Famous Quotes

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Ralph Waldo Emerson:

By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.

H. L. Mencken:

The first kiss is stolen by the man; the last is begged by the woman.

Charles Gordon:

If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you.

Hesiod:

Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor.

Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities:

It is a far, far better thing that I do now, then I have ever done before... it is a far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known before.

Aldous Huxley:

The only completely consistent people are the dead.

Alexander Hamilton:

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.

Dave Barry:

I think Superman should go on the Larry King show and announce that he would come back to life if people in all 50 states wanted him to.

Válcav Havel, parade, Times Picayune:

Courage means going against majority opinion in the name of the truth.

Don Marquis:

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

Milton Friedman:

There is one and only one social responsibility of business-to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud.

Oscar Levant:

Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you find the real tinsel underneath.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Address on The Method of Nature, 1841:

He who is in love is wise and is becoming wiser, sees newly every time he looks at the object beloved, drawing from it with his eyes and his mind those virtues which it possesses.

Learned Hand:

Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.

Jean Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract:

Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains.