Famous quotes by Authors

"It is now proved beyond doubt that smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics"

Fletcher Knebel, Author

"Eskimo: "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" Priest: "No, not if you did not know." Eskimo: "Then why did you tell me?""

Annie Dillard, Author

Annie Dillard

"I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it"

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

"Focus 90% of your time on solutions and only 10% of your time on problems"

Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author

Anthony J. D'Angelo

"The true art of memory is the art of attention"

Samuel Johnson, Author

Samuel Johnson

"As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world"

Virginia Woolf, Author

Virginia Woolf

"Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have"

H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Author

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"Learning is always rebellion... Every bit of new truth discovered is revolutionary to what was believed before"

Margaret Lee Runbeck, Author

Margaret Lee Runbeck

"If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable"

Thomas More, Author

Thomas More

"If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later"

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

"It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt"

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

"The snow goose need not bathe to make itself white. Neither need you do anything but be yourself"

Lao Tzu, Author

"Have a strong mind and a soft heart"

Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author

Anthony J. D'Angelo

"Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

Henry David Thoreau

"Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

Henry David Thoreau

"Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational - but how much does it cost you to knock on wood?"

Judith Viorst, Author

Judith Viorst

"The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd is the square root of the number of people in it"

Terry Pratchett, Author

Terry Pratchett

"Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much"

Helen Keller, Author

Helen Keller

"Desire creates the power"

Raymond Holliwell, Author

Raymond Holliwell

"Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor"

H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Author

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"You can't make a souffle rise twice"

Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Author

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

"Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy"

Joseph Campbell, Author

Joseph Campbell

"Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles"

Samuel Smiles, Author

Samuel Smiles

"Love has no age, no limit; and no death"

John Galsworthy, Author

John Galsworthy

"It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech"

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

"But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?"

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

"Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen"

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

"Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one"

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

"The savage in man is never quite eradicated"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

Henry David Thoreau

"Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch"

James A. Baldwin, Author

James A. Baldwin

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