Great Famous Quotes

Famous Quotes:

Nathaniel Hawthorne


In youth men are apt to write more wisely than they really know or feel and the remainder of life may be not idly spent in realizing and convincing themselves of the wisdom which they uttered long ago.

James Branch Cabell


There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

E. M. Cioran


Does our ferocity not derive from the fact that our instincts are all too interested in other people If we attended more to ourselves and became the center, the object of our murderous inclinations, the sum of our intolerances would diminish.

Lao Tzu


It is the Vague and Elusive. Meet it and you will not see its head. Follow it and you will not see its back.

Jerry Coleman


Mike Caldwell, the Padres' right-handed southpaw, will pitch tonight.

Thales, (The Seven Sages) from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers


Know thyself.

Charles Rosin


There's something intrinsically therapeutic about choosing to spend your time in a wide, open park- like setting that non-golfers can never truly understand.

Bertrand Russell


The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy - I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

George Sarton, History of Science


There are but few saints amongst scientists, as among other men, but truth itself is a goal comparable with sanctity.

Benjamin Disraeli


Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours.

Emily Elizabeth Dickinson


I imagine, therefore I belong and am free.

Oriana Fallaci


Henry Kissinger may have wished I had presented him as a combination of Charles DeGaulle and Disraeli, but I didn't. . .out of respect for DeGaulle and Disraeli. I described him as a cowboy because thats how he described himself. If I were a cowboy I would be offended.

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