In this posting you will find my selection of the very best 60 quotes, from nearly a decade of collecting them. They range from the profound to the intriguing to the just plain funny.
One way or the other, you’ll surely find many of them to be thought-provoking and entertaining.
This selection is, of course, based solely on my personal taste (and even that varies largely from day to day according to my mood). You are welcome to browse the entire collection and look for your own favorite ones or contribute new quotes from your own personal collection.
Wisdom Quotes
1. You can do anything, but not everything.
—David Allen
2. Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
3. The richest man is not he who has the most, but he who needs the least.
—Unknown Author
4. You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.
—Wayne Gretzky
5. Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.
—Ambrose Redmoon
6. You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
—Gandhi
7. When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean.
—Lin-Chi
8. The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.
—A. A. Milne
9. To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
—Abraham Maslow
10. We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
—Aristotle
11. A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
—Baltasar Gracian
12. Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.
—Basho
13. Watch your thoughts; they become words.
Watch your words; they become actions.
Watch your actions; they become habits.
Watch your habits; they become character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.
—Lao-Tze
14. Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
—Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
15. What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.
—John Ruskin
16. The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes.
—Marcel Proust
17. Work like you don’t need money, love like you’ve never been hurt, and dance like no one’s watching
—Unknown Author
18. Try a thing you haven’t done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time, to figure out whether you like it or not.
—Virgil Garnett Thomson
19. Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
—Will Rogers
20. People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.
—Zig Ziglar
Funny Quotes
21. Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories.
—John Wilmot
22. What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.
—Oscar Levant
23. Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
—Oscar Wilde
24. I’ve gone into hundreds of [fortune-teller's parlors], and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her.
—New York City detective
25. When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren’t smart enough to get out of jury duty.
—Norm Crosby
26. Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
—Kurt Vonnegut
27. Just the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
—Carl Sagan
28. My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
—Jean Rostand
29. Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.
—Lily Tomlin
30. I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back.
—Richard Lewis
31. We’ve heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true.
—Robert Wilensky
32. If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?
—Scott Adams
33. If the lessons of history teach us anything it is that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us.
—Anon
34. When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I’m beginning to believe it.
—Clarence Darrow
35. Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else’s can shorten it.
—Cullen Hightower
36. There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say.
—Cyril Connolly
37. There’s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
—Dick Cavett
38. All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
—H. L. Mencken
39. I don’t mind what Congress does, as long as they don’t do it in the streets and frighten the horses.
—Victor Hugo
40. I took a speed reading course and read ‘War and Peace’ in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.
—Woody Allen
Otherwise Intelligent Quotes
41. The person who reads too much and uses his brain too little will fall into lazy habits of thinking.
—Albert Einstein
42. Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
—André Gide
43. It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
—Aristotle
44. I’d rather live with a good question than a bad answer.
—Aryeh Frimer
45. We learn something every day, and lots of times it’s that what we learned the day before was wrong.
—Bill Vaughan
46. I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter.
—Blaise Pascal
47. Don’t ever wrestle with a pig. You’ll both get dirty, but the pig will enjoy it.
—Cale Yarborough
48. An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn’t take his education too seriously.
—Charles F. Kettering
49. Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.
—Christopher Hampton
50. Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
—Cyril Connolly
51. Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.
—Dame Edna Everage
52. I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
—Edith Sitwell
53. Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for – in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.
—Ellen Goodman
54. The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
—Ellen Parr
55. Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
—Erica Jong
56. Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.
—Gordon R. Dickson
57. The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.
—Lily Tomlin
58. Never ascribe to malice, that which can be explained by incompetence.
—Napoleon (Hanlon’s Razor)
59. Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
—Oscar Wilde
60. When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.
—Thomas Szasz
Help! How to Better Manage my Unwieldy Collection of Quotes?
After I first published my favorite quotes collection (along with its companion article 5 Reasons to Collect Favorite Quotes), it grew faster than ever from 400 to over 500 quotes.
Nowadays, I’m much more demanding about which quotes to add to my collection. However — judging from the number of quotes I find on the web on a daily basis — I can only expect it to grow even faster than before.
