Famous Quotes

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Benjamin Franklin:

Whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of his neighbor, will feel a pleasure in the reverse. And those who despair to rise in distinction by their virtues, are happy if others can be depressed to a level of themselves.

Margaret Cho, weblog, 01-27-04:

Ugly. Is irrelevant. It is an immeasurable insult to a woman, and then supposedly the worst crime you can commit as a woman. But ugly, as beautiful, is an illusion.

Homer, The Odyssey:

Nothing feebler than a man does the earth raise up, of all the things which breathe and move on the earth, for he believes that he will never suffer evil in the future, as long as the gods give him success and he flourishes in his strength; but when the blessed gods bring sorrows too to pass, even these he bears, against his will, with steadfast spirit, for the thoughts of earthly men are like the day which the father of gods and men brings upon them.

Thomas Overbury:

The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.

Horace, Odes:

Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

Sun-Tzu:

All warfare is based on deception. There is no place where espionage is not used. Offer the enemy bait to lure him.

Woody Allen:

Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night.

George Bernard Shaw:

I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.

Matthew Prior:

Be to her virtues very kind. Be to her faults a little blind.

E. Joseph Crossman:

Drive-in banks were established so most of the cars today could see their real owners.

Benjamin Franklin:

We must hang together, gentlemen...else, we shall most assuredly hang separately.

Brenda Ueland:

So you see, imagination needs moodling - long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering.

Ronald Reagan, Address to the Nation, Jan 16, 1984:

History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap.

George Santayana:

Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

Bertrand Russell:

Too little liberty brings stagnation and too much brings chaos.