I've been collecting quotes since high school and have built up a sizable collection. Here are a few favorites from my complete collection, which you can download if you'd like.
Selected Quotes
Nice guys finish first. If you don't know that, then you don't know where the finish line is.
- Garry Shandling
When I played, I played as hard as I could.
- Larry Bird, Boston Celtics #33
You'll always miss 100% of the shots you don't take.
- Wayne Gretsky, Edmonton Oilers #99
Veni, vidi, vici.
- Caesar
In spite of everything, I still believe people are really good at heart.
- Anne Frank
Redheads are the product of a reaction between sugar and lust.
- Tom Robbins
Anyone who is not confused is not well informed.
- Anonymous
Knowledge is power.
- Francis Bacon
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
Smile, it makes people wonder what you're up to.
- Unknown
Some mistakes are too much fun to make only once.
- Unknown
Sometimes in life you have to specifically go out of your way to get into trouble—it's called fun.
- Robin Williams
When you're serious about having fun, it isn't much fun at all.
- Calvin, Calvin and Hobbes
Defeat doesn't finish a man—quitting does. A man is not finished when he's defeated. He's finished when he quits.
- Richard Nixon
You don't stop playing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop playing.
- Peter Gruber
You can only be young once, but you can be immature forever.
- Unknown
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies in us while we live.
- Norman Cousins
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
- Derek Bok
Think wrongly, if you please, but in all cases think for yourself.
- Doris Lessing
Never let your studies interfere with your education.
- Mark Twain
The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world.
- Gilbert Keith Chesterton
I'm not even sure what I want, but that's not the point. It's that I want it now.
- Elvis Costello
The easiest person to deceive is one's own self.
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.
- Katharine Hepburn
The penalty of success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you.
- Lady Astor
Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
- Pancho Villa, his last words