Years ago, I faced the same situation with my browser bookmarks. Even being extremely conservative about adding them, after years they inevitably started adding up to the point of being unmanageable. Cleaning and categorizing those bookmarks was both time-consuming and inefficient.
The problem was eventually solved not by tidying them up regularly, but by the smart use of tagging and searching technology. Now my bookmarks are online at del.icio.us, tagged and fully searchable — and I still have ways to own the data. (Call me paranoid, but I don’t feel comfortable relying entirely on a third party to hold years of data, no matter how much I like their service.)
Now I feel I need a similar solution for my quotes — having a long flat list isn’t working very well anymore. At first, Quotiki seemed like a perfect fit. Unfortunately, however, there’s currently no way to export my quotes or otherwise retain ownership of the data.
So, here’s the question to my smart readers: How do you think I should go with my quotes collection? Do you have any suggestions of online services I can use and still retain my collection while making it more useful to myself and to others?
In the old days this used to be called a “Commonplace Book”. I have a page for mine on my website, which takes care of the ‘online’ and ’searchable’ aspects of it.
You could set up a new account on Gmail, and send all your quotes to that account. There are ways to backup Gmail e-mails to your local e-mail client.
Or you could use a spreadsheet on Google docs, or store your quotes file on an online file vault.
Just some ideas …
best of luck
Stephan
Hey! Nice work here, loved all of them. I would only like to correct the author of quote number 13. Its author is not Frank Outlaw, as you mention, but rather Lao-Tze, the founder of Taoism. This quote can be found in the Tao-te-Ching, a 2500 year old book, which explains the principles behind Taoism.
Anyways, great post!
Nice collection. I enjoyed #5 and 3. I usually take the quotes and bookmark them on google. If you want your private collection, you can copy and paste them in an excel sheet, though it is cumbersome…But, it serves me.
thanks
Heartwalker
Nicolai: Thanks for the correction. Doing a little research, it seems indeed that — as his surname suggests — Mr. Outlaw is a fraud.
Check out this page: Who is Frank Outlaw?
I changed the author (both here and in the full collection page).
Thanks again!
Tim: I have a similar setup at my full collection page, but it doesn’t fit the bill anymore. I didn’t know it was called a “Commonplace Book”. Thanks for sharing.
Heartwalker: Thanks for the idea! I want to keep the process as streamlined as possible, but your idea sparked a new one: how about using Quotiki and bookmarking the page via Del.icio.us? Hummm… maybe… got to think a little more about that!
Stephan: Today I keep the file as an Excel spreadsheet and yes: moving it to a shared Google Spreadsheet may be a great improvement indeed!
That way I can have the database online, still have it in my own website (via embedding). It also allows me to make it “live”: no delay between adding quotes and users being able to see them (today I have to manually publish the spreadsheet every once in a while).
That doesn’t fix the “social” and “tagging” parts of the equation, but it’s an excellent improvement. Thanks again Stephan — I will definitely investigate it!
You readers are great! Keep the ideas flowing!
May be you can try Zoho sheet its really good..
If you’re a Mac user, there’s a freeware app called iWisdom which makes for easy entry, categorization, and search of your quotes collection.
Try Google Notebook.
It will help you collect stuff from internet, which will be accessible from any computer as soon as you log into your account.
It has a search function.
It has share and publish functions, which I personally not used so I do not know how they work but it looked like these functions match your needs with quotes.
Thanks for the collection. I liked this page and Scrapbooked it.
I use NoteTab Light to keep track of quotes. It’s a freeware improvement on Notepad for windows. It has tabs, so it might be easy if you want to divide your quotes into categories.
I started collecting quotes about 6 weeks ago. I only have about a dozen or so quotes, so I don’t have to deal with the issues you’re having yet. But after reading your article, I realize that I should start organizing them by category now.
Thanks for the tips!
