Famous Quotes

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John F. Kennedy, in a speech on May 25, 1961:

I believe this nation should commit itself, to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth.

Henri-Frederic Amiel:

Woman is the salvation or the destruction of the family. She carries its destiny in the folds of her mantle.

Eric Hoffer:

To most of us nothing is so invisible as an unpleasant truth. Though it is held before our eyes, pushed under our noses, rammed down our throats- we know it not.

Hazlitt:

Prejudice is the child of ignorance.

Paul Valery:

Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Society and Solitude:

The true test of a civilization is not the census, nor the size of the cities, nor the crops—no, but the kind of man the country turns out.

Euripides, Phoenix:

Every man is like the company he is wont to keep.

Francis Quarles:

If thy words be too luxuriant, confine them, lest they confine thee. He that thinks he can never speak enough, may easily speak too much. A full tongue and an empty brain are seldom parted.

Unknown:

This life is a test. It is only a test. Had this been an actual life, you would have received further instructions as to what to do and where to go.

James M. Barrie:

Life is a long lesson in humility.

Horace:

There is a measure in everything. There are fixed limits beyond which and short of which right cannot find a resting place.

Tommy Manville:

She cried, and the judge wiped her tears with my checkbook.

Margaret Miller:

Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of a witness.

Anna Sewell:

I am never afraid of what I know.

Eric A. Burns, Gossamer Commons, 08-12-05:

Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond the raw talent. You need the appropriate training. You need the discipline. You need the inspiration. You need the drive.