List of Famous quotes from the Famous people.

Friday, June 30, 2006

Confucius (Philosopher)

• Learning without thought is labor lost.

St Augustine

• Patience is the companion of wisdom.

Jennifer Aniston (Actress)

• There are no regrets in life, just lessons.

Abram L Urban

• Poor indeed is the garden in which birds find no homes.

Richard Nixon (Former US President)

• The greatest honor history can bestow is that of peacemaker.

Anonymous

• Anger is a condition in which the tongue works faster than the mind.

Mata Hari (1876 – 1917)

• The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.

Martha Graham (1893 - 1991)

• Dance is the hidden language of the soul.

Karl Kraus (1874 - 1936)

• A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.

Ovid (43 BC - 17 AD)

• Dignity and love do not blend well, nor do they continue long together.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Let not a man guard his dignity, but let his dignity guard him.

Maureen Murphy

• The reason there are so few female politicians is that it is too much trouble to put makeup on two faces.

Nikita Khrushchev

• Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river

Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922)

• Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.

M.K. Gandhi

• Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
• Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.
• I want freedom on the full expression on my personality.
• The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
• You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
• An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.
• Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.
• Permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth and violence.

Aristotle

• Happiness depends upon ourselves.
• Law is mind without reason.
• Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
• Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.
• The gods are too fond of a joke.
• Hope is a walking dream.
• The basis of a democratic state is liberty.
• The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class.
• Man is by nature a political animal.

John F. Kennedy

• Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
• We must use time as a tool, not as a crutch.
• The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all.
• We need men who can dream of things that never were.
• Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
• Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind.

Thomas Jefferson

• I cannot live without books.
• Never spend your money before you have it.

Albert Einstein

• I never think of the future, it comes soon enough.
• I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.
• Imagination is more important than knowledge.
• The important thing is not to stop questioning.
• The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
• Truth is what stands the test of experience.
• Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
• The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.
• Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age 18.
• If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

Benjamin Franklin

• Beware of the young doctor and the old barber.
• You may delay, but time will not.
• Fish and visitors smell in 3 days.
• But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
• Creditors have better memories than debtors
• Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead

Henry David Thoreau (Philospher)

Success comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.


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