Great list, thanks. Posting at http://www.mofata.com
Hey, thanks a bunch for the quotes mate, really helpful. Back when I used to collect quotes to help me with character development that I modeled after famous personalities, it got so hectic to a point where I threw everything away and decided to start over. On the following attempt, I used Yoono. It’s not the best/quickest service in the world… But it was very helpful. You see, with Yoono, I just selected the text I wanted to keep, right clicked and chose the Yoono command, I forgot what it was called, which opened a pop up window where I’d quickly add tags, and often pictures/photos to accompany the quote, which was also very easy.. Anyway, check out Yoono. The quotes end up similar to separate blog posts, search-able by Tags and (I think) post words. Hope I’m any help. Cheers, thanks again for the quotes. ~Jade.
Ray Bayley: Thanks for the suggestion, but I’m a Windows user. Ideally, I should settle with an OS-agnostic solution. (Web based and exportable to open formats).
Mehmet and Jade : Thanks for the suggestions! I took a quick look at both Google Notebook and Yoono, and they both seem like nice solutions. Will investigate them further.
The question is: Do these apps allow me to retain ownership of the data (e.g. export)?
David: Yes, having your collection organized from the start will be well worth your time in the future. I’ve found, however, that attributing a single category to each quote might not be the ideal solution. As for me, I really need tagging to properly organize and find quotes — there are way too many quotes that are multifaceted — such as being both humorous and wise.
Ryan: Thanks for the link — I really appreciate it!
With Google Notebook you can export to Google Docs. I actually started to use it for my quotes last week. You can also sort by sections and use tags.
Try a tiddlywiki – http://www.tiddlywiki.com
Searchable and flexible with tagging capabilities. I collect poetry on one and, because of your post, am thinking about doing quotes on another.
You can keep a copy of the file on your computer and have an online version of it.
Eric: Wow, I have never heard about TiddlyWiki. It looks really, really promising. Giving it a quick look, it looks even better than Google Apps (not to mention geekier, yay!).
I wonder if it’s possible to create structured data, such as separating the data in fields, just like in a database. That would probably make it a no-brainer for me, not just for quotes but for many other things (I always try to keep the number of apps I use to a minimum).
I guess I have a lot to investigate and twiddle with. Thank you so much for letting me know about it!
evernote… usable on mac and window and let you clip from the internet and add from desktop and mobile too..
really neat and useful tool =)
you should try it
http://evernote.com/
cheers
Maria, I just signed up to the Evernote beta. It seems it will take a couple of days until they accept my registration — let’s wait. Thanks for the tip!
Great list
There is a freeware called “Zettelkasten” (German for box of notes – actually it’s a system developed by Luhmann, a philosopher), available here: http://zettelkasten.daniellued......php?abs=1
It doesn’t look good, but it’s really handy and does its job.
Great page you have here!
Enjoy it very much!
Thank you for the quotes; there are some gems indeed. I’d recommend EverNote too. Maybe Version 2.2 is still neater and better to organize, it’s more desktop bound, but you can open the backup in 3.0 and synchronize with your web account.
Have a good time! anette
Great list of quotes, thanks for putting them together and sharing here.
Wow! Excellent compilation of quotes… You’ve made a wise selection. Thanks for sharing.
Great list of quotes, Luciano!
The one that struck me most was this one:
To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
—Abraham Maslow
It made me think how important it is to broaden my mind so that I can approach the old in a new way, instead of approaching the new in an old way.
I’ve subscribed to this lovely blog. What a find!
cheers
Mary
not to loose quotes and keep them organized is a daunting task! have you ever tried a block of notes and a pencil? It worked magic for me.
Diego: Yes, pencil and paper have always that appealing “feel” (some don’t leave pen and paper for anything)… For me, however, it’s important to have it in a digital medium that I can easily share and reorganize them.
But hey, thanks for the suggestion — sometimes we overlook the simplest solutions, don’t we?
‘The emo must have killed himself….to get attention”-Sean Kinsella
So, here’s the question to my smart readers: How do you think I should go with my quotes collection? Do you have any suggestions of online services I can use and still retain my collection while making it more useful to myself and to others?
I vote for scripting it yourself. I’m disappointed with online services homogenizing everything. It just seems to sap creativity.
