Famous quotes by Authors

"People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own"

Doug Coupland, Author

Doug Coupland

"Constant repetition carries conviction"

Robert Collier, Author

Robert Collier

"A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way"

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

"Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself"

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

"To lead people, walk behind them"

Lao Tzu, Author

"He who opens a school door, closes a prison"

Victor Hugo, Author

Victor Hugo

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

Henry David Thoreau

"I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually"

James A. Baldwin, Author

James A. Baldwin

"To survive it is often necessary to fight, and to fight you have to dirty yourself"

George Orwell, Author

George Orwell

"Love always creates, it never destroys. In this lies man's only promise"

Leo Buscaglia, Author

Leo Buscaglia

"I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs"

Frederick Douglass, Author

Frederick Douglass

"Summer is a promissory note signed in June, its long days spent and gone before you know it, and due to be repaid next January"

Hal Borland, Author

Hal Borland

"No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn"

Hal Borland, Author

Hal Borland

"To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe"

Marilyn vos Savant, Author

Marilyn vos Savant

"A man is the sum of his actions, of what he has done, of what he can do, nothing else"

John Galsworthy, Author

John Galsworthy

"Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children"

Sam Levenson, Author

"Translation is at best an echo"

George Borrow, Author

"I can't give you a brain, but I can give you a diploma"

L. Frank Baum, Author

"The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice"

Brian Herbert, Author

Brian Herbert

"But this is a true saying among men: the gifts of enemies are no gifts and profitless"

Sophocles, Author

Sophocles

"In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards"

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

"Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured"

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

"The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause"

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time"

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

"Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it"

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

"Let us live so that when we come to die, even the undertaker will be sorry"

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be"

Lao Tzu, Author

"He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still"

Lao Tzu, Author

"Never let your persistence and passion turn into stubbornness and ignorance"

Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author

Anthony J. D'Angelo

"Virtue has a veil, vice a mask"

Victor Hugo, Author

Victor Hugo

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