Category: Quotations

“My dear Lascelles,” cried Drawlight, “what nonsense you talk!  Upon my word, there is nothing in the world so easy to expain as failure — it is, after all, what every body does all the time.”Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, by Susanna Clarke, Pg. 77

Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof that they were busy.Charles Peters

Don’t waste your time striving for perfection; instead, strive for excellence doing your best.Sir Lawrence Olivier

It is no good to try to stop knowledge from going forward.  Ignorance is never better than knowledge.Enrico Fermi (1901 – 1954)

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965)

Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there.  Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago?Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

Love cures people—both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.Karl Menninger