What are some famous speeches and quotes?

Answer 1

• Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore. - Ogden Nash
• If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing. - Benjamin Franklin
• Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. -Benjamin Franklin
• There is a difference between imitating a good man and counterfeiting him. -Benjamin Franklin
• God heals, and the doctor takes the fees. - Benjamin Franklin
• There never was a good war or a bad peace. - Benjamin Franklin
• Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom. - Benjamin Franklin
• If you desire many things, many things will seem but a few. - Benjamin Franklin
• A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle. - Benjamin Franklin
• The way to see by Faith is to shut the eye of Reason. - Benjamin Franklin
• Work as if you were to live one hundred years; pray as if you were to die tomorrow. - Benjamin Franklin
• The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. - Benjamin Franklin
• Lost time is never found again. - Benjamin Franklin
• You may delay, but time will not. - Benjamin Franklin
• Does't thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. - Benjamin Franklin
• If you would be loved, love and be lovable. - Benjamin Franklin
• Well done is better than well said. - Benjamin Franklin
• Success has ruined many a man. - Benjamin Franklin
• The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honour or dishonour to the latest generation. - Abraham Lincoln
• As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. - Abraham Lincoln
• I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be. - Abraham Lincoln
• We trust, sir, that God is on our side. It is more important to know that we are on God's side. - Abraham Lincoln
• While the people retain their virtue and vigilence, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years. - Abraham Lincoln
• I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me seemed insufficient for the day. - Abraham Lincoln
• If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German, and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German, and Germany will declare that I am a Jew. - Albert Einstein
• Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. - John F. Kennedy
• Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less travelled by, And that has made all the difference. - Robert Frost
• Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. - Robert Frost
• Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in. - Robert Frost
• Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em. - William Shakespeare
• Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
• You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. - Henry Ford
• The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say. - Tom Stoppard
• Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't the fine line between sanity and madness gotten finer? - George Price
• It is our choices...that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities. - J. K. Rowling
• The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. - Mark Twain
• Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you. - Spanish Proverb
• Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule. - Stephen King, "Everything You Need to Know About Writing Successfully - in Ten minutes"
• I can't complain, but sometimes I still do. - Joe Walsh
• If the shoe fits, you're not allowing for growth. - Robert N. Coons
• We shall support whatever the enemy opposes and oppose whatever the enemy supports. - Mao Tse-Tung (1893 - 1976)
• A half-truth is a whole lie. - Yiddish Proverb
• If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered. - Edgar Allan Poe