Famous Quotes

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Felix Frankfurter:

To some lawyers all facts are created equal.

Phillips Brooks:

A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned Godward.

Oscar Wilde, The picture of Dorian Gray:

Knowledge would be fatal, it is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things beautiful.

Hermann Hesse:

The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.

Martin Tupper:

Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?

George Bernard Shaw:

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

John Paul Jones:

I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast for I intend to go in harm’s way.

Mark Twain:

The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.

Lord Chesterfield:

I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.

Jackie Mason:

By these things examine thyself. By whose rules am I acting; in whose name; in whose strength; in whose glory? What faith, humility, self-denial, and love of God and to man have there been in all my actions?

Woody Allen, Without Feathers:

Thought: why does man kill? He kills for food. And not only for food: frequently there must be a beverage.

Benjamin Franklin:

I believe I shall,in some shape or other,always exist; and, with all the inconveniences human life is liable to, I shall not object to a new edition of mine, hoping, however, that the errata of the last may be corrected.

Winston Churchill:

Kites rise highest against the wind - not with it.

Democritus:

Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.

Laurie Anderson:

Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.