More Good Quotes, Famous Quotes
Posted on August 3, 2008
The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.
Ferdinand Foch
Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else.
Will Rogers
Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
Anne Frank
If you can’t convince them, confuse them.
Harry Truman
The unexamined life is not worth living.
Socrates
Better to remain silent and thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
Abraham Lincoln
It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.
Aeschylus
The best index to a person’s character is how he treats people who can’t do him any good.
Abigail Van Buren
Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.
J.R.R. Tolkien
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
Shallow men believe in luck, wise and strong men in cause and effect.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the spiderweb of facts, many a truth is strangled.
Paul Eldridge
Banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.
Thomas Jefferson
The basis of a democratic state is liberty.
Aristotle
Whenever you see a successful business, someone once made a courageous decision.
Peter Drucker
Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.
Benjamin Franklin
Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
Benjamin Disraeli
The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Vote early and vote often.
Al Capone
Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
Thomas Edison
He who does not thank for little will not thank for much.
Estonian proverb
The superior man is modest in his speech, but excels in his actions.
Confucius
The body says what words cannot.
Martha Graham
Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.
George Washington
Ou patience will achieve more than our force.
Edmund Burke
What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.
Samuel Johnson
The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
Thomas Macaulay
Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
One’s work may be finished some day, but one’s education never.
Alexandre Dumas
Our deeds determine us as much as we determine our deeds.
George Eliot
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do.
Dale Carnegie
Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
Buddha
You can’t shake hands with a clenched fist.
Indira Gandhi
There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience.
French proverb
Money is like an arm or leg: use it or lose it.
Henry Ford
Energy and persistence conquer all things.
Benjamin Franklin
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Some More Good Quotes
Posted on March 31, 2008
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
Thomas Jefferson
Nothing brings out the lower traits of human nature like office seeking.
Rutherford B. Hayes
May your pockets be heavy and your heart be light, may good luck pursue you each morning and night.
Irish saying
An eye for an eye only ends up making the world blind.
Mahatma Gandhi
It’s only when the tide goes out that you learn who’s been swimming naked.
Warren Buffett
A politician looks forward to the next election. A statesman looks forward to the next generation.
Thomas Jefferson
Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire.
William Butler Yeates
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
P.J. O’Rourke
What we think, we become.
Buddha
The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
Eleanor Roosevelt
The more ignorant you are, the quicker you fight.
Will Rogers
Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
E.B. White
The man who can drive himself farther once the effort gets painful is the man who will win.
Roger Bannister
Personally, I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.
Sir Winston Churchill
I have friends in overalls whose friendship I would not swap for the favor of the kings of the world.
Thomas Edison
Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
Spanish proverb
The short memories of American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.
Will Rogers
Character is power.
Booker T. Washington
He who considers his work beneath him will be above doing it well.
Alexander Chase
Efficiency is doing the right thing. Effectiveness is doing the thing right.
Peter Drucker.
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Pablo Picasso
In the truest sense, freedom cannot be bestowed; it must be achieved.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Voters want a fraud they can believe in.
Will Durst
There is noting so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
Peter Drucker
Rudeness is the weak man’s imitation of strength.
Eric Hoffer
It is easier to fight for principles than it is to live up to them.
Alfred Adler
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure.
Helen Keller
Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you’re right.
Henry Ford
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.
Mark Twain
They have rights who dare maintain them.
James Russell Lowell
Where there is no desire, there is no industry.
John Locke
There isn’t a person anywhere that isn’t capable of doing more than he thinks he can.
Henry Ford
The greater the wealth, the thicker the dirt.
John Kenneth Galbraith
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
Henry Kissinger
Life is short. Live it up.
Nikita Krushchev
Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell, and advertise.
Gert Boyle
He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.
Aesop
All speech is vain and empty unless it be accompanied by action.
Demosthenes
Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion.
Benjamin Franklin
Wine is bottled poetry.
Robert Louis Stevenson
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Quotes Again
Posted on December 1, 2007
We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action. – Frank Tibolt
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Leonardo Da Vinci
Posted on July 25, 2007
“Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.”
Leonardo Da Vinci
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