Great Famous Quotations

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

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Francois de La Rochefoucauld


To listen closely and reply well is the highest perfection we are able to attain in the art of conversation.

Euripides


The gifts of a bad man bring no good with them.

Dag Hammarskjld


It was when Lucifer first congratulated himself upon his angelic behavior that he became the tool of evil.

Edwin Booth


An actor is a sculptor who carves in snow.

Joe Lewis


I distrust camels, and anyone else who can go a week without a drink.

John F. Kennedy


The American, by nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder who builds best when called upon to build greatly.

Benjamin Franklin


Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

William C. Bagley


When will the public cease to insult the teacher's calling with empty flattery When will men who would never for a moment encourage their own sons to enter the work of the public schools cease to tell us that education is the greatest and noblest of all human callings

John F. Kennedy, Speech to UN General Assembly, Sept. 25, 1961


Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.

Sergei Koroljov


Doroga k Zvjozdam Otkrita.
(The way to the stars is open.)

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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce


History is an account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.

South


A good inclination is but the first rude draught of virtue, but the finishing strokes are from the will, which, if well disposed, will by degrees perfect it, as if all disposed will quickly deface it.

George Eliot


There are many victories worse than a defeat.

Ogden Nash


Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.

Carl Sagan


When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.

Ronald Reagan


There were so many candidates on the platform that there were not enough promises to go around.

Emma Goldman, Anarchism (1910)


Crime is naught but misdirected energy.

George Washington


Government is not reason; it is not eloquence; it is force! It is a dangerous servant and a terrible master.

Aristophanes


Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever.

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