Famous Quotes
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Benjamin Franklin:If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory:
We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.Sidney J. Harris:
Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble.Richard Bach:
You teach best what you most need to learn.H. L. Mencken:
Thanksgiving Day is a day devoted by persons with inflammatory rheumatism to thanking a loving Father that it is not hydrophobia.E. H. Chapin:
Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.Edward Young:
Much learning shows how little mortals know; much wealth, how little worldings enjoy.William Shakespeare, "King Richard II", Act 2 scene 1:
This royal throne of kings, this sceptred isle,Homer, The Iliad:
This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
This other Eden, demi-paradise,
This fortress built by Nature for herself
Against infection and the hand of war,
This happy breed of men, this little world,
This precious stone set in the silver sea,
Which serves it in the office of a wall
Or as a moat defensive to a house,
Against the envy of less happier lands,--
This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.
A councilor ought not to sleep the whole night through, a man to whom the populace is entrusted, and who has many responsibilities.O. Henry, "Gift of the Magi," 1906:
Life is sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.Jose Ortega y Gasset:
We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands upon himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.William Butler Yeats:
An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick.Vince Lombardi, Lombardi Winning is the only thing (by Jerry Kramer):
I will demand a commitment to excellence and to victory, and that is what life is all about.Jane Austen, Emma:
How much I love every thing that is decided and open!Carl Jung:
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
