A bunch of quotes in JSON format (taken from https://litemind.com/best-famous-quotes/)

quotes.json

[
  {"text": "You can do anything, but not everything.",
   "author": "David Allen"},

  {"text": "Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.",
   "author": "Antoine de Saint-Exupéry"},

  {"text": "The richest man is not he who has the most, but he who needs the least.",
   "author": "Unknown Author"},

  {"text": "You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.",
   "author": "Wayne Gretzky"},

  {"text": "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.",
   "author": "Ambrose Redmoon"},

  {"text": "You must be the change you wish to see in the world.",
   "author": "Gandhi"},

  {"text": "When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean.",
   "author": "Lin-Chi"},

  {"text": "The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.",
   "author": "A. A. Milne"},

  {"text": "To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.",
   "author": "Abraham Maslow"},

  {"text": "We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.",
   "author": "Aristotle"},

  {"text": "A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.",
   "author": "Baltasar Gracian"},

  {"text": "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought.",
   "author": "Basho"},

  {"text": "Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.",
   "author": "Georg Christoph Lichtenberg"},

  {"text": "What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do.",
   "author": "John Ruskin"},

  {"text": "The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands but seeing with new eyes.",
   "author": "Marcel Proust"},

  {"text": "Work like you don’t need money, love like you’ve never been hurt, and dance like no one’s watching",
   "author": "Unknown Author"},

  {"text": "Try a thing you haven’t done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time, to figure out whether you like it or not.",
   "author": "Virgil Garnett Thomson"},

  {"text": "Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.",
   "author": "Will Rogers"},

  {"text": "People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.",
   "author": "Zig Ziglar"},

  {"text": "What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.",
   "author": "Oscar Levant"},

  {"text": "Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.",
   "author": "Oscar Wilde"},

  {"text": "When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren’t smart enough to get out of jury duty.",
   "author": "Norm Crosby"},

  {"text": "Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.",
   "author": "Kurt Vonnegut"},

  {"text": "Just the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses.",
   "author": "Carl Sagan"},

  {"text": "My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.",
   "author": "Jean Rostand"},

  {"text": "Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.",
   "author": "Lily Tomlin"},

  {"text": "I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back.",
   "author": "Richard Lewis"},

  {"text": "We’ve heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true.",
   "author": "Robert Wilensky"},

  {"text": "If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?",
   "author": "Scott Adams"},

  {"text": "If the lessons of history teach us anything it is that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us.",
   "author": "Anon"},

  {"text": "When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I’m beginning to believe it.",
   "author": "Clarence Darrow"},

  {"text": "Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else’s can shorten it.",
   "author": "Cullen Hightower"},

  {"text": "There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say.",
   "author": "Cyril Connolly"},

  {"text": "There’s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?",
   "author": "Dick Cavett"},

  {"text": "All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.",
   "author": "H. L. Mencken"},

  {"text": "I don’t mind what Congress does, as long as they don’t do it in the streets and frighten the horses.",
   "author": "Victor Hugo"},

  {"text": "I took a speed reading course and read ‘War and Peace’ in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.",
   "author": "Woody Allen"},

  {"text": "The person who reads too much and uses his brain too little will fall into lazy habits of thinking.",
   "author": "Albert Einstein"},

  {"text": "Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.",
   "author": "André Gide"},

  {"text": "It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.",
   "author": "Aristotle"},

  {"text": "I’d rather live with a good question than a bad answer.",
   "author": "Aryeh Frimer"},

  {"text": "We learn something every day, and lots of times it’s that what we learned the day before was wrong.",
   "author": "Bill Vaughan"},

  {"text": "I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter.",
   "author": "Blaise Pascal"},

  {"text": "Don’t ever wrestle with a pig. You’ll both get dirty, but the pig will enjoy it.",
   "author": "Cale Yarborough"},

  {"text": "An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn’t take his education too seriously.",
   "author": "Charles F. Kettering"},

  {"text": "Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.",
   "author": "Christopher Hampton"},

  {"text": "Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.",
   "author": "Cyril Connolly"},

  {"text": "Never be afraid to laugh at yourself, after all, you could be missing out on the joke of the century.",
   "author": "Dame Edna Everage"},

  {"text": "I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.",
   "author": "Edith Sitwell"},

  {"text": "The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.",
   "author": "Ellen Parr"},

  {"text": "Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.",
   "author": "Erica Jong"},

  {"text": "Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon the wall instead of using it.",
   "author": "Gordon R. Dickson"},

  {"text": "The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you’re still a rat.",
   "author": "Lily Tomlin"},

  {"text": "Never ascribe to malice, that which can be explained by incompetence.",
   "author": "Napoleon (Hanlon’s Razor)"},

  {"text": "Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.",
   "author": "Oscar Wilde"},

  {"text": "When a person can no longer laugh at himself, it is time for others to laugh at him.",
   "author": "Thomas Szasz"},
  
  {"text": "I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.",
   "author": "Wilson Mizner"},
  
  {"text": "The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance; it is the illusion of knowledge.",
   "author": "Daniel J. Boorstin"}
]