Ever
wonder "Who said that?" On this page, you will find many unforgettable
quotations and remarks from some of the world's foremost authors. I will
be adding to this feature at least monthly. If you have a favorite quote
you'd like to see on this page, please drop
me a line and let me know! Have fun. . . .
"[The cynic]
knows the price of everything and the value of nothing."~
Oscar Wilde, from "Lady Windmere's Fan III"
"A man who
stands for nothing will fall for anything."~
Malcolm X
"Words are
the physicians of a mind diseased."~ Aeschylus,
from "Prometheus"
"The brave
man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works."~
Miguel de Cervantes, "Don Quixote"
"All hope
abandon, ye who enter here."~ Dante Alighieri,
from Dante's "Hell"
"Every action
is measured by the depth of the sentiment from which it proceeds."~
Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Spiritual Laws"
"Waste not
fresh tears over old griefs."~ Euripides,
"Alexander"
"Sin has
many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all."~
Oliver Wendell Holmes, "The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table"
"The poetry
of earth is never dead."~ John Keats, "On
the Grasshopper and Cricket"
"Let us
have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us dare to do
our duty as we understand it."~ Abraham Lincoln
"All things
come round to him who will but wait."~ Henry
W. Longfellow, "Tales of a Wayside Inn"
"Man is
the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught.
He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at
the prompting of nature only, but weep."~
Pliny the Elder
"As men,
we are all equal in the presence of death."~
Publius Syrus, "Maxim 1"
"I do not
distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge of the
man."~ Seneca, "On a Happy Life"
"Who wooed
in haste, and means to wed at leisure"~ William
Shakespeare, "The Taming of the Shrew"
"Virtue
is its own reward."~ Silius Italicus
"Bread is
the staff of life."~ Jonathan Swift
"Knowledge
comes, but wisdom lingers."~ Alfred Tennyson,
"Locksley Hall"
"It is said
that God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions."~
Francis M. Voltaire, Letter to M. le Riche, Feb. 6, 1770
"The people's
government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to
the people."~ Daniel Webster, "Second Speech
on Foot's Resolution"
