Wednesday, January 02, 2008

Great Famous Quotations

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Michael Korda


Your chances of success are directly proportional to the degree of pleasure you desire from what you do. If you are in a job you hate, face the fact squarely and get out.

G. K. Chesterton


Virtue is not the absense of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers virtue is a vivid and separate ting, like pain or a particular smell.

William Shakespeare, "Antony and Cleopatra", Act 2 scene 2


Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale
Her infinite variety.

Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol


They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

Famous Quotations Update

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Ralph Waldo Emerson


It is commonly observed that a sudden wealth, like a prize drawn in a lottery or a large bequest to a poor family, does not permanently enrich. They have served no apprenticeship to wealth, and with the rapid wealth come rapid claims which they do not know how to deny, and the treasure is quickly dissipated.

Rabbi Harold Kushner


One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have is to wake up feeling healthy after we have been sick.

Jeff Melvoin, Northern Exposure, Dateline: Cicely, 1992


Rain usually makes me feel mellow. Curl up in the corner time, slow down, smell the furniture. Today it just makes me feel wet.

Andrew Schneider


Life's dirty. Life's unclean you know. It's birth, it's sex, it's the intestinal tract. One big squishy, unsanitary mess. It never gets any cleaner either. You know, dust to dust, worms crawl in, worms crawl out, right Even though we know that, we still walk the walk, we still live the life. We're like a bunch of little kids. Little kids, you know, we jump in this big old pond of mud and we're slapping it all over our face, rubbing our hair all down our backs and we're making these glorious, gooey, mud pies. That's us.

Gray Davis


A family is a family not because of gender but because of values, like commitment, trust and love.

Jean Baptiste Poquelin Molire


Oh, how fine it is to know a thing or two.

Bruce Lee


A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at.

Oscar Wilde


One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

John Muir


Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.

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Arcesilaus


Where you find the laws most numerous, there you will find also the greatest injustice.

William Shakespeare, "The Tempest", Act 1 scene 2


The fringed curtains of thine eye advance.

Sun-tzu


The best victory is when the opponent surrenders of its own accord before there are any actual hostilities...It is best to win without fighting.

Nikita Khrushchev


We say the name of God, but that is only habit.

J. S . Bach


There is nothing remarkable about it, all one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself.

Laertius Diogenes


Democritus says, But we know nothing really for truth lies deep down.

Miguel de Cervantes


Delay always breeds danger and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.

Thomas Jefferson


Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.

Sir Thomas More


Rules only make sense if they are both kept and broken. Breaking the rule is one way of observing it.

Lyndon B. Johnson


In this age when there can be no losers in peace and no victors in war, we must recognize the obligation to match national strength with national restraint.

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Today's Quotations:



Barbara Sher


Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do -- can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music. You know what to do.

Saint Francis of Assisi


Preach the gospel at all times -- If necessary, use words.

Hardy D. Jackson


Above all be true to yourself, and if you can not put your heart in it, take yourself out of it.

Francis Bacon, Essays (1625)


Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter.

J. R.R. Tolkien, Spoken by Gandalf


He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.

Sir Isaac Newton, Epitaph


I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean lay all undiscovered before me.

Japanese Proverb


The nail that sticks out is hammered down.

Nathaniel Hawthorne


Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

George Ade


'Whom are you' he asked, for he had attended business college.

Lyndon B. Johnson


To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.

Rush Hour


Carter This is the United States of James Carter here. I'm the president, I'm the emperor, I'm the king. I'm Michael Jackson, you Tito

William Shakespeare


I must be cruel, only to be kind Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.