The repository contains 88 quotes in the category “Classics.”
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To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.
Chancellor Otto von Bismarck
1815 — 1898
Watching a condemned criminal being led to the execution chamber.:
There but for the grace of God go I.
Rev. George Whitefield
1714 — 1770
There is no such thing as a free lunch.
Milton Friedman
1912 — 2006
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Lord Acton
1834 — 1902
Anyone who goes to see a psychiatrist should have his head examined.
Samuel Goldwyn
1882 — 1974
A verbal contract isn’t worth the paper it’s written on.
Samuel Goldwyn
1882 — 1974
Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are!
Jean Brillat-Savarin
1755 — 1826
Give a hungry person a fish, he eats for a day, teach a hungry person to fish, he eats for a lifetime.
Confucius
551 — 479 B.C.
A picture is worth ten thousand words.
Confucius
551 — 479 B.C.
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
Paul Ehrlich
1932 —
Get there first with the most men.
General Nathan Bedford Forrest
1821 — 1877
In clapping both hands, a sound is heard. What is the sound of one hand?
Hakuin
1696 — 1769
I’ve got to go, Rock. It’s all right. I’m not afraid. Some time, Rock, when the team is up against it, when things are wrong and the breaks are beating the boys --- tell them to go in there with all they’ve got and win just one for the Gipper. I don’t know where I’ll be then, Rock. But I’ll know about it, and I’ll be happy.
The medium is the message.
Marshall McLuhan
1911 — 1980
To Clare Boothe Luce, who had held a door open and said, "Age before beauty":
Pearls before swine.
Dorothy Parker
1893 — 1967
No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. You won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.
General George S. Patton
1885 — 1945
We have met the enemy and they are ours.
Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry
1785 — 1819
Those who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
1863 — 1952
Before being executed in Florida's electric chair:
Capital punishment: them without the capital get the punishment.
John Spenkelink
1949 — 1979
Don’t trust anyone over thirty.
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