Famous quotes by Authors

"Scientists now believe that the primary biological function of breasts is to make males stupid"

Dave Barry, Author

"Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance"

Dave Barry, Author

"I want a pit crew... I hate the procedure I currently have to go through when I have car problems"

Dave Barry, Author

"Older women are best, because they always think they may be doing it for the last time"

Ian Fleming, Author

"I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them"

Ian Fleming, Author

"Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small but meaningful accomplishments"

Bryant H. McGill, Author

"Take without forgetting, and give without remembering"

Bryant H. McGill, Author

"Genius is always accompanied by enthusiasm"

Bryant H. McGill, Author

"Having a sense of purpose is having a sense of self. A course to plot is a destination to hope for"

Bryant H. McGill, Author

"Ambition is not what a man would do, but what a man does, for ambition without action is fantasy"

Bryant H. McGill, Author

"Do not let your ambitions become a sanctuary for your failures"

Bryant H. McGill, Author

"A polite enemy is just as difficult to discredit as a rude friend is to protect"

Bryant H. McGill, Author

"A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness"

Bryant H. McGill, Author

"The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places"

Bryant H. McGill, Author

"Never expect a loan to a friend to be paid back if you want to keep that friend"

Bryant H. McGill, Author

"The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone"

Harriet Beecher Stowe, Author

"Most mothers are instinctive philosophers"

Harriet Beecher Stowe, Author

"Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: You have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline"

Harriet Beecher Stowe, Author

"We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery"

Samuel Smiles, Author

"The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at once"

Samuel Smiles, Author

"Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step"

Samuel Smiles, Author

"The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty"

Samuel Smiles, Author

"He who never made a mistake, never made a discovery"

Samuel Smiles, Author

"The reason why so little is done is generally because so little is attempted"

Samuel Smiles, Author

"Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only"

Samuel Smiles, Author

"Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us"

Samuel Smiles, Author

"Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees"

Marcel Proust, Author

"We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us"

Marcel Proust, Author

"The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes"

Marcel Proust, Author

"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes"

Marcel Proust, Author

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