Famous Quotes

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La Rochefoucauld:

Everyone complains of his lack of memory, but nobody of his want of judgment.

E.V. Lucas:

I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.

Jenny Jerome Churchill:

We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.

Stanislaw Lec, "Unkempt Thoughts":

If a man who cannot count finds a four-leaf clover, is he entitled to happiness?

Henry David Thoreau, "Walden", 1854:

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

Unknown:

All power corrupts, but we need the electricity.

Carl Jung:

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

Aristotle:

Those that know, do. Those that understand, teach.

Unknown:

Those who stare at the past have their backs turned to the future.

Apuleius:

He is the better equipped for life. As for swimming, who has the less to carry.

George Orwell:

Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Venus in Furs:

How exquisite that gaze of yours would be if you were being whipped to death, in the last agony.

W. C. Fields:

Never give a sucker an even break.

William Wrigley Jr.:

When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.

Ancient Chinese Warlord:

To conquer the enemy without resorting to war is the most desirable. The highest form of generalship is to conquer the enemy by strategy.