Who Quotes

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.

Too bad all the people who know how to run this country are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair.

Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.

If your record doesn't sell that well, man, who cares? All the satisfaction I need... comes when I step out onstage and see the people. That's awesome. I love that.

One night I went over to get some dope from some Hollywood tough guy. After I left, my son Scott, who was only fifteen, went over with a baseball bat to kill him. I was laughing out of one eye and crying out of the other. I thought, Who am I kidding?

I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.

He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.

People who speak in metaphors should shampoo my crotch.

People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.

Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.

Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Sexiness wears thin after a while and beauty fades, but to be married to a man who makes you laugh every day, ah, now that's a real treat.

Here in America we are descended in blood and in spirit from revolutionists and rebels - men and women who dare to dissent from accepted doctrine. As their heirs, may we never confuse honest dissent with disloyal subversion.

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights.

Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.

People tend to associate anyone who looks and behaves differently with illegal or immoral activity.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.

Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.

It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.