Incredible Quotations:

The English language is our finest cultural heritage. Here are some quotations to remind us all why. Our aim is build a library, please add comments with your favourites and we will paste them onto this main post.

"Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things."

 Peter Drucker (1909 - 2005) )

“For 42 years I’ve been making small, regular deposits in the bank of experience, education and training. On January 15 the balance was sufficient to make a very large withdrawal.”

Chesley Sullenberger, the US airline pilot who successfully ditched his plane on the Hudson last year:

"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one most adaptable to change."

Charles Darwin

"The mass of men guide lives of silent desperation."

 Henry Thoreau, 1854, American author

“The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.”  

Galbraith, Economist

"If I had my way, I would write the word insurance over the door of every house, because I’m convinced, for sacrifices that are inconceivably small, families can be secured against catastrophes which otherwise would smash them up forever.”

Churchill, Prime Minister of England

"The confidence trick is the work of man, but the want-of-confidence trick is the work of the devil."

E.M Forster

"There is no cramming for the test of life."

Madeleine Albright

"Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most, always like it the least."

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, Letter, 29th January 1748

"Advice is more agreeable in the mouth than in the ear."

Mason Cooley (1927-2002), U.S. aphorist.

"Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it."

Gordon R. Dickson

"We must be very careful when we give advice to younger people: sometimes they follow it!"

Edsger W. Dijkstra

"Advice is given freely because so much of it is worthless."

James Geary, American aphorist and journalist

"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't."

Erica Jong

"Good advice is better than bad advice, if you know the difference."

Anon