Famous Quotes










God sells knowledge for labour - honour for risk.
- Arabic proverb
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All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.
- General George S. Patton
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All children wear the sign: 'I want to be important NOW.' Many of our juvenile delinquency problems arise because nobody reads the sign.
- Dan Pursuit
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The only thing that happens overnight is recognition. Not talent.
- Carol Haney
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Doubt breeds doubt.
- Franz Grillparzer
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Money, it turned out, was exactly like sex; you thought of nothing else if you didn't have it and thought of other things if you did.
- James Baldwin
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This is courage ... to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.
- Euripides
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O give thanks unto the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy endureth forever.
- Bible
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For Beauty's tears are lovelier than her smile.
- Thomas Campbell
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Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Human love is often but the encounter of two weaknesses.
- Franqois Mauriac
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When she raises her eyelids it's as if she were taking off all her clothes.
- Colette
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Men willingly believe what they wish.
- Julius Caesar
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To make a fine gentleman, several trades are required, but chiefly a barber.
- Oliver Goldsmith
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I believe there is no god but Allah alone and Muhammed is his prophet.
- Muslim Creed
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No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.
- Victor Hugo
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Being all fashioned of the self-same dust. Let us be merciful as well as just.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other a horse still.
- Samuel Johnson
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Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictory word, preserves contact - it is silence which isolates.
- Thomas Mann
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It is unseasonable and unwholesome in all months that have not an R in their names to eat an oyster.
- William Butler
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