200 Cool Quotes

1. “The road to success is always under construction.”

2. “Alcohol doesn’t solve any problems, but if you think again, neither does milk.”

3. “All the desirable things in life are either illegal or expensive.”

4. “Since light travels faster than sound, people appear brighter before you hear them speak.”

5. “Everyone has a scheme of getting rich which never works.”

6. “If at first you don’t succeed destroy all evidence that you ever tried.”

7. “As soon as you mention something if it is good, it is taken; if it is bad, it happens.”

8. “If you come early, the bus is late. If you come late the bus is still late.”

9. “Once you have bought something, you will find the same item being sold somewhere else at a cheaper rate.”

10. “When in a queue, the other line always moves faster and the person in front of you will always have the most complex of transactions.”

11. “If you have paper, you don’t have a pen. If you have a pen, you don’t have paper. If you have both, no one calls.”

12. “If you have bunked the class, the teacher has taken attendance.”

13. “You will pick up maximum wrong numbers when on roaming.”

14. “The door bell or your mobile will always ring when you are in the bathroom.”

15. “After a long wait for bus no.20, two 20 number buses will always pull in together and the bus which you get in will be crowded than the other.”

16. “If your exam is tomorrow, there will be a power cut tonight.”

17. “The last person to be fired or quit is responsible for all the errors until another person

is fired or quits.”

18. “Irrespective of the direction of the wind, the smoke from the cigarette will always tend to go to the non-smoker.”

19. “Behind every successful man there is a woman, behind every unsuccessful there are two.”

20. “A wise man spends time improving his weakness; a foolish man spends time improving his skills.”

21. “Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.” (William Shakespeare)

22. “Kind words may be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”

(Mother Teresa)

23. “Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.”

(Winston Churchill)

24. “A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.”(Winston Churchill)

25. “A lot of fellows nowadays have a B.A., M.D., or Ph.D. Unfortunately, they don’t have a J.O.B.” (Fats Domino)

26. “Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.” (Thomas A Edison)

27. “A word to the wise isn’t necessary — it’s the stupid ones that need the advice.”

(Bill Cosby)

28. “The wise man in the storm prays God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.” (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

29.”There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.” (Epictetus)

30.”Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.”

(Benjamin Disraeli)

31. When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.” (Helen Keller)

32. “He who has a thousand friends has not a friend to spare. While he who has one enemy, shall meet him everywhere.” (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

33. “Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.”(Aristotle)

34. “There is a great difference between worry and concern. A worried person sees a problem, and a concerned person solves a problem.”(Harold Stephens)

35. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”

(Winston Churchill)

36. “He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.”(Benjamin Franklin)

37. “You must lose everything in order to gain anything.” (Brad Pitt; Fight Club)

38.”In heaven all the interesting people are missing. (Friedrich Nietzsche)

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.”(Madam Marie Curie)

39. “Behind every great fortune, there is a crime.”(The Godfather)

40.”It is not important to go on the top; it matters till when you stay there.”

41. “A smile is the lighting system of the face, the cooling system of the head and the heating system of the heart.”

42. “Hot heads and cold hearts never solved anything.”

43. “If you can’t beat them, arrange to have them beaten.”(George Carlin)

44. “Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”(Confucius)

45. “Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.” (Albert Szent-Gyorgyi)

46. “The seeds of great discovery are constantly floating around us, but they only take root in minds well prepared to receive them.” (Joseph Henry)

47. “Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up”

(Pablo Picasso)

48. “Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.”(Gautam Buddha)

49. “When anger rises, think of the consequences.”(Confucius)

50. “Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.”(Pablo Picasso)

51. “A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so.”(Aristotle)

52. “Education is the best provision for the journey to old age.”(Aristotle)

53. “Before God we are all equally wise – and equally foolish.”(Albert Einstein)

54. “Imagination is more important than knowledge.”(Albert Einstein)

55. “Truth is what stands the test of experience.”(Albert Einstein)

56. “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)

57. “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.”(Mark Twain)

58. “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”(Mark Twain)

59. “Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.”(Mark Twain)

60. “A little sincerity is a dangerous thing and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.”

(Oscar Wilde)

61. “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”(Oscar Wilde)

62. “Biography lends to death a new terror.”(Oscar Wilde)

63. “One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.”(Oscar Wilde)

64. “An eye for an eye turns the whole world blind.”(Mahatma Gandhi)

65. “Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.”

(Mahatma Gandhi)

66. “You must be the change you want to see in the world.”(Mahatma Gandhi)

67. “Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.”

