Quotable Quotes

I have a certain fondness for a good quote, and will endeavour to post many on the “Quote of the Day” on the homepage.

Here I will list all those quotes used as previous quotes of the day.

“Readers are plentiful, thinkers are rare“- Harriet Martineau 1802- 1876

“Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever“- Napoleon Bonaparte 1769- 1821

“What worries you masters you” – Haddon W. Robinson

“Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t” – Erica Jong

“I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it” – Garrison Keillor

“Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen” – Albert Einstein 1879-1955

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it” – George Santayana 1863-1952

“Insanity in individuals is something rare- but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule” – Friedrich Nietzsche 1844-1900

“Men make their own history but they do not know they are making it” – Karl Marx 1818-1883

“The First World War was idiotic. It started out idiotic and it stayed idiotic. It was damned silly, all of it.” – Alfred Finnigan 1896-2005

“If little else, the brain is an educational toy” – Tim Robbins 1936-

“The whole problem can be stated by quite simply asking, ‘Is there a meaning to music?’ My answer would be ‘yes’.

And ‘can you state in so many words what that meaning is?’ My answer to that would be ‘no’.” – Aaron Copland 1900-1990

“A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad” – Bob Edwards

“Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die” – Mel Brooks 1926-

“I am extraordinarily patient, providing I get my own way in the end” – Margaret Thatcher 1925-

“Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1749-1842

“Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence” – Henrik Tikkanen

“What’s the use of a good quotation if you can’t change it?” – Dr Who

“If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion” – George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

“There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered” – Nelson Mandela (1918 – )