Victor Hugo
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Socrates
Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers.
Ronald Reagan
In an atmosphere of liberty, artists and patrons are free to think the unthinkable and create the audacious; they are free to make both horrendous mistakes and glorious celebrations.
Dorothy Parker
If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be a bit surprised.
Herman Melville
Heaven have mercy on us all--Presbyterians and Pagans alike--for we are all dreadfully cracked about the head and desperately in need of mending.
Benjamin Franklin
All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.
Woody Allen
The difference between sex and death is that with death you can do it alone and no one is going to make fun of you.
Saul Bellow
The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches the first prize.
Oscar Wilde
Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.
Plato
The greatest penalty of evildoing - namely, to grow into the likeness of bad men.
Albert Einstein
The laws of gravity cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.
Adam Smith
Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for…
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.
Isaac Asimov
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny...'
Will Rogers
Live so that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.
Margaret Thatcher
Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.
Bertrand Russell
A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.
Walt Disney
All our dreams can come true --if we have the courage to pursue them.
Bill Maher
The reason I love my dog so much is because when I come home, he's the only one in the world who treats me like I'm The Beatles.
Jack Handey
How come the dove gets to be the peace symbol? How about the pillow? It has more feathers than the dove, and it doesn't have that dangerous beak.
Oscar Wilde
Alas, I am dying beyond my means.
Robert Frost
The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.
Aldous Huxley
Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
Plato
Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.
Emily Dickinson
Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
Groucho Marx
Anyone can get old, all you have to do is live long enough.
Mark Twain
To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did. I ought to know because I've done it a thousand times.
Aldous Huxley
Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
George Patton
All men are timid on entering any fight. Whether it is the first or the last fight, all of us are timid. Cowards are those who let their timidity get…
Woody Allen
When we played softball, I'd steal second base, feel guilty and go back.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
William Jennings Bryan
An orator is a man who says what he thinks and feels what he says.
George Carlin
Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong.
Martin Luther King Jr.
I just want to do God's will.
W. Somerset Maugham
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
Tacitus
To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
Fran Lebowitz
Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
Yoko Ono
The odds of not meeting in this life are so great that every meeting is like a miracle. It's a wonder that we don't make love to every single person…
Eleanor Roosevelt
I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.
Henry Mencken
To wage a war for a purely moral reason is as absurd as to ravish a woman for a purely moral reason.
Aristotle
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
Herbert Hoover
Where there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.
Samuel Johnson
Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drives into a corner,…
Ansel Adams
A good photograph is knowing where to stand.
C.S. Lewis
We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns…
Edward Abbey
Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State.
Christopher Morley
When you sell a man a book you don't sell him just 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.
Dave Barry
MEGAHERTZ: This is a really, really big hertz.
Reinhold Niebuhr
No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe, as from our own. Therefore, we are saved by the final form of love which…
Benjamin Franklin
Lost time is never found again.
John F. Kennedy
We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth.
Alexis de Tocqueville
The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.
Alan Valentine
Whenever science makes a discovery, the devil grabs it while the angels are debating the best way to use it.
Vince Lombardi
Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.
William Shakespeare
Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes hasten to their end.
Erica Jong
Everyone has talent; what is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
Tommy Lasorda
There are three types of baseball players: those who make things happen, those who watch it happen, and those who wonder what happens.
Henry Thoreau
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
Henry Ford
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do.
Jesse Jackson
Keep hope alive!
Bertrand Russell
Philosophers, for the most part, are constitutionally timid, and dislike the unexpected. Few of them would be genuinely happy as pirates or burglars. Accordingly they invent systems which make the…
Ronald Reagan
Our natural, inalienable rights are now considered to be a dispensation from government, and freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping from our grasp as it is…
Dale Carnegie
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
William Shakespeare
Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em.
Benjamin Franklin
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Henry Mencken
Love is like war: easy to begin but very hard to stop.
Dwight Eisenhower
If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of…
Robert Alden
There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle.
Christopher Morley
Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.
Carl Jung
I could not say I believe ? I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God.
Theodore Roosevelt
Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.
Elbert Hubbard
Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street.
Mark Twain
Etiquette requires us to admire the human race.
Ansel Adams
A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.
Jesse Jackson
Our flag is red, white and blue, but our nation is a rainbow -- red, yellow, brown, black and white -- and we're all precious in God's sight.
Oscar Wilde
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Jesse Owens
For a time, at least, I was the most famous person in the entire world.
Sydney Smith
Marriage resembles a pair of shears, so joined that they cannot be separated; often moving in opposite directions, yet always punishing any one who comes between them.
Fran Lebowitz
Special-interest publications should realize that if they are attracting enough advertising and readers to make a profit, the interest is not so special.
Bill Clinton
We are living in a world, where what we earn is a function of what we learn.