(Mahatma Gandhi)

68. “Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes.”(Confucius)

69. “Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star.”(Confucius)

70. “In heaven all the interesting people are missing.”(Friedrich Nietzsche)

71. “You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star.”(Friedrich Nietzsche)

72. “Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake.”(Chessmaster Tartakower)

73. “Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I am not sure about the former.”(Albert Einstein)

74. “A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.”

(Sir Winston Churchill)

75. “The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.”(Emile Zola)

76. “This book fills a much-needed gap.”(Moses Hadas)

77. “In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”

(Martin Luther King Jr.)

78. “Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right.”(Henry Ford)

79. “Don’t stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.”(George Burns)

80. “Don’t stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed.”(George Burns)

81.”Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.”(Plato)

82. “The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don’t have it.” (George Bernard Shaw)

83. “Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called ‘Ego’.”(Friedrich Nietzsche)

84. “Death is not the worst than can happen to men.”(Plato)

85. “Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil.”(Plato)

86. “We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”(Plato)

87. “It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to stand up to your friends.”(J. K. Rowling)

88. “Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.”(J. K. Rowling)

89. “Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.”(J. K. Rowling)

90. “Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.”(Will Rogers)

91. “Lack of will power has caused more failure than lack of intelligence or ability.”

(Flower A. Newhouse)

92. ” do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.”(Galileo Galilei)

93. “A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.”(Bernard Meltzer)

94. “No lower can a man descend than to interpret his dreams into gold and silver.”

(Kahlil Gibran)

95. “Some people see things that are and ask, why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, why not? Some people have to go to work and don’t have time for all that.”(George Carlin)

96. ” Thoughts are but dreams till their effects be tried”.(William Shakespeare)

97. “Not everything that can be counted counts and not everything that counts can be counted.”(Albert Einstein)

98. “Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.”(G. W. F. Hegel)

99. “A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.”(Herm Albright)

100. “Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical.”(Blaise Pascal)

101. “It’s nice to be important, but it’s important to always be nice.”(Alyssa Milano)

102. “Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.”(John F. Kennedy)

103. “Our problems are man-made; therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny

is beyond human beings.”(John F. Kennedy)

104. “The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.”(John F. Kennedy)

105. “We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.”(John F. Kennedy)

106. “If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.”

(John F. Kennedy)

107. “The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word ‘crisis.’ One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger – but recognize the opportunity.”(John F. Kennedy)

108. “Every woman has the right to be beautiful.”(Elizabeth Arden)

109. “No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.”(Aristotle)

110. “All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.” (Socrates)

111.”An honest man is always a child.”(Socrates)

112. “Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.”

(Socrates)

113. “By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you’ll become happy; if you get a bad one, you’ll become a philosopher.”(Socrates)

114. “Big results require big ambitions.”(Heraclitus)

115. “Much learning does not teach understanding.”(Heraclitus)

116. “Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.”(Heraclitus)

117. “The eyes are more exact witnesses than the ears.”(Heraclitus)

118. “All philosophy lies in two words, sustain and abstain.”(Epictetus)

119. “Difficulties are things that show a person what they are.”(Epictetus)

120. “He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.”(Epictetus)

121. “Adversity makes a man wise, not rich.”(Romanian Proverb)

122. “After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box.”(Italian Proverb)

123. “All things good to know are difficult to learn.”(Greek Proverb)

124. “An army of sheep led by a lion would defeat an army of lions led by a sheep.”(Arab Proverb)

125. “An *** is but an ***, though laden with gold.”(Romanian Proverb)

126. “Bad is never good until worse happens.”(Danish Proverb)

127. “Below the navel there is neither religion nor truth.”(Italian Proverb)

128. “The dog wags his tail, not for you, but for your bread.”(Portuguese Proverb)

129. “If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.” (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

130. “Genius without education is like silver in the mine.”(Benjamin Franklin)

131. “Patience and perserverence have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.”(John Quincy Adams)

132. “People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don’t know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to.”(George Allen)

133. “If you want to feel rich, just count all of the things you have that money can’t buy.”

(Anon)

134. “Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use.”(Anon)

135. “Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.”(Anon)

136. “Time invested in improving ourselves cuts down on time wasted in disapproving of others.” (Anon)

137. “Crisis brings out the best in the best of us, and the worst in the worst of us.”(Anon)

138. “Well done is better than well said.”(Anon)

139. “In dreams and in love there are no impossibilities.”(Janos Arany)

140. “I count him braver who conquers his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is the victory over self.”(Aristotle)

141. “You teach best what you most need to learn.”(Richard Bach)

142. “Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.”(Josh Billings)

143. “The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.”(William Blake)

144. “Destiny is no matter of chance. It is a matter of choice: It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”(William Jennings Bryan)

145. “Let a man avoid evil deeds as a man who loves life avoids poison.”(Buddha)

146. “A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.”(Miguel de Cervantes)

147. “Look for a long time at what pleases you, and for a longer time at what pains you.”

