Famous Quotes

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George Carlin:

I thought about how mothers feed their babies with tiny little spoons and forks so I wondered, what do Chinese mothers use? Toothpicks?

Rachel Carson:

For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it is a pity that you use it so little.

Abraham Lincoln:

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

Douglas Adams, "Mostly Harmless":

The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair.

Author Unknown:

The best mind might be the wisest mind if it were a mind alone that produces wisdom.

George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara (1907) act 3:

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

George Santayana, "The German Mind: A Philosophical Diagnosis":

Our character...is an omen of our destiny, and the more integrity we have and keep, the simpler and nobler that destiny is likely to be.

Anonymous:

Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.

Robert F. Kennedy:

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

Red Skelton:

Old age is when broadness of the mind and narrowness of the waist change places.

Amy Lowell:

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Winston Churchill:

Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.

Aristotle:

The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later.

Sir Francis Bacon:

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

John D. Rockefeller:

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.