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"People will listen a great deal more patiently while you explain your mistakes than when you explain your successes." »Wilbur N. Nesbit
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"To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy." »David Brooks
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"Never complain and never explain." »Benjamin Disraeli
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"Never complain. Never explain." »Katherine Hepburn
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"If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." »Albert Einstein
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"Never explain--your friends do not need it and your enemies will not believe you anyway." »Elbert Hubbard
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"We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like" »Jean Cocteau
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"Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it." »Rabindranath Tagore, Whisperings. The Inspirational Writings of Rabindranath Tagore on Nature, Love and Life.
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"Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive." »Walt Disney
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"Now let me explain why this makes intuitive sense." »Prof. Larry Wasserman
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"The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over." »Hunter S Thompson
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"Stop question, think first. Do not explain, just silence." »Woody Haldrugold
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"It takes less time to do things right than to explain why you did it wrong." »Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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"Time will explain it all. He is a talker, and needs no questioning before he speaks." »Euripides
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"Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing." »H. L. Mencken
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"It just ain't possible to explain some things. It's interesting to wonder on them and do some speculation, but the main thing is you have to accept it-take it for what it is, and get on with your growing." »Jim Dodge
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"I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and then put them in my mouth." »Mignon McLaughlin
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"It is only the inferior thinker who hastens to explain the singular and the complex by the primitive shortcut of supernaturalism." »H. P. Lovecraft
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"If it were possible to talk to the unborn, one could never explain to them how it feels to be alive, for life is washed in the speechless real." »Jacques Martin Barzun
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"There exists no politician in India daring enough to attempt to explain to the masses that cows can be eaten." »Indira Gandhi
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"Words were never invented to fully explain the peaceful aura that surrounds us when we are in communion with minds of the same thoughts." »Eddie Myers
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"No, this trick won't work...How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love" »Albert Einstein
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"The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance...logic can be happily tossed out the window." »Stephen King
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"Explain it as we may, a martial strain will urge a man into the front rank of battle sooner than an argument, and a fine anthem excite his devotion more certainly than a logical discourse." »Henry Tuckerman
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"The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance... logic can be happily tossed out the window." »Stephen King
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"Enzymes are things invented by biologists that explain things which otherwise require harder thinking." »Jerome Lettvin
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"The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women… merely adored." »Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband
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"I bet a fun thing would be to go way back in time to where there was going to be an eclipse and tell the cave men, 'If I have come to destroy you, may the sun be blotted out from the sky.' Just then the eclipse would start, and they'd probably try to kill you or something, but then you could explain about the rotation of the moon and all, and everyone would get a good laugh." »Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
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"The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations, describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work." »John Von Neumann
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"Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you haven't really learned anything." »Mohammad Ali, Newspaper, Daily Herald
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