Famous Quotes

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Jerry Flint, in Forbes:

Competition is a painful thing, but it produces great results.

John the Elder:

God is love,and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.

Samuel Johnson, Letter to Lord Chesterfield, 1775:

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

William Rose Benet:

And now there is merely silence, silence, silence, saying all we did not know.

Edgar Allan Poe, "Eleonora":

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

George Santayana:

That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and, were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.

Robert Kennedy:

What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents.

Juvenal:

Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman.

Izaak Walton:

Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.

Benjamin Franklin:

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon, volume I, no. 183:

Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.

Georg Wilhelm, O Magazine, September 2003:

Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Ernesto "Che" Guevara, Shortly before being shot.:

Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man.

Isaac Newton:

I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.

William Cowper:

Glory built on selfish principles is shame and guilt.