Famous quotes by Authors

"Because we believe ourselves to be better parents than our parents, we expect to produce better children than they produced"

Judith Viorst, Author

Judith Viorst

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

Leo Buscaglia, Author

Leo Buscaglia

"Alice: How long is forever? White Rabbit: Sometimes, just one second"

Lewis Carroll, Author

Lewis Carroll

"Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages"

Terry Pratchett, Author

Terry Pratchett

"People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get"

Frederick Douglass, Author

Frederick Douglass

"You must see first before you can believe"

Raymond Holliwell, Author

Raymond Holliwell

"Remember that the most valuable antiques are dear old friends"

H. Jackson Brown, Jr., Author

H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

"There is no power on earth more formidable than the truth"

Margaret Lee Runbeck, Author

Margaret Lee Runbeck

"Sanity is a cozy lie"

Susan Sontag, Author

Susan Sontag

"Please all, and you will please none"

Aesop, Author

Aesop

"It has been said that the position of woman is the test of civilization, and that of our women was secure. In them was vested our standard of morals and the purity of our blood"

Charles Eastman, Author

Charles Eastman

"The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scotts as a joke, but the Scotts haven't seen the joke yet"

Oliver Herford, Author

Oliver Herford

"Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness"

Bryant H. McGill, Author

Bryant H. McGill

"The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are"

Joseph Campbell, Author

Joseph Campbell

"Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?"

A. A. Milne, Author

A. A. Milne

"Facts are not science - as the dictionary is not literature"

Martin H. Fischer, Author

"Always remember that striving and struggle precede success, even in the dictionary"

Sarah Ban Breathnach, Author

Sarah Ban Breathnach

"Don't quack like a duck, soar like an eagle"

Ken Blanchard, Author

Ken Blanchard

"There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before"

Willa Cather, Author

Willa Cather

"Our forefathers made one mistake. What they should have fought for was representation without taxation"

Fletcher Knebel, Author

"Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell"

Edna St. Vincent Millay, Author

"What is important for kids to learn is that no matter how much money they have, earn, win, or inherit, they need to know how to spend it, how to save it, and how to give it to others in need. This is what handling money is about, and this is why we give kids an allowance"

Barbara Coloroso, Author

Barbara Coloroso

"If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm"

Bruce Barton, Author

Bruce Barton

"Make no judgements where you have no compassion"

Anne McCaffrey, Author

Anne McCaffrey

"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

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"

Evelyn Beatrice Hall, Author

"A man growing old becomes a child again"

Sophocles, Author

Sophocles

"Not to be born is, past all prizing, best"

Sophocles, Author

Sophocles

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them"

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

"Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed"

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

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