“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
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“Dreaming of the person you want to be is wasting the person you already are.”
Kurt Cobain (1967–1994) American musician and artist
“Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.”
Hedy Lamarr (1914–2000) Austrian-American actress and co-inventor of an early technique for spread spectrum communications and freq…
As quoted in The Stars (1962) by Richard Schickel
“Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.”
Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) Austrian neurologist known as the founding father of psychoanalysis
Letter to Wilhelm Fliess (15 October 1897), as quoted in Origins of Psychoanalysis
1890s
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
No known source in Twain's works. <br class="br">The earliest known source is a Usenet post from November 2000 https://groups.google.com/forum/message/raw?msg=israel.francophones/j_b0peHVcJw/YN5cG6Pdk6QJ. <br class="br">Disputed
“Never allow someone to be your priority while allowing yourself to be their option.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
“Science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated.”
Rosalind Franklin (1920–1958) British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer
in answer to her father, who accused her of making science her religion, as related by [Brenda Maddox, Rosalind Franklin: The Dark Lady of DNA, Perennial, 2003, 0060985089, 61]
“When words leave off, music begins.”
Heinrich Heine (1797–1856) German poet, journalist, essayist, and literary critic
As quoted in Peter's Quotations : Ideas for Our Time (1977) by Laurence J. Peter, p. 343
“Luck is when opportunity meets preparation.”
Denzel Washington (1954) actor, screenwriter, director, producer