Quotes Flashcards
You don’t stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing
Michael Pritchard
The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom
H.L. Mencken
I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand
Confucius
All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible
T. E. Lawrence
Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense
Mignon McLaughlin
They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only
Edgar Allen Poe
The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality
Edgar Allen Poe
And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy
Edgar Allen Poe
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock
Thomas Jefferson
The cunning of the fox is as murderous as the violence of the wolf
Thomas Paine
We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, with so little, for so long, we are now qualified to do anything with nothing
Mother Teresa of Calcutta
In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves…self-discipline with all of them came first
Harry S Truman
By prevailing over all obstacles and distractions, one may unfailingly arrive at his chosen goal or destination
Christopher Columbus