Quotations By Famous People

Quotations By Famous People

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Who naught suspects is easily deceived. -- Francesco Petrarch
The aged love what is practical while impetuous youth longs only for what is dazzling.
-- Francesco Petrarch...
A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires. -- Francesco Petrarch
Who overrefines his argument brings himself to grief. -- Francesco Petrarch
How fortune brings to earth the oversure! -- Francesco Petrarch
For violence and hatred dry up the heart itself; the long fight for justice exhausts the love that nevertheless gave birth to it.
In the clamour in which we live, love is impossible and justice doe...
The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.
-- Dean Inge...
The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.
-- Henry George...
The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life.
-- Willia...
Creativeness often consists of merely turning up what is already there.
Did you know that the right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago?...

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