Over 40,000 Famous Quotes Sorted By Topic and Author
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Hush! With sudden gush As from a fountain sings in yonder bush The Hermit Thrush.
Topic: Thrushes
Author: John Banister Tabb
No modest man ever did or ever will make a fortune.
Topic: Modesty
Author: Mary Wortley Montagu
Learning is not compulsory but neither is survival.
Topic: Learning
Author: W Edwards Deming
Agitation is the marshalling of the conscience of a nation to mold its laws.
Topic: Agitation
Author: Robert Peel
The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions.
Topic: Wisdom
Author: John A Simone Jr
The "why" is plain as way to parish church. -As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7.
Topic: Shakespeare
Author: William Shakespeare
Victory is a thing of the will.
Topic: Victory
Author: General Ferdinand Foch
There is the story of a pastor who got up one Sunday and announced to his congregation: "I have good news and bad news. The good news is, we have enough money to pay for our new building program. The bad news is, it's still out there in your pockets.".
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
Digestive cheese, and fruit there sure will be.
Topic: Eating
Author: Ben Jonson
The new frontiers to be conquered are mainly in the convolutions of the cortex.
Topic: Psychological Subjects
Author: Arthur Koestler
Find fault when you must find fault in private, and if possible sometime after the offense, rather than at the time.
Topic: Religion Beliefs
Author: Sydney Smith
One-half the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough.
Topic: Quick
Author: Josh Billings
If you do not breathe through writing, if you do not cry out in writing, or sing in writing, then don't write, because our culture has no use for it.
Topic: Literary
Author: Anais Nin
He raised a mortal to the skies; She drew an angel down.
Topic: Influence
Author: John Dryden
Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
Topic: Christianity
Author: Oscar Wilde
For success, attitude is equally as important as ability.
Topic: Attitude
Author: Harry F Banks
It will yet be the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible.
Topic: Religion Beliefs
Author: George W Foote
I love to think of nature as an unlimited broadcasting station, through which God speaks to us every hour, if we will only tune in.
Topic: Nature
Author: George Washington Carver