Famous Quotes

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J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King:

I have no help to send, therefore I must go myself.

William Feather:

Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.

William Shakespeare, "King Richard III", Act 5 scene 4:

A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse!

Keller:

Security is an illusion. Life is either a daring adventure or it is nothing at all.

Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon, 1825:

Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

Athol Fugard:

We compound our suffering by victimizing each other.

Plutarch:

Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.

Marilyn Vos Savant:

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.

J. R. R. Tolkien:

Little by little, one travels far.

Al Capp:

[Abstract art is] a product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered.

W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence:

A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her...but she can never forgive him for the sacrifices he makes on her account.

Walt Whitman, "Leaves of Grass":

Was it doubted that those who corrupt their own bodies conceal themselves?

William Hazlitt, on the Pleasure of Hating:

Greatness is great power, producing great effects. It is not enough that a man has great power in himself, he must shew it to all the world in a way that cannot be hid or gainsaid.

Aesop:

It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.

W. Somerset Maugham:

We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.