Famous Quotes

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American Proverb:

Each day provides its own gifts.

A. F. Shaw:

I am loving before I am patriotic: I am human before I am American.

William Van Horne:

The biggest things are always the easiest to do because there is no competition.

Thomas Edison:

Show me a thoroughly satisfied man, and I will show you a failure.

Daniel Webster:

Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters.

Charles Lamb:

Lawers, I suppose, were children once.

Hilary Alexander, Sunday Telegraph (1993):

To the accountants, a true work of art is an investment that hangs on the wall.

Edward Everett Hale:

Never bear more than one trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds - all they have had, all they have now, and all they expect to have.

Lord Falkland:

When it is not necessary to make a decision, it is necessary not to make a decision.

Robert Louis Stevenson:

The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

Gaius Julius Caesar, De Bello Gallico:

Men generally believe what they wish.

Erasmus:

War is delightful to those who have not experienced it.

Flavius Josephus, Life:

Everyone ought to worship God according to his own inclinations, and not to be constrained by force.

Percy Bysshe Shelley:

We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature, our religion, our arts, have their root in Greece.

Edith Hamilton:

The fullness of life is in the hazards of life.