Famous Quotes

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Author Unknown:

Advice is the only commodity on the market where the supply always exceeds the demand.

Edmund Burke:

Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.

Ralph Ellison, "The Invisible Man":

I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra:

That everybody is allowed to learn to read spoileth in the long run not only writing but thinking.

Sally Forth, Jan. 28, 1991:

If I ask a woman if she has suffered sexual harassment, could this be considered sexual harassment?

Timothy Leary:

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

Chinese Proverb:

He who is drowned is not troubled by the rain.

Oscar Wilde, The Model Millionaire, 1912:

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Percy Bysshe Shelley:

Music, when soft voices die,
Vibrates in the memory;
Odors, when sweet violets sicken,
Live within the sense they quicken.

Tom Wilson, Ziggy (comic):

Many of us are more capable than some of us...
but none of us is as capable as all of us!!

Dalai Lama, The Times (1999):

Compassion and love are not mere luxuries. As the source of both inner and external peace, they are fundamental to the continued survival of our species.

Sophocles, Antigone:

I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State; and as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare - I have no use for him either.

Sophocles:

What you cannot enforce, do not command.

Joseph Stalin:

Gratitude is a sickness, suffered by dogs.

Jane Addams:

Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics.