FAMOUS QUOTATIONS

[jerry2508]

FAMOUS QUOTATIONS>>

In English world, educated people would nod and smile upon hearing one of these famous quotations. Otherwise, it's called "a quotation" if it's from someone's personal collection and not well-known enough.


"Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important."
George Eliot (1888-1965)
American-born British critic, writer. Nobel prize for literature



"I'm a controversial figure. My friends either dislike me or hate me."
Toni Morrison (b. 1931)
American writer, novelist, "Beloved", "Sula"


"Those who have suffered much become very bitter or very gentle."
William James Will Durant (1885-1981)
American historian, "The Story of Civilization"

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"From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put."
Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
British statesman and author, Prime Minister during World War II


"I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up."
Tom Lehrer
American wit, singer and lyricist


"The limits of my language means the limits of my world."
Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)
Austrian linguistic philosopher


"Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain."
Lily Tomlin
American comic actress

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"Fear makes us feel our humanity."
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-81)
British politician, Prime Minister


"Ignorance is the mother of fear."
Harry Homes


"Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise."
Cyril Connolly (1903-74)
English writer, critic

[euphorian]

A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually. - Abba Eban

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"The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them."
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
English poet, critic

"Stupidity consists in wanting to reach conclusions. We are a thread, and we want to know the whole cloth."
Gustave Flaubert (1821-80)
French writer, "Madame Bovary", "A Simple Heart"

"To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge."
Benjamin Disraeli (1804-81)
British politician, Prime Minister

"Zeal without knowledge is fire without light."
Dr. Thomas Fuller (1608-61)
English clergyman, writer

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"If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do things worth writing."
Benjamin Franklin (1706-90)
American public official, writer, scientist, helped draft the American Constitution

"I'm always there to tell people that their life is not that bad. I wish it was easy to follow that advice."
Mignon McLaughlin

"Cheer up, the worst is yet to come."
Philander Johnson

"Laugh and the world laughs with you. Cry and the world laughs at you."
J. M. Linsner

"Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you."
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82)
American writer, philosopher, poet, essayist

"We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us."
Baronne Anne Louise Germaine Necker de Sta Sta (1766-1817)
French writer, literary patron and critic

"Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts."
Charles Dickens (1812-70)
English novelist, fiction writer

"I am bigger than anything that can happen to me. All these things, sorrow, misforturne, and suffering, are outside my door. I am in the house, and I have the key."
Charles Fletcher Lummis

"Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted."
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82)
American writer, philosopher, poet, essayist

[euphorian]

"When you have to work in a whore house, there is only one thing to be.... The best whore in the house." -Unknown

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"A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary."
Thomas Carruthers

"Education is the passport to our future."
Malcolm X (1925-1965)
American political activist

"How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it."
Alexandre Dumas
French author

[dtc]

I'd like to share (for what I think is) the most beautiful quote with all of you...

It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.

This quote is a part in the speech of "Citizenship in a Republic" given by Teddy Roosevelt at Paris on April 23, 1910.

This is my favor quote and the only quote that I live by, I hope you enjoy it

[jerry2508]

"A friend is someone, who upon seeing another friend in immense pain, would rather be the one experiencing the pain than to have to watch their friend suffer."
Amanda Grier

"It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper."
Errol Flynn (1909-59)
Tasmanian-born American actor


"If all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world."
Blaise Pascal (1623-62)
French philosopher, mathematician, invented the adding machine

"Silence is the true friend that never betrays."
Confucius ( 551-479? B.C.)
Chinese sage