Famous Quotes

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      so today i bring for you famous quotes and they are all from the same place. These quotes are from Othello play by Shakespeare


      so enjoy redaing them


      Author: William Shakespeare
      That never set a squadron in the field,
      Nor the division of a battle knows.
      Othello. ACT I Scene 1.

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      Author: William Shakespeare
      The bookish theoric.
      Othello. ACT I Scene 1.

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      Author: William Shakespeare
      ’T is the curse of service,
      Preferment goes by letter and affection,
      And not by old gradation, where each second
      Stood heir to the first.
      Othello. ACT I Scene 1.

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      Author: William Shakespeare
      We cannot all be masters, nor all masters
      Cannot be truly follow’d.
      Othello. ACT I Scene 1.

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      Author: William Shakespeare
      Whip me such honest knaves.
      Othello. ACT I Scene 1.

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      Author: William Shakespeare
      I will wear my heart upon my sleeve
      For daws to peck at.
      Othello. ACT I Scene 1.

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      Author: William Shakespeare
      You are one of those that will not serve God, if the devil bid you.
      Othello. ACT I Scene 1.

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      Author: William Shakespeare
      The wealthy curled darlings of our nation.
      Othello. ACT I Scene 2.

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      Author: William Shakespeare
      Most potent, grave, and reverend signiors,
      My very noble and approv’d good masters,
      That I have ta’en away this old man’s daughter,
      It is most true; true, I have married her:
      The very head and front of my offending
      Hath this
      Othello. ACT I Scene 3.

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      Author: William Shakespeare
      Her father loved me; oft invited me;
      Still question’d me the story of my life,
      From year to year, the battles, sieges, fortunes,
      That I have passed.
      I ran it through, even from my boyish days,
      To the very moment that he bade me tell it
      Othello. ACT I Scene 3.

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      Author: William Shakespeare
      And often did beguile her of her tears,
      When I did speak of some distressful stroke
      That my youth suffer’d. My story being done,
      She gave me for my pains a world of sighs;
      She swore, in faith, ’t was strange, ’t was passing stra
      Othello. ACT I Scene 3.

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      Author: William Shakespeare
      I do perceive here a divided duty.
      Othello. ACT I Scene 3.

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      Author: William Shakespeare
      The robb’d that smiles, steals something from the thief.
      Othello. ACT I Scene 3.

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      Author: William Shakespeare
      The tyrant custom, most grave senators,
      Hath made the flinty and steel couch of war
      My thrice-driven bed of down.
      Othello. ACT I Scene 3.

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      Author: William Shakespeare
      I saw Othello’s visage in his mind.
      Othello. ACT I Scene 3.

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      Author: William Shakespeare
      Put money in thy purse.
      Othello. ACT I Scene 3.

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      Author: William Shakespeare
      The food that to him now is as luscious as locusts, shall be to him shortly as bitter as coloquintida.
      Othello. ACT I Scene 3.

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      Author: William Shakespeare
      Framed to make women false.
      Othello. ACT I Scene 3.

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      Author: William Shakespeare
      One that excels the quirks of blazoning pens.
      Othello. ACT II Scene 1.

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      Author: William Shakespeare
      For I am nothing, if not critical.
      Othello. ACT II Scene 1.

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      Author: William Shakespeare
      I am not merry; but I do beguile
      The thing I am, by seeming otherwise.
      Othello. ACT II Scene 1.

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      Author: William Shakespeare
      She that was ever fair and never proud,
      Had tongue at will, and yet was never loud.
      Othello. ACT II Scene 1.

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      Author: William Shakespeare
      She was a wight, if ever such wight were,—
      Des. To do what?
      Iago. To suckle fools and chronicle small beer.
      Des. O most lame and impotent conclusion!
      Othello. ACT II Scene 1.

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      Author: William Shakespeare
      You may relish him more in the soldier than in the scholar.
      Othello. ACT II Scene 1.

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      Author: William Shakespeare
      If after every tempest come such calms,
      May the winds blow till they have waken’d death!
      Othello. ACT II Scene 1.

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      Author: William Shakespeare
      Egregiously an ass.
      Othello. ACT II Scene 1.

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      Author: William Shakespeare
      I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking.
      Othello. ACT II Scene 3.

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      Author: William Shakespeare
      Potations pottle-deep.
      Othello. ACT II Scene 3.

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      Author: William Shakespeare
      King Stephen was a worthy peer,
      His breeches cost him but a crown;
      He held them sixpence all too dear,—
      With that he called the tailor lown.
      Othello. ACT II Scene 3.

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      Author: William Shakespeare
      Silence that dreadful bell: it frights the isle
      From her propriety.
      Othello. ACT II Scene 3.

