Famous Quotes

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Maya Angelou:

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

Dr. Karl Bowman:

Love is an obsessive delusion that is cured by marriage.

Earnest Hemingway:

There are only 3 sports, Bullfighting, Motor Racing and Mountain climbing. All the rest are games.

Mary Wilson Little:

Politeness is half good manners and half good lying.

Sophocles, Trachiniae:

A prudent mind can see room for misgiving, lest he who prospers would one day suffer reverse.

Dan Quayle, 9/18/90:

Quite frankly, teachers are the only profession that teach our children.

Michel de Montaigne:

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

Seneca:

I will govern my life and thoughts as if the whole world were to see the one and read the other, for what does it signify to make anything a secret to my neighbor, when to God, who is the searcher of our hearts, all our privacies are open?

Jane Austen:

I do not want people to be agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them.

J. Gustav White:

One can search the brain with a microscope and not find the mind, and can search the stars with a telescope and not find God.

Christopher Pearce Cranch, A Spring Growl:

If there comes a little thaw, Still the air is chill and raw, Here and there a patch of snow, Dirtier than the ground below, Dribbles down a marshy flood; Ankle-deep you stick in mud In the meadows while you sing, "This is Spring."

Franklin D. Roosevelt, Speech, September 22, 1936:

In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.

Miriam Defensor Santiago, The World Almanac and Book of Facts, 1993:

Many, if not all, of my presidential opponents are certifiable idiots.

Willmott:

The vain man is generally a doubter. It is Newton who sees himself as child on the sea shore, and his discoveries in the colored shell.

Ralph Waldo Emerson:

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a little better; whether by a healthy child, a garden patch of a redeemed social condition; to know that one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is the meaning of success.