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Albert Einstein on his 72nd birthday

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Here's a list of great quotes from some of history's greatest thinkers, celebrities and that guy named "anonymous" compiled, edited, reassembled and polished up from various websites and sources, including Medium, Discover Walks, ThatOneRule and the Awesome Daily.

• "The old believe everything. The middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything." Oscar Wilde

• "To succeed in life, you need two things; IGNORANCE and CONFIDENCE." Mark Twain

• "By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you will be happy. If you get a bad one, you will be a philosopher." Socrates

• "Only two things are infinite. The universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." Albert Einstein

• "If anyone tells you that such a person speaks ill of you, don't make excuses about what is said of you, but answer 'He does not know my other faults, else he would not have mentioned only these.'" Epictetus

• "It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?" Ronald Reagan

• "Democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time." Winston Churchill

• "I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined...look both ways before they cross the road." Stephen Hawking

• "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work." Thomas Edison

• "Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday." Dale Carnegie

• "My formula for success is rise early, work late and strike oil." J. Paul Getty

• "To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone, and a funny bone." Reba McEntire

• "It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance." Thomas Sowell

• “I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.” Oscar Wilde

• “No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.” Abraham Lincoln

• “Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as you please.” Mark Twain

• “Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops.” Cary Grant

• “Age is something that doesn’t matter unless you are a cheese.” Luis Bunuel

• “Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.” Jim Carrey

• “Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.” Anthony Burgess

• “People say, ‘But Betty, Facebook is a great way to connect with old friends.’ Well, at my age, if I want to connect with old friends, I need a Ouija board.” Betty White

• “Before you marry a person, you should first make them use a computer with slow internet to see who they really are.” Will Ferrell

• “There is nothing so annoying as to have two people go right on talking when you’re interrupting.” Mark Twain

• “The trouble with having an open mind is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.” Terry Pratchett

• “When I was a boy, the Dead Sea was only sick.” George Burns

• "The best way to predict your future is to create it.” Abraham Lincoln

• “The only mystery in life is why the kamikaze pilots wore helmets.” Al McGuire

• “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” Thomas Edison

• “I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.” Mark Twain

• "The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits." Albert Einstein

• “Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them and you have their shoes.” Jack Handey

• "The man who says his wife can't take a joke, forgets that she took him." Oscar Wilde

• “To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.” Steven Wright

• “If you can’t beat them, arrange to have them beaten.” George Carlin

• “According to most studies, people’s number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that seem right? That means to the average person, if you have to go to a funeral, you’re better off in the casket than doing the eulogy.” Jerry Seinfeld

• "When we talk to God, we're praying. When God talks to us, we're schizophrenic." Jane Wagner

• “Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.” Oscar Wilde

• “A camel is a horse designed by a committee.“ Sir Alec Issigonis

• “An optimist is someone who falls off the Empire State Building, and after 50 floors says, ‘So far so good!’” Anonymous

• “Don’t worry about the world coming to an end today. It’s already tomorrow in Australia.” Charles Schulz

• “You are more mysterious than David Blaine reading a Sue Grafton novel at Area 51.” Ted Lasso

• “I can resist everything except temptation.” Oscar Wilde