Famous Quotes

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Katharine Fullerton Gerould:

Funny how people despise platitudes, when they are usually the truest thing going. A thing has to be pretty true before it gets to be a platitude.

Kenich Ohmae:

It is hard to let old beliefs go. They are familiar. We are comfortable with them and have spent years building systems and developing habits that depend on them. Like a man who has worn eyeglasses so long that he forgets he has them on, we forget that the world looks to us the way it does because we have become used to seeing it that way through a particular set of lenses. Today, however, we need new lenses. And we need to throw the old ones away.

John F. Kennedy:

Liberty without learning is always in peril; learning without liberty is always in vain.

Mahatma Gandhi:

A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.

Charles Buxton:

The first duty to children is to make them happy, If you have not made them so, you have wronged them, No other good they may get can make up for that.

Dorothy Sayers:

As I grow older and older,
And totter toward the tomb,
I find that I care less and less
Who goes to bed with whom.

Sir Julian Huxley:

Operationally, God is beginning to resemble not a ruler but the last fading smile of a cosmic Cheshire cat.

Unknown:

The more you run over a dead cat, the flatter it gets.

Joel Hawes:

Aim at the sun, and you may not reach it; but your arrow will fly far higher than if aimed at an object on a level with yourself.

Thomas Fuller:

If we are bound to forgive an enemy, we are not bound to trust him.

Søren Kierkegaard, Asluttende uvidenskabeligt Efterskrift:

Alas! While the speculative honourable professor explains the entire existence has he in distraction forgotten his own name, that he is a man, purely and simply a man, not a fantastic 3
8 of a paragraph.

Eugene H. Spafford:

The only truly secure system is one that is powered off, cast in a block of concrete and sealed in a lead-lined room with armed guards -- and even then I have my doubts.

Anatole France:

Chance is perhaps the pseudonym of God when he does not wish to sign his work.

Mark Twain:

"When angry, count four; when very angry, swear.

Alan Ashley-Pitt:

The man who follows the crowd will get no farther than the crowd. A man who walks alone is likely to get places no one has ever been before.