Philosophy Quotes

"Alcohol may be man's worst enemy, but the Bible says love your enemy."

- Frank Sinatra

"To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems."

- Homer Simpson

"All I ever did was supply a demand that was pretty popular."

- Al Capone

"There is no such thing as a bad whisky. Some whiskies just happen to be better than others."

- William Faulkner

"Don’t judge men’s wealth or godliness by their Sunday appearance."

- Benjamin Franklin

"There are many persons who look on Sunday as a sponge to wipe out the sins of the week."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world."

- Louis Pasteur

"I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class, there seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warn-blooded to fall into this vice."

- Abraham Lincoln

"A philsopher is a man who can look at an empty glass with a smile."

- Tommy Dewar

"When I sell liquor, it's bootlegging. When my patrons serve it on a silver tray on Lakeshore Drive, it's hospitality."

- Al Capone

"War is only an invention, not a biological necessity."

- Margaret Mead

"Story collectors tend to be superstitious. Knock on wood, black cats, four leaf clovers... that sort of thing. After all, superstitions are the little stories we tell ourselves to make sense of our chaotic world."

- Kristin O'Donnell Tubb

"If you overvalue the uncommon, you spoil the uncommon and it begins to think of itself as something very precious! Don’t forget, a three-leaf clover is as valuable as the five-leaf-clover!"

- Mehmet Murat ildan

"Either war is obsolete or men are."

- Buckminster Fuller

"I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent."

- Mohandas Gandhi

"Violence produces only something resembling justice, but it distances people from the possibility of living justly, without violence."

- Leo Tolstoy

"The law of violence is not a law, but a simple fact which can only be a law when it does not meet with protest and opposition. It is like the cold, darkness and weight, which people had to put up with until recently when warmth, illumination and leverage were discovered."

- Leo Tolstoy

"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets."

- Voltaire

"Money is like muck, not good except it be spread."

- Francis Bacon

"If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war."

- Leo Tolstoy

"There's never been a true war that wasn't fought between two sets of people who were certain they were in the right. The really dangerous people believe they are doing whatever they are doing solely and only because it is without question the right thing to do. And that is what makes them dangerous."

- Neil Gaiman

"When I was a boy, the Dead Sea was only sick."

- George Burns

"Finance is not merely about making money. It’s about achieving our deep goals and protecting the fruits of our labor. It’s about stewardship and, therefore, about achieving the good society."

- Robert J. Shiller

"It’s easier to feel a little more spiritual with a couple of bucks in your pocket."

- Craig Ferguson

""Success is not about the destination, it’s about the journey.""

- Zig Ziglar

"Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time."

- Jean Paul

"And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years."

- Abraham Lincoln

"The secret to a happy life is to take one day at a time—including Saturdays."

"Saturdays are like rainbows; they look good from far away but disappear when you get up close to them."

""Success is a journey, not a destination – enjoy every step of it on this Saturday.""