Quotations By Famous People

Quotations By Famous People

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Sometimes men come by the name of genius in the same way that certain insects come by the name of centipede--not because they have a hundred feet, but because most people can't count above fourteen.
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When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.
-- John F. Kennedy...
If you are as happy, my dear sir, on entering this house as I am in leaving it and returning home, you are the happiest man in this country.
-- James Buchanan to Abraham Lincol...
I had been told I was on the road to hell, but I had no idea it was just a mile down the road with a dome on it.
-- Abraham Lincol...
Seriously, I do not think I am fit for the Presidency. -- Abraham Lincol
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. -- Abraham Lincol
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. -- Abraham Lincol
You cannot help small men by tearing down big men. -- Abraham Lincol
Malesuada fames. [Hunger persuades to evil.
] -- Publius Vergilius Maro (Vergil) (70-19 BC), _Aeneid_, Book III...
A am not old but mellow like good wine. -- Stephen Phillips (1868-1915), _Ulysses_

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