Top 100 Famous Quotes of all time
"A little learning is a dangerous thing."
Alexander Pope - English poet, 1680-1744
"A mind always employed is always happy."
Thomas Jefferson - April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826, the third President of the United States (1801–1809)
"A picture is worth a thousand words."
Fred R. Barnard - from an article by Fred R. Barnard in the advertising trade journal, Printers' Ink
"A thing of beauty is a joy forever."
John Keats - October 1795 – 23 February 1821- last born of the English Romantic poets
"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't."
Erica Jong - born March 26, 1942 - American author and teacher
"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other thing."
Abraham Lincoln - February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865 -16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865
"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."
Winston Churchill - British politician, 1874-1965
"An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind."
M.K. Gandhi - October 1869 – 30 January 1948 - political and spiritual leader of India during the Indian independence movement
"An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn’t take his education too seriously."
Charles F. Kettering - August 29, 1876 – November 24 / November 25, 1958 - American inventor
"Ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your country."
John F. Kennedy - 35th President of the United States, 1917 - 1963
"Believe that you are defeated, believe it long enough, and it is likely to become a fact."
Norman Vincent Peale - American Protestant preacher and writer - May 31, 1898 – December 24, 1993
"Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it."
André Gide - French author and winner of the Nobel Prize - 22 November 1869 – 19 February 1951
"Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future."
John F. Kennedy - 35th President of the United States, 1917 - 1963
"A mind always employed is always happy."
Thomas Jefferson - April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826, the third President of the United States (1801–1809) and the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776)
"Don't hate, it's too big a burden to bear."
Martin Luther King, Jr. American clergyman, prominent leader in the African American civil rights movement - January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968
"Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise."
Benjamin Franklin - January 17, 1706 – April 17, 1790 -one of the Founding Fathers of the United States
"Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing."
Albert Schweitzer - Franco-German theologian, organist, philosopher, and physician, African missionary, 1875 - 1965
"Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder."
George Washington - military and political leader in the formation of the United States of America, First American President - February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799
"For fools rush in where angels fear to tread."
Alexander Pope - English poet, 1680-1744
"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."
John F. Kennedy - 35th President of the United States, 1917 - 1963
"God helps them that help themselves."
Benjamin Franklin - January 17, 1706 – April 17, 1790 -one of the Founding Fathers of the United States
"He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."
Winston Churchill - British politician, 1874-1965
"He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing."
Benjamin Franklin - January 17, 1706 – April 17, 1790 -one of the Founding Fathers of the United States
"He who lives by the sword, dies by the sword."
Jesus Christ - central figure of Christianity - 5 BC/BCE – c. 30 AD/CE
"He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it easier to do it a second time."
Thomas Jefferson - April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826, the third President of the United States (1801–1809)
"Hitch your wagon to a star."
Ralph Waldo Emerson - American lecturer, essayist, and poet - May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882
"Home is the place, when you have to go there; they have to take you in."
Robert Frost - American poet - March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963
"I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have."
Abraham Lincoln - February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865 -16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865
"I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it."
Edith Sitwell - British Poet - 7 September 1887 – 9 December 1964
"I can't believe that God plays dice with the universe."
Albert Einstein - theoretical physicist, philosopher - 14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955
"I have made this letter longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter."
Blaise Pascal - French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer - June 19, 1623 – August 19, 1662
"I haven't failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
Thomas Edison - Considered that greatest inventor of all time, 1846 - 1931
"I think and think for months, for years. Ninety-nine times the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right."
Albert Einstein - theoretical physicist, philosopher - 14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955
"I want to know God’s thoughts… the rest are details."
Albert Einstein - theoretical physicist, philosopher - 14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955
"I’d rather live with a good question than a bad answer."
Aryeh Frimer
"If I have seen a little further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants."
Isaac Newton - 4 January 1643 – 31 March 1727 – 20 March 1726 - English physicist, mathematician & astronomer
"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."
Mother Teresa - 26 August 1910 – 5 September 1997 - Catholic nun of Albanian
"If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen."
Harry S. Truman - 33rd President of the United States, 1884 - 1972
"If you have to ask how much something costs, you can't afford it."
J. P. Morgan - April 17, 1837 - March 31, 1913 - American financier & banker
"If you would be loved, love and be lovable."
Benjamin Franklin - January 17, 1706 – April 17, 1790 -one of the Founding Fathers of the United States
"If you're ridin' ahead of the herd, take a look back every now and then to make sure it's still there."
Will Rogers - American cowboy, comedian, humorist, social commentator, 1879 - 1935
"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is."
Oscar Wilde - Irish writer and poet - 16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900
"In Heaven, all the interesting people are missing."
Friedrich Nietzsche October 15, 1844 – August 25, 1900 - 19th-century German philosopher
"It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government, except all the others that have been tried."
Winston Churchill - British politician, 1874-1965
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
Aristotle - 384 BC – 322 BC - Greek philosopher
"It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark."
Howard Ruff - Financial advisor and writer - 1931 - ?
"It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up."
Vince Lombardi Influential American football coach - 1913 - 1970
"Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
Mark Twain - Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910 - well known by his pen name Mark Twain, - American author
"Keep your friends close and your enemies closer."
Sun-Tzu - Chinese general and military strategist - 722–481 BC
"Lettin' the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier'n puttin' it back in."
