Familiar Quotes 

“When you have fears, do not fear to abandon them.”.................. -Confucius

“The mind is everything; what you think, you become.”................... -Buddha

“All things are possible to him that believes.”................................. -Jesus

“The meek shall inherit the Earth.” ................................................ -Jesus

“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”.............. -Lao Tzu

“The unexamined life is not worth living.” .................................... -Socrates

“Slow but steady wins the race.”.................................................... -Aesop

“A soft answer turns away wrath.” ...............................................-Solomon

“Man does not live by bread alone.”...................... -Moses, repeated by Jesus

 “Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.” ……..………….…..-Samuel Johnson

“A jug of wine, loaf bread and thou.” ……………..-Omar Khayyam (The Rubaiyat)

“The proof of the pudding is in the eating.” ……………………..-Miguel de Cervantes

“Give the devil his due.” ..............................…….…………..-Miguel de Cervantes

“The devil can cite scripture for his own purpose.”.......... -William Shakespeare

“Uneasy lies the head that wears the crown.” ………………..-William Shakespeare

“Brevity is the soul of wit.”......................................... -William Shakespeare

“Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.” …………….......………...-Alexander Pope

“A little learning is a dangerous thing.” ……………….............………-Alexander Pope

“Hope springs eternal in the human breast.”..........................-Alexander Pope

“In Xanadu did Kublai Khan a stately pleasure dome decree.”........................
......................................................................... -Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“Water, water everywhere, nor any drop to drink.”...... -Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"I've loved the stars to fondly to be fearful of the night."...........Galileo Galilei

“Knowledge is power.” .........................................................- Francis Bacon

“Time and tide wait for no man.”...................................................-Unknown

“They also serve who only stand and wait.” ................................-John Milton

“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” ...............................
.......................................................-Charles Dickens (A Tale of Two Cities)

“It is a far, far better thing I do than I have ever done."..............................
...................................................... -Charles Dickens (A Tale of Two Cities)

“It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.”......
.................................................................................-Alfred Lord Tennyson

“A room without books is like a body without a soul. “............. -G.K. Chesterton

"I can resist anything but temptation.".......................................-Oscar Wilde

“Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage.”........ -Richard Lovelace

“That which doesn’t kill me makes me stronger.”  ................–Fredrich Nietzsche

“If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.”................ -Voltaire

“Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.” ........-Jean Jacques Rousseau

“I think, therefore I am.” .....................................................-Rene Descartes

“L’etat c’est moi” (I am the state)...............................................-Louis XIV

“Never complain and never explain.” ..................................-Benjamin Disraeli

“Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.” .....
......................................................................................Benjamin Franklin

“Little strokes fell great oaks.” ……………..................…….……….-Benjamin Franklin

“There was never a good war, or a bad peace”..................... -Benjamin Franklin

“Nothing is certain but death and taxes.” …………………….....…….-Benjamin Franklin

“I have not yet begun to fight.” ……………....................…………….-John Paul Jones

“These are the times that try men’s souls.” …….....……………….…….-Thomas Paine

“Give me liberty or give me death!” ……………….................…….…….-Patrick Henry

“I regret that I have but one life to give for my country.” ........... -Nathan Hale

“Don’t fire until you see the whites of their eyes.” .................................
.......................................................-William Prescott (Battle of Bunker Hill)

“We have met the enemy and they are ours.” ...........................................
......................................................-Oliver Hazard Perry (Battle of Lake Erie)

“Gridley, you may fire when ready.” .................................-Commodore Dewey

“Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!” ...................................................
..............................................-Admiral David Farragut (Battle of Mobile Bay)

"My country, right or wrong."...............................................-Stephan Decatur

“War is cruelty, you cannot refine it.” ...................-William Tecumseh Sherman

“An army marches on its stomach.”.............................................. -Napoleon

“From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step.” ………........…………..-Napoleon

“Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.” …………………............………..-John Curran

"Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise"...........................-Thomas Grey

"They that sleep with dogs will rise with fleas.".........................-John Webster

“If winter comes, can spring be far behind?” .....................-Percy Bysshe Shelly

“Hail to thee, Blythe Spirit.” .....................................……..-Percy Bysshe Shelly

“Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait.”....... -Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Hitch your wagon to a star.” …………………….............…...…..-Ralph Waldo Emerson

“God is in His Heaven, all’s right with the world.”.................. .-Robert Browning

“Come grow old with me, the best is yet to be....................... -Robert Browning

“Whosoever loves, believes the impossible.” ........... -Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“The mass of men live lives of quiet desperation.” -Henry David Thoreau (Walden)

“Success is counted sweetest by those who ne'er succeed.”...... -Emily Dickinson

“Because I could not stop for death, he stopped for me.”.......... -Emily Dickinson

“Hope is the thing that perches in the soul and sings the tune without words."..
........................................................................................-Emily Dickenson

"My candle's burning at both ends."................................Edna St. Vincent Millay

"A thing of beauty is a joy forever." ..............................................-John Keats

“Truth is beauty.” .......................................................................-John Keats

"Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned................................-William Congreve

"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness"...........-Mark Twain

“Put all your eggs in one basket, then watch that basket-............... -Mark Twain

"Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.".............-Oscar Wilde

“Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.” ......................................... -Gertrude Stein

“I have promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep.” ............. -Robert Frost

“Two roads diverged in a wood and I took the one less travelled.”... -Robert Frost

“Good fences make good neighbors.” ...........................................-Robert Frost

“Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in.”
............................................................................................ -Robert Frost       

“East is east and west is west and never the twain shall meet.”..-Rudyard Kipling

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
........................................................................................ -Arthur C. Clarke

“Religion is the opium of the people.” .............................................-Karl Marx

“From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.” -Karl Marx

“How can the consent of the governed be given, if the right to vote be denied?”
..................................................................................... -Susan B Anthony

“We need religion for religion’s sake, morality for morality’s sake and art for art’s sake.”................................................................................. -Victor Cousins

“All power tends to corrupt, absolute power corrupts absolutely.”.... -John Acton

“There is a sucker born every minute.” ......................................-P. T. Barnum

“I never met a man I didn’t like.” ..............................................-Will Rogers

“Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.”............. -Dorothy Parker

“What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?”
.....................................................................................-Langston Hughes

"Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration...-Thomas Edison

“Go west, young man.” .......................................................-Horace Greeley

“There, but for the grace of God, go I.” ...................................-John Bradford

“Liberty and union, now and forever, one and inseparable.” .....-Daniel Webster

“A house divided against itself cannot stand.” .................... -Abraham Lincoln

“We need to make the world safe for democracy.”................. Woodrow Wilson

“The business of America is business.”................................ -Calvin Coolidge

“The buck stops here.” ......................................................-Harry S Truman

“I don’t get ulcers, I give them.”...............................-Lyndon Baines Johnson

“I would give anything not to be standing here today.” -Lyndon Baines Johnson

"Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your
country.".........................................................................-John F. Kennedy

"Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.".....................................-Henry Kissinger

“An iron curtain has descended across the continent.”..........-Winston Churchill

“We are in a cold peace.” .........................................................-Trygve Lie

“The customer is always right.” ............................................-Marshall Field

“The public be damned.” .............................................-Cornelius Vanderbilt

“The medium is the message.” ........................................-Marshall McLuhan

“Television is a vast wasteland.”..........................................-Newton Minow

“When the going gets tough, the tough get going.”................. -Knute Rockne

“The game ain’t over ‘til it’s over.” ..............................................Yogi Berra

“Nice guys finish last.” ..........................................................-Leo Durocher

“It’s not whether you win or lose, but how you play the game.”. -Grantland Rice

“In the future everyone will be world famous for fifteen minutes.” -Andy Warhol

“History is more or less bunk.”....................................................-Henry Ford

“Flower power.” ……..............................................................-Allen Ginsberg

"I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness" ..................
.......................................................................-Allan Ginsberg (from Howl)

“There is no such thing as a free lunch.”............................. -Milton Freedman

“God does not play dice with the universe.” ...........................-Albert Einstein

"An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind."...............
.....................................................................................-Mahatma Gandhi

"I have a dream!"..........................................................-Martin Luthar King

“Our smile is for people who have forgotten how to smile.”...... -Mother Teresa