Over 40,000 Famous Quotes Sorted By Topic and Author

Famous Quotes

It is foolish to pluck out one's hair for sorrow, as if grief could be assuaged by baldness.
Topic: Hair
Author: Cicero
Be kind to thy father, for when thou were young, who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue, and joined in thy innocent glee.
Reconciliation should be accompanied by justice, otherwise it will not last. While we all hope for peace it shouldn't be peace at any cost but peace based on principle, on justice.
There is great ability in knowing how to conceal one's ability.
Topic: Ability
Author: Francois
In the gain or loss of one race all the rest have equal claim.
Topic: Race
We are born believing. A man bears beliefs, as a tree bears beauty.
Topic: Beliefs
Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.
Topic: Friendship
That which is everybody's business is nobody's business.
Topic: Gossip
Author: Izaak Walton
Though ambition in itself is a vice, it often is also the parent of virtue.
Topic: Ambition
Author: Edgar Quinet
The balding middle-aged man asked his barber,"Why charge me the full price for cutting my hair,there's so little of it." "Well, "said the barber, "actually I make little charge for cutting it. What you're aying for is my searching for it!".
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even a s Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well.
Topic: Effort
Author: Jason Kidd
The crime bill passed by the Senate would reinstate the Federal death penalty for certain violent crimes: assassinating the President; hijacking an airliner; and murdering a government poultry inspector.
No river can return to its source, yet all rivers must have a beginning.
Topic: Beginnings
The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.
Topic: Power
I agree with every word you write, and I can prove this in no better way than by taking your advice from beginning to end.
Topic: Advice
A DEEP-SWORN VOW Others because you did not keep That deep-sworn vow have been friends of mine. Yet always when I look death in the face, When I clamber to the heights of sleep, Or when I grow excited with wine, Suddenly I meet your face.
Topic: Love
Author: W B Yeats
The reward of one duty is the power to fulfil another.
Topic: Duty
Author: George Eliot
Doing business without advertising is like winking at a girl in the dark. You know what you are doing, but nobody else does.
I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.
Topic: Reality
Every person has free choice. Free to obey or disobey the Natural Laws. Your choice determines the consequences. Nobody ever did, or ever will, escape the consequences of his choices.