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Andrew Jackson: You must pay...

Andrew Jackson: You must pay...

You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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Abraham Lincoln: Let us at...

Abraham Lincoln: Let us at...

Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in...

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Marcus Tullius Cicero: Nothing is so...

Marcus Tullius Cicero: Nothing is so...

Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable.

Source: Paradoxa...

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Henry David Thoreau: We worship not...

Henry David Thoreau: We worship not...

We worship not the Graces, nor the Parcae, but Fashion. She spins and weaves and cuts with full authority. The head...

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Henry David Thoreau: If you give...

Henry David Thoreau: If you give...

If you give money, spend yourself with it.

Source: In Correct Quotes for DOS,...

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Henry David Thoreau: If you would...

Henry David Thoreau: If you would...

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

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Henry David Thoreau: Even the best...

Henry David Thoreau: Even the best...

Even the best things are not equal to their fame.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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George Eliot: The sense of...

George Eliot: The sense of...

The sense of an entailed disadvantage -- the deformed foot doubtfully hidden by the shoe, makes a restlessly active...

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George Eliot: Here undoubtedly lies...

George Eliot: Here undoubtedly lies...

Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: --in the force of imagination that pierces or exalts the solid fact,...

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George Eliot: In spite of...

George Eliot: In spite of...

In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and...

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George Eliot: Speech is often...

George Eliot: Speech is often...

Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you...

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George Eliot: I at least...

George Eliot: I at least...

I at least have so much to do in unraveling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and interwoven, that...

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George Eliot: But that intimacy...

George Eliot: But that intimacy...

But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once...

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George Eliot: He was like...

George Eliot: He was like...

He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow.

Source: Adam...

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P G Wodehouse: Never put anything...

P G Wodehouse: Never put anything...

Never put anything on paper, my boy, and never trust a man with a small black moustache.

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James Thurber: Well, if I...

James Thurber: Well, if I...

Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?

Source: Cartoon...

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James Thurber: The sanity of...

James Thurber: The sanity of...

The sanity of the average banquet speaker lasts about two and a half months; at the end of that time he begins to...

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Mark Twain: It was wonderful...

Mark Twain: It was wonderful...

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been still more wonderful to miss it.

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Mark Twain: Courage is resistance...

Mark Twain: Courage is resistance...

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear -- not absence of fear.

Source:...

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Mark Twain: Take your mind...

Mark Twain: Take your mind...

Take your mind out every now and then and dance on it. It is getting all caked up.

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