Misattributed Quotes

Perfect is the enemy of good.

The pure present is an ungraspable advance of the past devouring the future. In truth, all sensation is already memory.

Mrs. Lynde says, 'Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.

Unfortunately, Susan didn't remember what Jane Fulton once said, 'Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.

Every now and then a man's mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.

A woman being never at a loss... the devil always sticks by them.

For people who like that kind of thing, this is the kind of thing they like.

We read to know we're not alone.

The grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

They who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor S

Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened.

Go to heaven for the climate and hell for the company.

There are three types of lies -- lies, damn lies, and statistics.

When you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.

Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you'd like to act.

Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the wrong. Sometime in life you will have been all of these.

We can not solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them

When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.

You can’t go back and make a new start, but you can start right now and make a brand new ending.

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.

A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.

War does not determine who is right — only who is left.

Women should be obscene and not heard.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.

And in the end, we were all just humans.. drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.

Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.

This life’s hard, but it’s harder if you’re stupid.

Keep your friends close but your enemies closer.

Remember that life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away!

I can't give you a sure-fire formula for success, but I can give you a formula for failure: try to please everybody all the time.

First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. And then they attack you and want to burn you. And then they build monuments to you.

Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it.Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it's at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.

Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.

Be nice to nerds. You may end up working for them. We all could.

Be careful about reading health books. Some fine day you'll die of a misprint.

Have you ever noticed how ‘What the hell’ is always the right decision to make?

Creativity is knowing how to hide your sources

If a cluttered desk is a sign of a cluttered mind, of what, then, is an empty desk a sign?

You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.

I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.

The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off.

It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.

Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.

A man convinced against his will Is of the same opinion still

Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.

The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.