Famous Quotes

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Edward Albee:

The thing that makes a creative person is to be creative and that is all there is to it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson:

We aim above the mark to hit the mark.

George Bernard Shaw:

What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.

Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings:

It may seem difficult at first, but everything is difficult at first.

Mark Twain:

I did not attend his funeral, but I wrote a nice letter saying I approved it.

Homer, The Odyssey:

Evil deeds do not prosper; the slow man catches up with the swift.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, August 27, 2003:

There isn’t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren’t really living without it.

Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey:

Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.

Abraham Lincoln:

Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough.

Tacitus:

It is human nature to hate him whom you have injured.

Andy and Larry Wachowski, The Matrix, 1999:

To deny our own impulses is to deny the very thing that makes us human.

Thomas Jones:

Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.

Christopher Reeve, From speech at Democratic National Convention, August 1996:

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld:

In jealousy there is more of self-love, than of love to another.

Irish Blessing:

May the road rise to meet you. May the wind always be at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields and, until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm of his hand.