Famous Quotes

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Mother Teresa, -- Letter to U.S. President George Bush and Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, January 1991.:

Please choose the way of peace. ... In the short term there may be winners and losers in this war that we all dread. But that never can, nor never will justify the suffering, pain and loss of life your weapons will cause.

Sir Francis Bacon:

He of whom many are afraid ought to fear many.

Josh Billings:

As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.

Euclid, Said to king Ptolemy I:

There is no "royal road" to geometry.

Isaac Bashevis Singer:

The very essence of literature is the war between emotion and intellect, between life and death. When literature becomes too intellectual -- when it begins to ignore the passions, the motions -- it becomes sterile, silly, and actually without substance.

Vincent T. Lombardi:

The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.

Henry Ford:

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

George Harrision, From the song "Within you without you" from Sgt Pepper:

Life goes on within you and without you.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Ecce Homo, Foreword:

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.:

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving -- we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it -- but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

Joey Bishop:

Today you can go to a gas station and find the cash register open and the toilets locked. They must think toilet paper is worth more than money.

Benjamin Disraeli:

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth.

Henry Vaughn:

And yet, as angels in some brighter dreams
Call to the soul when man doth sleep,
So some strange thoughts transcend our wonted themes,
And into glory peep.

Henri-Frédéric Amiel:

...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.

Homer, The Iliad:

He knew the things that were and the things that would be and the things that had been before.