Famous Quotes

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Sextus Propertius, Elegies:

Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent.

Mencius, Works:

Sincerity is the way of Heaven.

Louisa May Alcott:

Far away in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

Barbara Hall, A Summons to New Orleans, 2000:

Justice does not come from the outside. It comes from inner peace.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:

If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain as he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought and could be.

Oscar Wilde, As he passed through customs:

I have nothing to declare but my genius.

Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu:

The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.
Through this I know the advantage of taking no action.

Will Rogers:

I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat.

Bertrand Russell:

This is patently absurd; but whoever wishes to become a philosopher must learn not to be frightened by absurdities.

Henry David Thoreau, Walden:

Time is but a stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

Thomas Mann:

Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.

Thomas H. Huxley:

Agnosticism simply means that a man shall not say he knows or believes that for which he has no grounds for professing to believe.

Orson Welles:

My doctor told me to stop having intimate dinners for four. Unless there are three other people.

Terry Pratchet, (on the big bang theory):

In the begining there was nothing, and it exploded.

Alf Landon, during his speech in his presidential campaign against FDR:

Wherever I have gone in this country, I have found Americans.