Famous Quotes

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Dr. Joyce Brothers:

Accept that all of us can be hurt, that all of us can - - and surely will at times -- fail. I think we should follow a simple rule: if we can take the worst, take the risk.

Victor Marie Hugo:

Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.

Sir Thomas Browne:

Sure there is music even in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument. For there is music wherever there is harmony, order and proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres; for those well ordered motions, and regular paces, though they give no sound unto the ear, yet to the understanding they strike a note most full of harmony.

Mata Hari:

The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.

Dave Barry:

Sharks are as tough as those football fans who take their shirts off during games in Chicago in January, only more intelligent.

James Thurber:

I loathe the expression "What makes him tick." It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.

Andy Warhol:

I broke something today, and I realized I should break something once a week...to remind me how fragile life is.

Michael Korda:

An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition.

James Madison:

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

Kin Hubbard:

The safest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it in your pocket.

Helen Keller:

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.

George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists":

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

Evan Davis:

Nice guys finish last, but we get to sleep in.

Benjamin Franklin:

Glass, china and reputation are easily cracked, and never well mended.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson:

Believing where we cannot prove.