Martyrs cannot be silenced.
- the television show Star Trek: The Next Generation
Related topics: Cynical
There are times, sir, when men of good conscience
cannot blindly follow orders.
- Captain Picard, STAR TREK: The Next Generation
Things are only impossible until they're not.
- Jean-Luc Picard, character in STAR TREK: The Next Generation
Friendship must dare to risk, or it's not friendship.
- Captain Jean-Luc Picard in the TV show Star Trek: The Next Generation
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The claim "I was only following orders" has been used
to justify too many tragedies in our history.
- Captain Picard of the television series
STAR TREK: The Next Generation
You have not converted a man because you have silenced him.
- John Morley
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain,
and most fools do.
- Benjamin Franklin
Mama always said life was like a box of chocolates.
You never know what you're gonna get.
- the movie Forrest Gump
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
- Mark Twain (attributed)
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
- Oscar Wilde
You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
- Amelia Earhart
Watch what people are cynical about,
and one can often discover what they lack.
- George S. Patton
Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer
but wish we didn't.
- Erica Jong
Nothing is enough for the man to whom enough is too little.
- Epicurus
What people often mean by getting rid of conflict
is getting rid of diversity,
and it is of the utmost importance
that these should not be considered the same.
- M. P. Follett
Life is fully as bad as you think it is,
so never think life is bad.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
With manners comes insincerity.
Truth is sometimes difficult.
- Bono
Nothing is ever going to work out the way you want,
so you may as well choose to want the way life does work out.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks-
if we agree with him.
- Mark Twain
It is well to remember that the
entire population of the universe,
with one trifling exception, is composed of others.
- Andrew J. Holmes
Always listen to the experts.
They'll tell you what can't be done and why.
Then do it.
- Robert Heinlein
When you ask the wrong question,
you usually get a nonsense answer.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer
The more you expect, the more you get disappointed in life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
An unsolicited suggestion is
undistinguishable from a criticism.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If an opinion contrary to your own makes you angry,
that is a sign that you are subconsciously aware
of having no good reason for thinking as you do.
- Bertrand Russell
The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction.
- Helen Keller
When we blindly adopt a religion,
a political system, a literary dogma,
we become automatons. We cease to grow.
- Anais Nin
No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
- Robert A. Heinlein
Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.
- Henry David Thoreau
Life is like a ten speed bicycle.
Most of us have gears we never use.
- Charles M. Schulz
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
- Benjamin Franklin
My life has been filled with terrible misfortune;
most of which never happened.
- Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
Never ascribe to malice that which is
adequately explained by incompetence.
- Napoleon
Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown
is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
- Bertrand Russell
I distrust those people who know so well
what God wants them to do,
because I notice it always coincides
with their own desires.
- Susan B. Anthony
If you want reality to be different than it is,
you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.
- Byron Katie
No crime is so great as daring to excel.
- Winston Churchill
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,
it is time to pause and reflect.
- Mark Twain
Everything popular is wrong.
- Oscar Wilde
It is one thing to say that something should be done,
but quite a different matter to do it.
- Aesop
Never let your sense of morals
get in the way of doing what's right.
- Isaac Asimov
The first sigh of love is the last breath of wisdom.
- Anonymous
Why not go out on a limb?
Isn't that where the fruit is?
- Mark Twain
Love is an irresistible desire
to be irresistibly desired.
- Robert Frost
Man plans, God laughs
- Yiddish Proverb
What people believe prevails over the truth.
- Sophocles
When we remember we are all mad,
the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
- Mark Twain
Men occasionally stumble over the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up
and hurry off as if nothing had happened.
- Winston Churchill
When all else fails, try thinking.
- Anonymous
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
- Jean-Paul Sartre
You got to be careful if you
don't know where you're going,
because you might not get there.
- Yogi Berra
Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand
with a grip that kills it.
- Rabindranath Tagore
It is far better to be alone,
than to be in bad company.
- George Washington
People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand
my complaint about them not understanding me.
- Soren Kierkegaard
The presence of those seeking the truth
is infinitely to be preferred
to the presence of those who think they've found it.
- Terry Pratchett
When trouble arises and things look bad,
there is always one individual who perceives a solution
and is willing to take command.
Very often, that individual is crazy.
- Dave Barry
Speak when you are angry -
and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
- Laurence J. Peter
Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training,
for it trains people as to how they should think.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
- Francis Bacon
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living;
the world owes you nothing; it was here first.
- Mark Twain
The best way to keep your friends
is not to give them away.
- Wilson Mizner
Passion rules reason.
- Terry Goodkind
The man who can't dance thinks the band is no good.
- Polish Proverb
Life is a game - a game you can never win.
You already know the final score: Life 1, You 0.
Doesn't mean you can't have fun playing.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore,
and that's what parents were created for.
- Ogden Nash
The secret of ugliness consists not in irregularity,
but in being uninteresting.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are born princes, and the civilizing process makes us frogs.
- Publilius Syrus
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