Famous Quotes

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Author Unknown:

Flattery looks like friendship, just like a wolf looks like a dog.

Reinhold Niebuhr:

Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure.

Sigmund Freud:

The goal of all life is death.

Anacharsis Cloots:

Bad mind, bad heart.
(Mals Mens, Malus Animus)

Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh:

He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most; God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.

Marianne Williamson, Return to Love, 1992:

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.

Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics:

One swallow does not make a summer.

Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel:

Fashion changes, style remains.

Ellen Parr:

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath (1939):

Man, unlike any other thing organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.

Francisco Franco:

I am responsible only to God and history.

Margot Asquith:

What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.

Bertha Calloway:

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.

Sheldon Kopp:

In the long run, we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving.

Albert Einstein:

He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable patriotism, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.