best quotations about
Ways & Means |
and Tools
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Quotations
 | It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it. — Lou Holtz, 1937-, American football coach 15 likes |
 | You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you. — Eric Hoffer, 1902-1983, American writer & philosopher 14 likes |
 | The means which make a man fit to make a fortune are the same which prevent him from enjoying it. — Antoine Rivarol, 1753-1801, French author of maxims 9 likes |
 | I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. — Albert Einstein, 1879-1955, German-Jewish physicist 8 likes |
 | If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. — Bernard Baruch, 1870-1965, American businessman & statesman 8 likes |
 | Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. — Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865, American President 7 likes |
 | The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have. — Vince Lombardi, 1913-1970, American football coach 7 likes |
 | Of all the means which wisdom acquires to ensure happiness throughout the whole of life, by far the most important is friendship. — Epicurus, 341-270 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 7 likes |
 | Art is not a thing; it is a way. — Elbert Hubbard, 1856-1915, American writer 7 likes |
 | Production is not the application of tools to materials, but logic to work. — Peter Drucker, 1909–2005, Austrian management guru 6 likes |
 | There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still. — Franklin Roosevelt, 1882-1945, American President [1936-1945] 6 likes |
 | The end cannot justify the means for the simple and obvious reason that the means employed determine the nature of the ends produced. — Aldοus Huxley, 1894-1963, English writer 6 likes |
 | Always start out with a larger pot than what you think you need. — Julia Child, 1912-2004, American chef, author & TV personality. 4 likes |
 | Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world. — Marilyn Monroe, 1926-1962, American actress 4 likes |
 | Man is a tool-making animal. — Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790, American politician & writer 4 likes |
 | There are many ways to the Divine. I have chosen the ways of song, dance, and laughter. — Rumi, 1207-1273, Persian mystic & poet 4 likes |
 | Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped. — Calvin Coolidge, 1872-1933, American President [1923-1929] 4 likes |
 | The way to do is to be. — Lao-Tzu, 6th cent. BC, Chinese philosopher 4 likes |
 | All your Greek will never advance you from secretary to envoy, or from envoy to ambassador; but your address, your manner, your air, if good, very probably may. — Lord Chesterfield, 1694-1773, English statesman & writer 4 likes |
 | We shall not fail or falter. We shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle nor the long-drawn trials of vigilance and exertion will wear us down. Give us the tools and we will finish the job. — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 4 likes |
 | By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. — Confucius, 551-479 BC, Chinese teacher & philosopher 4 likes |
 | In the eyes of empire builders men are not men but instruments — Napoleon, 1769-1821, French Emperor 3 likes |
 | We must use time as a tool, not as a couch. — John Kennedy, 1917-1963, American President [1961-1963] 3 likes |
 | It is better to have a bad method than to have none. — Charles de Gaulle, 1890-1970, French President 3 likes |
 | The literate, the erudite, the learned mount by means of ladders; poets and artists are birds. — Victor Hugo, 1802-1885, French writer 3 likes |
| God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one. — Rumi, 1207-1273, Persian mystic & poet 3 likes |
 | When you know what you want, and you want it bad enough, you'll find a way to get it. — Jim Rohn, 1930-2009, American self-help speker 3 likes |
 | I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way. — Robert Frost, 1874-1963, American poet 3 likes |
 | Sometimes you just have to jump out the window and grow wings on the way down. — Ray Bradbury, 1920-2012, American sci-fi writer 3 likes |
| If all you can do is crawl, start crawling. — Rumi, 1207-1273, Persian mystic & poet 3 likes |
 | To make a great film you need three things - the script, the script and the script. — Alfred Hitchcock, 1899-1980, British film director 2 likes |
 | A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition. — Rudyard Kipling, 1865-1936, English writer, Nobel 1907 2 likes |
 | Work is the means of living, but it is not living. — Bill Vaughan, 1915-1977, American journalist 1 likes |
| The methods are the habits of the spirit and the benefits of the memory. — Antoine Rivarol, 1753-1801, French author of maxims 1 likes |
 | How do you make a round circle with a square knife? That’s your challenge for the day. — Bob Ross, 1942-1995, American painter & TV personality 1 likes |
 | Liberty is not an end, but a means. Whoever mistakes it for an end does not know what to do once he attains it. — Nicolas Gomez Davila, 1913-1994, Colombian writer 1 likes |
 | You have the brushes, you have the colors, paint the paradise and go inside. — Nikos Kazantzakis, 1883-1957, Greek writer 1 likes |
 | You arrive at truth through poetry; I arrive at poetry through truth. — Joseph Joubert, 1754-1824, French author of maxims 1 likes |
 | A writer needs a pen, an artist needs a brush, but a filmmaker needs an army. — Orson Welles, 1915-1985, American actor & film director 1 likes |
 | Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it. — Bruce Lee, 1940-1973, Chinese-American actor 1 likes |
