Tag Archives: famous quotations

Youngman, Henny (1906 – 1998), US (English-born) comedian I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places. My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn’t need glasses. Drinks right … Continue reading →

But I, being poor, have only my dreams. I have spread my dreams under your feet. Tread softly, because you tread on my dreams….. William Yeats Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people….. William … Continue reading →

The future belongs to those who prepare for it today….. Malcolm X Give me the children until they are seven and anyone may have them afterwards….. St. Francis Xavier I have often regretted my speech, never my silence….. Xenocrates If … Continue reading →

Joy is not in things; it is in us….. Richard Wagner Even the great get greater by doing more of it….. Colleen Wainwright Being friendless taught me how to be a friend. Funny how that works….. Colleen Wainwright A physicist … Continue reading →

Valery, Paul (1871 – 1945), French critic & poet God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through (Dieu a tout fait de rien. Mais le rien perce.) Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part … Continue reading →

Ustinov, Peter (1921 – 2004), English actor & author People who reach the top of the tree are only those who haven’t got the qualifications to detain them at the bottom. To refuse awards is another way of accepting them … Continue reading →

Updike, John (1932 – ), US author A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people’s patience. Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have … Continue reading →

Twain, Mark (1835 – 1910), US humourist, novelist, short story author, & wit I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people. A lie can … Continue reading →

Terence (185 BC – 159 BC), Roman comic dramatist I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want. Moderation in all things. There is nothing so easy but that it becomes … Continue reading →

Tacitus, Cornelius (55 AD – 117 AD), Roman historian & politician There can never be a complete confidence in a power which is excessive. No hatred is so bitter as that of near relations. It is the rare fortune of … Continue reading →