Open Quotes

Open your mind before your mouth. (Aristophanes)
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die. View quote
Mel Brooks
It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt. View quote
Mark Twain
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it. View quote
Terry Pratchett
Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing. View quote
Dave Barry
I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write. View quote
Ken Thompson
The people currently in charge have forgotten the first principle of an open society, namely that we may be wrong and that there has to be free discussion. That it's possible to be opposed to the policies without being unpatriotic. View quote
George Soros
My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light, in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature. View quote
Hans Hofmann
Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you. View quote
Jules Renard
I'm a born entertainer, when I open the fridge and the light comes on, I burst into song. (Robbie Williams)
If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find we have lost the future. View quote
Winston Churchill
Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open. View quote
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Accordingly, globalization is not only something that will concern and threaten us in the future, but something that is taking place in the present and to which we must first open our eyes. View quote
Ulrich Beck
For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness. View quote
Reba McEntire
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open. View quote
Jawaharlal Nehru
Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea. View quote
John Updike
The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own. View quote
William Hazlitt
Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open. View quote
Laura Welch Bush
All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible. This I did. (T. E. Lawrence)
My brain is open! View quote
Paul Erdős
In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself. View quote
Jiddu Krishnamurti
It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly. View quote
Margaret Mead
The sorrow for the dead is the only sorrow from which we refuse to be divorced. Every other wound we seek to heal - every other affliction to forget: but this wound we consider it a duty to keep open - this affliction we cherish and brood over in solitude. View quote
Washington Irving