Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
--Simeon Strunsky

People like you and I, though mortal of course like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live...[We] never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born.
--Albert Einstein in a letter to Otto Juliusburger

If the minimum wasn't acceptable it wouldn't be called the minimum.
--George Muncaster

You go to school, you get a master's degree, you study Shakespeare and you wind up being famous for plastic glasses.
--Sally Jessy Raphael

A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas-a place where history comes to life.
--Norman Cousins (1915-90)

In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long known - that the essence of money is in its absolute worthlessness.
--Norman O. Brown

It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary be rich
--Alan Alda

All is ephemeral -- fame and the famous as well.
-- Marcus Aurelius Antonius (121-180)

I love being famous. It validates that I have something to say.
-- Rich Lewis

I studied the lives of great men and famous women, and I found that the men and women who got to the top were those who did the jobs they had in hand, with everything they had of energy and enthusiasm.
--Henry Truman

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
--Hesketh Pearson

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation
--Oscar Wilde

An aphorism is never exactly true. It is either a half-truth or a truth and a half.
--Karl Kraus

The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
--Robert Benchley

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
--Sir Winston Churchill

Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said.
--Unknown

A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a witty person, but a pebble in the hands of a fool.
--Colette

The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
--W. Somerset Maugham

Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
--Fred Allen

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotations.
--Isaac Disraeli

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.
--Groucho Marx

I often quote myself, it adds spice to my conversation.
--George Bernard Shaw

After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
--Henry Louis Mencken, on Shakespeare

Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author's book?
--Philip G. Hamerton

It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I just beat people up
--Muhammad Ali

It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believe in myself
--Muhammad Ali

A lot of people have gone farther than they thought they could because someone else thought they could.
--Zig Ziglar

I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you're trying to accomplish and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it
--Lee Iacocca

Medicine makes people ill, mathematics makes them sad, theology makes them sinful.
--Martin Luther (1483-1546)

A lot of beautiful people are stupid. There's a tremendous amount of idiots who look so good. It's frightening.
--Dean Cain

Some [people] succeed by what they know; some by what they do; and a few by what they are.
--Elbert Hubbard

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
--Mother Teresa

I wish that being famous helped prevent me from being constipated.
--Marvin Gaye

There are some beautiful people here tonight. I should've worn tighter pants.
--Randy Newman Songwriter, at the Billboard Music Awards.

This is boring! Now I know what people went through when...my Bronco was going up the freeway.
--O. J. Simpson on the televised journey of the Ryder truck taking presidential election ballots to Tallahassee.

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
--Warren Buffett

I can trust my friends. These people force me to examine, encourage me to grow.
--Cher

Religious factions will go on imposing their will on others unless the decent people connected to them recognize that religion has no place in public policy. They must learn to make their views known without trying to make their views the only alternative.
--Barry Goldwater

All along this path I tread, my heart betrays my weary head, with nothing but my love to save, from the cradle to the grave...
--Eric Clapton

USA Today has come out with a new survey: Apparently three out of four people make up 75 percent of the population.
--David Letterman