Famous Quotes

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John Ruskin:

...in order that a man may be happy, it is necessary that he should not only be capable of his work, but a good judge of his work.

Terry Pratchett, Small Gods:

No. Men should die for lies. But the truth is too precious to die for.

Arthur Schopenhauer:

We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.

Charles Foundyller of Daratech, from 8/14/92 Wall St Journal:

Everyone realized that Computervision stock was the golden goose. But one grabbed the leg, another grabbed a wing, another got the neck, all pulling hard, and they realize now they could kill the goose if they keep this up.

Emiliano Zapata:

It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees!

Cato the Elder, On Agriculture:

Even though work stops, expenses run on.

Epicurus:

A strict belief, fate is the worst kind of slavery; on the other hand there is comfort in the thought that God will be moved by our prayers.

Abraham Lincoln:

He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help.

Herman Hesse:

If I know what love is, it is because of you.

Socrates:

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

Nancy Kerrigan:

Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever.

Edwin P. Whipple:

An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.

Henry David Thoreau:

My friend is one... who take me for what I am.

Mahatma Gandhi:

The future depends on what we do in the present.

Henry Ward Beecher:

The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He is a human owl, vigilant in darkness, and blind to light, mousing for vermin, and never seeing noble game.