Thankyou very much for sharing these together, they are beautiful and great to read. I am glad I found this.
here’s a quote from a semi-famous singer I thought you might like:
Healing with time is like watching paint dry.
Jonny Hetherington (band: Art of Dying)
Dream is not the thing what you see in sleep, dream is the thing that does not let you sleep….. A P J Abdul Kalam… Best ever President of India.
Who is wise? He who learns from all men.
-Ben Zoma
Ajay, Melanie and Elie: Thanks for contributing! I enjoyed all three quotes: just added them to my favorite collection.
I use the quote rotator plugin for WordPress. Supposedly I can export from within WP and I like offering a different quote every few seconds without getting all wrapped up in trying to keep a static page current.
Hi,
Nice collection of thoughts… I have also saved your entire quote collection to my computer…
Your blog is really great… and I recently included your blog in one of my presentations…
Now for the answer to your question… i think luminotes.com is a solution which will put an end to your search for that “Quote Management Software”… its flexible, downloadable & Share-able… for that matter you can share your notebook with others… For other many good features just go to the site…
and yes you should really appreciate me because I have come back especially to suggest you this solution (I have already read this post a long time ago)
Take care…
@Sandeep: Luminotes seems like a great alternative. I’ve been looking to various wiki solutions (TiddlyWiki being the front-runner so far), but never came across Luminotes: it does seem very flexible and worth a try indeed!
And yes, after this much time I still couldn’t make my mind on what solution to settle on… so, of course, I am indeed very grateful that you took the time to come back here!
So, you said you included Litemind in a presentation? Can you give more details? Can I take a look at the presentation? (you know, this stuff can be really good for the ego)…
Thanks!
This is the best collection that I ever read
Hi,
I have been using tiddlywiki for sometime for managing my class room notes… it is fine… formatting is a problem… and yes its free (as compared to luminotes.)
And for that presentation part nothing great! I was delivering a presentation on self-development and mind techniques and included a URL to your website as premiere resource for all these in the end…
hope that increase your site traffic.
And yes one thing is sure you are doing great work, someone somewhere is benefitting from your work…
I enjoyed reading them, because I am very much interested in reading and memorizing quotes, especially those which take my heart, I never forget them. I am leaving you with one of my all times favorite,
“The way to love any thing is to realize that it might be lost”
Love is the only thing you get more by giving it away
That was an inspiring list of quotes +_+
Thumb up!
dont look back you might miss the future
Luciano, thanks for sharing these great quotes. They are really inspired me and add to my collection.
I see that Evernote has already been recommended to you. Looks like I’ll have to second (or third rather) that suggestion.
In the spirit of contributing, “I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it.” – William S. Burroughs
If you plan to keep litemind forever, why not have a subdomain? You will get all tagging, categorizing, db features. I plan to do this for my collection
Thanks all for the suggestions! After so much time without making my mind, I’m starting to feel bad about this.
@Avani-Mehta: I’m utterly intrigued by your suggestion. What do you mean? Installing a whole new instance of Wordpress in a subdomain and treat each quote as a new post?
Well, If that’s what you mean, I love it!
It’s a little more work than I was initially hoping, but, after so long, implementing this is probably less work than just keep thinking so hard about the solution!
Dear Luciano,
It was a great intlectual pleasure to discover you, your writings and your fine selection of quotations. I will write about all these in my editorial of Info Kappa No. 330- it is in romanian and each issue has a column of selected quotations re. a theme- presented in the editorial. This time I am speaking about the “use of quotations in (auto)education” The quotations are about quotations, aphorisms,
proverbs and similar things. The last thematic issue was about Nothing, a very complex concept.
I hope you will discover my good friend VALERIU BUTULESCU a great author of aphorisms translated in some 26 languages. He is really a genius.
The greatest romanian website of aphorisms, CITATEPEDIA, easy to find on the web, will be soon published in English too. Special page re Butulescu.
Let’s keep in touch and perhaps, collaborate.
Peter
I love to see more of these nice quotes. They are very cool.
@Peter Gluck: I can almost understand Romanian. My native language is Portuguese and there are many similarities between the two languages — but not enough!
Thanks for the compliments and please let me know when Citatepedia.ro is available in English. (Google Translate is not a very good Romanian translator, either!)
thank you soo much!! i really loved these quotes it’s really good.. and so are you
There are Three difference types of people in this world, ones that
wait for things to happen, ones that make things happen, and ones that
wonder what the F__k happen…… Oblio Alexander or (bob)
Games are for lames, Toys are for boys, and tricks are for kids…
Oblio Alexander
Those who do nothing never make mistake, But that could be the biggest
mistake they ever make…
hi … thankx alot… the quotes are wat gets thoughts into real flight… applause for the effort…
“Once two teams have the same level of skill its a matter of determination.”
-Tim Moon
“Once two teams have the same level of skill its a matter of determination.”
-Tim Moon
~~~
Hey! Thanks for the quotes collection, I’m so glad i found this site.
Weel done, and by the way nice to ”hear” you’re from Brazil I guess..
Well I live in curitiba to. Anyways.. great job!
Hear is one of my favorites quotes
Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.
Friedrich Nietzsche.
Thank you so much for including A. A. Milne. Fantastic list!
Thakns for such nice quotes in one place.
Thanks Robert Alexander and Bill for the contributions — I really enjoyed them!
@Eloah: I love the Nietzsche quote — thanks for that!
So… you’re from Curitiba! Nice to hear! Maybe you’re the first fellow Curitiba citizen that happens to find this site by chance… It’s a weird feeling to know I may cross with someone on the streets that reads my site…
Friendship is the degree given to that person in which you believe more than you.
I’ve always found the joy of finding great quotes is to revisit the margins of my favorite books and the dark underlined sentences on pages were the book almost naturally opens to. There’s something about the sound of flipping well worn pages — the certain smell and feel of books that doesn’t reciprocate on the Internet. While quick & easy, I find that simply scavenging the net for quotes doesn’t resonate as much as finding them on your own and more fully understanding the context in which they were created.
@The Pejorist: I wholeheartedly agree with you: nothing beats the smell of a good book, great notes in the margins and great underlined quotes in the text… It’s a deeply sensuous experience!
well i’m a great afficionado of both inspirational as well as motivational Quotes.
I jst luv 2 collect and recall the quotes and had a great collectional thereof.
really this had helped me a lot in my daily 2 day life.. good work indeed.
hi,
wow i really enjoyed by seeing this quotes,
mostly i liked the quotes which are related to real life
thank u so much
“ATTACK life to the fullist its going to KILL you anyways.”
“This is a creature on fire with love, but it’s still scary since most people think love only looks like one thing, instead of the whole world.” -Brian Andreas
http://www.storypeople.com
“Look Into The Mirror and Tell Yourself a Story, The Story Doesnt Come Back Opposite Like Your Reflection, Maybe Thats The Problem With The World, We’ve Been Looking at Everything Backwards.”
You’ll never be lonely if you learn to be friend yourself (David J. Archuleta)
What an awesome list, thanks! I found at least two new favourite quotes in it (#13 and #35), and #10 is an old favourite of mine.
Here’s an additional one: “Everything has been figured out, except how to live.” – Jean-Paul Sartre
Luciano, that’s exactly what I meant. Am glad you liked the idea
If you do get this done, do let me know, I would love to see the final product.
quote’s are for sad people that need guidence or seek truth, people that quote are silly and have to much time to think!!!
Hey Elliot
if u dont like them so why you read all of them and even responded..
Here is my contribution” Dont tell me the truth, tell me the fact..
To Elliot Bigland: not true. Quotes are cool, fun, and oftentimes inspiring. They also make very effective arguments. And people who seek truth are not “sad”. Buddhism is not “sad”.
Very comprehensive list! Thanks for sharing
Tomorrow’s life is too late. Live today….
Awesome list of quotes, there were quite a few I had never read before. Along the themes of quotes, I’ve always liked:
“All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
very nice quotes
. These makes me smile:)
Hello,
I’ve recently started my own blog and I use quotes a lot within it.
