Great Famous Quotations

Famous Quotations:

H. L. Mencken


Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.

Unknown


Never judge someone till you've walked a mile in their shoes, cause then you're a mile away and you've got their shoes.

James Russell Lowell


Wealth may be an ancient thing, for it means power, it means leisure, it means liberty.

Stephen Hawking


The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.

Maya Angelou


If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning 'Good morning' at total strangers.

Roald Dahl


Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker.

Pearl Buck, The Joy of Children, 1964


The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

Alan Mackay


Like the ski resort full of girls hunting for husbands and husbands hunting for girls, the situation is not as symmetrical as it might seem.

Brigham Young


Education is the power to think clearly, the power to act well in the world's work, and the power to appreciate life.

Lord Byron, Don Juan


Society is now one polished horde, --- Formed of two mighty tribes, the Bores and Bored.

Sufi Proverb


There wouldn't be such a thing as counterfeit gold if there were no real gold somewhere.

Leonardo Da Vinci


The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things.

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