Famous Quotes

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Niccolo Machiavelli:

War connot be avoided; it can only be postponed to the others advantage.

Samuel Butler:

Logic is like the sword: those who appeal to it shall perish by it.

Sophocles:

Who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them; and when fortune smiles, be doubly cautious, lest destruction come remorseless on him, and he fall unpitied.

Mark Twain, Following the Equator (1897):

It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.

Ronnie Shakes:

I was going to buy a copy of The Power of Positive Thinking, and then I thought: What the hell good would that do?

Japanese proverb:

If you believe everything you read, better not read.

Ralph Waldo Emerson:

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he know that every day is Doomsday.

Gordon B. Hinckley, Standing for Something:

Love is the very essence of life.

Tich Nhat Han, The sun my heart:

Shallow understanding accompanies poor compassion, great understanding goes with great compassion.

Aristotle:

The least deviation from truth will be multiplied later.

Steven Wright:

The problem with the gene pool is that there is no lifeguard.

Finley Peter Dunne:

An appeal is when you ask one court to show its contempt for another court.

Joseph Fischer:

Sex is hereditary. If your parents never had it, chances are you wont either.

Marilyn Monroe:

It is better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone else.

Diane Von Furstenberg:

Life is a risk.