Famous English Quotations
List of famous quotations, page 1,
Authors 'A' and 'B'
Quotations from politicians, writers, actors, scientists and philosophers.
Quotation | Author |
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"After all is said and done, more is said than done." | Aesop |
"Persuasion is often more effectual than force." | Aesop |
"United we stand, divided we fall." | Aesop |
"When I was born, I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half." | Gracie Allen |
"Confidence is what you have before you understand the problem." | Woody Allen |
"If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative." | Woody Allen |
"I'm not afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens." | Woody Allen |
"Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once." | Woody Allen |
"You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred." | Woody Allen |
"The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do." | Anonymous |
"Love is not about who you live with. It's about who you can't live without." | Anonymous |
"A real friend is someone who walks in when the rest of the world walks out" | Anonymous |
"Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell." | Anonymous |
"Good supervision is the art of getting average people to do superior work." | Anonymous |
"There is safety in numbers." | Anonymous |
"Wit is educated insolence." | Aristotle |
"Education is the best provision for the journey to old age." | Aristotle |
"One swallow does not make the spring." | Aristotle |
"Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work." | Aristotle |
"We are what we repeatedly do." | Aristotle |
"Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit." | Aristotle |
B | |
"The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship." | Sir Francis Bacon |
“In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.” | Sir Francis Bacon |
"Knowledge is power." | Sir Francis Bacon |
"A prudent question is one-half of wisdom." | Sir Francis Bacon |
"Behind every great fortune there is a crime." | Honore de Balsac |
"It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action." | Honore de Balsac |
"An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it." | Orlando A. Battisa |
"A multitude of small delights constitute happiness." | Charles Baudelaire |
"There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start." | Charles Baudelaire |
"Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future. Act now, without delay." | Simone de Beauvoir |
"When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us." | Alexander Graham Bell |
"Happiness lies in good health and a bad memory." | Ingrid Bergman |
"Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others." | Otto von Bismarck |
"Ability is nothing without opportunity." | Napoleon Bonaparte |
"Glory is fleeting but obscurity is forever." | Napoleon Bonaparte |
"If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." | Napoleon Bonaparte |
"Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools." | Napoleon Bonaparte |
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." | Napoleon Bonaparte |
"Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language.” | H. Jackson Brown, Jr. |
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