Famous Quotes Update

Today's Famous Quotes:

Maitri Upanishads


As one acts and conducts himself, so does he become. The doer of good becomes good. The doer of evil becomes evil. One becomes virtuous by virtuous action, bad by bad action.

William Hazlitt


If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago.

C. Neil Strait


A man can go on without wealth, and even without purpose, for a while. But he will not go on without hope.

Calvin Trillin


The average trade book has a shelf life of between milk and yogurt, except for books by any member of the Irving Wallace family - they have preservatives.

Stephen Jay Gould


The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.

Norman Vincent Peale


Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy

Oscar Wilde


Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

Rudyard Kipling


Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Ernest Hemingway


Time is the least thing we have.

Aldous Huxley, "Proper Studies", 1927


Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Catherine Drinker Bowen


Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and once in the mirror which waits always before or behind.

F Scott


It's not a slam at you when people are rude-it's a slam at the people they've met before.

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