Famous Quotes

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from an official Japanese guide for English-speaking drivers, 1936:

1. At the rise of the hand of the policeman, stop rapidly. Do not pass him or otherwise disrespect him.
2. If pedestrian obstacle your path, tootle horn melodiously. If he continue to obstacle, tootle horn vigorously and utter vocal warning such as "Hi, Hi."
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5. Beware of greasy corner where lurk skid demon. Cease step on, approach slowly, round cautiously, resume step on gradually.

Socrates, In "Phaedo," sct. 98, by Plato.:

I was afraid that by observing objects with my eyes and trying to comprehend them with each of my other senses I might blind my soul altogether.

Karl Marx, The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (by Karl Marx):

The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living.

Robert J. Sawyer, "Calculating God", 2000:

General principles should not be based on exceptional cases.

Publilius Syrus:

It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door.

John Simon:

Dinner theater is anti-culture.

Lord Byron, Don Juan:

Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; The best of life is but intoxication.

Cousin Woodman:

The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.

Jimmy Demaret:

Golf and sex are about the only things you can enjoy without being good at.

Napoleon Bonaparte:

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

Doug Larson:

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.

Bruce Barton:

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance

The Bhagavad Gita, The Bhagavad Gita, The Bhagavad Gita as translated by Eknath Easwaran:

Fear Not. What is not real, never was and never will be. What is real, always was and cannot be destroyed.

Sir Walter Scott:

To be always intending to live a new life, but never find time to set about it - this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking from one day to another till he be starved and destroyed.

Mark Twain:

Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him until he emerges on the other side of his atlantic with his verb in his mouth.