Famous Funny Quotes - Page 24

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
        — Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970)

The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, they finish by loading honors on your head.
        — Jean Cocteau (1889-1963)

The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
        — George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
        — Mark Twain (1835-1910)

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
        — Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

The mistakes are all waiting to be made.
        — Chess master Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the game's opening position

The nice thing about being a celebrity is that if you bore people they think it's their fault.
        — Henry Kissinger (1923-)

The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
        — Lucille S. Harper

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
        — General George Patton (1885-1945)

The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.
        — Salvador Dali (1904-1989)