Famous Quotes

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Diogenes the Cynic, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers:

[When asked what was the proper time for supper] If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can.

Oscar Wilde, Foreward, The Picture of Dorian gray:

The only excuse for creating something useless is that one admires it intensely.

Japanese Proverb:

Fall down seven times, get up eight.

Sir Arthur Helps:

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away.

Seneca:

Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance.

Tom Stoppard:

If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation.

Hasidic Saying:

To worry is a sin. Only one sort of worry is permissible; to worry because one worries.

Mark Twain, Following the Equator:

A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.

Voltaire:

Do well and you will have no need for ancestors.

Shakespeare:

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt.

Jane Austen:

We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead.

Barry Goldwater:

Politics [is] the art of achieving the maximum amount of freedom for individuals that is consistent with the maintenance of social order.

X. Doudan:

Everything without tells the individual that he is nothing; everything within persuades him that he is everything.

Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, 1390:

He was as fresh as is the month of May.

Joseph Stalin:

In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than to advance.