(Colette)

148. “He that thinks himself the wisest is generally the least so.”(C.C. Colton)

149. “A man who does not plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door.”(Confucius)

150. “He who asks a question may be a fool for five minutes. But he who never asks a question remains a fool forever.”(Tom J. Connelly)

151. “There are well-dressed foolish ideas just as there are well-dressed fools.”(Diane Ackerman)

152. “There is always someone worse off than you.”(Aesop)

153. “Appearances often are deceiving.”(Aesop)

154. “Women need a reason for having sex, men just need a place”(Billy Crystal- City Slickers)

155. “Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.” (Abraham Lincoln)

156. “Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.”(Abraham Lincoln)

157. “You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.”(Abraham Lincoln)

158. “Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.”(Alfred Lord Tennyson)

159. “All’s fair in love and war.”(Francis Edwards)

160. “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”

(Benjamin Franklin)

161. “I am convinced that He (God) does not play dice.”(Albert Einstein)

162. “When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.”

(Abraham Lincoln)

163. “I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.”(Nathan Hale)

164. “He who can, does. He, who cannot, teaches.”(George Bernard Shaw)

165. “I never did give anyone hell. I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.”

(Harry S Truman)

166. “They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”(Benjamin Franklin)

167. “Absence makes the heart grow fonder.”(Thomas Haynes Bayly)

168. “Hate the sin and love the sinner.”(Garry Gamble)

169. “Slumps are like a soft bed. They’re easy to get into and hard to get out of.”(Johnny Bench)

170. “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.”(Chinese Proverb)

171. “Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people”(Jesse Ventura)

172. “Men never commit evil so fully and joyfully as when they do it for religious convictions” (Blaise Pascal)

173. “Faith believes something you know isn’t true.”(Mark Twain)

174. “The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.”(Benjamin Franklin)

175. “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”(Carl Sagan)

176. “The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.”(George Bernard Shaw)

177. “And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence.”(Bertrand Russell)

178. “Creationists make it sound like a ‘theory’ is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.”(Isaac Asamov)

179. “Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense.”(Chapman Cohen)

180. “In Christianity neither morality nor religion comes into contact with reality at any point.”(Friedrich)

181. “Whenever I find the key to success, someone changes the lock.”

182.”Whenever I found out anything remarkable, I have thought it my duty to put down my discovery on paper, so that all ingenious people might be informed thereof.”(Antonie van Leeuwenhoek)

183. “It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated.”

(Alec Bourne)

184. “The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.”(Diogenes Laertius)

185. “Education begins a gentleman, conversation completes him.”(Dr. Thomas Fuller)

186. “A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry.”(George Bernard Shaw)

187. “Education has for its object the formation of character.”(Herbert Spencer)

188. “Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.”(Babe Ruth)

189. “Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What’s a sun-dial in the shade?”

(Benjamin Franklin)

190. “Determine never to be idle…It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.” (Thomas Jefferson)

191. “Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.”(Audrey Hepburn)

192. “Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.”(Albert Einstein)

193. “Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no help at all.”(Dale Carnegie)

194. “In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.” (Thomas Jefferson)

195. “If you wouldst live long, live well, for folly and wickedness shorten life.”

(Benjamin Franklin)

196. “A man can be as great as he wants to be. If you believe in yourself and have the courage, the determination, the dedication, the competitive drive and if you are willing to sacrifice the little things in life and pay the price for the things that are worthwhile, it can be done.” (Vince Lombardi)

197. “Get what you like or you will be made to like what you get”

198. “Rome was not built in a day”

199. “When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies. And now when every new baby is born its first laugh becomes a fairy. So there ought to be one fairy for every boy or girl.”(James Matthew Barrie “Peter Pan”)

200. “When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the areas of man’s concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses, for art establishes the basic human truths which must serve as the touchstone of our judgment.”(John F. Kennedy)

The real world is not easy to live in. It is rough; it is slippery. Without the most clear-eyed adjustments we fall and get crushed. A man must stay sober: not always, but most of the time.

—Clarence Day

A real life, a life that leaves a deposit in the shape of something alive…. It’s difficult to say what makes a life a real life…. You could also say it depends on a person being identical with himself.

Life is just a chance to grow a soul.

A. Powell Davies:

Life is just a chance to grow a soul.

Abraham Lincoln:

And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.

— George Washington Carver

Life is like a bowl of cherries, but the thing is–you have to eat the pits, too. ~David Bischoff

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God, do you learn. ~C.S. Lewis

“Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away!”

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Benjamin Franklin

Theodore Roosevelt