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Quotes and sayings that cannot be reliably attributed to an individual or group are categorized in this section. It includes cultural sayings and proverbs whose original authors are lost to history.


A meeting is an event where minutes are kept and hours are lost.

A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.

Always go to other people’s funerals; otherwise they won’t go to yours.

Arithmetic is not an opinion.

Computers make very fast, very accurate mistakes.

Do not believe your brother, believe your own crooked eye.

Duck diplomacy...means that you float along placidly on the surface, but underneath you are paddling like the dickens with your feet.

Dwell on the past and you’ll lose an eye. Forget the past and you’ll lose both eyes.

Error has no rights.

Freedom spoils, and lack of freedom teaches.

He who takes offense when no offense is intended is a fool, and he who takes offense when offense is intended is a greater fool.

I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples.

I speak in Latin to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.

If after ten minutes at the poker table you do not know who the patsy is, you are the patsy.

If you call a horse's tail a leg, how many legs does a horse have? The answer is four, because calling a horse's tail a leg doesn't make it one.

If you want to build a ship, then don't drum up men to gather wood, give orders, and divide the work. Rather, teach them to yearn for the far and the endless sea.

If you’re not catching flak, you’re not over the target.

Imagination is a good servant, but a bad master.

In a time of universal deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

In war, truth is the first casualty.

It is better to be a warrior in a garden than to be a gardener in a war.

Look for three qualities in employees: integrity, intelligence, and energy. And if they don’t have the first, the other two will kill you.

News is what somebody does not want you to print. All the rest is advertising.

Paper has more patience than people.

Prepare the child for the road, not the road for the child.

Simplicity is the sign of truth.

Talk does not cook rice.

The corruption of the best is the worst of all.

The hard times brace you, and the soft times drive you to drink.

The law helps him who watches.

The word 'no' is a complete sentence.

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is.

War is like fishing with a golden net; the loss risked is always greater than the catch can be.

Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad.

You can vote your way into socialism, but you have to shoot your way out.

Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.