Sunday, October 26, 2008

Famous quotes


"With men it is impossible, but not with God: for with God all things are possible." - Jesus of Nazareth

"We cannot acknowledge allegiance to any human government. Our country is the world, our countrymen are all mankind." - William Lloyd Garrison

"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work." - Emile Zola
"There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread." - Mahatma Gandhi
"Men have become the tools of their tools." - Henry David Thoreau
"My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher." - Socrates

"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."
- Martin Luther King Jr.
"Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera." - James Stephens
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." - Albert Einstein
"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome." - Isaac Asimov
"While we are postponing, life speeds by." - Seneca
"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens." - Jimi Hendrix
"Dancing is silent poetry." - Simonides
"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws." - Plato
"First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." - Mahatma Gandhi
"All human wisdom is summed up in two words — wait and hope." - Alexandre Dumas

"I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day." - Vincent Van Gogh

"You shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free." - Jesus of Nazareth

"It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion." - Francis Bacon

No comments: