Famous Quotes

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Jules Renard:

Failure is not the only punishment for laziness; there is also the success of others.

Seneca:

One hand washes the other.
(Manus Manum Lavet)

Samuel Johnson, Rambler #18:

There is no observation more frequently made by such as employ themselves in surveying the conduct of mankind, than that marriage, though the dictate of nature, and the institution of Providence, is yet very often the cause of misery, and that those who enter into that state can seldom forbear to express their repentance, and their envy of those whom either chance or caution hath withheld from it.

Klopstock:

He who has an opinion of his own, but depends on the opinion and tastes of others is a slave.

Rosalind Russell, as Aunti Mame:

Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving.

Sir Winston Churchill, on the eve of his 75th birthday:

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

Redd Foxx:

Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.

Fyodor Dostoevsky:

Neither man or nation can exist without a sublime idea.

William Butler Yeats:

We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason outselves into it.

Mahatma Gandhi:

It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.

Frederick Douglas:

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

Emanuel Swedenborg, From the book "Apocalypse Explained" #338:

True wisdom is seeing what is beneficial to your eternal life, and managing your life according to that. You do this when you not only know these things and grasp them with your understanding, but also will and do them.

Jay Gould:

I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half.

Robert Browning:

My business is not to remake myself, But make the absolute best of what God made.

Aesop, The Bundle of Sticks:

Union gives strength.