Your best witty Quotes out there

What are your favorite (intelligent, offensive or witty) quotes you heard out there?

If you have one with a source I’d love to check it out too✌️
 

Here’s my current favorite quote by Steve Eisman about “90’s” WallStreet guys referring to the 2008 CMBS crisis:

”They mistook leverage for genius.”

simple yet brilliant 

 

"When a game of chess is over, the king and the pawn go into the same box."

Was watching a video on the history of Afghanistan and how it led to the current failed state.

 

Pretty good quote. It reminds me of the mentality in the roaring 1920s. It’s amazing how far we have come in 100 years. I wonder what this decade will be called in 10 or 20 years.

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 
Oscar Wilde:

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

 

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