Famous Quotes

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Paterculus:

His intelligence seized on a subject, his genius embraced it, his eloquence illuminated it.

James Thurber, My Life and Hard Times (1933):

Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.

Samuel Ullman:

Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

P. L. Berger:

In science as in love, too much concentration on technique can often lead to impotence.

Menander:

Nothing is more useful than silence.

William Shakespeare, "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 1 scene 1:

If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another: I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt.

Solomon Short:

The only winner in the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.

Friedrich Nietzsche, So spake Zarathoustra:

It is time, it is high time... Yes, but to do what?

California Civil Code, "Maxims of Jurisprudence":

#3547. A thing continues to exist as long as is usual with things of that nature.

Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Playboy Interview - May 1966:

No national political party is going to nominate another right-wing candidate for a long time.

Booker T. Washington:

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.

Robert Ingersoll:

There are in nature neither rewards nor punishments, there are consequences.

Groucho Marx:

I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.

Richard Brinsley Sheridan:

Humanity is composed but of two categories, the invalids and the nurses.

William Shakespeare, "Troilus and Cressida", Act 4 scene 5:

The end crowns all,
And that old common arbitrator, Time,
Will one day end it.