Quotations By Famous People

Quotations By Famous People

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Minds that are great and free, should not on fortune pause
'Tis crown enough to virtue still, her own applause....
When action grows unprofitable, gather informatio
when information grows unprofitable, sleep. -- Ursula K. LeGuin, _The Left Hand of Darkness_...
Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.
-- Benjamin Frankli...
Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear long the burden of great joys.
-- Henry Ward Beeche...
Simple pleasure are the last refuge of the complex. -- Oscar Wilde (1856-1900)
All the great pleasures of life are silent. -- Georges Clemenceau (1841-1929)
The happiest moments of my life have a been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family.
-- Thomas Jefferso...
I'm no model lady. A model's just an imitation of the real thing. -- Mae We
I believe in censorship. After all, I made a fortune out of it. -- Mae We
Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem. -- John Galsworthy

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