Will Rogers - American cowboy, comedian, humorist, social commentator, 1879 - 1935
"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere."
Albert Einstein - theoretical physicist, philosopher - 14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955
"Love your neighbor - but don't pull down your hedge."
Benjamin Franklin - January 17, 1706 – April 17, 1790 -one of the Founding Fathers of the United States
"My words fly up, my thoughts remain below; Words without thoughts never to heaven go."
William Shakespeare - Famous English poet and playwright - 26 April 1564 - 23 April 1616
"Nature abhors a vacuum."
Francois Rabelas - French monk and satirist 1494-1553
"Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius."
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - composer of the Classical era - 27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791
"Never ascribe to malice, that which can be explained by incompetence."
Napoleon Bonaparte- Military and political leader of France 1769 - 1821
"Never interrupt your enemy when he's making a mistake."
Napoleon Bonaparte- Military and political leader of France 1769 - 1821
"Never leave that till to-morrow which you can do to-day."
Thomas Jefferson - April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826, the third President of the United States (1801–1809)l
"No man is justified in doing evil on the grounds of expediency."
Theodore Roosevelt - 26th President of the United States - October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919
"Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs"
Henry Ford - American industrialist, Founder of Ford Motor Co. - 1863 - 1947
"Oh, East is East and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently at God's great Judgment Seat."
Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936)
"Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life, I find."
John F. Kennedy - 35th President of the United States, 1917 - 1963
"One man who has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't."
George Bernard Shaw 26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950 - Irish playwright
"Politics is more dangerous than war, for in war you are only killed once."
Winston Churchill - British politician, 1874-1965
"Power Corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely."
Lord Acton - 1834-1902 - British historian, politician and educator
"Religion is the opiate of the people."
Karl Marx - German philosopher, political economist, historian, political theorist, communist, and revolutionary - 1818 - 1883
"Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it."
Albert Einstein - theoretical physicist, philosopher - 14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955
"Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em."
William Shakespeare - Famous English poet and playwright - 26 April 1564 - 23 April 1616
"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested."
Francis Bacon - English philosopher, 1561 – 9 April 1626
"Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far."
Theodore Roosevelt - 26th President of the United States - October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919
"Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing."
Winston Churchill - British politician, 1874-1965
"That which doesn't kill us makes us stronger."
Friedrich Nietzsche October 15, 1844 – August 25, 1900 - 19th-century German philosopher
"The Almighty has his own purposes."
Abraham Lincoln - February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865 -16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865
"The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it."
Theodore Roosevelt - 26th President of the United States - October 27, 1858 – January 6, 1919
"The best way to see Faith is to shut the eye of Reason."
Benjamin Franklin - January 17, 1706 – April 17, 1790 -one of the Founding Fathers of the United States
"The buck stops here."
Harry S. Truman - 33rd President of the United States, 1884 - 1972
"The child is father of the man."
William Wordsworth - English Romantic poet - 7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850
"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather in a lack of will."
Vince Lombardi Influential American football coach - 1913 - 1970
"The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits."
Albert Einstein - theoretical physicist, philosopher - 14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955
"The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax."
Albert Einstein - theoretical physicist, philosopher - 14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955
"The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes."
Winston Churchill - British politician, 1874-1965
"The language of friendship is not words, but meanings."
David Henry Thoreau - July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862 American author & poet
"The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end."
Benjamin Disraeli - 21 December 1804 – 19 April 1881) was a British Prime Minister
"The pen is mightier than the sword."
Edward Bulwer-Lytton - English politician 25 May 1803 – 18 January 1873
"The person who reads too much and uses his brain too little will fall into lazy habits of thinking."
Albert Einstein - theoretical physicist, philosopher - 14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955
"The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor."
Vince Lombardi Influential American football coach - 1913 - 1970
"The quickest way to double your money is to fold it over and put it back in your pocket."
Will Rogers - American cowboy, comedian, humorist, social commentator, 1879 - 1935
"The time to repair a roof is when the sun is shining."
John F. Kennedy - 35th President of the United States, 1917 - 1963
"There are no gains without pains."
Benjamin Franklin - January 17, 1706 – April 17, 1790 -one of the Founding Fathers of the United States
"There never was a good war or a bad peace."
Benjamin Franklin - January 17, 1706 – April 17, 1790 -one of the Founding Fathers of the United States
"Time is money."
Benjamin Franklin - January 17, 1706 – April 17, 1790 -one of the Founding Fathers of the United States
"To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace."
George Washington - military and political leader in the formation of the United States of America, First American President - February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799
"To err is human, to forgive divine."
Alexander Pope - English poet, 1680-1744
"We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect."
David Henry Thoreau - July 12, 1817 – May 6, 1862 American author & poet
"Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve."
Napoleon Hill - American author - October 26, 1883 – November 8, 1970
"When you come to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."
Franklin D. Roosevelt - 32nd US President, held office during World War II, 1882 - 1945
"Whenever you do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you, and act accordingly."
Thomas Jefferson - April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826, the third President of the United States (1801–1809)
"Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing."
Vince Lombardi - Influential American football coach - 1913 - 1970
"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time."
Abraham Lincoln - February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865 -16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865
"You can have everything in life that you want if you just give enough other people what they want."
Zig Ziglar - American author, salesperson, and motivational speaker - born 1926
"You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves."
Abraham Lincoln - February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865 -16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865
