Famous English Quotations
List of famous quotations, page 6,
Authors from 'N' to 'R'
Quotations from politicians, writers, actors, scientists and philosophers.
| Quotation | Author |
|---|---|
| N | |
| "Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy." | Isaac Newton |
| "The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time." | Friedrich Nietzsche |
| "What doesn't kill you will make you stronger." | Friedrich Nietzsche |
| "When one has much to put into them, a day has a hundred pockets." | Friedrich Nietzsche |
| "We don't see things as they are; we see things as we are." | Anais Nin |
| "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." | Anais Nin |
| O | |
| "Burdens become light when cheerfully borne." | Ovid |
| P | |
| "The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of." | Blaise Pascal |
| "In the field of observation, chance favours only the prepared mind." | Louis Pasteur |
| "Avoid popularity; it has many snares and no real benefit." | William Penn |
| "Time is what we want most, but what we use worst." | William Penn |
| "Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working." | Pablo Picasso |
| "The chief enemy of creativity is good taste." | Pablo Picasso |
| "The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled." | Plutarch |
| "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." | Alexander Pope |
| "The voyage to discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes." | Marcel Proust |
| R | |
| "If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must break your mirror." | Francois Rabelais |
| "A statesman is a successful politician who is dead." | Thomas Brackett Reed |
| "The customer is never wrong." | Cesar Ritz |
| "Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life." | F.W. Robertson |
| "Many people despise wealth but few know how to give it away." | F. de la Rochefoucauld |
| "Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice." | F. de la Rochefoucauld |
| "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." | Eleanor Roosevelt |
| "The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams. | Eleanor Roosevelt |
| "Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort." | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| "Rules are not necessarily sacred; principles are." | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| "I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made." | Franklin D. Roosevelt |
| "It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed." | Theodore Roosevelt |
| "The only man who never makes mistakes is the man who never does anything." | Theodore Roosevelt |
| "With self-discipline most anything is possible." | Theodore Roosevelt |
| "Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet." | Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
| "Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it ." | Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
| "If it can't be cured it must be endured." | Salman Rushdie |
| "When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece." | John Ruskin |
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