Famous Quotes

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Ralph Waldo Emerson, (attributed):

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

Marilyn Monroe:

I am not interested in money. I just want to be wonderful.

Jewish Proverb:

If the rich could hire the poor to die for them, the poor would make a very nice living.

Ralph Waldo Emerson:

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Alan Perlis:

The computing field is always in need of new cliches.

Robert F. Kennedy:

Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.

Peter da Silva:

Ahhh. A man with a sharp wit. Someone ought to take it away from him before he cuts himself.

H. L. Mencken:

Thanksgiving Day is a day devoted by persons with inflammatory rheumatism to thanking a loving Father that it is not hydrophobia.

Agatha Christie:

Your travel life has the aspect of a dream. It is something outside the normal, yet you are in it. It is peopled with characters you have never seen before and in all probability will never see again. It brings occasional homesickness, and loneliness, and pangs of longing... But you are like the Vikings who have gone into a world of adventure, and home is not home until you return.

Henrik Ibsen, Norweigen Playwright:

Poetry is to hold judgment on your soul.

Publilius Syrus:

It is more tolerable to be refused than deceived.

Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics:

We make war that we may live in peace.

Earl of Roscommon:

What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled.

Henry Kissinger:

University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

Helen Keller:

Many persons have the wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.