Quotes from all around the world and from people too . . .

Latest Quotes are in bold

  • "A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment." - Jane Austin
  • "All my joys to this are folly, Naught so sweet as melancholy." - Robert Burton
  • "A man so vile to make a pun would not scruple to pick a pocket." - John Dennis
  • "And when he goes to heaven to Saint Peter he will tell: Another Marine reporting sir; I've served my time in hell!" - Epitaph on grave of Pfc. Cameron, of the Marine Corps, Guadalcanal [1942]
  • "Ask not what this country can do for you, but ask what you can do for this country." - John F. Kennedy

  • "Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind as man's ingratitude." from "As You Like It." - Shakespeare

  • Courage is the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared. - David Ben-Gurion
  • Criticism comes faster than craftsmanship. - Zeuxis
  • "Ecce Homo!" - Pontius Pilate
  • "Few, save the poor, feel for the poor" - Letitia Elizabeth London
  • "For I dipt in to the future, far as human eye could see; Saw the vision of the world, and all the wonder that would be..." - Alfred Tennyson
  • For now I see peace to corrupt no less than war to waste. - John Milton
  • "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the continent." - Winston Churchill
  • "Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it and I shall move the world." - Archimedes [Submitted by Trixie]
  • "God does not place dice with the universe." - Albert Einstein
  • "Go, sir, gallop, and don't forget that the world was made in six days. You can ask me for anything you like, except time. " - Napoleon Bonaparte
  • "He did not see any reason why the Devil should have all the good tunes" - Excerpt from a sermon from Rowland Hill
  • "I am not a crook!"  - Richard Nixon
  • "I am the bad guy BECAUSE I do my job" - Roger D. Noriega
  • "I did not have sexual relations with that woman: Miss Lewinsky." - Bill Clinton
  • "I leave this rule for others when I'm dead, Be sure you're right - then go ahead." - Davey Crocket
  • "In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed." Sixth Amendment of the United States of America (1791)
  • "Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know." - Sir Richard Francis Bacon
  • "I would far rather be ignorant than knowledgeable of evils." - Aeschylus
  • Let us go, you and I, when the evening is spread out against the sky like a patient etherized upon a table. - Thomas Stearns Elliot
  • "Living well is the best revenge." - George Herbert
  • "London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers of the Empire are irresistibly drained." - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  • "Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true." - Bertrand Russell, Earl Russell
  • "Myth is never true, but has always been . . ." - Unknown Greek Philosopher
  • Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few" - Winston Churchill
  • "Never give in--never, never, never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in..." - Winston Churchill
  • "No man worth having can be true to his wife, or can be true to his wife, or ever was, or ever will be so." - Sir John Vanbrugh
  • "Once a woman has given you her heart you can never get rid of the rest of her." - Sir John Vanbrugh
  • "Say not "Good Night"; but in some brighter clime bid me "Good Morning." - Anna Letitia Barbauld
  • "Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule." - Charles Dickens
  • "The buck stops here." - Harry S. Truman
  • "The great masses of the people . . . will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one." - Adolf Hitler
  • "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." - Franklin Delano Roosevelt
  • "There'll be a hot time in the old town tonight." - Joseph Hayden
  • "They see nothing wrong in the rule that to the victor belong the spoils of the enemy" - William Learned Macy (Speech in the Senate)
  • Today is a good day to die! - Worf, Star Trek: The Next Generation
  • "To reign is worth ambition though in hell: Better to reign in hell than serve in heav'n." - John Milton
  • "You must remember this, a kiss is still a kiss, A sigh is just a sigh; The fundamental things still apply, As time goes by." - Herman Hupfield
  • "Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?" - James Thurber
  • "When life gives you lemons, get some other bastard to make and sell the lemonade while you go play golf." - Allusivedreamer
  • "When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal." - Richard M. Nixon
  • "Who was that lady I saw you with last night? She ain't no lady, she is my wife." - Lew Fields
  • "You furnish the pictures and I'll furnish the war." - William Randolph Hearst

False Quotes

  • "If you're not a liberal at 25, then you have no heart.  If you're not a conservative at 35, then you have no brain." - Winston Churchill

   

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