Famous Quotes

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G. K. Chesterton:

By a curious confusion, many modern critics have passed from the proposition that a masterpiece may be unpopular to the other proposition that unless it is unpopular it cannot be a masterpiece.

Alfred North Whitehead:

An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.

Osho, The art of Dying:

A man who is afraid of death will be afraid of life also, because life brings death. If you are afraid of the enemy and you close your door, the friend will also be prohibited.

Nikita Khrushchev:

Politicians are the same the world over: they promise to build a bridge even when there is no river.

Real Live Preacher, RealLivePreacher.com Weblog, December 16, 2002:

I believe love is primarily a choice and only sometimes a feeling. If you want to feel love, choose to love and be patient.

Chinese Proverb:

An inch of time cannot be bought with an inch of gold.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow:

Let us, then be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labour and to wait.

Homer, The Iliad:

He knew the things that were and the things that would be and the things that had been before.

Ralph Waldo Emerson:

The people are to be taken in very small doses.

George Orwell:

Big Brother is watching you.

Pinarius:

As thou hast sown, so shalt thou reap.

John F. Kennedy, speech at The American University, Washington, D.C., June 10, 1963:

Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.

G.K. Chesterton:

The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.

Homer, The Odyssey:

For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.

Clare Booth Luce:

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