Muhammad Ali
I'm so fast that, last night, I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.
I'm so fast that, last night, I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.
Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
There are two types of education. One should teach us how to make a living, And the other how to live.
People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be…
When a whole nation is roaring patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and purity of its heart.
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
They say love is around every corner. I must be walking in circles.
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national blessing.
My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-five now, and we don't know where the hell she is.
As every divided kingdom falls, so every mind divided between many studies confounds and saps itself.
'You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve,' said Aslan. 'And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to…
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
A government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth.
I know not what course others make take, but as for me: give me Liberty, or give me death.
Once again, we come to the Holiday Season, a deeply religious time that each of us observes, in his own way, by going to the mall of his choice.
I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
Life is like a Ferrari, it goes too fast. But that's ok, because you can't afford it anyway.
The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
He is able who thinks he is able.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
When this girl at the museum asked me who I liked better, Monet or Manet, I said, 'I like mayonnaise.' She just stared at me, so I said it again,…
Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but is sure to repent of every ill-judged outlay.
Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus.
A single death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a statistic.
It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.
To me, it's always a good idea to always carry two sacks of something when you walk around. That way, if anybody says, 'Hey, can you give me a hand?,'…
Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end?
A grave is a place where the dead are laid to await the coming of the medical student.
A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation…
The man who carries a cat by the tail learns something that can be learned in no other way.
When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad. That?s my religion.
Death is psychologically as important as birth. Shrinking away from it is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.
Death is psychologically as important as birth. Shrinking away from it is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.
There is no such thing as a good war and there is no such thing as a bad peace.
Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders.
Man is by nature a political animal.
There are two things which a democratic people will always find very difficult - to begin a war and to end it.
They say that God is everywhere, and yet we always think of Him as somewhat of a recluse.
Plough deep while sluggards sleep.
The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.
Knowledge is not wisdom, unless used wisely.
I told my psychiatrist that everyone hates me. He said I was being ridiculous - everyone hasn't met me yet.
I wanted to do something nice so I bought my mother-in-law a chair. Now they won't let me plug it in.
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that…
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but whoever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
If he's so smart, how come he's dead?
Change before you have to.
The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands.
Of course I don't believe in it. But I understand that it brings you luck whether you believe in it or not. web hosting
Time is money.
We who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive.
My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher,…
I wish TV had a knob so you could turn up the intelligence. The one marked Brightness doesn't work.
Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.
Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed.
There is time for everything.
I have an intense desire to return to the womb. Anybody's.
The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world.
Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
Nobody in football should be called a genius. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.
Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.
How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him,…
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were.
Having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night is a very old human need.
There is a remarkable breakdown of taste and intelligence at Christmas time. Mature, responsible grown men wear neckties made of holly leaves and drink alcoholic beverages with raw egg yolks…
There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes.
Truth is sacred; and if you tell the truth too often nobody will believe it.
Are you entitled to the fruits of your labor or does government have some presumptive right to spend and spend and spend?
The best way to keep children home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant -- and let the air out of the tires.
There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.
Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.
Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.
Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves.
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.
Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back…