There are no facts, only interpretations.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
It is hard enough to remember my opinions,
without also remembering my reasons for them!
- Friedrich Nietzsche
In individuals, insanity is rare;
but in groups, parties, nations and epochs,
it is the rule.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
One should never know too precisely
whom one has married
- Friedrich Nietzsche
I live in my own place -
have never copied anyone even half,
and at any master who lacks the grace -
to laugh at himself - I laugh.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
What doesn't kill me, makes me stronger.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Without music, life would be a mistake...
I would only believe in a God who knew how to dance.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
Be careful not to do your good deeds
when there's no one watching you.
- Tom Lehrer
When I eventually met Mr. Right
I had no idea that his first name was Always.
- Rita Rudner
No one knows what's next, but everybody does it.
- George Carlin
Oh no, I can't do anything to the death.
Doctor's orders. You see, I have this ulcer condition,
and death is the worst thing for it.
- the movie Love and Death
No one can have a higher opinion of you than I have,
and I think you're a slimy, contemptible sewer rat!
- the movie The Great Mouse Detective
Television has a real problem. They have no page two.
- Art Buchwald
A honeymoon should be like a table:
four bare legs and no drawers.
- Anonymous
Marriage has no guarantees.
If that's what you're looking for,
go live with a car battery.
- Erma Bombeck
Mr. President, I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed.
But I do say no more than ten to twenty million killed, tops.
Uh, depending on the breaks.
- the movie Dr. Strangelove
One cannot have everything the way he would like it.
A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment,
anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even.
- Mark Twain
No matter how much cats fight,
there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
- Abraham Lincoln
And you just gotta remember, Sparky -
no matter what they tell you - you can NEVER have too much sugar.
- the movie Michael (1996)
A man's friendships are, like his will,
invalidated by marriage -
but they are also no less invalidated
by the marriage of his friends.
- Samuel Butler
Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.
- the movie National Lampoon's Animal House (1978)
No man is truly married until he understands
every word his wife is NOT saying.
- Anonymous
I have no fear of the gallows ... They're going to shoot me.
- the movie Love and Death
There's no reason to become alarmed,
and we hope you'll enjoy the rest of your flight.
By the way, is there anyone on board who knows how to fly a plane?
- the movie Airplane!
He who loves 50 people has 50 woes;
he who loves no one has no woes.
- The Buddha
The worst government is often the most moral.
One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane.
But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.
- H. L. Mencken
Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden
You have no values. With you its all nihilism,
cynicism, sarcasm, and orgasm.
- the Woody Allen movie Deconstructing Harry
No problem is so formidable that
you can't walk away from it.
- Charles M. Schulz' cartoon Peanuts
Random chance seems to have operated in our favor ...
there was no deity involved.
- Spock character in the Star Trek television series
Less is only more where more is no good.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.
- Mark Twain
It has been my experience that folks who
have no vices, have very few virtues.
- Abraham Lincoln
Every one desires to live long,
but no one would be old.
- Abraham Lincoln
Faced with the choice between changing one's mind
and proving that there is no need to do so,
almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
- John Kenneth Galbraith
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears,
for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
- Albert Einstein
An excellent man;
he has no enemies;
and none of his friends like him.
- Oscar Wilde
There is no use whatsoever trying to help
people who do not help themselves.
You cannot push anyone up a ladder
unless he is willing to climb himself.
- Andrew Carnegie
The most difficult phase of life
is not when no one understands you,
it is when you don't understand yourself.
- Anonymous
When all think alike, no one is thinking very much.
- Walter Lippmann
Clothes make the man.
Naked people have little or no influence on society.
- Mark Twain
Some people are so heavenly minded
that they are no earthly good.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
It is the things for which there is no evidence
that are believed with passion.
- Bertrand Russell
Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed.
- Mark Twain
I once had a rose named after me
and I was very flattered.
But I was not pleased to read
the description in the catalogue:
no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
The man who does not read good books
has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain
If at first you don't succeed,
try, try, and try again.
Then give up.
There's no use being a damned fool about it.
- W. C. Fields
As soon as someone is identified as an unsung hero,
he no longer is.
- George Carlin
The universe we observe has precisely
the properties we should expect
if there is, at bottom, no design,
no purpose, no evil, no good,
nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
- Charles Darwin
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Do not bite at the bait of pleasure,
till you know there is no hook beneath it.
- Thomas Jefferson
He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.
- Oscar Wilde
Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
- Laurence J. Peter
The way to silence religious disputes is to take no notice of them.
- Thomas Jefferson
It's not the men in your life that counts,
it's the life in your men.
- Mae West, in the movie I'm No Angel
I begin with the principle that all men are bores.
Surely no one will prove himself
so great a bore as to contradict me in this.
- Soren Kierkegaard
No one was ever named "Hero" for following the crowd.
Heroes set their own course.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Computers are like Old Testament gods;
lots of rules and no mercy.
- Joseph Campbell
Science may have found a cure for most evils;
but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -
the apathy of human beings.
- Helen Keller
I find that principles have no real force
except when one is well fed.
- Mark Twain
Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance
and hypocritical humility.
I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Experience keeps a dear school,
but fools will learn in no other.
- Benjamin Franklin
There is no such thing as public opinion.
There is only published opinion.
- Winston Churchill
I am no longer young enough to know everything.
- Oscar Wilde
In theory there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice there is.
- Yogi Berra
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