Famous Quotes

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Zeno, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers:

The goal of life is living in agreement with nature.

Virginia Woolf:

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects:

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short.

A. Poincelot:

Good taste is the flower of good sense.

John Maxwell:

The pessimist complains about the wind. The optimist expects it to change. The leader adjusts the sails.

William Shakespeare:

I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.

Hans A. Bethe:

If we fight a war and win it with H-bombs, what history will remember is not the ideals we were fighting for but the methods we used to accomplish them. These methods will be compared to the warfare of Genghis Khan who ruthlessly killed every last inhabitant of Persia.

H. L. Mencken, Prejudices: Second Series, 1920:

There is always a well-known solution to every human problem--neat, plausible, and wrong.

Thomas Love Peacock:

I almost think it is the ultimate destiny of science to exterminate the human race.

Dudley Field Malone:

I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.

John Lennon, When asked how the Beatles found America on their first U.S. visit:

Just turn left at Greenland...

Puerto Rican Proverb:

Break the leg of a bad habit.

Homer, The Odyssey:

There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.

Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound:

Words are the physicians of the mind diseased.

Edward Weeks:

To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity.