Famous Quotes

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Earl of Roscommon:

What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled.

Jennifer Aniston:

Once you figure out who you are and what you love about yourself, I think it all kinda falls into place."

Charles M. Schwab:

The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor find much fun in life.

Francis A. Carter:

There is only one way in which a person acquires a new idea; by combination or association of two or more ideas he already has into a new juxtaposition in such a manner as to discover a relationship among them of which he was not previously aware.

Quintilian, De Institutione Oratoria:

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

Quentin Crisp:

One should always be wary of anyone who promises that their love will last longer than a weekend.

Aristotle:

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.

Mrs Henry Adams (c. 1880):

Henry James chews more than he bites off.

Niccolo Machiavelli:

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

Seneca:

Fate rules the affairs of mankind with no recognizable order.

Margaret Deland, O Magazine, September 2002:

One must desire something to be alive.

Bertrand Russell:

Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do.

Will Rogers:

Alexander Hamilton started the U.S. Treasury with nothing -- and that was the closest our country has ever been to being even.

Zora Neale Hurston:

Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do it enough to impress themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much.

Jane Austen, Mansfield Park:

It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.