Famous Quotes

Most popular famous quotes

The way to a man's heart is through his stomach. - Fanny Fern quote.
The way to a man's heart is through his stomach.

food men

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. - Jane Austen quote.
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.
The pen is mightier than the sword. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton quote.
The pen is mightier than the sword.

writing words

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them. - Henry David Thoreau quote.
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

mankind

And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time. - T. S. Eliot quote.
And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

home Travel

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us. - Henry David Thoreau quote.
What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

the self

Fortune favors the brave.
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle quote.
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

truth

Where there's a will, there's a way. - Aesop quote.
Where there's a will, there's a way.

will

Discretion is the better part of valor. - Euripides quote.
Discretion is the better part of valor.

courage

Women: the fairer sex. - Euripides quote.
Women: the fairer sex.
The best way to predict your future is to create it. - Peter Drucker quote.
The best way to predict your future is to create it.

business future motivational

Not all those who wander are lost. - J. R. R. Tolkien quote.
Not all those who wander are lost.

losing our way Travel

The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated. - Mark Twain quote.
The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated.

death

Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
— The Bible—Matthew 26:41

biblical temptation

And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country. - John F. Kennedy quote.
And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.

iconic democracy

Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things. - Peter Drucker quote.
Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.

management

It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it! - Upton Sinclair quote.
It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it!

understanding

The child is father of the man. - William Wordsworth quote.
The child is father of the man.

children

The best way to predict the future is to invent it. - Alan Kay quote.
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

future

Give me chastity and continence, but not yet. - Augustine of Hippo quote.
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time. - Vince Lombardi quote.
We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.

sports

Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd. - William Congreve quote.
Heav'n hath no rage like love to hatred turn'd, Nor Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.

women

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin, but by the content of their character. I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.

race relations civil rights movement equality iconic

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change. - Charles Darwin quote.
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.

iconic evolution

A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new; when an age ends; and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance. - Jawaharlal Nehru quote.
A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new; when an age ends; and when the soul of a nation long suppressed finds utterance.
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were. - Kahlil Gibran quote.
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.

love

It always seems impossible until its done.

inspirational

Religion is the sign of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of a heartless world, and the soul of soul-less conditions. It is the opium of the masses. - Karl Marx quote.
Religion is the sign of the oppressed creature, the sentiment of a heartless world, and the soul of soul-less conditions. It is the opium of the masses.

religion