Famous quotes

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What Famous Quotes do you know? I will start:
"To be or not to be"-William Shakespeare
"Works sets you free"-Adolf Hitler

You're welcome. I will add more tomorrow.

yes please do, i enjoy reading them

Sure thing. You just wait till tomorrow.

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

~ Mark Twain

"Don't get to comfortable with who you are at any given time- you may miss the oppurtunity to become who you want to be."

~ Jon Bon Jovi

ooo, i like that one. it is good. anyway, off to college now, will check back here later

Have a great day at school Daniel

"Our life is made by the death of others"-Leonardo Da Vinci

This is one of my favorites:
"If there must be trouble let it be in my day so that my child may have peace."-Thomas Paine

I totally agree with the last one!

"Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live."-Robert Kennedy

"Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly
recognizes genius."
(Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859 - 1930 Valley of Fear, 1915)

"The torture of a bad conscience it is the hell of a living soul."-John Kelvin

Another one that I like very much is this one:
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow, learn as if you were about to live forever." -Gandhi.

"There can be no good, without evil."-Old Russian proverb

"Happy families are all alike, every unhappy family is unhappy in it's own way."-Liev Tolstoy

"One mans wilderness is another mans theme park."-Author unknown

"Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one who finds pleasure in the torture and death of his fellow people."-John Anthony Froud

"Of all the propostuos assumptions of humanity nothing exceeds the criticism made of the habits of the poor by the well housed, well warmed and well fed."-Herman Melville

One of my favorites:
"Nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even trouble."-Charles Chaplin

"I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, my enemies for their good intellect."- Oscar Wilde

"They say beauty can cover a multitude of sins but underneath it all we all look exactly the same."-Author Unknown

"A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences."
Amos Bronson Alcott
"Debate is masculine, conversation is feminine."
Amos Bronson Alcott
"First find the man in yourself if you will inspire manliness in others."
Amos Bronson Alcott
"Observation more than books and experience more than persons, are the prime educators."
Amos Bronson Alcott
"Observation more than books, experience rather than persons, are the prime educators."
Amos Bronson Alcott
"One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well."
Amos Bronson Alcott
"Our dreams drench us in senses, and senses steps us again in dreams."
Amos Bronson Alcott
"Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly."
Amos Bronson Alcott
"Our ideals are our better selves."
Amos Bronson Alcott
"Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture."
Amos Bronson Alcott

"Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness."
Amos Bronson Alcott
"Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats."
Amos Bronson Alcott

"That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit."
Amos Bronson Alcott
"The less routine the more life."
Amos Bronson Alcott

"The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple."
Amos Bronson Alcott
"Thought means life, since those who do not think so do not live in any high or real sense. Thinking makes the man."
Amos Bronson Alcott

keep it up, am loving the quotes