Good Quotations by Famous People:
Famous quotes, witty quotes, and funny quotations collected by Gabriel Robins over the years.
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New: If you like the quotations on this Web page, you'll also greatly enjoy two of the most inspiring lectures that I have ever heard, given by my friend Randy Pausch, entitled "Achieving Your Childhood Dreams" and "Time Management". High-resolution versions of these lectures, including Randy's Oprah Show reprise of his "Last Lecture", are available for downloading on the Randy Pausch Legacy page.
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"Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo."
- H. G. Wells (1866-1946)
"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever."
- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
"Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake."
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956)
"Don't be so humble - you are not that great."
- Golda Meir (1898-1978) to a visiting diplomat
"His ignorance is encyclopedic"
- Abba Eban (1915-2002)
"If a man does his best, what else is there?"
- General George S. Patton (1885-1945)
"Political correctness is tyranny with manners."
- Charlton Heston (1924-)
"You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality."
- Ayn Rand (1905-1982)
"When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity; when many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion."
- Robert Pirsig (1948-)
"Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer."
- Saint Thomas Moore (1478-1535)
"I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better."
- A. J. Liebling (1904-1963)
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