 | As bees gather honey, so we collect what is sweetest out of all things, and build. — Rainer Maria Rilke, 1875-1926, Czech-German poet 1 likes |
 | War is like love, it always finds a way. — Bertolt Brecht, 1898-1956, German writer 1 likes |
 | Even the best intentioned of great men need a few scoundrels around them; there are some things you cannot ask an honest man to do. — Jean de La Bruyère, 1645-1696, French writer 1 likes |
| There are only two ways of getting on in the world: by one's own industry, or by the stupidity of others. — Jean de La Bruyère, 1645-1696, French writer 1 likes |
 | You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down your sentences. — Anatole France, 1844-1924, French writer, Nobel 1921 1 likes |
 | The reason that clichés become clichés is that they are the hammers and screwdrivers in the toolbox of communication. — Terry Pratchett, 1948-2015, British writer 1 likes |
| Just erotic. Nothing kinky. It's the difference between using a feather and using a chicken. — Terry Pratchett, 1948-2015, British writer 1 likes |
| We are trying to unravel the Mighty Infinite using a language which was designed to tell one another where the fresh fruit was. — Terry Pratchett, 1948-2015, British writer 1 likes |
 | You go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time. — Donald Rumsfeld, 1932-2021, American politician 1 likes |
 | Technology is basically neutral. It's kind of like a hammer. The hammer doesn't care whether you use it to build a house, or whether a torturer uses it to crush somebody's skull. — Noam Chomsky, 1928-, American linguist, philosopher, social activist 1 likes |
 | First we build the tools, then they build us. — Marshall McLuhan, 1911-1980, Canadian academic & media theorist 1 likes |
| We become what we behold. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us. — Marshall McLuhan, 1911-1980, Canadian academic & media theorist 1 likes |
| Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today’s jobs with yesterday’s tools! — Marshall McLuhan, 1911-1980, Canadian academic & media theorist 1 likes |
 | Everyone has the right to play their cards their own way. — Marty Rubin, 1930-1994, Canadian gay activist, author & journalist 1 likes |
 | You know my method. It is founded upon the observation of trifles. — Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859-1930, British writer 1 likes |
 | I not only use all the brains that I have, but all I can borrow. — Woodrow Wilson, 1856-1924, American President [1913-1921] 1 likes |
 | What really matters is what you do with what you have. — H.G. Wells, 1866-1946, British writer 1 likes |
 | If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny. — André Maurois, 1885-1967, French writer 1 likes |
 | There are not fifty ways to wage war. There is only one: the dirty one. — François Cavanna, 1923-2014, French humorist 1 likes |
Personal Stories
 | I failed my way to success. — Thomas Edison, 1847-1934, American inventor 3 likes |
Latin Quotes
 | If the winds fail you, use the oars. Destitutus ventis, remos adhibe. 109 likes |
| The wolf with his teeth, the bull with his horns. Lupus dentis, taurus cornis. 38 likes |
 | What always, what everywhere, what by everybody. Quod semper, quod ubique, quo ab omnibus. — Saint Vincent of Lerins, 5th century Gallic monk (determining what Catholics must believe to fight heresy) 22 likes |
Quotes in Verse
| The best way out is always through. — Robert Frost, 1874-1963, American poet 3 likes |
| I keep six honest serving-men: (They taught me all I knew) Their names are What and Where and When and How and Why and Who. — Rudyard Kipling, 1865-1936, English writer, Nobel 1907 1 likes |
Ancient Greek
 | Each art must use its tools, each body its soul. Δει γαρ την μεν τέχνην χρήσθαι τοις οργάνοις, την δε ψυχήν τω σώματι. — Aristotle, 384-322 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 12 likes |
 | Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth. Δως μοι πα στω και ταν γαν κινάσω. — Archimedes, 287-212 BC, Ancient Greek mathematician & inventor 11 likes |
| The hand is the instrument of instruments. Η χειρ όργανόν εστιν οργάνων. — Aristotle, 384-322 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 8 likes |
 | If you do not hit the clay, you cannot make tile. Αν μη πηλόν τύψης, κέραμος ου γίνεται. — Archytas, 428-347 BC, Ancient philosopher & statesman 6 likes |
 | As the men’s nature differ, so do their ways. Διάφοροι δε φύσεις βροτών, διάφοροι δε τρόποι. — Euripides, 480-406 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Iphigeneia at Aulis 5 likes |
 | Those diseases which medicines do not cure, iron cures; those which iron cannot cure, fire cures; and those which fire cannot cure, are to be reckoned wholly incurable. Οκόσα φάρμακα ουκ ιήται, σίδηρος ιήται, όσα σίδηρος ουκ ιήται, πυρ ιήται όσα δε πυρ ουκ ιήται, ταύτα χρη νομίζειν ανίατα. — Hippocrates, 460-370 BC, Ancient Greek physician, the “Father of Medicine” (iron=knife, fire=searing iron) 5 likes |
| Extreme remedies are the best for extreme diseases. Ες δε τα έσχατα νουσήματα αι έσχαται θεραπείαι ες ακριβείην, κράτισται. — Hippocrates, 460-370 BC, Ancient Greek physician, the “Father of Medicine” 4 likes |
| People, to make a living, devise many and varied things. Άνθρωποι βίου δεόμενοι, πολλά και παντοία τεχνέονται. — Hippocrates, 460-370 BC, Ancient Greek physician, the “Father of Medicine” 1 likes |
Proverbs
 | The way to a man's heart is through his stomach. 8 likes |
| The end justifies the means. 4 likes |
 | He who rides a tiger is afraid to dismount. 4 likes |
 | There's more than one way to skin a cat. 4 likes |
Movie Quotes
 | You're gonna need a bigger boat. — from the film Jaws (1975) 5 likes |
