Great Famous Quotations
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William Fullbright
We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every 10 minutes.
Thomas Fuller
Be a friend to thyself, and others will be so too.
Jessamyn West
Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking.
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts
I wouldn't be surprised if someday some fishermen caught a big shark and cut it open, and there inside was a whole person. Then they cut the person open, and in him is a little baby shark. And in the baby shark there isn't a person, because it would be too small. But there's a little doll or something, like a Johnny Combat little toy guy---something like that.
Jean de La Bruyere
A pious man is one who would be an athiest if the king were.
Vincent Van Gogh
For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.
Benjamin Disraeli
Man is not the creature of circumstances, circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.
Thomas Pickering
In archaeology you uncover the unknown. In diplomacy you cover the known.
Mitchell Burgess, Northern Exposure, Thanksgiving, 1992
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
William Arthur Ward
Opportunity is often difficult to recognize we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards.
Thomas B. Reed
A statesman is a successful politician who is dead.
Hippocrates, Law
Things that are holy are revealed only to men who are holy.
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