Great Famous Quotations

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle


It is a great thing to start life with a small number of really good books which are your very own.

Brian Tracy


You cannot control what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward what happens to you, and in that, you will be mastering change rather than allowing it to master you.

Al Franken


Im good enough, Im smart enough, and dog-gone it, people like me.

Socrates


Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults.

Benjamin Disraeli


Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

Gen. Joseph Stilwell


Illegitimis non carborundum.Lat., Don't let the bastards grind you down.

J. R. R. Tolkien, Gandalf, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King


The board is set, the pieces are moving. We come to it at last...
The great battle of our time.

Baltasar Gracian


At 20 a man is a peacock, at 30 a lion, at 40 a camel, at 50 a serpent, at 60 a dog, at 70 an ape, and at 80 nothing.

CaddyShack


Spalding Smails This is good stuff. I got it from a Negro. You're probably high already and you don't even know it.

Robert E. Lee, Conversation with Gen. Longstreet


To be a good soldier, you must love the army. To be a good commander, you must be willing to order the death of the thing you love.

Samuel Johnson


To hear complaints with patience, even when complaints are vain, is one of the duties of friendship.

Henry David Thoreau


Faint heart never won true friend. O my friend, may it come to pass, once, that when you are my friend I may be yours.

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