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      Author: William Shakespeare
      Your name is great
      In mouths of wisest censure.
      Othello. ACT II Scene 3.

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      Author: William Shakespeare
      Thy honesty and love doth mince this matter.
      Othello. ACT II Scene 3.

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      Author: William Shakespeare
      Cassio, I love thee;
      But never more be officer of mine.
      Othello. ACT II Scene 3.

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      Author: William Shakespeare
      Iago. What, are you hurt, lieutenant?
      Cas. Ay, past all surgery.
      Othello. ACT II Scene 3.

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      Author: William Shakespeare
      Reputation, reputation, reputation! Oh, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial.
      Othello. ACT II Scene 3.

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      Author: William Shakespeare
      O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil!
      Othello. ACT II Scene 3.

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      Author: William Shakespeare
      O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!
      Othello. ACT II Scene 3.

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      Author: William Shakespeare
      Cas. Every inordinate cup is unbless’d, and the ingredient is a devil.
      Iago. Come, come, good wine is a good familiar creature, if it be well used.
      Othello. ACT II Scene 3.

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      Author: William Shakespeare
      How poor are they that have not patience!
      Othello. ACT II Scene 3.

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      Author: William Shakespeare
      Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul,
      But I do love thee! and when I love thee not,
      Chaos is come again.
      Othello. ACT III Scene 3.

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      Author: William Shakespeare
      Speak to me as to thy thinkings,
      As thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughts
      The worst of words.
      Othello. ACT III Scene 3.

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      Author: William Shakespeare
      Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,
      Is the immediate jewel of their souls:
      Who steals my purse steals trash; ’t is something, nothing;
      ’T was mine, ’t is his, and has been slave to thousands;
      But he that filches from me my
      Othello. ACT III Scene 3.

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      Author: William Shakespeare
      O, beware, my lord, of jealousy!
      It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock
      The meat it feeds on.
      Othello. ACT III Scene 3.

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      Author: William Shakespeare
      But, O, what damned minutes tells he o’er
      Who dotes, yet doubts, suspects, yet strongly
      Othello. ACT III Scene 3.

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      Author: William Shakespeare
      Poor and content is rich and rich enough.
      Othello. ACT III Scene 3.

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      Author: William Shakespeare
      To be once in doubt
      Is once to be resolv’d.
      Othello. ACT III Scene 3.

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      Author: William Shakespeare
      If I do prove her haggard,
      Though that her jesses were my dear heart-strings,
      I ’ld whistle her off and let her down the wind,
      To prey at fortune.
      Othello. ACT III Scene 3.

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      Author: William Shakespeare
      I am declined
      Into the vale of years.
      Othello. ACT III Scene 3.

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      Author: William Shakespeare
      O curse of marriage,
      That we can call these delicate creatures ours,
      And not their appetites! I had rather be a toad,
      And live upon the vapour of a dungeon,
      Than keep a corner in the thing I love
      For others’ uses.
      Othello. ACT III Scene 3.

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      Author: William Shakespeare
      Trifles light as air
      Are to the jealous confirmations strong
      As proofs of holy writ.
      Othello. ACT III Scene 3.

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      Author: William Shakespeare
      Not poppy, nor mandragora,
      Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world,
      Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep
      Which thou owedst yesterday.
      Othello. ACT III Scene 3.

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      Author: William Shakespeare
      I swear ’t is better to be much abused
      Than but to know ’t a little.
      Othello. ACT III Scene 3.

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      Author: William Shakespeare
      He that is robb’d, not wanting what is stolen,
      Let him not know ’t, and he ’s not robb’d at all.
      Othello. ACT III Scene 3.

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      Author: William Shakespeare
      O, now, for ever
      Farewell the tranquil mind! farewell content!
      Farewell the plumed troop and the big wars
      That make ambition virtue! O, farewell!
      Farewell the neighing steed and the shrill trump,
      The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing f
      Othello. ACT III Scene 3.

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      Author: William Shakespeare
      Be sure of it; give me the ocular proof.
      Othello. ACT III Scene 3.

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      Author: William Shakespeare
      No hinge nor loop
      To hang a doubt on.
      Othello. ACT III Scene 3.

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      Author: William Shakespeare
      On horror’s head horrors accumulate.
      Othello. ACT III Scene 3.

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      Author: William Shakespeare
      Take note, take note, O world,
      To be direct and honest is not safe.
      Othello. ACT III Scene 3.

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      Author: William Shakespeare
      But this denoted a foregone conclusion.
      Othello. ACT III Scene 3.

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      Author: William Shakespeare
      Swell, bosom, with thy fraught,
      For ’t is of aspics’ tongues!
      Othello. ACT III Scene 3.

