Famous Words By Great People
These are a few of my favorite quotes, famous words, axioms, maxims, sayings, one-liners and proverbs.
"Success in life does not come from having the right cards, but from playing bad ones properly."
- Joshua Dool.
"In the name of the hungry, of the naked, of the crippled, of the homeless, of the blind, in their name, I accept the award."
- Mother Theresa, on receiving Nobel Prize.
"It's a funny thing about life. If you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it."
- Somerset Maugham.
"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on."
- Robert Frost.
"Understanding is a kind of ecstasy."
- Carl Sagan.
"Get up every day and try a little harder than the day before."
- Emeril Lagasse.
"A man with money is no match against a man on a mission."
- Doyle Brunson.
"On the eighth day, man created God."
- Anonymous.
"Travel light in life. Take only what you need: a loving family, good friends, simple pleasures, someone to love, and someone to love you; something to eat, enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink for thirst is a dangerous thing."
- Anonymous.
"The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny."
- Albert Ellis.
"I think I have found the hardest part about moving forward, is not looking back."
- Anonymous.
"No one is a virgin, because life has screwed us all."
- Ann Rinaldi.
"I always knew I would look back on my tears and laugh, but I never knew I would look back at my laughter and cry."
- Anonymous.
"Strange how much you have to know before you know how little you know."
- Anonymous.
"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
- Martin Luther King Jr.
"Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers."
- Garth Brooks.
"God heals, and the doctor takes the fees."
- Benjamin Franklin.
"A true friend stabs you in the front."
- Oscar Wilde.
"Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel."
- Mark Twain.
"Thank God, I'm an atheist."
- Luis Buņel.
"Seven out of ten people suffer from hemorrhoids. Does this mean that the other three enjoy it?"
- Sal Davino.
"True love isn't hard to find; it just likes to play hide and seek."
- Michelle McCluskey.
"Luck happens when preparation meets opportunity."
- Anonymous.
"In order to understand the stock market we have to realize that, like anything enormous and inert, it's fundamentally stable, and, like anything emotion-driven, it's volatile as hell. Got that? Me neither."
- Rourke.
"Take time to love her or someone else will."
- Anonymous.
"A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money."
- W. C. Fields.
"The only sin, which we never forgive in each other, is difference of opinion."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson.
"Watching you walk out of my life does not make me bitter or cynical about love. Rather it makes me realize that if I wanted so much to be with the wrong person, how wonderful it will be when the right one comes along."
- Javan.
"After the way you tore my heart apart, after the way you made me cry at night, after the way you made me love again, how can I ever let you go?"
- Anonymous.
"Sex and parking are the same: If you can't find it for free you have to pay for it."
- Anonymous.
"The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it."
- Anonymous.
"Truth is the safest lie."
- Anonymous.
"Honesty without compassion is brutality."
- Anonymous.
"If you're not five minutes early, you're ten minutes late."
- Anonymous.
"I think it would be a good idea."
- Mahatma Gandhi, when asked as to what he thought of Western Civilization.
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win."
- Mahatma Gandhi.
"Nothing recedes like success."
- Walter Winchell.
"I have often regretted my speech, never my silence."
- Xenocrates.
"Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down."
- Jimmy Durante.
"Don't be so humble, you are not that great."
- Golda Meir.
"Trust everyone, but cut the cards."
- Anonymous.
"If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live."
- Martin Luther King Jr.
"When you are falling from a mountain, you may as well attempt to fly."
- Anonymous.
"Look at everything as though you were seeing it for the first time or the last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory."
- Betty Smith.
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."
- Anonymous.
"Reach for the moon, even if you miss, you will land among the stars."
- Anonymous.
"Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken."
- Orson Rega Card.
"Nobody can ever make you feel inferior without your consent."
- Eleanor Roosevelt.
"Guns are always the best method for private suicide. Drugs are too chancy. You might just miscalculate the dosage and just have a good time."
- Rourke.
"I used to be indecisive; now I'm not sure."
- Anonymous.
"Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia."
- Anonymous.
"If you're not the lead dog, the scenery never changes."
- Anonymous.
"Don't go around the world saying it owes you something. It owes you nothing. It was here first!"
- Mark Twain.
"What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others.
- Anonymous.
"That's what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is
winning."
- Richard Bach.
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson.
"Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess."
- Oscar Wilde.
"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door."
- Milton Berle.
"Winners are losers that got lucky."
- Jeremy Smallwood.
"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat."
- Theodore Roosevelt.
"Miserable is the man who loves a woman and takes her for his wife, pouring at her feet the sweat of his skin and the blood of his body and the life of his heart, and placing her in the hands of the fruit of his toil and the revenue of his diligence; for when he slowly wakes up, he finds that the heart that he endeavored to buy is given away freely and in sincerity to another man for the enjoyment of its hidden secrets and deepest love."
- Khalil Gibran.
"The man who says his wife can't take a joke forgets that she took him."
- Anonymous.
"Love at first sight is often cured by a second look."
- Anonymous.
"You aren't wealthy until you have something money can't buy."
- Garth Brooks.
"Media is the plural of mediocre."
- Jimmy Breslin.
"Look here, steward. If this is coffee, I want tea. But if this is tea, I want coffee."
- Anonymous.
"Don't be a fool and die for your country. Make the other fool die for his country."
- General George S. Patton.
"A friend is someone who knows the worst thing about you and it doesn't matter."
- "Meet Joe Black"
"Don't argue with idiots. They drag you down to their level and beat you with experience."
- Anonymous.
"It is of no account; after all, the old bird does not fly far from his nest."
- Sir Winston Churchill, upon being informed by a fellow Member of Parliament that his
'fly' was open.
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a good quote, or a one-liner that you'd like to add, please e-mail to
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