Memorable Quotes - Page 2

There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.

The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-interest always runs a good race.

I do not like green eggs and ham. I do not like them, Sam-I-Am.

There are people in government who don't want other people to know what they know. It's just another example of elitism. And I spit on elitism. Show me an elitist, and I'll show you a loser.

Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.

The real cause of the great upheavals which precede changes of civilisations, such as the fall of the Roman Empire and the rise of the Arabian Empire, is a profound modification in the ideas of the peoples .... The memorable events of history are the visible effects of the invisible changes of human thought .... The present epoch is one of these critical moments in which the thought of mankind is undergoing a process of transformation.

Beware the ides of March.

False face must hide what the false heart doth know.

Dobby is a free elf, and Dobby has come to save Harry Potter and his friends!

We have seen better days.

One should not pursue goals that are easily achieved. One must develop an instinct for what one can just barely achieve through one’s greatest efforts.

My love life is like a piece of Swiss cheese; most of it's missing, and what's there stinks.

When it comes to getting things done, we need fewer architects and more bricklayers.

If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.

You should learn from your competitor, but never copy. Copy and you die.

Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.

What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else.

A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.

I don't really understand what a dictator is, but on the other hand I sometimes, in a nice way, envy myself," he said. "I am the last and only dictator in Europe and indeed there are none anywhere else in the world.

You will have bad times, but they will always wake you up to the stuff you weren't paying attention to.

I’ve had so much plastic surgery, when I die they will donate my body to Tupperware.

I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.

Love, unrequited, robs me of my rest: Love, hopeless love, my ardent soul encumbers: Love, nightmare-like, lies heavy on my chest, And weaves itself into my midnight slumbers!

I have never seen a river that I could not love. Moving water... has a fascinating vitality. It has power and grace and associations. It has a thousand colors and a thousand shapes, yet it follows laws so definite that the tiniest streamlet is an exact replica of a great river.

Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.