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      Author: William Shakespeare
      Like to the Pontic sea,
      Whose icy current and compulsive course
      Ne’er feels retiring ebb, but keeps due on
      To the Propontic and the Hellespont,
      Even so my bloody thoughts, with violent pace,
      Shall ne’er look back, ne’er ebb t
      Othello. ACT III Scene 3.

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      Author: William Shakespeare
      Our new heraldry is hands, not hearts.
      Othello. ACT III Scene 4.

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      Author: William Shakespeare
      To beguile many, and be beguil’d by one.
      Othello. ACT IV Scene 1.

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      Author: William Shakespeare
      They laugh that win.
      Othello. ACT IV Scene 1.

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      Author: William Shakespeare
      But yet the pity of it, Iago! O Iago, the pity of it, Iago!
      Othello. ACT IV Scene 1.

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      Author: William Shakespeare
      I understand a fury in your words,
      But not the words.
      Othello. ACT IV Scene 2.

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      Author: William Shakespeare
      Steep’d me in poverty to the very lips.
      Othello. ACT IV Scene 2.

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      Author: William Shakespeare
      But, alas, to make me
      A fixed figure for the time of scorn
      To point his slow unmoving finger
      Othello. ACT IV Scene 2.

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      Author: William Shakespeare
      Patience, thou young and rose-lipp’d cherubin.
      Othello. ACT IV Scene 2.

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      Author: William Shakespeare
      O thou weed,
      Who art so lovely fair and smell’st so sweet
      That the sense aches at thee, would thou hadst ne’er been born.
      Othello. ACT IV Scene 2.

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      Author: William Shakespeare
      O Heaven, that such companions thou ’ldst unfold,
      And put in every honest hand a whip
      To lash the rascals naked through the world!
      Othello. ACT IV Scene 2.

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      Author: William Shakespeare
      ’T is neither here nor there.
      Othello. ACT IV Scene 3.

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      Author: William Shakespeare
      It makes us or it mars us.
      Othello. ACT V Scene 1.

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      Author: William Shakespeare
      Every way makes my gain.
      Othello. ACT V Scene 1.

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      Author: William Shakespeare
      He hath a daily beauty in his life.
      Othello. ACT V Scene 1.

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      Author: William Shakespeare
      This is the night
      That either makes me or fordoes me quite.
      Othello. ACT V Scene 1.

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      Author: William Shakespeare
      And smooth as monumental alabaster.
      Othello. ACT V Scene 2.

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      Author: William Shakespeare
      Put out the light, and then put out the light:
      If I quench thee, thou flaming minister,
      I can again thy former light restore
      Should I repent me; but once put out thy light,
      Thou cunning’st pattern of excelling nature,
      I know not where
      Othello. ACT V Scene 2.

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      Author: William Shakespeare
      So sweet was ne’er so fatal.
      Othello. ACT V Scene 2.

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      Author: William Shakespeare
      Had all his hairs been lives, my great revenge
      Had stomach for them all.
      Othello. ACT V Scene 2.

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      Author: William Shakespeare
      One entire and perfect chrysolite.
      Othello. ACT V Scene 2.

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      Author: William Shakespeare
      Curse his better angel from his side,
      And fall to reprobation.
      Othello. ACT V Scene 2.

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      Author: William Shakespeare
      Every puny whipster.
      Othello. ACT V Scene 2.

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      Author: William Shakespeare
      Man but a rush against Othello’s breast,
      And he retires.
      Othello. ACT V Scene 2.

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      Author: William Shakespeare
      I have done the state some service, and they know ’t.
      No more of that. I pray you, in your letters,
      When you shall these unlucky deeds relate,
      Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate,
      Nor set down aught in malice. Then, must you speak
      O
      Othello. ACT V Scene 2.

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      Author: William Shakespeare
      I took by the throat the circumcised dog,
      And smote him, thus.

    • i brought this time some different quotations said by different people$$e


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      "Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo."
      - H. G. Wells (1866-1946)

      "Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever."
      - Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

      "Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake."
      - Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956)

      "Don't be so humble - you are not that great."
      - Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat

      "His ignorance is encyclopedic"
      - Abba Eban (1915-2002)

      "If a man does his best, what else is there?"
      - General George S. Patton (1885-1945)

      "I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better."
      - A. J. Liebling (1904-1963)

      "People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid."
      - Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855)

      "Give me chastity and continence, but not yet."
      - Saint Augustine (354-430)

      "Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted."
      - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

      "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
      - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

      "A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."
      - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

      "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."
      - Galileo Galilei

      "The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work."
      - Emile Zola (1840-1902)

