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

The repository contains 143 quotes in the category “Miscellaneous.”
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If a thing is worth doing, it’s worth doing badly.

Prime Minister Winston Churchill
1874 — 1965

You will make all kinds of mistakes; but as long as you are generous and true and also fierce you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her. She was meant to be wooed and won by youth.

Prime Minister Winston Churchill
1874 — 1965

Everyone has his day, and some days last longer than others.

Prime Minister Winston Churchill
1874 — 1965

Be not afraid of greatness; some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.

William Shakespeare
1564 — 1616

A secret known to three people can be kept as long as two of them are dead.

Benjamin Franklin
1706 — 1790

Fish and houseguests smell after three days.

Benjamin Franklin
1706 — 1790

We must all hang together, or we will surely all hang separately.

Benjamin Franklin
1706 — 1790

Gifts much expected are paid, not given.

Benjamin Franklin
1706 — 1790

Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes him.

Benjamin Franklin
1706 — 1790

The noblest question in the world is, “What good may I do in it?”

Benjamin Franklin
1706 — 1790

Little strokes fell great oaks.

Benjamin Franklin
1706 — 1790

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

George Bernard Shaw
1856 — 1950

When the master has come to do everything through the slave, the slave becomes his master, since he cannot live without him.

George Bernard Shaw
1856 — 1950

People get all upset about torture, but when you get right down to it, it’s really a pretty good way of finding out something a person doesn’t want you to know.

George Carlin
1937 — 2008

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.

Goethe
1749 — 1832

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.

Mark Twain
1835 — 1910

The only difference between saints and sinners is that every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

Oscar Wilde
1854 — 1900

Moderation is a fatal thing, Lady Hunstanton. Nothing suceeds like excess.

Oscar Wilde
1854 — 1900

The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.

Oscar Wilde
1854 — 1900

Yes, I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can find his way by moonlight, and see the dawn before the rest of the world.

Oscar Wilde
1854 — 1900

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