Top 100 Famous Quotes

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Blaise Pascal
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100. "I made this letter very long, because I did not have the leisure to make it shorter."
Blaise Pascal
Provincial Letters: Letter XVI (1656)
Written by Pascal in a letter to "the Reverend Fathers, the Jesuits," about a number of pressing Catholic church matters that were relevant at the time. He identified with a movement called Jansenism that frequently disagreed with the Jesuits.
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Alexander Pope
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99. "A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring."
Alexander Pope
An Essay on Criticism (1711)
From a poem by Pope, it continues "There shallow Draughts intoxicate the Brain, And drinking largely sobers us again." Pope was probably speaking here of the dangers of pride in what we think we have been educated on, and how dangerous not knowing enough about a subject can be.
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Benjamin Franklin
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98. "He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing."
Benjamin Franklin
Early American proverbs and proverbial phrases (1977) pg. 42
The above quote was a proverbial phrase and was probably not coined directly by Franklin.
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George Washington
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97. "Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder."
George Washington
Written in a letter to Letter to Major-General Robert Howe (17 August 1779).
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Albert Einstein
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96. "Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it."
Albert Einstein
As quoted in Albert Einstein, The Human Side: New Glimpses From His Archives (1979) pg. 57
Written in a letter to a student, E. Holzapfel, in 1951.
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Benjamin Franklin
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95. "Love your Neighbour; yet don't pull down your Hedge."
Benjamin Franklin
As quoted in Early American proverbs and proverbial phrases, (1977) pg. 309
A purveyor of proverbs, Franklin wasn't the first to express this sentiment, but he assuredly popularized it.
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William Wordsworth
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94. "The child is father of the man."
William Wordsworth
My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold (1802)
"The poem continues, "I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety."
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Charles Kettering
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93. "An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn't take his education too seriously."
Charles Kettering
Mechanical engineering: Volume 66 (1944)
Kettering spoke often on inventors, as he himself was, and he spoke of the above quote as the "definition" of an inventor.
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92. "Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius."
Nikolaus von Jacquin
Mozart: A Life (1966) pg. 312
Often misattributed to Mozart, it was actually written in Mozart's souvenir album by Jacquin.
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William Shakespeare
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91. "My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go"
William Shakespeare
Hamlet Act III scene iii
Spoken by the antagonist of the play, Claudius (uncle to Hamlet himself). The quote above is when he realizes he will not be able to repent and continues to sin against accepted social morals.
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Henry David Thoreau
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90. "We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect."
Henry David Thoreau
Journal (1962) pg. 130
The quote above is preceded by, "I know of no rules whichs holds so true as that." Here Thoreau shows us that our expecations can create a reality.
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Teresa Calcutta
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89. "If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."
Teresa Calcutta
Where There Is Love, There Is God: A Path to Closer Union with God and Greater Love for Others (2010) pg. 330
Taken from a private lesson that Mother Theresa gave to her fellow sisters of the cloth.
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Alexander Pope
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88. "For fools rush in where angels fear to tread."
Alexander Pope
An Essay on Criticism (1711) Part III Line 66
The title of the work this is contained in carries the word "Essay," it is in fact a poem that represents the literary ideals of Pope's time. It also nearly expressly addresses other writers rather than the standard "reader."
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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87. "Hitch your wagon to a star."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Society and Solitude (1870)
In the portion of Society and Solitude titled "Civilization," Emerson states the desire to let our dreams and ambitions drive us: to aim high.
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Albert Einstein
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86. "Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking"
Albert Einstein
A Close Look at the World's Greatest Thinker, American Magazine, (June 1930)
Einstein was interviewed by M. K. Wisehart for American magazine, and spoke the above quote, which continues, "just as the man who spends too much time in the theaters is apt to be content with living vicariously instead of living his own life."
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Benjamin Franklin
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85. "Early to Bed, and Early to Rise, Makes a Man Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise. "
Benjamin Franklin
Early to Bed, and Early to Rise, Makes a Man Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise, Or, Early Rising, a Natural, Social, and Religious Duty (1855)
Franklin often published proverbs and adages--this one was actually the title of one of his works.
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Winston Churchill
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84. "Many forms of Government have been tried and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."
Winston Churchill
The Official Report, House of Commons (5th Series) , 11 November 1947, vol. 444, cc. 206–07
From a speech given by Churchill in the House of Commons in 1947.
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Benjamin Disraeli
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83. "The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end. "
Benjamin Disraeli
Henrietta Temple (1837) Book 4 chapter 1
Written in a book about a woman who Disraeli had an affair with (Henrietta Sykes).
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Vince Lombardi
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82. "Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing."
Vince Lombardi
Run to Win: Vince Lombardi on Coaching and Leadership, (2002) pg. 119
Lombardi frequently spoke proactively, and positively, about success at an individual and team level, as the head coach of a champion football team.
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81. "I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it."
Edith Sitwell
The Last Years of a Rebel : A Memoir of Edith Sitwell (1967) pg. 24
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Will Rogers
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80. "If you're ridin' ahead of the herd, take a look back every now and then to make sure it's still there"
Will Rogers
As quoted in The Land Where My American Mother Died--Palermo, Sicily (2003) pg. 156
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