Who Quotes
- Page 4The senses deceive from time to time, and it is prudent never to trust wholly those who have deceived us even once.
Rene Descartes
People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
William Butler Yeats
A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.
Caskie Stinnett
It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.
Abdul Kalam
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
Thomas Jefferson
When our vices leave us, we like to imagine it is we who are leaving them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I'm more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.
Jerry Garcia
No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick.
Erma Bombeck
A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.
Charles Spurgeon
Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.
Thomas Sowell
Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.
Margaret Thatcher
Who cares about that stuff? This is America, not Jerusalem. I'm an American. Let Harry be a Jew.
Arnold Rothstein
George Foreman. A miracle. A mystery to myself. Who am I? The mirror says back. The George you was always meant to be. Wasn't always like that. Used to look in the mirror and cried a river.
George Foreman
I know that I will never find my father in any other man who comes into my life, because it is a void in my life that can only be filled by him.
Halle Berry
He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.
Epictetus
Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.
John Stuart Mill
Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.
Camille Pissarro
But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?
Mark Twain
Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.
George S. Patton
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.
Edgar Allan Poe