Famous Quotes

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Albert Camus:

Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards.

Unknown:

It is with a word as with an arrow - once let it loose and it does not return.

Winston Churchill, responding to a journalist:

Are you insinuating that I am a purveyor of terminological inexactitudes?

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, Meditations:

Nothing happens to any thing which that thing is not made by nature to bear.

Pearl S. Buck:

Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself.

Oscar Wilde:

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Elizabeth Taylor:

Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.

H. L. Mencken:

Love is the delusion that one woman differs from another

Carol Burnett:

Comedy is tragedy plus time.

William Penn:

No pain, no palm; no thorns, no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown.

Proverbs 7:17-18:

I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon. Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning.

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations – Book Three:

One whose chief regard is for his own mind, and for the divinity within him and the service of its goodness, will strike no poses, utter no complaints, and crave neither for solitude nor yet for a crowd. Best of all, his life will be free from continual pursuing and avoiding.

Chinese Proverb:

Do not fear going forward slowly; fear only to stand still.

Arnold Bennett:

A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.

James Allen:

In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of effort is the measure of the results.