Famous English Quotations
Quotation |
Author |
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| A | "After all is said and done, more is said than done." | Aesop |
| "When I was born, I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half." | Gracie Allen | |
| "I'm not afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens." | Woody Allen | |
| "The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do." | Anonymous | |
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"Love is not about who you live with. It's
about who you can't live without." |
Anonymous | |
| "A
real friend is someone who walks in when the
rest of the world walks out" |
Anonymous | |
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"Opportunity may knock only once, but
temptation leans on the doorbell." |
Anonymous | |
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"Good supervision is the art of getting
average people to do superior work." |
Anonymous | |
| "Wit is educated insolence." | Aristotle | |
| "Education is the best provision for the journey to old age." | Aristotle | |
| "One swallow does not make the spring." | Aristotle | |
| "Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work." | Aristotle | |
| "We are what we repeatedly do." | Aristotle | |
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"Wishing to be friends is quick work, but
friendship is a slow ripening fruit." |
Aristotle | |
| "There is safety in numbers." | Anonymous | |
| B | "The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship." | Sir Francis Bacon |
| "Knowledge is power." | Sir Francis Bacon | |
| "A prudent question is one-half of wisdom." | Sir Francis Bacon | |
| "Behind every great fortune there is a crime." | Honore de Balzac | |
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"It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up
and taking action." |
Honore de Balzac | |
| "An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it." | Orlando A; Battisa | |
|
"There is no such thing as a long piece of
work, except one that you dare not start. |
Charles Baudelaire | |
|
"When one door closes, another opens; but we
often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us." |
Alexander Graham Bell | |
| "Happiness lies in good health and a bad memory." | Ingrid Bergman | |
|
"Only a fool learns from his own mistakes.
The wise man learns from the mistakes of others. |
Otto von Bismarck | |
| "Ability is nothing without opportunity." | Napoleon Bonaparte | |
| "Glory is fleeting but obscurity is forever." | Napoleon Bonaparte | |
| "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." | Napoleon Bonaparte | |
| "The heart has reasons that reason does not understand." | Jacques Bossuet |
| C | "Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn." | Miguel de Cervantes |
| "There are people who have money and people who are rich." | Coco Chanel | |
| "Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up." | G.K. Chesterton | |
| "A woman used her intelligence to find reasons to support her intuition." | G.K. Chesterton | |
| "I married an archaeologist
because the older I grow the more he appreciates me." |
Agatha Christie | |
| "Very few of us are what we seem." | Agatha Christie | |
| "We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give." | Winston Churchill | |
| "A
pessimist sees the difficulty in every
opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty." |
Winston Churchill | |
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"Success is the ability to go from one
failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm." |
Winston Churchill | |
| "If you are going through hell, keep going." | Winston Churchill | |
| "History will be kind to me for I intend to write it." | Winston Churchill | |
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"A lie gets halfway around the world before
the truth has a chance to get its pants on." |
Winston Churchill | |
| "The price of greatness is responsibility." | Winston Churchill | |
| "Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge." | Winston Churchill | |
| "Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others." | Cicero | |
|
"Progress is the injustice each generation
commits with regard to its predecessors." |
E.M.Cioran | |
|
"I believe in luck; how else can you explain
the success of those you dislike?" |
Jean Cocteau | |
|
"Choose a job you love, and you will never
have to work a day in your life. |
Conficius | |
| "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." | Conficius | |
| "Respect yourself and others will respect you." | Conficius | |
| "The superior man is slow in his words and earnest in his conduct." | Conficius | |
| "Nothing in life is to be feared; it is only to be understood." | Marie Curie | |
| D | "The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad." | Salvador Dali |
| "Have no fear of perfection; you'll never reach it." | Salvador Dali | |
|
"It is not the strongest of the species that
survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change." |
Charles Darwin | |
| "It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter." | Marlene Dietrich | |
| "Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours." | Benjamin Disraeli | |
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"The greatest good you can do for another is
not just share your riches, but reveal to him his own." |
Benjamin Disraeli | |
| "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies and statistics." | Benjamin Disraeli | |
| "Little things affect little minds." | Benjamin Disraeli | |
| "My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me." | Benjamin Disraeli | |
| "The secret of success is constancy of purpose." | Benjamin Disraeli | |
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"Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell
together; at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit. |
Alexandre Dumas | |
| "All for one and one for all." | Alexandre Dumas |
| E | "Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration." | Thomas Edison |
|
"Only two things are infinite - the universe
and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." |
Albert Einstein | |
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"Not everything that can be counted counts,
and not everything that counts can be counted." |
Albert Einstein | |
|
"The difference between genius and stupidity
is that genius has its limits." |
Albert Einstein | |
| "It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer." | Albert Einstein | |
| "Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new." | Albert Einstein | |
| "Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish." | Albert Einstein | |
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"Great spirits have always encountered
violent opposition from mediocre minds." |
Albert Einstein | |
| "Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love." | Albert Einstein | |
| "I never think of the future. It comes soon enough." | Albert Einstein | |
| "Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value." | Albert Einstein | |
|
"When you are courting a nice girl, an hour
seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder, a second seems like an hour. That's relativity." |
Albert Einstein | |
|
"You have to learn the rules of the game. And
then you have to play better than anyone else." |
Albert Einstein | |
| "The only way to have a friend is to be one." | Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
|
"In case of dissension, never dare to judge
till you've heard the other side." |
Euripedes | |
| "Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife." | Euripedes | |
| F |
"A writer is congenitally unable to tell the
truth, and that is why we call what he writes fiction." |
William Faulkner |
| "A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business." | Henry Ford | |
| "Don't find fault, find a remedy." | Henry Ford | |
|
"Obstacles are those frightful things you
see when you take your eyes off your goal." |
Henry Ford | |
| "You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do." | Henry Ford | |
|
"The biggest mistake people make in life is
not trying to make a living at doing what they most enjoy." |
Malcolm Forbes | |
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"To accomplish great things, we must not
only act but also dream; not only plan but also believe." |
Anatole France | |
| "Admiration is the daughter of ignorance." | Benjamin Franklin | |
| “In order for three people to keep a secret, two must be dead.” | Benjamin Franklin | |
| "By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail." | Benjamin Franklin | |
| "Most fools think they are only ignorant." | Benjamin Franklin | |
| "Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed." | Benjamin Franklin | |
|
"Creative minds have always been known to
survive any kind of bad training." |
Anna Freud | |
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"Men are more moral than they think, and far
more immoral that they can imagine." |
Sigmund Freud |
| "We cannot teach people anything; we can
only help them discover it within themselves." |
Galileo Gallilei | |
| J | ||
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