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SOME
FAMOUS QUOTATIONS
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Some might make you smile and some might make you think over..., read along and enjoy them! |
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"You must come again when you have less time." , Walter Sickert to Denton Welch | |
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"I never read a book before reviewing it. It prejudices a man so." , Sydney Smith | |
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"Arguing with a woman is like trying to fold the airmail edition of 'The Times' in a high wind." , Lord Mancroft | |
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"There is less to him than meets the eye." , Tallulah Bankhead | |
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"It is a secret in the Oxford sense. You may tell it to only one person at a time." , Lord Franks | |
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"Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little." , Dr Johnson on divorce laws | |
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"Life is what happens while you are making other plans." , John Lennon |
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"It is possible to be born an aristocrat without ever becoming a gentleman." , Nicholas Ridley | |
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"The head cannot take in more than the seat can endure." , Winston Churchill on long speeches | |
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"Only the insane take themselves seriously." , Max Beerbohm | |
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"This world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel." , Horace Walpole | |
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"Any intelligent fool can invent further complications, but it takes a genius to attain, or recapture, simplicity." , E F Schumacher | |
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"The causes of events are always more important than the events themselves." , Cicero | |
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"We become what we behold." , William Blake | |
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"The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken." , Dr Johnson | |
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"The principal task of civilization, its actual raison d'être, is to defend us against nature." , Sigmund Freud | |
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"Nobody is despised by other people unless he has first lost his respect for himself." , Seneca | |
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"To be uncertain is uncomfortable; but to be certain is ridiculous." , Goethe | |
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"Say what you have to say in the fewest possible words." , Sir Arthur Bryant | |
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"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." , Santayana | |
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"When words lose their meaning, people lose their freedom." , Confucius | |
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