Famous Quotes

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Donald Trump, "Trump: Art of the Deal":

Money was never a big motivation for me, except as a way to keep score. The real excitement is playing the game.

H. L. Mencken:

Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.

Albert Camus:

The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily. No great work has ever been based on hatred and contempt. On the contrary, there is not a single true work of art that has not in the end added to the inner freedom of each person who has known and loved it.

Harpo Marx, Harpo Speaks Autobiography - paperback, pg. 400:

The passing of an ordinary man is sad. The passing of a great man is tragic, and doubly tragic when the greatness passes before the man does.

Woody Allen:

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

George Washington Carver:

I believe that the great Creator has put ores and oil on this earth to give us a breathing spell. As we exhaust them, we must be prepared to fall back on our farms, which is God’s true storehouse and can never be exhausted. We can learn to synthesize material for every human need from things that grow.

Nicaraguan Proverb:

Eyes that see do not grow old.

St. John Baptist de La Salle, The Rules of Christian Manners and Civility (c. 1695):

Children are guilty of unpardonable rudeness when they spit in the face of a companion; neither are they excusable who spit from windows or on walls or furniture.

Aulus Gellius:

Truth is the daughter of time.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe:

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words.

Robert M. Hutchins:

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

Martin Luther:

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

Winnie the Pooh:

If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.

Abraham Lincoln:

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

Epictetus:

Only the educated are free.