Famous Quotes

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Helen Keller:

There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king among his.

Herbert Agar:

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.

Seneca, 65 AD:

Laws do not persuade just because they threaten.

Epicurus:

The greater the difficulty the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.

Friederich Nietzsche, quoted in "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" (movie):

Blessed are the forgetful for they get the better even of their blunders.

Tom Nolan, in The Wall Street Journal:

In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.

John Ballantine Gough:

A man is what he is, not what men say he is. His character no man can touch. His character is what he is before his God and his Judge; and only he himself can damage that. His reputations what men say he is. That can be damaged; but reputation is for time, character is for eternity

Bill Peterson, football coach:

Men, I want you just thinking of one word all season. One word and one word only: Super Bowl.

Jose Raul Bernardo, The Wise Women of Havana (HarperCollins, 2002):

Metaphors are the weapons of cowards.

Robert McCloskey, State Department spokesman (attributed):

I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.

Francis Cardinal Spellman:

Pray as if everything depended upon God and work as if everything depended upon man.

Trevanian from the novel "Shibumi":

It was not their irritating assumption of equality that annoyed Nicholai so much as their cultural confusions. The Americans seemed to confuse standard of living with quality of life, equal opportunity with institutionalized mediocrity, bravery with courage, machismo with manhood, liberty with freedom, wordiness with articulation, fun with pleasure - in short, all of the misconceptions common to those who assume that justice implies equality for all, rather than equality for equals.

Author Unknown:

Shortchange your education now and you may be short of change the rest of your life.

H. Allen Smith, "Let the Crabgrass Grow":

On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks.

Edgar Watson Howe:

Most people have seen worse things in private than they pretend to be shocked at in public.