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The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don’t have it. (George Bernard Shaw)

Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems. (Rene Descartes, Discours de la Methode)

Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down. (Jimmy Durante)

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is. (Yogi Berra)

A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship. (John D. Rockefeller)

You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it. (Gilbert Keith Chesterton)

If you can count your money, you don’t have a billion dollars. (J. Paul Getty)

Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. (George Eliot)

The full use of your powers along lines of excellence. (definition of happiness by John F. Kennedy)

Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. (Saint Augustine)

Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action. (Auric Goldfinger, in Goldfinger by Ian L. Fleming)

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. (Oscar Wilde)

I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. (Ian L. Fleming)

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. (Sir Winston Churchill)

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher. (Ambrose Bierce)

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. (Antoine de Saint Exupery)

When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world. (George Washington Carver)

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. (Emile Zola)

In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is. (Yogi Berra)