Jim's Favorite Famous Quote, Quip, Axiom, and Maxim Repository
Category: Classics.

The repository contains 88 quotes in the category “Classics.”
Showing quotes 61 through 80 in the category “Classics.” Page 1 2 3 4 5.

The journey of a thousand leagues begins from beneath your feet.

Lao-Tzu
600? — 540? B.C.

I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall defend to the death your right to say it.

Voltaire
1694 — 1778

Authority forgets a dying king.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson
1809 — 1892

Where both deliberate, the love is slight: Who ever loved, that loved not at first sight?

Christopher Marlowe
1564 — 1593

But the meek shall inherit the earth, and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.

The Bible

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
1830 — 1916

The chief business of the American people is business.

President Calvin Coolidge
1872 — 1933

If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

Bert Lance
1931 —     

On 1946 boxing opponent Billy Conn:

He can run, but he can’t hide.

Joe Louis
1914 — 1981

The lunatics have taken charge of the asylum.

Richard Rowland
1881 — 1947

Nothing succeeds like success.

Alexandre Dumas
1802 — 1870

Life is just a bowl of cherries.

Lew Brown
1893 — 1958

For when the One Great Scorer comes to mark against your name, He writes not that you won or lost, but how you played the game.

Grantland Rice
1880 — 1954

"Alumnus Football"

To err is human; to forgive, divine.

Alexander Pope
1688 — 1744

The opera ain’t over‘til the fat lady sings.

Dan Cook

You can’t go home again.

Thomas Wolfe
1900 — 1938

Talk of the devil and he’ll appear.

Desiderius Erasmus
1469 — 1536

What doctrine call you this, Che sarà sarà, what will be will be?

Christopher Marlowe
1564 — 1593

He thinks to kill two birds with one stone, and satisfy two arguments with one answer.

Thomas Hobbes
1588 — 1679

Knowledge is power.

Francis Bacon
1561 — 1626

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