Great Famous Quotations

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Frank Lloyd Wright


The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes.

Thomas Jefferson


My views and feelings (are) in favor of the abolition of war--and I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society, to lessen the disposition to war; but of its abolition I despair.

Francis Bacon


The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other.

John Kenneth Galbraith


In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.

William Proxmire


Power always has to be kept in check; power exercised in secret, especially under the cloak of national security, is doubly dangerous.

J. D. Watson, "The Double Helix"


One could not be a successful scientist without realizing that, in contrast to the popular conception supported by newspapers and mothers of scientists, a goodly number of scientists are not only narrow-minded and dull, but also just stupid.

Samuel Butler


He that is down can fall no lower.

Ghandi


Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.

Robert Green Ingersoll


I am inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart--the best brain.

Theocritus of Chios


Now begins a torrent of words and a trickling of sense.

Franklin D. Roosevelt, quoted Kansas City Star, June 5, 1977


When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

Henry James


There are moods in which one feels the impulse to enter a tacit protest against too gross an appetite for pure aesthetics in this starving and sinning world. One turns half away, musingly, from certain beautiful useless things.

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