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Quotes About Hypocrites and Hypocrisy

Many of us believe that wrongs aren’t wrong if it’s done by nice people like ourselves. – Author Unknown

It’s silly to go on pretending that under the skin we are all brothers. The truth is more likely that under the skin we are all cannibals, assassins, traitors, liars, hypocrites, poltroons. – Henry Miller

That which we call sin in others is experiment for us. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

The hypocrite’s crime is that he bears false witness against himself. What makes it so plausible to assume that hypocrisy is the vice of vices is that integrity can indeed exist under the cover of all other vices except this one. Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite is really rotten to the core. – Hannah Arendt

Famous Movie Quotes about Life

“Every man dies, but not every man really lives.” – Braveheart

“Promise me you’ll survive. That you won’t give up, no matter what happens, no matter how hopeless.” – Titanic

“Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.” – The Godfather II

“Fate! There is such a thing as fate, but it only takes you so far. Then it’s up to you to make it happen.” – Can’t Hardly Wait

“It’s said that the West was built on legends. And that legends are a way of understanding things greater than ourselves. Forces that shape our lives, events that defy explanation. Individuals whose lives soar to the heavens or fall to the earth. This is how legends are born.” – Ghost Rider

“With great power comes great responsibility.” – Spider Man

“To deny our own impulses is to deny the very thing that makes us human.” – The Matrix

“You either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become a villain.” – The Dark Knight

“It doesn’t matter if the guy is perfect or the girl is perfect, as long as they are perfect for each other.” – Good Will Hunting

“The saddest thing in life is wasted talent.” – A Bronx Tale

“The past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it”. – The Lion King

“Life is not the amount of breaths you take. It’s the moments that take your breath away. – Hitch

“Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the judgment that something is more important than fear. The brave may not live forever but the cautious do not live at all.” – The Princess Diaries

“My mama always said life was like a box of chocolates, never know what you’re gonna get.” – Forrest Gump

“Let me tell you something my friend. Hope is a dangerous thing. Hope can drive a man mad.” – The Shawshank Redemption

“You got a dream… You gotta protect it. People can’t do somethin’ themselves, they wanna tell you can’t do it. If you want somethin’, go get it. Period.” – The Pursuit of Happiness

“It was really quite simple, and yet we humans, so much wiser and more sophisticated, have always had trouble figuring out what really counts and what does not. Sometimes it takes a dog with bad breath, worse manners, and pure intentions to help us see. Ask yourself, how many people in the world can truly make you feel rare, pure, and extraordinary?” – Marley and Me

“Get busy livin’, or get busy dyin’.” – The Shawshank Redemption

“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” – Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

20 Humor Quotes

1. If it weren’t for my lawyer, I’d still be in prison. It went a lot faster with two people digging. —Joe Martin

2. Acquaintance, n.: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. —Ambrose Bierce

3. I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me. —Noel Coward

4. The difference between death and taxes is death doesn’t get worse every time Congress meets. —Will Rogers

5. You know you’re getting old when you stop to tie your shoelaces and wonder what else you could do while you’re down there. —George Burns

6. Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana. —Groucho Marx

7. Those are my principles. If you don’t like them I have others.—Groucho Marx

8. Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped. —Sam Levenson

9. Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur. —Unknown Author

10. The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found. —Calvin Trillin

11. The tooth fairy teaches children that they can sell body parts for money. —David Richerby

12. My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don’t really know me. —Garry Shandling

13. I don’t deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don’t deserve that either. —Jack Benny

14. I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific. —Lily Tomlin

15. If God wanted us to fly, He would have given us tickets. —Mel Brooks

16. If I only had a little humility, I’d be perfect. —Ted Turner

17. When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading. —Henny Youngman

18. The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made. —Groucho Marx

19. Hofstadter’s Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law. —Douglas Hofstadter

20. Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger. —Franklin P. Jones

20 Interesting Quotes

1. Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. —Albert Einstein

2. Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. —Susan Erz

3. Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. —Pablo Picasso

4. A genius! For 37 years I’ve practised fourteen hours a day, and now they call me a genius! —Pablo Sarasate

5. There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have. —Don Herold

6. The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot. —Michael Althsuler

7. The little I know I owe to my ignorance. —Orville Mars

8. The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. —George Bernard Shaw

9. In God we trust; all others bring data. —Dr. W. Edwards Deming

10. The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. —Mark Twain

11. Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference. —Mark Twain

12. My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. —Adlai E. Stevenson Jr.

13. Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex and intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple and stupid behavior. —Dee Hock

14. Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. —Albert Einstein

15. In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.—Dwight D. Eisenhower

16. The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. —Niels Bohr

17. Before you go and criticize the younger generation, just remember who raised them. —Unknown Author

18. Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see. —Arthur Schopenhauer

19. It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. —Harry Truman

20. A conclusion is the place where you got tired thinking. —Martin H. Fischer

Top 10 Walt Disney Quotes

walt disney quotes#10 » “It’s kind of fun to do the impossible.”

