Favourite quotes

OK, SO THESE AREN’T FACTS. But I didn’t know where else to put them. These quotations all mean something profound to me, and I hope they can mean something to you too.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.
Oscar Wilde


We are here on Earth to help others.
What on earth the others are here for I do not know.
W H Auden


Morality is doing right, no matter what you are told.
Religion is doing what you are told, no matter what is right.
H.L. Mencken


It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Aristotle


No pleasure is worth giving up for the sake of two more years in a geriatric home in Weston-super-Mare.
Kingsley Amis


Better to keep silent and be thought a fool, than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.
Abraham Lincoln


The woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
Henry van Dyke


Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Leonardo da Vinci


It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.
Joseph Joubert


When your work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt.
Henry J Kaiser


The first 90% of a project is a lot easier than the second 90%.
Tim Sweeney, founder of Epic Games


Faith is believing what you know ain’t so.
Mark Twain