"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

“Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.”
Plato

 

The conqueror is always a lover of peace; he would prefer to take over our country unopposed.
Karl von Clausewitz

None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free. -J.W. von Goethe

"The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to predominance."

Benjamin Disraeli

 

"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. “

Friedrich Nietzsche

 

"If you change the way you think, you change the way you act.
If you change the way you act, you change the way others around you think and act.
if you change the way others around you think and act, you change they world, one person at a time." -Wallace Wang, Steal This Computer Book 3.0

"A wise man doesn't need tips. A fool desn't take it." Unknown

Those two are my two favorite.

How about these:

"A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain"

Mark Twain 

 "It is not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what is required"

Sir Winston Churchill

Churchill certainly had some crackers:

Lady Astor: "Winston, if I were your wife I'd put poison in your coffee."
Winston: "Nancy, if I were your husband I'd drink it."

Braddock: "Winston, you are drunk, and what's more you are disgustingly drunk."
Churchill: "Bessie, my dear, you are ugly, and what's more, you are disgustingly ugly. But tomorrow I shall be sober and you will still be disgustingly ugly."

"No fool can play Chess, but only fools do."

Not sure who said that, don't really know whether I like it either. 

I do like this one which is odd because I'm not religious, can't remember where I saw it.

"No God, know fear.  Know God, no fear." 

"Courage is resistance to fear;

Mastery of Fear.

Not absence of fear."

 

"What would you do if you were not afraid?"

 

My personal favorite:

"I AM the date rape drug!"

DMX21x21 said: 

I do like this one which is odd because I'm not religious, can't remember where I saw it.

"No God, know fear.  Know God, no fear." 

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A nice play on words.  It calls to mind another one I read once.

Man's way-  hopeless end.

God's way-  endless hope.