Famous Quotes

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Richard Byrd:

A static hero is a public liability. Progress grows out of motion.

Sterne:

Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.

Barbara Kingsolver, "Life Without Go-Go Boots" (personal essay):

High fashion has the shelf life of potato salad.

John Stuart Mill, On Liberty:

Over one mind and over ones body the individual is sovereign.

Alexander Pope, Essay on Criticism:

Ten censure wrong, for one that writes amiss.

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice:

We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of a man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him.

Robin Renwick, former British ambassador to the United States:

No matter how much spin, effort, lunch or dinner you give the media, they will not fail to notice whether you have won or lost.

Joseph Conrad:

All a man can betray is his conscience.

Hesiod:

Often an entire city has suffered because of an evil man.

William Arthur Ward:

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

Edna St. Vincent Millay, Letters, 1952:

Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling into at night. I miss you like hell.

Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, page 62:

I hold a creed, which no one ever taught me, and which I seldon mention, but in which I delight, and to which I cling, for it extends hope to all; it makes eternity a rest - a mighty home - not a terror and an abyss. With this creed, I can so clearly distinguish between the criminal and his crime, I can so sincerly forgive the first while I abhor the last; with this creed, revenge never worries my heart, degredation never too deeply disgusts me, injustice bever crushes me too low; I live in calm, looking to the end.

Frank Lloyd Wright:

The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:

Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but is sure to repent of every ill-judged outlay.

Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe:

The story so far: In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.