Famous Quotes

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Joan Kiser:

The sins of the fathers are often visited upon the sons-in-law.

Ralph Waldo Emerson:

All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen.

Czech Proverb:

When you go to buy, use your eyes, not your ears.

J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 2005:

When you have seen as much of life as I have, you will not underestimate the power of obsessive love.

Richard Bach:

Learning is finding out what you already know

Napoleon Bonaparte:

A leader has the right to be beaten, but never the right to be surprised.

T. S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, line 105:

It is impossible to say just what I mean!

William James:

I believe there is no source of deception in the investigation of nature which can compare with a fixed belief that certain kinds of phenomena are impossible.

Aesop, Juno and the Peacock:

Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.

Anonymous:

There are no thanks for a kindness, which has been delayed.

St. John Baptist de La Salle, The Rules of Christian Manners and Civility (c. 1695):

Children are guilty of unpardonable rudeness when they spit in the face of a companion; neither are they excusable who spit from windows or on walls or furniture.

George Bernard Shaw:

He who has never hoped can never despair.

Saadi:

Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.

William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 3 scene 3:

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below:
Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

Prophet Mohammad, Bukhari & Muslim:

When two persons are together, two of them must no whisper to each other, without letting the third hear; because it would hurt him.