Famous Quotes

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Edward R. Murrow:

When the politicians complain that TV turns the proceedings into a circus, it should be made clear that the circus was already there, and that TV has merely demonstrated that not all the performers are well trained.

Arapaho Proverb:

Each bird loves to hear himself sing.

Oscar Wilde, upon being told the cost of an operation:

I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means.

George Lorimer:

Back of every noble life there are principles that have fashioned it.

Unknown:

Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.

Harlen Ellison, interview with Charlie Rose:

What is not nailed down is mine. Anything that I can pry loose was not nailed down.

Marie Curie:

You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.

Count Oxenstierna:

Dost thou not know, my son, with how little wisdom the world is governed?

Thomas Sowell:

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth--anonymously and posthumously.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago:

Pride grows in the human heart like lard on a pig.

Sigmund Freud, (Attributed):

The first human being who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization.

Unknown:

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top.

W. H. Auden:

Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered.

Scottish Proverb:

Bees that have honey in their mouths have stings in their tails.

Dean Koontz, Shadow Fires ( early book):

When life hands us a beutiful bouquet of flowers we stare at it in cautious expectation of a bee.