Famous Quotes

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Benjamin Disreali:

One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.

Unknown:

Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice.

Jamie Lee Curtis:

We look at adoption as a very sacred exchange. It was not done lightly on either side. I would dedicate my life to this child.

Oscar Levant:

Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel.

Bertrand Russell:

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.

Cicero:

A happy life consists in tranquillity of mind.

Babe Didrikson:

Luck? Sure. But only after long practice and only with the ability to think under pressure.

Henry James:

Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.

Franklin P. Jones:

Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance, or a stranger.

Lord Brabazon:

I take the view, and always have, that if you cannot say what you are going to say in twenty minutes you ought to go away and write a book about it.

Henry David Thoreau:

What men call good fellowship is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter which lie close together to keep each other warm.

Thomas Edison:

Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction--faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.

A. J. Ayer, Humanist Outlook:

No moral system can rest solely on authority.

Charles M. Schwab:

The man who does not work for the love of work but only for money is not likely to make money nor find much fun in life.

Emo Phillips:

People come up to me and say, "Emo, do people really come up to you?"