      "This book fills a much-needed gap."
      - Moses Hadas (1900-1966) in a review

      "The full use of your powers along lines of excellence."
      - definition of"happiness" by John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)

      "I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart."
      - e e cummings (1894-1962)

      "Give me a museum and I'll fill it."
      - Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)

      "Assassins!"
      - Arturo Toscanini (1867-1957) to his orchestra

      "I'll moider da bum."
      - Heavyweight boxer Tony Galento, when asked what he thought of William Shakespeare

      "In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is."
      - Jan L.A. van de Snepscheut

      "I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."
      - Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)

      "Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems."
      - Rene Descartes (1596-1650), "Discours de la Methode"

      "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
      - Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)

      "Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right."
      - Henry Ford (1863-1947)

      "Do, or do not. There is no 'try'."
      - Yoda ('The Empire Strikes Back')

      "The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it."
      - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

      "Don't stay in bed, unless you can make money in bed."
      - George Burns (1896-1996)


      "I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves."
      - Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951)


      "The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense."
      - Edsgar Dijkstra


      "C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg."
      - Bjarne Stroustrup


      "A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems."
      - Paul Erdos


      "The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad."
      - Salvador Dali (1904-1989)


      "If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance."
      - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)


      "But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near."
      - Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)


      "Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws."
      - Plato (427-347 B.C.)


      "The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it."
      - George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)


      "Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'."
      - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)


      "We have art to save ourselves from the truth."
      - Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)


      "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
      - Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)


      "I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it."
      - John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) when asked what is his favorite song


      "Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe."
      - H. G. Wells (1866-1946)


      "Talent does what it can; genius does what it must."
      - Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)


      "The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig was 'committed'."
      - unknown


      "If you are going through hell, keep going."
      - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)


      "I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters."
      - Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)


      "Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."
      - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)


      "God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh."
      - Voltaire (1694-1778)


      "He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death."
      - H. H. Munro (Saki) (1870-1916)


      "I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter."
      - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)


      "I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them."
      - Ian L. Fleming (1908-1964)


      "If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars."
      - J. Paul Getty (1892-1976)


      "Facts are the enemy of truth."
      - Don Quixote - "Man of La Mancha"


      "When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world."
      - George Washington Carver (1864-1943)


      "How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself."
      - Anais Nin (1903-1977)


      "I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
      - Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)


      "I begin by taking. I shall find scholars later to demonstrate my perfect right."
      - Frederick (II) the Great


      "Maybe this world is another planet's Hell."
      - Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)


      "Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact."
      - George Eliot (1819-1880)


      "Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth."
      - Sherlock Holmes (by Sir Arthur Conan
      Doyle, 1859-1930)
    • Black holes are where God divided by zero."
      - Steven Wright


      "I've had a wonderful time, but this wasn't it."
      - Groucho Marx (1895-1977)


      "It's kind of fun to do the impossible."
      - Walt Disney (1901-1966)


      "We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time."
      - Vince Lombardi


      "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true."
      - James Branch Cabell


      "A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship."
      - John D. Rockefeller (1874-1960)


      "All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusion is called a philosopher."
      - Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914)


      "You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it."
      - Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936)


      "An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered; an adventure is an inconvenience rightly considered."
      - Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936)


      "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth."
      - Umberto Eco


      "Be nice to people on your way up because you meet them on your way down."
      - Jimmy Durante


      "The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good."
      - Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)


      "A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both."
      - Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969), Inaugural Address, January 20, 1953


      "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."
      - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)


      "Basically, I no longer work for anything but the sensation I have while working."
      - Albert Giacometti (sculptor)


      "All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."
      - Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)


      "Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street."
      - Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915)


      "There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life."
      - Frank Zappa


      "Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
      - Antoine de Saint Exupery


      "Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."
      - Isaac Asimov


      "If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe."
      - Carl Sagan


      "It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts."
      - G. B. Burgin


      "Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action."
      - Auric Goldfinger, in "Goldfinger" by Ian L. Fleming (1908-1964)


      "To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance"
      - Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)


      "Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens."
      - Jimi Hendrix


      "A clever man commits no minor blunders."
      - Goethe (1749-1832)


      "Argue for your limitations, and sure enough they're yours."
      - Richard Bach


      "A witty saying proves nothing."
      - Voltaire (1694-1778)


      "Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance."
      - Will Durant


      "I have often regretted my speech, never my silence."
      - Xenocrates (396-314 B.C.)


      "It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion."
      - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)


      "If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough."
      - Mario Andretti


      "I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means."
      - Clarence Darrow, Scopes trial, 1925.


      "Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."
      - Henry Ford (1863-1947)


      "I'll sleep when I'm dead."
      - Warren Zevon (1947-2003)


      "There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread."
      - Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)