Music Quotes
“Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.” – Ed Gardner
“Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.” – Robert Fripp
“Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.” – Plato
“Life is one grand, sweet song so start the music.” – Ronald Reagan
“Nothing separates the generations more than music. By the time a child is eight or nine, he has developed a passion for his own music that is even stronger than his passions for procrastination and weird clothes.” – Bill Cosby
“Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.” – Samuel Johnson
“Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.” – Lao Tzu
“I don’t know anything about music. In my line you don’t have to.” – Elvis Presley
“Music is a safe kind of high.” – Jimi Hendrix
“Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.” – Victor Hugo
Dogs Quotes
– “There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.” – Ben Williams
– “The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.” – Samuel Butler, Notebooks, 1912
– “From the dog’s point of view, his master is an elongated and abnormally cunning dog.” – Mabel Louise Robinson
– “Dogs are miracles with paws.” – Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy
– “Man is a dog’s idea of what God should be.” – Holbrook Jackson
– “The dog is the only animal that has seen his god.” – Unknown
– “Dogs’ lives are too short. Their only fault, really.” – Agnes Sligh Turnbull
– “My little dog – a heartbeat at my feet.” – Edith Wharton
– “We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.” – George Eliot
– “I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love. For me they are the role model for being alive.” – Gilda Radner
Quotes about Boring Life
– “A finished person is a boring person.” – Anna Quindlen
– “A lot of people stop short. They don’t actually die but they say, ‘Right I’m old, and I’m going to retire,’ and then they dwindle into nothing. They go off to Florida and become jolly boring.” – Mary Wesley
– “A stair not worn hollow by footsteps is, regarded from its own point of view, only a boring something made of wood.” – Franz Kafka
– “Age shouldn’t affect you. It’s just like the size of your shoes – they don’t determine how you live your life! You’re either marvellous or you’re boring, regardless of your age.” – Steven Morrissey
– “All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.” – Chuck Palahniuk
– “All I really want to be is boring. When people talk about me, I’d like them to say, Carol’s basically a short Bill Bradley. Or, Carol’s kind of like Al Gore in a skirt.” – Carol Moseley Braun
– “American audiences are just the same as any other audiences. Except a bit more boring.” – Sid Vicious
– “An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring… I ought to know.” – Bette Davis
– “An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations.” – Charles de Montesquieu
– “An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details.” – Roald Dahl
– “And some poets are far better read off the page because they’re very bad speakers. I’m thinking of one in particular whom I won’t name, a good poet, and he reads in such a dry, boring way, your eyes start drooping.” – Norman MacCaig
– “And there are certain things, and they are evident, obviously, without being boring about it, but I mean obviously, the two evident and easy ones being Gandhi and Cry Freedom, there are things which I do care about very much and which I would like to stand up and be counted.” – Richard Attenborough
– “Any professional knows that the flute and the piano is a boring combination. All you’ve got to arrive at is a kind of typical gestural crap, right? You might agree, though you wouldn’t call it gestural crap.” – Morton Feldman
– “Any subject can be made interesting, and therefore any subject can be made boring.” – Hilaire Belloc
– “Auto racing is boring except when a car is going at least 172 miles per hour upside down.” – Dave Barry
– “Basically, my life is so boring, it’s embarrassing.” – Hugh Grant
– “Beauty is only skin deep. If you go after someone just because she’s beautiful but don’t have anything to talk about, it’s going to get boring fast. You want to look beyond the surface and see if you can have fun or if you have anything in common with this person.” – Amanda Peet
– “Beauty without expression is boring.” – Waldo Emerson
– “Boring people are a reflection of boring people.” – Douglas Horton
– “Brittany Murphy… who knows if she’s going to be around. Kirsten Dunst, I think she’s really boring. Reese Witherspoon? She can open a movie.” – Jackie Collins
War Quotes
“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” – Albert Einstein
“May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won’t.” – George Patton
“You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.” – Jeannette Rankin
“There never was a good war or a bad peace.” – Benjamin Franklin
“What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless whether the mad destruction is brought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy?” – Mahatma Gandhi
“There is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.” – Dwight Eisenhower
“It is well that war is so terrible – otherwise we would grow too fond of it.” – Robert E. Lee
“War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.” – Thomas Mann
“Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn’t every war fought between men, between brothers?” – Victor Hugo
“My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth.” – George Washington
Success Quotes
“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” – Henry Ford
“Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
“I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.” – Bill Cosby
“Eighty percent of success is showing up.” – Woody Allen
“Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.” – Benjamin Franklin
“You can do anything, but not everything.” – David Allen
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit.” – Aristotle
“The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure.” – Sven Goran Eriksson
“Opportunity is missed by most people, because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.” – Thomas Edison
“Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it.” – Maya Angelou
Sports Quotes
“Sports do not build character. They reveal it.” – Heywood Broun
“Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting.” – George Orwell
“We didn’t lose the game; we just ran out of time.” – Vince Lombardi
“I went to a fight last night and a hockey game broke out.” – Rodney Dangerfield
“Sports serve society by providing vivid examples of excellence.” – George F. Will
“You can’t win unless you learn how to lose.” – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
“Winners never quit and quitters never win.” – Vince Lombardi
“Sport is imposing order on what was chaos.” – Anthony Starr
“The difference between the old ballplayer and the new ballplayer is the jersey. The old ballplayer cared about the name on the front. The new ballplayer cares about the name on the back.” – Steve Garvey
“The breakfast of champions is not cereal, it’s the opposition.” – Nick Seitz
Science Quotes
“Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.” – Bertrand Russell
“Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.” – George Bernard Shaw
“Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.” – Charles Darwin
“There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.” – Hippocrates
“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.” – Isaac Asimov
“The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.” – Sir William Bragg
“New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure.” – Herbert Hoover
“However far modern science and techniques have fallen short of their inherent possibilities, they have taught mankind at least one lesson; nothing is impossible.” – Lewis Mumford
“I am among those who think that science has great beauty. A scientist in his laboratory is not only a technician: he is also a child placed before natural phenomena which impress him like a fairy tale.” – Marie Curie
“Science is simply common sense at its best. That is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.” – Thomas Huxley
Politics Quotes
“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.” – Plato
“Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with it.” – Thomas Jefferson
“I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.” – Charles De Gaulle
“Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it’s important.” – Eugene McCarthy
“Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year and to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.” – Winston Churchill
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” – H.L. Mencken
“I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain.” – John Adams
“Politics have no relation to morals.” – Niccolo Machiavelli
“Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.” – John Kenneth Galbraith
“It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.” – Ronald Reagan
Peace Quotes
“If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there’d be peace.” – John Lennon
“Peace begins with a smile.” – Mother Teresa
“Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.” – Albert Einstein
“Peace is its own reward.” – Mohandas Gandhi
“If you want to make peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.” – Moshe Dayan
“The only alternative to coexistence is codestruction.” – Jawaharlal Nehru
“Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity.” – George Carlin
“Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.” – Dalai Lama
“Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.” – Buddha
“It isn’t enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn’t enough to believe in it. One must work at it.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