#9 » “I only hope that we don’t lose sight of one thing – that it was all started by a mouse.”

#8 » “I have been up against tough competition all my life. I wouldn’t know how to get along without it.”

#7 » “Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.”

#6 » “Whenever I go on a ride, I’m always thinking of what’s wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.”

#5 » “You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.”

#4 » “There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.”

#3 » “We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.”

#2 » “All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me… You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.”

#1 » “What ever you do, do it well. Do it so well that when people see you do it they will want to come back and see you do it again and they will want to bring others and show them how well you do what you do.”

Famous Inspirational Quotes

we're all in the same game; just different levels. dealing with the same hell; just different devilsWe’re all in the same game; just different levels. Dealing with the same hell; just different devils.

important to youIf it is important to you, you will find a way. If its not, you will find an excuse.

don't cry over the past, it's goneDon’t cry over the past, it’s gone. Don’t stress about the future, it hasn’t arrived. Live in the present and make it beautiful.

some people dream of success others make it happenSome people dream of success, others make it happen.

Charles Dickens Quotes

Let’s celebrate Charles Dickens’s birthday with some wonderful Charles Dickens Quotes. Enjoy!

A boy’s story is the best that is ever told.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

A person who can’t pay gets another person who can’t pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don’t make either of them able to do a walking-match.

A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.

Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people.

An idea, like a ghost, must be spoken to a little before it will explain itself.

Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he’s well dressed. There ain’t much credit in that.

Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.

Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.

boys storyCharity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

Cows are my passion. What I have ever sighed for has been to retreat to a Swiss farm, and live entirely surrounded by cows – and china.

Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay.

Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.

Do you spell it with a “V” or a “W”?’ inquired the judge. ‘That depends upon the taste and fancy of the speller, my Lord’.

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

Fan the sinking flame of hilarity with the wing of friendship; and pass the rosy wine.

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

Top 10 Mark Twain Quotes Infographic

top 10 mark twain quotes infographic1. It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
2. Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.
3. Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
4. I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
5. I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of wich actually happened.
6. Buy land, they’re not making it anymore.
7. Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
8. Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
9. Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
10. A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain.

Famous Short Quotes

“I am always doing things I can’t do. That is how I get to do them.” –Pablo Picasso

It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich. – Henry Ward Beecher

You can do anything, but not everything. —David Allen

Thinking will not overcome fear but action will. –W. Clement Stone

We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us. – Rabindranth Tagore

You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take. —Wayne Gretzky

He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home. –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Your work is to discover your work and then, with all your heart, to give yourself to it.” – Buddha

In order to be effective truth must penetrate like an arrow – and that is likely to hurt. – Wei Wu Wei

You must be the change you wish to see in the world. —Gandhi

“A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large.” – Henry Ford

“As long as you’re going to be thinking anyway, think big.” – Donald Trump

Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it. –Bill Cosby

“The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

What may be done at any time will be done at no time. – Scottish Proverb

“If you don’t have a competitive advantage, don’t compete.” – Jack Welch

“If your business keeps you so busy that you have no time for anything else, there must be something wrong either with you or with your business.” – William J. H. Boetcker

“If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to meet it!” – Jonathan Winters

A happy family is but an earlier heaven. –John Bowring

“In life, as in football, you won’t go far unless you know where the goalposts are.” – Arnold H. Glasgow

The only thing that saves us from bureaucracy is its inefficiency. – Eugene McCarthy

“Don’t walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don’t walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend.” – Albert Camus

We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. —Aristotle

“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” – Thomas Edison

“You will not do incredible things without an incredible dream.” – John Eliot

Courage is a kind of salvation. –Plato

“I’ve been blessed to find people who are smarter than I am, and they help me to execute the vision I have.” – Russell Simmons

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. —André Gide

It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are. – e.e. cummings

“Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.” – Napoleon Bonaparte