Famous Quotes

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Michel de Montaigne:

No man is exempt from saying silly things; the mischief is to say them deliberately.

Jimi Hendrix, Quoted in Charles Shaar Murray,Crosstown Traffic, ch. 6 (1989).:

Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel.

Philip Henry Gosse, 1857:

If any choose to maintain, as many do, that species were gradually brought to their maturity from humbler forms ... he is welcome to his hypothesis, but I have nothing to do with it.

Gaius Julius Caesar, De Bello Gallico:

Men generally believe what they wish.

Victor Hugo:

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is visible labour and there is invisible labour.

Mahatma Ghandi:

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

Author Unknown:

Our five senses are incomplete without the sixth - a sense of humor.

Voltaire, Zadig:

It is better to risk saving a guilty person than to condemn an innocent one.

Theodore Roosevelt:

If I must choose between righteousness and peace, I choose righteousness.

J.B. Priestley:

When I was young there was no respect for the young, and now that I am old there is no respect for the old. I missed out coming and going.

Abraham Lincoln:

Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people may be engaged in. That everyone may receive at least a moderate education appears to be an objective of vital importance.

Larry McMurtry, "Flim Flam - Essays on Hollywood":

Mystery is underrated, and understanding is overrated.

Nicholas Butler:

The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.

Lucille Ball:

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line.

Domitus Ulpian:

Justice is the constant and perpetual will to allot to every man his due.