Great Famous Quotations

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Kahlil Gibran


I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

G. Macdonald


Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness - the cultivation of which is now fearfully neglected.

Benjamin Disraeli


The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

Mark Twain


Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.

Margaret Hilda Thatcher


I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

Henry David Thoreau


Be not simply good - be good for something.

Elmer Wheeler


The real wit tells jokes to make others feel superior, while the half-wit tells them to make others feel small.

Homer, The Odyssey


We are quick to flare up, we races of men on the earth.

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


Happiness cannot be found--it must be created anew everyday.

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