Who Quotes

The teacher is the one who gets the most out of the lessons, and the true teacher is the learner.

No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.

I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?

I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together.

A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.

There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.

Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.

He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.

Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror.

I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not.

I just gravitate to movies where the mystery is the character himself. Any time you see a trailer of something where somebody is questioning 'Who am I?' I'm hooked.

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

You can find women who have never had an affair, but it is hard to find a woman who has had just one.

I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coincides with their own desires.

I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.

Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?

Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.

What I've enjoyed most, though, is meeting people who have a real interest in food and sharing ideas with them. Good food is a global thing and I find that there is always something new and amazing to learn - I love it!

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.

A liberal is a man or a woman or a child who looks forward to a better day, a more tranquil night, and a bright, infinite future.

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

He who hath many friends hath none.