Over 40,000 Famous Quotes Sorted By Topic and Author

Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment. - The Oracle.

It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured. - Agricola.

The sweetest of all sounds is praise.

Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people. - Broken Vessels, 1991.

The buried talent is the sunken rock on which most lives strike and founder. - Notes on Doctrinal and Spiritual Subjects.

The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

The hand that rules the press, the radio, the screen and the far-spread magazine, rules the country. - Memorial service for Justice Brandeis, December 21, 1942.

You can never get all the facts from just one newspaper, and unless you have all the facts, you cannot make proper judgements about what is going on. - Mr. Citizen, 1960.

But then peace, peace! I am so mistrustful of it: so much afraid that it means a sort of weakness and giving in. - Selected Letters of D. H. Lawrence.

There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing.

If an army of monkeys were strumming on typewriters, they might write all the books in the British Museum. - "In the Nature of the Physical World", 1928.

We never know the worth of water 'til the well is dry.

Albert Einstein I never came upon any of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking. W. Alton Jones -Robert Frost.

If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent.

Watteau is no less an artist for having painted a fascia board while Sainsbury's is no less effective a business for producing advertisements which entertain and educate instead of condescending and exploiting.

People differ not only in their ability to do but also in their 'will to do'.

If you ever have to support a flagging conversation, introduce the topic of eating.

There is nothing that exasperates people more than a display of superior ability or brilliance in conversation. They seem pleased at the time, but their envy makes them curse the conversationalist in their heart.