(2685 quotes found)
“I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.”
Winston Churchill
“No one likes having offended another person; hence everyone feels so much better if the other person doesn't show he's been offended. Nobody likes being confronted by a wounded spaniel. Remember that. It is much easier patiently -- and tolerantly -- to avoid the person you have injured than to approach him as a friend. You need courage for that.”
Ludwig Wittgenstein
“Biologically speaking, if something bites you it's more likely to be female.”
Desmond Morris
“The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor find much fun in life.”
Charles M. Schwab
“Never came trouble to my house in the likeness of your Grace, for trouble being gone, comfort should remain; but when you depart from me, sorrow abides and happiness takes his leave.”
William Shakespeare
“Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks”
Warren Buffett
“Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats.”
Rebecca West
“The person who can combine frames of reference and draw connections between ostensibly unrelated points of view is likely to be the one who makes the creative breakthrough”
Denise Shekerjian
“There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.”
“Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?”
Philip Roth
