Famous Quotes

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Sidney Madwed:

Poor is the man who does not know his own intrinsic worth and tends to measure everything by relative value. A man of financial wealth who values himself by his financial net worth is poorer than a poor man who values himself by his intrinsic self worth.

Benjamin Franklin:

I am in the prime of senility.

Evan Esar:

Most new books are forgotten within a year, especially by those who borrow them.

R. D. Laing:

We live in a moment of history where change is so speeded up that we begin to see the present only when it is already disappearing.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Prologue:

All art is quite useless.

Shakespeare:

The road to true love never did run smooth.

John Quincy Adams:

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

Clifton Fadiman:

A man who is careful with his palate is not likely to be careless with his paragraphs.

Deanna Troi, _Imzadi_, Star Trek - The Next Generation:

Higher emotions are what separate us from the lower orders of life...
Higher emotions, and table manners.

Jane Wagner, (and Lily Tomlin):

I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific.

Eudora Welty:

For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.

William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 2 scene 2:

The devil hath power
To assume a pleasing shape.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery:

One man may hit the mark, another blunder; but heed not these distinctions. Only from the alliance of the one, working with and through the other, are great things born.

Ralph Waldo Emerson:

It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no.

Ralph Waldo Emerson:

All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.