I use http://www.goodreads.com currently to store all of my quotes. Goodreads is primarily a book review site but one great feature that it has is a list of quotes that you can save as your own and you can also export from it easily too, as well as add quotes to their database if it isn’t already there. As I love books, it works for me.
If anyone would like to visit my blog it’s http://www.apatheticprocrastination.blogspot.com – I orginally came across this site when I was looking for a link for visualisation to put on mine.
Reading all these comments, I’ve now started using delicious.com and evernote.com which I think is the greatest web tool ever… I just need to figure out how best to use it now!
Luciano, keep up the good work.
Thanks a lot for all the great ideas here!
I must admit that I became overwhelmed by the amount of great suggestions here and suffered from ‘analysis paralisys’ for many months. Recently, I finally decided what solution to settle with.
Avani Mehta’s suggestion of setting up a subdomain and install a brand new Wordpress blog really struck as the most full-featured to me. While not the easiest solution to implement, I can keep all the quotes in the site, while having tagging, voting, commenting, sharing and many other features.
The news that Wordpress MU and Wordpress will be merging was the missing piece of the puzzle, as keeping multiple blogs will hopefully become much easier than it is now.
Thank you so much Avahni, I owe you this one! And thanks everyone else for the suggestions, I definitely learned a lot from you!
Hello Luciano,
This is a very interesting site,
I posted a link to it on my
interestings sites page:
http://jmjlinux.110mb.com/interesting_sites2.html
hi,
Thanks for the beautiful thoughts,
I will appreciate if some one helps me figure out some new as well,
I am need of some kind of writing materials for my collection,
inspiration comes fron desperation!
To find Love again he had to lose it..
To find herself again she had to lose him..
-One More Chance-
really love this collection! Keep it up!
Here is one
We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.
http://creativeajit.blogspot.com/
I also collect thoughts and while doing the same got to your website. Nice collection!
Keep it up!
nice collection, can u post some romantic ones also?
very nice collection i have never thought about this, i like quotes like No13.very impressive,
I wanna write an excellent quote that I hope it would be added:
If we knew all the many possibilites of change in our fortune, life would be too full of hopes and fears, surprises and disappointments to permit us a single hour peace.
(NATHANIEL HaWTHORNE
These are realli nice quotes
Like Loads ov Them!
Nice collection buddy……
still feels like missing a few more Einstein’s quotes like “Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.”
I guess it really depends on how you use the quotes that you store. In what ways do you search for them later and what do you need the application to do?
Great site BTW
James
The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has it limits!
What a wonderful place to visit. Thank you so much.
Bill
“To achieve, you must first believe”
I don’t know the author, but that is my personal favorite.
I love quotes, and your website is awesome!
Thanks so much for this list. I will be coming back for more!
hi Luciano,
let me tell u…i havent come accross a better place to find such brilliantly crafted quotes than this. i have added almost all your quotes to my personal collection and let me be honest..u;ve done an amazing job!!! keep up the good work and continue to inspire us like this
Luciano,
What an amazing collection of quotes you put together, it takes much determination to actually collect all of it. I always think to myself once I think of something worth remembering, I want to write it, but by the time I remember to do it I forget. I love your work.
Thank you for sharing it…
Hi,
Its good to see the the different types of quotes on a single page. and i want to give a suggestion that keep on updating the best 60 or more quotes every week or every month.
Thanks for the suggestion, Kalyan. I do plan to update the collection every once in a while. However, I think it will be much slower than weekly or even monthly: the pace I discover new quotes worth collecting has fallen dramatically and just keeps falling…
I guess I’m becoming pickier and pickier.
LOVE TO ALL
Hi Luciano,
You can try Evernote. It has an amazing search feature, plus you can also tag your collection of quotes. That is how I organize my collection, aside from writing it down on my favorite notebook.
Lots of people recommending Evernote. Although I already decided how I’m going to store my quote collection, I will check Evernote regardless for other uses I may have (or, heck, to change my mind on the quote collection decision)…
Thanks Kat and everyone for the recommendations!
Hi. Your title, “60 Selected Best Famous Quotes” should read, “60 Selected Best Famous Quotations”. Quote is a verb. I quote, you quote, they quote. The thing is a quotation.
I know this post is more than a year old – but I have the same problem of handling my quotes.
You probably already found a solution but I use Microsoft’s One Note which is pretty efficient – check it out..
Thanks for the suggestion, Chandni. I am always in the lookout of how people come up with solutions to this seemingly simple problem (which I don’t consider simple at all, even in… 2009!)
Re advice on data retention
55. Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.
—Erica Jong
That’s very irritating, Omar… in a good way!
In regards to your question: So, here’s the question to my smart readers: How do you think I should go with my quotes collection? Do you have any suggestions of online services I can use and still retain my collection while making it more useful to myself and to others?
I wrote a Perl search tool you can have. I appreciate the fact that people manage their own data rather than contract out to commercial search tools, like googles, who keep track of your data for their own purposes. I think it’s important to install your own search tool on your web site, and I wrote one you can have for free at http://www.programsplus.us/uti.....index.html or it’s linked to my home page ProgramsPlus.us. It’s ready to install on your server, with all the script, and I hope the instructions I wrote will make it easy.
I made security a priority and it has successfully weathered all cracker attacks. You have a great web site and if I can be of any help installing the search tool I’d be happy to help.
Also, the Woody Allen quote: “40. I took a speed reading course and read ‘War and Peace’ in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.” Is it ‘It involves Russia’ or ‘It’s about Russia’? I think the Penquin quote book I read was the latter.
Thanks for the suggestion, Ken. For now, I decided to keep my collection on Wordpress (although I haven’t started the migration work yet).
Regarding the Woody Allen quote, I’m not sure which one is correct — I’ve seen both around. Although I always like to have the correct one, in this case, frankly, I don’t care too much as the humorous element is present in both versions.
Thanks!
A great collection. I have been searching for such collections lately, and this one surely is the best.
JOURNEY START WITH LITTLE FEET GOES TO BIG GOAL.
Set up a website. We can have people voting for the best quote and categorizing it much like a wiki.
They should be able to comment on each quote etc etc
Thanks Bryan! That’s exactly what I plan to do once I have the all the technical pieces on my hands (and the skills to put them all together)!
A Bird In Hand Rather Than 10 on The Tree
Yan Kanaan Aka Yanishh
“TALENT DOES WHAT IT CAN, GENIUS DOES WHAT IT MUST!” – Edward Bulwer-Lytton
ONE OF MY FAVORITE QUOTES OF ALL TIME!
“FIGHTING FOR PEACE IS LIKE SCREWING FOR VIRGINITY!” BY GEORGE CARLIN (AMAZING COMEDIAN)
One of my favorite quotes for changing is
“Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” – Albert Einstein
And it inspires more to say in another way.
“If you expect different results…you either have to do different things, or have to do things differently.”
And here’s my top 21 favourite quotes. http://www.selfhelpfriend.com/.....uotes.html
Keep up great quotes. i love them how about you make it the best 100 quotes! That would make this site even better than it is now. Bill
2thumbs up…
i enjoyed it..
Love is not blind, but love makes us blind.
-Fhetz
Hey dudes,
Check out all of these quotes from this quote site! Awesome search bar. Reply to me and let me know what yalls think, a buddy of mine just started it.
http://www.favequotes.com
Here is a fav. quote of mine:
“You’ve got to be little different if you want to get noticed. After all, would anyone give the Tower of Pisa a second glance if it were standing straight.” – Monique Van Vooren.
A MAN TO FIGHT FOR HIS RIGHS,WOULD DO ABOUT ANYTHING, A COWARD WOULD DO AS WELL. JT
James Dean … “I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.”
Just thought I’d add my favorite
“TRUE LOVE NEVER FAILS
TRUE LOVER NEVER DIES
EVRY LOVE HAS NOT PERFECT ENDINGS
EVRY LOVER HAS NOT PERFECT LIFE. “