Famous Quotations


"Mother is the name of God on the lips and hearts of all children." - The Crow

"Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake." - Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower

"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." - Albert Einstein

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." - Albert Einstein

"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." - Martin Luther King Jr.

"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws." - Plato

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." - Napoleon Bonaparte

"Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact." - George Eliot

"Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth." - Sherlock Holmes

"The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good." - Samuel Johnson

"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens." - Jimi Hendrix

"A witty saying proves nothing." - Voltaire

"I have often regretted my speech, never my silence." - Xenocrates

"It was the experience of mystery, even if mixed with fear, that engendered religion." - Albert Einstein

"If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." - Albert Einstein

"Everything has been figured out, except how to live." - Jean-Paul Sartre

"He who hesitates is a damned fool." - Mae West

"When choosing between two evils, I always like to try the one I've never tried before." - Mae West

"Hell is other people." - Jean-Paul Sartre

"Woman was God's second mistake." - Friedrich Nietzsche

"Each day is a new life. Seize it. Live it." - David Guy Powers

"Impulse without reason is not enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift." - William James

"I want 'bad losers' because 'good losers' get into the habit of losing." - George E. Allen

"It's weak and despicable to go on wanting things and not trying to get them." - Joanna Field

"Use what talents you have; the woods would have little music if no birds sang their song except those who sang best." - Reverend Oliver G. Wilson

"Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself the most comforting words of all: This, too, shall pass." - Ann Landers

"Happy the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying, once and for all." - Ovid

"It's what you learn after you know it all that counts." - Jean Rostand

"The first step to knowledge is to know that we are ignorant." - Lord David Cecil

"Courage is the power to let go of the familiar." - Raymond Linquist

"Nothing can be done except little by little." - Charles Baudelaire

"Life is a great bundle of little things." - Oliver Wendell Holmes

"Life just is. You have to flow with it. Give yourself to the moment. Let it happen." - Jerry Brown

"Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion." - Francis Bacon


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