Quotation Quotes

Though people sort of need your permission to talk to you, they do not really need one to talk about you.

We seldom learn much from someone with whom we agree.

Among other possibilities, money was invented to make it possible for a foolish man to control wise men; a weak man, strong men; a child, old men; an ignorant man, knowledgeable men; and for a dwarf to control giants.

There is nothing but quotations left for us. Our language is a system of quotations.

There’s no such thing as a good or bad person: there are just people who have each been or seem to have been good or bad to you, someone, or some people, thus far.

Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.

Most people would instantly start feeling ten years older if someone were to convince them that they were actually born a decade before their birthdate.

Welcome, welcomePlease feel welcomedWelcome, oh welcomeWe are pleased to have you here.

Most of the very few people who would choose a good heart over riches would eventually use that to either make a lot of money, or attract men or women who are rich.

A seemingly simple task like taking a bath or wearing a condom feels like multitasking to someone who suffers from hemiplegia or has only one hand.

People who are not blessed with the ability to make others laugh compensate for that by saying (or trying to say) things that are profound.

The death of a billionaire is worth more to the media than the lives of a billion poor people.

Greed is a contagious mental illness without which civilization as we know it would not have been possible.

Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.

Showing off is more ridiculous in instances where the thing that is being shown off was bought on credit.

With regard to things such as independence, mental capabilities, and sexuality, a very old man is nothing but a gigantic infant with white hair and wrinkles.

Being a bad parent is a sign of not having learned from experience.

Millions of business people are each constantly forced to choose between their desire to not be a bad person and their desire to be a good business person, that is to say, to make as much money as they possibly can by maximizing their revenue while minimizing the cost of producing whatever it is that they sell.

In some cases, you can tell how somebody is being treated by their own boss from the way they are treating someone to whom they are a boss.

Some people avoid thinking deeply in public, only because they are afraid of coming across as suicidal.

Just like how most if not all poor boys look up to and aspire to someday be rich men, most if not all underdeveloped and developing countries look up to and aspire to someday be developed countries.

One of the main functions of a push-up bra is to lower the number of mothers who seem like mothers.

More often than not, an inspirational or motivational speaker is someone who makes money from telling us that we can do all of the things that we can do … and pretty much all of the things that we cannot do.

The scent of rain on a sultry spring evening is always an indulgence.

Some people have contracted HIV during their separate endeavours to give someone or some people a curable STD.

Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.

As we all know, as if forever exploiting or attempting to exploit each other were not enough, a group of sane human beings who have just reached the end of a war against a common enemy of theirs will sooner or later start or continue killing and/or fighting against each other.

Boredom is probably more frequent and more tormenting if you do not have sight or hands.