Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Updike

A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.

John Taylor Gatto

Genius is an exceedingly common human quality, probably natural to most of us.

John Stuart Mill

In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race.

John Stuart Mill

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

John Stuart Mill

Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.

John Stuart Mill

One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.

John Selden

Old friends are best.

John Ralston Saul

Like all religions, Reason presents itself as the solution to the problems it has created

James J. Corbett

You become a champion by fighting one more round. When things are tough, you fight one more round.

James Hutton

There is no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end.

James Joyce

Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.

James Joyce

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

James Joyce

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

James Shirley

Only the actions of the just, Smell sweet and blossom in their dust.

James Russell Lowell

A wise man travels to discover himself.

James Russell Lowell

All God's angels come to us disguised.

James Russell Lowell

The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.

James Russell Lowell

Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

James Russell Lowell

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

James Russell Lowell

Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

James Russell Lowell

In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.

James Hansen

It would be immoral to leave young people with a climate system spiraling out of control.

Laurence J. Peter

Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour-by-hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.

Laurence J. Peter

If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?

Laurence J. Peter

Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.

Laurence J. Peter

Noblest of all dogs is the hot-dog; it feeds the hand that bites it.

Laurence J. Peter

There are two kinds of failures: those who thought and never did, and those who did and never thought

Laura Ingalls Wilder

No one has ever achieved anything from the smallest to the greatest unless the dream was dreamed first.

Larry Flynt

The only question to ask yourself is, how much are you willing to sacrifice to achieve this success?

Libba Bray

And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

So then learn to conquer your fear. This is the only art we have to master nowadays: to look at things without fear, and to fearlessly do right.

Friedrich Schiller

What's old collapses, times change, and new life blossoms in the ruins.

Friedrich Schiller

To live is to dream, and to dream pleasantly is to be wise.