Famous Quotes

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Jules Renard:

Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.

Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory:

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

Johnson:

The love of retirement has in all ages adhered closely to those minds which have been most enlarged by knowledge, or elevated by genius. Those who enjoyed everything generally supposed to confer happiness have been forced to seek it is the shades of privacy.

Euripides:

Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

P. G. Wodehouse, Uneasy Money:

Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.

Calvin Coolidge:

All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.

Elzear Blaze, La Vie Militaire:

In the career of glory one gains many things; the gout and medals, a pension and rheumatism....And also frozen feet, an arm or leg the less, a bullet lodged between two bones which the surgeon cannot extract....all of these fatigues experienced in your youth, you pay for when you grow old. Because one has suffered in years gone by, it is necessary to suffer more, which does not seem exactly fair.

Josh Billings:

One of rarest things that a man ever does is to do the best he can.

Louisa May Alcott:

I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning to sail my ship.

Blaise Pascal, Lettres Proviciales (1657):

I have made this letter long because i have not the time to make it shorter.

Arabian Proverb:

Four things come not back -- the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity.

Sir Arthur Eddington, Space, Time, and Gravitation, 1920:

We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account for its origins. At last, we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made the footprint. And lo! It is our own.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects:

What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the mean man seeks is in others.

Coleman Young:

Courage is one step ahead of fear.

Emmet Fox:

Life is consciousness.