They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils. - Francis Bacon
Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
Nine-tenths of the existing books are nonsense and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. - Benjamin Disraeli
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted. - Mahatma Gandhi
Voltaire Quotes
In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation. - Voltaire
Samuel Beckett Quotes
If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window. - Samuel Beckett
Virginia Woolf Quotes
Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more. - Virginia Woolf
Amelia Earhart Biography
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| Amelia Earhart, c. 1935 |
During an attempt to make a circumnavigational flight of the globe in 1937 in a Purdue-funded Lockheed Model 10 Electra, Earhart disappeared over the central Pacific Ocean near Howland Island. Fascination with her life, career and disappearance continues to this day.
Source:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amelia_Earhart
Abraham Lincoln Quotes
My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth. - Abraham Lincoln
Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Maya Angelou Quotes
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. - Maya Angelou
Alexander Pope Quotes
Teach me to feel another's woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me. - Alexander Pope
William Shakespeare Quotes
Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him. - William Shakespeare
Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
What is earnest is not always true; on the contrary, error is often more earnest than truth. - Benjamin Disraeli
Samuel Beckett Quotes
In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness. - Samuel Beckett
Lao Tzu Quotes
If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence. - Lao Tzu
Pablo Picasso Quotes
The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is. - Pablo Picasso
Buddha Quotes
Unity can only be manifested by the Binary. Unity itself and the idea of Unity are already two. - Buddha
Mortimer Adler Quotes
The love which moves the world, according to common Christian belief, is God's love and the love of God. - Mortimer Adler
George Carlin Quotes
I'm always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I'm listening to it. - George Carlin
Nelson Mandela Quotes
Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated. - Nelson Mandela
Michelangelo Quotes
A beautiful thing never gives so much pain as does failing to hear and see it. - Michelangelo
Napoleon Hill Quotes
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed. - Napoleon Hill
George Burns Quotes
Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair. - George Burns
John Ruskin Quotes
Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time. - John Ruskin
George Orwell Quotes
We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun. - George Orwell
Victor Hugo Quotes
Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary. - Victor Hugo
Henry David Thoreau Quotes
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready. - Henry David Thoreau
Alexander Pope Quotes
There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit. - Alexander Pope
Warren Buffett Quotes
It's never paid to bet against America. We come through things, but its not always a smooth ride. - Warren Buffett
Ronnie Barker Quotes
The toilets at a local police station have been stolen. Police say they have nothing to go on. - Ronnie Barker
John Wooden Quotes
Success is never final, failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts. - John Wooden
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea. - Mahatma Gandhi
George Orwell Quotes
Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing. - George Orwell
George Carlin Quotes
May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house. - George Carlin
John Ruskin Quotes
Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor. - John Ruskin
Noel Coward Quotes
We have no reliable guarantee that the afterlife will be any less exasperating than this one, have we? - Noel Coward
Harold Wilson Quotes
I believe the greatest asset a head of state can have is the ability to get a good night's sleep. - Harold Wilson
Charles Dickens Quotes
I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. - Charles Dickens
Jackie Mason Quotes
If an Englishman gets run down by a truck he apologizes to the truck. - Jackie Mason
Bud Abbott Quotes
Now, on the St. Louis team we have Who's on first, What's on second, I Don't Know is on third. - Bud Abbott
William Feather Quotes
Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can. - William Feather
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty. - Mahatma Gandhi
Audrey Hepburn Quotes
Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same. - Audrey Hepburn
Alexander Pope Quotes
The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine. - Alexander Pope
Mark Twain Quotes
What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce. - Mark Twain
Albert Schweitzer Quotes
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him. - Albert Schweitzer
Leonardo da Vinci Quotes
It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end. - Leonardo da Vinci
Charles Lindbergh Quotes
I have seen the science I worshiped, and the aircraft I loved, destroying the civilization I expected them to serve. - Charles Lindbergh
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world's problem. - Mahatma Gandhi
Abraham Lincoln Quotes
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life. - Abraham Lincoln
Mother Teresa Quotes
Many people mistake our work for our vocation. Our vocation is the love of Jesus. - Mother Teresa
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