Great Famous Quotations

Saturday, October 18, 2008

Daily Quotations

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Mark Twain


Quitting smoking is easy, I've done it hundreds of times.

Paul Tournier


It is a lovely thing to have a husband and wife developing together and having the feeling of falling in love again. That is what marriage really means helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Japanese Proverb, Also quoted in the movie Rising Sun


If you sit by the river long enough, you will see the body of your enemy float by.

Friedrich von Hardenberg Novalis


We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.

Raisa M. Gorbachev


Hypocrisy, the lie, is the true sister of evil, intolerance, and cruelty.

Milton Berle


I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. I'd rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far for a might have-been has never been, but a has was once an are.

Adam Smith


People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices.

Lyndon B. Johnson


When I was a boy ... we didn't wake up with Vietnam and have Cyprus for lunch and the Congo for dinner

Clarence Birdseye


Go around asking a lot of damfool questions and taking chances. Only through curiosity can we discover opportunities, and only by gambling can we take advantage of them.

Cicero, Pro Publio Sestio


History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity.

Charles Dickens


Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.

Edward Bedore


As we face a new era of world history, there is an urgent need for the true Church of Jesus Christ, the Body of Christ, to be about the business God has called us to, the work of ministry. And this is a work that every believer is called to be actively involved in.

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Sat, 18 Oct 2008 23:05:00 GMT
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Katharine Hepburn


If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.

Irma Kurtz, Cosmopolitan Magazine, September 2003


Givers have to set limits because takers rarely do.

Abraham Lincoln


I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him.

Marlene Dietrich


The lover says How beautiful you are, now that you love me.

Virginia Woolf, The Waves (1931)


I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.

Vernon Howard


Your central self is totally untouched By grief, confusion, desperation.

Laertius Diogenes


Chilo advised, not to speak evil of the dead.

Proverbs 1717 Bible


A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

Pubilius Syrus


From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.

Oliver L. North


I thought using the Ayatollah's money to support the Nicaraguan resistance ... was a neat idea.

Italian Proverb


Years and sins are always more than owned.

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Quotations for Today

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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.

Trey and Matt Stone Parker


I just realized that there's going to be a lot of painful times in life, so I better learn to deal with it the right way.

Napoleon Bonaparte


There are two levers for moving men interest and fear.

Richard Jeni


It is a sad fact that 50 percent of marriages in this country end in divorce. But hey, the other half end in death. You could be one of the lucky ones!

Sir Francis Bacon


By far the best proof is experience.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


All great masters are chiefly distinguished by the power of adding a second, a third, and perhaps a fourth step in a continuous line. Many a man had taken the first step. With every additional step you enhance immensely the value of you first.

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Sren Aaby Kierkegaard


There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

U Thant


Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves.

Arthur C. Clarke


It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God--but to create him.

Ann Landers


If I were asked to give what I consider the single most useful bit of advice for all humanity, it would be this Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high. Look it squarely in the eye, and say, I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me.

Martha Beck


The really potent part of love is that it allows you to carry around beliefs about yourself that make you feel special, desirable, precious, innately good. Your lover couldn't have seen these qualities in you, even temporarily, if they weren't part of your essential being.

Joseph Addison


The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.

Chinese Proverb


I hear and I forget, I see and I remember, I do and I understand.

Brittany Murphy, Seventeen Magazine, September 2003


Everybody has difficult years, but a lot of times the difficult years end up being the greatest years of your whole entire life, if you survive them.

Richard Milhous Nixon


I can take it... The tougher it gets, the cooler I get...

Dale Carnegie


Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.

Sophocles


It is not righteousness to outrage A brave man dead, not even though you hate him.

Pablo Casals


The capacity to care is what gives life its most deepest significance.

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Sat, 18 Oct 2008 15:27:00 GMT
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Today's Famous Quotations

Famous Quotations:



John Rogers


Grade school is the snooze button on the clock-radio of life.

Elmer Wheeler


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

E.V. Lucas


I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.

Michael Bridge


When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open, and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Thomas Overbury


The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.

Theodore Harold White


Whether a man is burdened by power or enjoys power whether he is trapped by responsibility or made free by it whether he is moved by other people and outer forces or moves them -- this is of the essence of leadership.

John Wanamaker


I know half the money I spend on advertising is wasted. Now, if I only knew which half.

Flip Wilson


The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down.

Samuel Johnson


A cucumber whould be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and viniger, and then thrown out, as good for nothing.

Jerry Coleman


Over the course of a season, a miscue will cost you more than a good play.

Charles Farrar Browne


Let us all be happy and live within our means, even if we have to borrow the money to do it with.

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Mary Wilson Little


There is no pleasure in having nothing to do; the fun is in having lots to do and not doing it.

Michael Bridge


When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of Creation is completed inside us, the doors of our souls fly open and love steps forth to heal everything in sight.

Zig Ziglar


This I do know beyond any reasonable doubt. Regardless of what you are doing, if you pump long enough, hard enough and enthusiastically enough, sooner or later the effort will bring forth the reward.

Ralph Waldo Emerson


Thought is the blossom language the bud action the fruit behind it.

William Shakespeare


So may he rest, his faults lie gently on him!

Albert Einstein


I do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern without any superhuman authority behind it.

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