Some of my favourites, not in any order of preference

"Veni, Vidi, Vici" - Julius Ceasar. More popularly known as "I came, I saw, I conquered"


"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are fool than to open it and remove all doubt" - Mark Twain


"Always forgive your enemies, nothing annoys them as much" - Oscar Wilde


"Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative" - Oscar Wilde


"I am not young enough to know everything" - Oscar Wilde


"Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious" - Oscar Wilde


"Only the shallow know themselves" - Oscar Wilde. Got a soft corner for this one.


"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it" - Oscar Wilde


"Illusion is the first of all pleasures" - Oscar Wilde


"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake" - Napolean Bonaparte

"There is only step from the sublime to the ridiculous" - Napolean Bonaparte

"The price of greatness is responsibility" - Sir Winston Churchill



"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" - Aristotle. Also this one.


"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted" - Albert Einstein

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one" - Albert Einstein