Favorite Quotations
Tuesday, January 01, 2008
Great Famous Quotes
Cicero
There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.
Lyndon B. Johnson
I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help-and God's.
Eric Pio
If you don't make your dreams a reality, reality will take away your dreams.
Margaret Hilda Thatcher
Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 2 scene 2
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.
Paxton Blair
Marriage means expectations and expectations mean conflict.
Oscar Wilde
Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes. ¶ 11:40 AM 0 comments
Famous Quotes:
Cicero
There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.
Lyndon B. Johnson
I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help-and God's.
Eric Pio
If you don't make your dreams a reality, reality will take away your dreams.
Margaret Hilda Thatcher
Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't.
William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar", Act 2 scene 2
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.
Paxton Blair
Marriage means expectations and expectations mean conflict.
Oscar Wilde
Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes. ¶ 11:40 AM 0 comments
Famous Quotations Update
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
Emanuel Swedenborg, From the book "Divine Love and Wisdom" #1
Love is the life of humanity.
Dan Quayle, 9/5/90
For NASA, space is still a high priority.
Simone Weil
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
John Wanamaker
Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted the trouble is I don't know which half.
Andrew Schneider
What are man and woman if not members of two very different and warring tribes Yet decade after decade, century after century, they attempt in marriage to reconcile and forge a union. Why I don't know. Biological imperative Divine law Or just a desire to connect to that mysterious other In any case, it's always struck me as a hopeful thing.
Attributed by Plato to Socrates, "Apology"
The unexamined life is not worth living to a human.
Ellen Karsh
He is a teenager, after all-a strange agent with holes in his jeans, studs in his ear, a tail down his neck, a cap on his head (backward).
John Kenneth Galbraith
You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too.
Judy Garland
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
No. Men should die for lies. But the truth is too precious to die for.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them. ¶ 8:53 AM 0 comments
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Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
Emanuel Swedenborg, From the book "Divine Love and Wisdom" #1
Love is the life of humanity.
Dan Quayle, 9/5/90
For NASA, space is still a high priority.
Simone Weil
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
John Wanamaker
Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted the trouble is I don't know which half.
Andrew Schneider
What are man and woman if not members of two very different and warring tribes Yet decade after decade, century after century, they attempt in marriage to reconcile and forge a union. Why I don't know. Biological imperative Divine law Or just a desire to connect to that mysterious other In any case, it's always struck me as a hopeful thing.
Attributed by Plato to Socrates, "Apology"
The unexamined life is not worth living to a human.
Ellen Karsh
He is a teenager, after all-a strange agent with holes in his jeans, studs in his ear, a tail down his neck, a cap on his head (backward).
John Kenneth Galbraith
You will find that the State is the kind of organization which, though it does big things badly, does small things badly, too.
Judy Garland
Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
Terry Pratchett, Small Gods
No. Men should die for lies. But the truth is too precious to die for.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them. ¶ 8:53 AM 0 comments
