Mrs. Hefners Favorite Quotes

mr. Friedrich Nietzsche

You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame;how could you rise anew if you have not first become ashes?

The best way to begin each day well is: upon awakening, to think about whether we cannot bring pleasure to at least one person on this day. If this could count as a substitute for the religious habit of prayer, our fellow human beings would gain an advantage from the change

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love

Faith: not wanting to know what is true

Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you

Go up close to your friend, but do not go over to him! We should also respect the enemy in our friend

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man

If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself

It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages

The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness

What do you regard as most humane? To spare someone shame

mr.Mark Twain

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often

Be careless in your dress if you will, but keep a tidy soul

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt

It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog

Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry

Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to

The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop

Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect

mr.Albert Einstein

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former

The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in health or we suffer in soul or we get fat

A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem

Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results

There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle

We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them

mr. Arthur Schopenhauer

A man can do what he wants, but not want what he wants

We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.

The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity

It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain

The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body