Daily Famous Quotations

Today's Famous Quotations:

Hartley Coleridge


She is not fair to outward view
As many maidens be;
Her loveliness I never knew
Until she smiled on me;
Oh! then I saw her eye was bright,
A well of love, a spring of light.


Aesop, Hercules and the Wagoner


The gods help them that help themselves.

V. P. Skipper


A kiss To a young girl, faith to a married woman, hope to an old maid, charity.

Author Unknown


Thinking things has been done through the ages; knowing things remains to be done.

Benedict Spinoza


God is a thing that thinks.

Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer


I have no money, no resources, and no hope. I am the happiest man alive.

Amelia Earhart, Courage, 1927


Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace.

Learned Hand


I often wonder whether we do not rest our hopes too much upon constitutions, upon laws and upon courts. These are false hopes believe me, these are false hopes. Liberty lies in the hearts of men and women when it dies there, no constitution, no law, no court can save it...

Ray Douglas Bradbury


Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things.

Robert Frost


You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.

Lois McMaster Bujold, Diplomatic Immunity, 2002


The dead cannot cry out for justice; it is a duty of the living to do so for them.

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