Quotations
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There are 43 quotations in this collection:
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
- Abraham Lincoln
You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
- Abraham Lincoln
People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be
- Abraham Lincoln
If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.
- Abraham Lincoln
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
- Abraham Lincoln
He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.
- Abraham Lincoln
The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
- Abraham Lincoln
The great mass of people... will more easily fall victim to a big lie than to a small one.
- Adolf Hitler
The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.
- Adolf Hitler
United we stand, divided we fall.
- Aesop
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
- Aesop
A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth.
- Aesop
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
- Aesop
All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.
- Aristotle
Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
- Aristotle
Be modest! It is the kind of pride least likely to offend.
- Jules Renard
Laziness is nothing more than the habit of resting before you get tired.
- Jules Renard
The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving an excuse.
- Jules Renard
You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it
- W C Fields
I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.
- W C Fields
It's better to stay silent and look a fool, rather than speak and remove all doubt.
- Mark Twain
Wagner's music is better than it sounds.
- Mark Twain
The report of my death was an exaggeration.
- Mark Twain
It's better to keep quiet and have people think you stupid, than to talk and confirm it.
- Mark Twain
Not all horses were born equal. A few were born to win.
- Mark Twain
Go to heaven for the climate. Hell for the company.
- Mark Twain
Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint
- Mark Twain
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language
- Oscar Wilde
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
- Oscar Wilde
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.
- Oscar Wilde
I can resist everything except temptation.
- Oscar Wilde
The truth is rarely pure, and never simple.
- Oscar Wilde
Work is the curse of the drinking classes.
- Oscar Wilde
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
- Oscar Wilde
Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them as much
- Oscar Wilde
Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing.
- Oscar Wilde
Real friends stab you in the front
- Oscar Wilde
Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go
- Oscar Wilde
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
- Oscar Wilde
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
- Samuel Johnson
Not only is there no God, but try finding a plumber on Sunday.
- Woody Allen
I'm not afraid of dying - I just don't want to be there when it happens!
- Woody Allen