"Famous"

(280 votes)   Acquaintance: a degree of friendship called slight when its object is poor or obscure, and intimate when he is rich or famous.

Ambrose Bierce
1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's Dictionary''

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(256 votes)   To love another person is to see the face of God. [Les Miserables]

Victor Hugo
1802-1885, French Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(245 votes)   Who would wish to be among the commonplace crowd of the little famous -- who are each individually lost in a throng made up of themselves?

John Keats
1795-1821, British Poet

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(243 votes)   I belong to Bridegrooms Anonymous. Whenever I feel like getting married, they send over a lady in a housecoat and hair curlers to burn my toast for me.

Dick Martin

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(229 votes)   Thomas Jefferson -- still surv…

John Adams
1735-1826, Second President of the USA

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(227 votes)   I consider it a public duty to answer falsifications with facts. I will not pretend that I find this an unpleasant duty. I am an old campaigner, and I love a good fight.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

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(224 votes)   All fair in love and war.

Francis Edward Smedley

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(220 votes)   The true lover of learning then must his earliest youth, as far as in him lies, desire all truth. . .He whose desires are drawn toward knowledge in every form will be absorbed in the pleasures of the soul, and will hardly feel bodily pleasures- -I mean, if he be a true philosopher and not a sham one. . .Then how can he who has the magnificence of mind and is the spectator of all times and all existence, think much of human life? He cannot. Or can such a one account death fearful? No indeed

Plato

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(218 votes)   Set your expectations high; find men and women whose integrity and values you respect; get their agreement on a course of action; and give them your ultimate trust

John Akers

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(211 votes)   Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward in the same direction.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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(200 votes)   Absence diminishes small loves and increases great ones, as the wind blows out the candle and blows up the bonfire.

Francois de La Rouchefoucauld

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(193 votes)   Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt?

Socrates
BC 469-399, Greek Philosopher of Athens

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(193 votes)   I remember when I used to sit on hospital beds and hold people’s hands, people used to be shocked because they’d never seen this before. To me it was quite normal.

Princess of Wales Diana
1961-1997, Wife of Charles, Prince of Wales

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(193 votes)   My first thoughts are that I should not let people down, that I should support them and love them.

Princess of Wales Diana
1961-1997, Wife of Charles, Prince of Wales

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(190 votes)   And now, I am dying beyond my means. [Sipping champagne on his deathbed]

Oscar Wilde
1856-1900, British Author, Wit

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