
        Benjamin Disraeli   Best?
75. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.
        W. Somerset Maugham   Best?
76. We turn not older with years, but newer every day.
        Emily Dickinson   Best?
77. Guilt is a rope that wears thin.
        Ayn Rand   Best?
78. I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.
        William Blake   Best?
79. Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.
        Christina Baldwin   Best?
80. There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth.
        Agnes Repplier   Best?
81. We cannot really love anybody with whom we never laugh.
        Agnes Repplier   Best?
82. You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm.
        Colette   Best?
83. Humility is no substitute for a good personality.
        Fran Leibowitz   Best?
84. What you will do matters. All you need is to do it.
        Judy Grahn   Best?
85. To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.
        Suzanne Gordon   Best?
86. Anger as soon as fed is dead-
        Emily Dickinson   Best?
87. As men, we are all equal in the presence of death.
        Publilius Syrus   Best?
88. To love is to receive a glimpse of heaven.
        Karen Sunde   Best?
89. My object all sublime I shall achieve in time...
        W. S. Gilbert   Best?
90. Pain is inevitable; suffering is optional.
        Unknown   Best?
91. Every big problem was at one time a wee disturbance.
        Unknown   Best?
92. A raise is like a martini: it elevates the spirit, but only temporarily.
        Dan Seligman   Best?
93. There are some defeats more triumphant than victories.
        Michel de Montaigne   Best?
94. Reason should direct and appetite obey.
        Cicero   Best?
95. Victory belongs to the most persevering.
        Napoleon Bonaparte   Best?
96. Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.
        Abraham Lincoln   Best?
97. He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.
        Benjamin Franklin   Best?
98. Hold a true friend with both hands.
        Nigerian Proverb   Best?
99. Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.
        Elizabeth Cady Stanton   Best?
100. The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
         John Locke   Best?
101. Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.
         Emily Dickinson   Best?
102. Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do.
         Voltaire   Best?
103. Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry.
         Henry Ward Beecher   Best?
104. Wear the old coat and buy the new book.
         Austin Phelps   Best?
105. Don't think there are no crocodiles because the water is calm.
         Malayan Proverb   Best?
106. Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
         Chinese Proverb   Best?
107. Never advise anyone to go to war or to marry.
         Spanish Proverb   Best?
108. Never give advice unless asked.
         German Proverb   Best?
109. If you bow at all, bow low.
         Chinese Proverb   Best?
110. Learn as much by writing as by reading.
         Lord Acton   Best?
111. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.
         François de la Rochefoucauld   Best?
112. If your head is wax, don't walk in the sun.
         Benjamin Franklin   Best?
113. Do not speak of repulsive matters at table.
         Amy Vanderbilt   Best?
114. He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
         Michel de Montaigne   Best?
115. To make pleasures pleasant, shorten them.
         Charles Buxton   Best?
116. If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
         William Hazlitt   Best?
117. When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all.
         Theodore Roosevelt   Best?
118. Whatever you are, be a good one.
         Abraham Lincoln   Best?
119. Above all things, reverence yourself.
         Pythagoras   Best?
120. Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
         Confucious   Best?
121. When you appeal to force, there's one thing you must never do - lose.
         Dwight D. Eisenhower   Best?
122. Beware lest in your anxiety to avoid war you obtain a master.
         Demosthenes   Best?
123. It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.
         Confucious   Best?
124. Silence is a text easy to misread.
         A. A. Attanasio   Best?
125. Whenever I hear, 'It can't be done,' I know I'm close to success.
         Michael Flatley   Best?
126. Truth is generally the best vindication against slander.
         Abraham Lincoln   Best?
127. I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
         Abraham Lincoln   Best?
128. Everything you do or say is public relations.
         Unknown   Best?
129. A healthy family is sacred territory.
         Unknown   Best?
130. Between the wish and the thing life lies waiting.
         Unknown   Best?
131. All animals except man know that the ultimate of life is to enjoy it.
         Samuel Butler   Best?
132. Knowing is half the battle.
         GI Joe   Best?
133. Confidence in nonsense is a requirement for the creative process.
         Unknown   Best?
134. No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.
         John Locke   Best?
135. Usability is like oxygen -- you never notice it until it is missing...
         Unknown   Best?
136. Never give advice...
         Unknown   Best?
137. True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
         Socrates   Best?
138. The greatest oak was once a little nut who held its ground...
         Unknown   Best?
139. Seventy percent of success in life is showing up.
         Woody Allen   Best?
140. Practice Random Acts of Kindness and Senseless Beauty.
         Unknown   Best?
141. In dwelling, live close to the ground.
         Tao Te Ching   Best?
142. Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet
         Alexander Pope   Best?
143. If everybody's thinking alike, somebody isn't thinking.
         Unknown   Best?
144. All that we are is the result of what we have thought.
         Buddha   Best?
145. Sleep... Oh! how I loathe those little slices of death....
         Henry Wadsworth Longfellow   Best?
146. No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding.
         Plato   Best?
147. Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
         Greek Proverb   Best?
148. It is the province of knowledge to speak
         Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.   Best?
149. True friendship is seen through the heart not through the eyes.
         Unknown   Best?
150. Life's truest happiness is found in friendships we make along the way.
         Unknown   Best?
151. Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
         Chinese Proverb   Best?
152. Never deprive someone of hope -- it may be all they have.
         Unknown   Best?
153. Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted.
         Henry Wadsworth Longfellow   Best?
154. If a pessimist is always right, is he a realist?
         Unknown   Best?
155. There are people who make things happen,
         Unknown   Best?
156. The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
         Abraham Lincoln   Best?
157. To err is human, to blame the next guy even more so.
         Unknown   Best?
158. A library is an arsenal of liberty.
         Unknown   Best?
159. Courage atrophies from lack of use.
         Unknown   Best?
160. Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.
         Unknown   Best?
161. Step with care and great tact
         Dr. Seuss   Best?
162. From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step.
         Napoleon Bonaparte   Best?
163. If you don't believe in something, you'll fall for anything.
         Unknown   Best?
164. Never mistake motion for action.
         Ernest Hemingway   Best?
165. I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
         Wilson Mizner   Best?
166. Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side.
         François de la Rochefoucauld   Best?
167. Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know.
         Michel de Montaigne   Best?
168. Life being what it is, one dreams of revenge.
         Paul Gauguin   Best?
169. To philosophize is to doubt.
         Michel de Montaigne   Best?
170. To generalize is to be an idiot.
         William Blake   Best?
171. There are no facts, only interpretations.
         Frederich Nietzsche   Best?
172. Life has no rehearsals, only performances.
         Unknown   Best?
173. A man does not have to be an angel in order to be saint.
         Albert Schweitzer   Best?
174. Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice.
         Unknown   Best?
175. No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
         William Blake   Best?
176. Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.
         Ayn Rand   Best?
177. Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
         Confucious   Best?
178. A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.
         Napoleon Bonaparte   Best?
179. The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.
         Flora Whittemore   Best?
180. Smile -- It's the second best thing you can do with your lips.
         Unknown   Best?
181. Since we cannot match it let us take our revenge by abusing it.
         Michel de Montaigne   Best?
182. I used to be Snow White -- but I drifted.
         Mae West   Best?
183. Ability is of little account without opportunity.
         Napoleon Bonaparte   Best?
184. That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.
         Unknown   Best?
185. Success always occurs in private and failure in full public view.
         Unknown   Best?
186. It's easy to stop making mistakes. Just stop having ideas.
         Unknown   Best?
187. I will study and get ready, and perhaps my chance will come.
         Abraham Lincoln   Best?
188. As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
         Socrates   Best?
189. I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.
         Abraham Lincoln   Best?
190. Love is my Sword, Goodness my Armor, And Humor my Shield.
         Unknown   Best?
191. We are drowning in information and starved for knowledge.
         Unknown   Best?
192. It is difficult for sorrow to intrude on a busy life.
         Unknown   Best?
193. If you get up one more time than you fall you will make it through.
         Chinese Proverb   Best?
194. Words without actions are the assassins of idealism.
         Herbert Hoover   Best?
195. Ability is nothing without opportunity.
         Napoleon Bonaparte   Best?
196. Imagination rules the world.
         Napoleon Bonaparte   Best?
197. My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it.
         Abraham Lincoln   Best?
198. The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.
         Albert Einstein   Best?
199. A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.
         General Douglas MacArthur   Best?
200. The only real failure in life is the failure to try.
         Unknown   Best?
201. He who ceases to learn cannot adequately teach.
         Unknown   Best?
202. All good things are wild, and free.
         Henry David Thoreau   Best?
203. Confidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
         François de la Rochefoucauld   Best?
204. Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.
         Albert Einstein   Best?
205. The mind cannot long act the role of the heart.
         François de la Rochefoucauld   Best?
206. Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.
         Henry Ward Beecher   Best?
207. Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
         Isaac Bashevis Singer   Best?
208. The action of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.
         John Locke   Best?
209. Adversity is the diamond dust Heaven polishes its jewels with.
         Leighton   Best?
210. Ambition is not a vice of little people.
         Michel de Montaigne   Best?
