Famous Quotes

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Oscar Levant:

I envy people who drink - at least they know what to blame everything on.

John Milton:

He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.

John F. Kennedy:

Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty.

John Lydon:

There is nothing glorious in dying, anyone can do it.

The Book of the Golden Precepts:

The way to final freedom is within thy self.

Aldous Huxley:

That all men are equal is a proposition which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent.

Joyce Maynard, "Domestic Affairs":

A good home must be made, not bought.

Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar:

To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream.

Confucius, The Confucian Analects:

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

Benjamin Franklin:

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

Sir Richard Steele:

Whenever you commend, add your reasons for doing so; it is this which distinguishes the approbation of a man of sense from the flattery of sycophants and admiration of fools.

Victor Hugo:

What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!

Ogden Nash:

Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other never forgets them.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg:

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

Samuel Smiles:

Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles.