Famous Quotes

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Walter Bagehot:

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

French Proverb:

Everything passes, everything breaks, everything wearies.

Chinese Proverb:

A fool judges people by the presents they give him.

Leo Buscaglia:

No amount of time can erase the memory of a good cat and no amount of masking tape can ever totally remove his fur from your couch.

Author Unknown:

Criticism is the disapproval of people, not for having faults, but having faults different from your own.

Alfred Lord Tennyson:

Hope smiles on the threshold of the year to come, whispering that it will be happier.

Henry Ward Beecher:

Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.

Jean Anouilh:

The true masters of the art of living are already happy if they are not unhappy.

Gustave Flaubert, "Madame Bovary", ch. 12:

...exaggerated turns of speech conceal mediocre affections: as if the fulness of the soul might not sometimes overflow in the emptiest of metaphors, since no one, ever, can give the exact measurements of his needs, nor of his conceptions, nor of his sufferings, and the human word is like a cracked cauldron upon which we beat out melodies fit for making bears dance when we are trying to move the stars to pity.

Ralph Waldo Emerson:

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the ordinary.

Wachowski Brothers, The Matrix Reloaded:

Choice is an illusion, created between those with power, and those without.

Dave Letterman:

USA Today has come out with a new survey - apparently, three out of every four people make up 75% of the population.

Ralph Waldo Emerson:

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

Missy Dizick:

Some people say that cats are sneaky, evil, and cruel. True, and they have many other fine qualities as well.

Charles Buxton:

The first duty to children is to make them happy, If you have not made them so, you have wronged them, No other good they may get can make up for that.