My ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book. - Friedrich Nietzsche

I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognizably wiser than oneself. - Marlene Dietrich 

I know you heard what you thought I said, but what I said isn’t what I meant. - Richard Nixon

Your children need your presence more than your presents. - Jesse Jackson

Don't judge a man until you've walked a mile in his moccasins. - Native American Proverb

If God

is good

half the Bible

is libel.

- Michael R. Burch

Brevity is the soul of wit. - William Shakespeare

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it. - Oscar Wilde

Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained. - William Blake

There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable. - Mark Twain

I can resist everything except temptation. - Oscar Wilde

To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it. - Michel de Montaigne

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul. - Mark Twain

Must I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up. - M. K. Gandhi

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. - Albert Einstein

Public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. - Henry David Thoreau

There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages. - Mark Twain

If there is one thing that we do worse than any other nation, it is try and manage somebody else's affairs. - Will Rogers

It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours. - Harry S. Truman

Discontent is the first necessity of progress. - Thomas Alva Edison

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies. - Groucho Marx

If you think you're too small to make an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito. - Edith Sitwell

History is a set of lies agreed upon. - Napoleon Bonaparte 

In peace sons bury their fathers, but in war fathers bury their sons. - Croesus

Sex and sleep alone make me conscious that I am mortal. - Alexander the Great 

If we don’t want to define ourselves by things as superficial as our appearances, we’re stuck with the revolting alternative of being judged by our actions. - Ellen DeGeneres

A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that dispenses roses. - Chinese Proverb

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. - Winston Churchill

The significance of a man is not in what he attains but in what he longs to attain. - Kahlil Gibran

Religion is the opiate of the people. - Karl Marx

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. - Napoleon Bonaparte 

Make crime pay. Become a lawyer. - Will Rogers

A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient. - Alexander the Great 

I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up. - Napoleon Bonaparte

I like your Christ, but not Christianity. You Christians are so unlike your Christ. - M.K. Gandhi

How can the Bible be "infallible" when from Genesis to Revelation slavery is commanded and condoned, but never condemned? - Michael R. Burch

The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war. - General Douglas McArthur 

In war, truth is the first casualty. - Aeschylus

The clatter of arms drowns out the voice of law. - Michel de Montaigne

When women are depressed they either eat or go shopping. Men invade another country. - Elayne Boosler

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or in the holy name of liberty or democracy? - M.K. Gandhi

Anyone who thinks, must think of the next war as they would of suicide. - Eleanor Roosevelt

If you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best. - Marilyn Monroe

I love power ... as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies. - Napoleon Bonaparte

Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you. - Mae West

The problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time. - Robin Williams

Women may be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake entire relationships. - Sharon Stone

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues. - Napoleon Bonaparte

It's not the men in your life that count, it's the life in your men. - Mae West

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination. - Nelson Mandela

Yesterday I was clever, that is why I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, that is why I am changing myself. - Sri Chinmoy

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it or who said it, even if I said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and common sense. - Buddha

What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. Let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly. - Voltaire

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me. - Napoleon Bonaparte 

What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course! - Marilyn Monroe

Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up. - Jesse Jackson

Religion is like a pair of shoes. Find one that fits for you, but don't make me wear your shoes. - George Carlin

There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supersedes all other courts. - M.K. Gandhi

The best way out is always through. - Robert Frost

It's not true that I had nothing on. I had the radio on. - Marilyn Monroe

If the writing is honest, it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it. - Tennessee Williams

God will forgive me. That is his profession. - Heinrich Heine

Foreign aid is taking money from the poor people of a rich country and giving it to the rich people of a poor country. - Ron Paul

Our enemies never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we. - George W. Bush

In politics never retreat, never retract, never admit a mistake. - Napoleon Bonaparte

The moral test of government is how it treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped. - Hubert H. Humphrey

In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. - Albert Camus

I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people. - Marilyn Monroe

 

Compilation Courtesy: Aparna Chatterjee