Famous Quotes
Discover inspiring wisdom and timeless quotes from history's greatest minds
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Aesop
-620 - -564The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.
Agatha Christie
1890 - 1976One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing; that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.
Alan Alexander Milne
1882 - 1956You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
Albert Camus
1913 - 1960Live to the point of tears.
Aldous Huxley
1894 - 1963Maybe this world is another planet's hell.
Allen Ginsberg
1926 - 1997I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
1900 - 1944And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential i...
Ba Jin
1904 - 2005In a nation that knows how to lead, how can there be no followers?
C.S. Lewis
1898 - 1963You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
Charles Dickens
1812 - 1870There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.
Chinua Achebe
1930 - 2013When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brough...
Edgar Allan Poe
1809 - 1849I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.
Eileen Chang
1920 - 1995Do you know that in his heart you already are and always will be the other one?
Emily Dickinson
1830 - 1886Forever is composed of nows.
Ernest Hemingway
1899 - 1961Courage is grace under pressure.