Quotes by Famous People
A lot of people become famous for ridiculous reasons. I'm sure you can think of a few people that are in the news quite a bit that frankly have about as much to say as a rock. The people here though DID have things to say. In fact they had a lot of great things to say that have lasted over the years. In some cases, over the millenia! And since some of them HAVE been dead for hundreds of years, thank god we still have a lot of their words to remember them by! In fact these quotes offer us a lot wisdom that should not be forgotten. Please enjoy this collection of quotes by famous people, there's something for everyone!
Abraham Lincoln Quotes
A Select Collection of Great Quotes by Famous People"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever." (Napoleon)
"I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."
"Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be."
"They can because they think they can."
"Change your thoughts, and you change your world."
"The soul should always stand ajar.
Ready to welcome the ecstatic experience."
"There are no facts, only interpretations."
"What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals."
"It's not good enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required."
"Follow your bliss."
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."
"If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance."
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh."
"I never miss a chance to have sex or appear on television."
"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?"
"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and is widely regarded as a bad move."
"Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so."
"Better to light a candle than curse the darkness."
"If we all worked on the assumption that what is accepted as true is really true, there would be little hope of advance."
"An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't."
"You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation."
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