211. The faith that stand on authority is not faith.
         Ralph Waldo Emerson   Best?
212. We often do good in order that we may do evil with impunity.
         François de la Rochefoucauld   Best?
213. You don't live in a world all alone. Your brothers are here too.
         Albert Schweitzer   Best?
214. Big thinking precedes great achievement.
         Wilfred Peterson   Best?
215. The great act of faith is when a man decides he is not God.
         Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.   Best?
216. We are twice armed if we fight with faith.
         Plato   Best?
217. Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices.
         Henry Ward Beecher   Best?
218. He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.
         Napoleon Bonaparte   Best?
219. To know is not less than to feel.
         Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.   Best?
220. He who lives without folly is not so wise as he imagines.
         François de la Rochefoucauld   Best?
221. Forgiveness is the key to happiness.
         A Course In Miracles   Best?
222. Forgive thyself little, and others much.
         Leighton   Best?
223. Troubles are often the tools God fashions us for better things.
         Henry Ward Beecher   Best?
224. Practicing the Golden Rule is not a sacrifice; it is an investment.
         Muriel Strode   Best?
225. A page of history is worth a pound of logic.
         Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.   Best?
226. It is useless to close the gates against ideas; they overlap them.
         Klemens Von Metternich   Best?
227. Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools.
         Napoleon Bonaparte   Best?
228. In jealousy there is more of self-love, than of love to another.
         François de la Rochefoucauld   Best?
229. Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
         Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.   Best?
230. To live is to function. That is all there is in living.
         Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.   Best?
231. Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity.
         Ralph Waldo Emerson   Best?
232. Not all those who know their minds know their hearts as well.
         François de la Rochefoucauld   Best?
233. The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
         Henry Ward Beecher   Best?
234. Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.
         Plato   Best?
235. The measure of a man is what he does with power.
         Pittacus   Best?
236. Pride does not wish to owe and vanity does not wish to pay.
         François de la Rochefoucauld   Best?
237. I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
         Michel de Montaigne   Best?
238. Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.
         Ralph Waldo Emerson   Best?
239. Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.
         Henry Ward Beecher   Best?
240. He is richest who is content with the least.
         Socrates   Best?
241. Work out your own salvation. Do not depend on others.
         Buddha   Best?
242. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.
         Albert Einstein   Best?
243. Vanity makes us do more things against inclination than reason.
         François de la Rochefoucauld   Best?
244. Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.
         Orison Swett Marden   Best?
245. When I can't handle events, I let them handle themselves.
         Henry Ford   Best?
246. Solitude shows us what should be; society shows us what we are.
         Robert Cecil   Best?
247. A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.
         Martin H. Fischer   Best?
248. The spirit of the age is filled with the disdain for thinking.
         Albert Schweitzer   Best?
249. A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.
         Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.   Best?
250. Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.
         Dwight D. Eisenhower   Best?
251. My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.
         Henry Ford   Best?
252. Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored
         Aldous Huxley   Best?
253. Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now -- always.
         Albert Schweitzer   Best?
254. Finally, in conclusion, let me say just this.
         Peter Sellers   Best?
255. The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
         George Bernard Shaw   Best?
256. Anywhere is walking distance, if you've got the time.
         Steven Wright   Best?
257. If it is to be, it is up to me.
         Unknown   Best?
258. Money can't buy happiness; it can, however, rent it.
         Unknown   Best?
259. The more you run over a dead cat, the flatter it gets.
         Unknown   Best?
260. There's a pinch of the madman in every great man.
         Unknown   Best?
261. Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many.
         Unknown   Best?
262. Not one shred of evidence supports the notion that life is serious.
         Unknown   Best?
263. He had a big head and a face so ugly it became almost fascinating.
         Ayn Rand   Best?
264. Never trust a husband too far or a bachelor too near.
         Helen Rowland   Best?
265. Keep a diary, and someday it'll keep you.
         Mae West   Best?
266. She tells enough white lies to ice a wedding cake.
         Margot Asquith   Best?
267. I feel like a million tonight --- but one at a time.
         Mae West   Best?
268. When women go wrong, men go right after them.
         Mae West   Best?
269. It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men.
         Mae West   Best?
270. It is better to be looked over than overlooked.
         Mae West   Best?
271. It's hard to be funny when you have to be clean.
         Mae West   Best?
272. Loves conquers all things except poverty and toothache.
         Mae West   Best?
273. I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.
         Mae West   Best?
274. To err is human, but is feels divine.
         Mae West   Best?
275. Virtue has its own reward, but no box office.
         Mae West   Best?
276. Hope is a thing with feathers