Great Famous Quotations

Famous Quotations:

Will Durant


Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.

Abraham Lincoln


Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them

Adam De L'Isle


I have thought too much to stoop to action.

Albert Camus


Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without asking a clear question.

William Makepeace Thackeray


There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.

Edwina Currie


The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is Don't screw around, and don't smoke.

Robert Burton


A good conscience is a continual feast.

Douglas Adams, "Mostly Harmless"


The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Fourth Inaugural Address, Jan. 20, 1945


We can gain no lasting peace if we approach it with suspicion and mistrust or with fear. We can gain it only if we proceed with the understanding, the confidence, and the courage which flow from conviction.

Greville


No man was ever so much deceived by another as by himself.

Henry Adams


It is impossible to underrate human intelligence--beginning with one's own.

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