Famous Quotes

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Aristotle:

No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

Franklin P. Jones:

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.

Plato:

He was a wise man who invented God.

Orson Welles:

Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.

Isaac Goldberg:

Grammar school never taught me anything about grammar.

Ralph Waldo Emerson:

As we grow old…the beauty steals inward.

William H. Borah:

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.

Clifton Fadiman:

When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.

Louise Beal:

Love thy neighbour as yourself, but choose your neighbourhood.

Jonathan Larson, From musical/rock opera: Rent:

Measure your life in love.

Thomas Jefferson:

My views and feelings (are) in favor of the abolition of war--and I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society, to lessen the disposition to war; but of its abolition I despair.

David T. Wolf:

Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows.

Harold Geneen:

Performance is your reality. Forget everything else.

Jayanth Komarneni:

Brilliance is born of desperation.

Scott Adams:

If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?