Famous Quotes

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Jose Raul Bernardo, The Wise Women of Havana (HarperCollins, 2002):

Metaphors are the weapons of cowards.

W. Somerset Maugham:

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

William Shakespeare, Richard III:

No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity, but I know none, therefore am no beast.

George Hyman Rickover:

The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.

Franklin D. Roosevelt:

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who has never learned to walk.

Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891:

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

G. Stanley Hall:

Every theory of love, from Plato down, teaches that each individual loves in the other sex what he lacks in himself.

Charles Dickens:

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tries, and a touch that never hurts.

Katharine Whitehorn:

Have you ever taken something out of the clothes hamper because it had become, relatively, the cleanest thing?

Henry David Thoreau:

Most people dread finding out when they come to die that they have never really lived.

E. Kim Nebeuts:

To state a theorem and then to show examples is literally to teach backwards.

Clare Boothe Luce:

Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but unlike charity, it should end there.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld:

Quarrels would not last long if the fault were only on one side.

Napolean Bonaparte:

A leader is a dealer in hope.

Author Unknown:

The hardest work in the world is that which should have been done yesterday.