Quotations By Famous People

Quotations By Famous People

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To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves.
--Claude Adrien Helvetius (1715-1771), French philosopher, f...
We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongues, at our peril, risk and hazard.
--Voltaire (Francois Marie Arouet), Liberty of the Press in Philosophical Dictionary (1764)...
Prejudice is an opinion without judgment. --Voltaire, _Prejudices_, in _Philosophical Dictionary_
Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
--Samuel Butle...
Mental pleasures never cloy; unlike those of the body, they are increased by repetition, approved by reflection, and strengthened by enjoyment.
--Nathaniel Cotton (1705-1788)...
The love of study, a passion which derives fresh vigor from enjoyment, supplies each day and hour with a perpetual source of independent and rational pleasure.
--Gibbon (1737-1794)...
When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it.
Yet at the hundred and first blow it will spli...
A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
--Henry Adam, The Education of Henry Adam...
He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches. --George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superma
God heals and the doctor takes the fee. --Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanac

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