Give me Famous Quotations now!
Orison Swett Marden
It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that make the master's fame.
William Hazlitt
First impressions are often the truest, as we find (not infrequently) to our cost, when we have been wheedled out of them by plausible professions or studied actions. A man's look is the work of years it is stamped on his countenance by the events of his whole life, nay, more, by the hand of nature, and it is not to be got rid of easily.
Scandinavian Proverb
Go often to the house of thy friend for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
Saint Augustine
The good Christian should beware the mathematician and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of hell.
Shirley Temple
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.
Mark Twain
I am prepared to meet anyone, but whether anyone is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
Natalie Goldberg, O Magazine, October 2002
Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency. Nothing is that important.
Douglas Noel Adams
Space is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, O Magazine, April 2003
So divinely is the world organized that every one of us, in our place and time, is in balance with everything else.
Ovid
Love and dignity cannot share the same abode.
Sir Winston Churchill
The best argument against democracy is a five minute talk with the average voter.
I. F. Stone
If you live long enough, the venerability factor creeps in first, you get accused of things you never did, and later, credited for virtues you never had.
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