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"For with slight efforts how should we obtain great results? It is foolish even to desire it." Euripides 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"My son is 7 years old. I am 54. It has taken me a great many years to reach that age. I am more respected in the community, I am stronger, I am more intelligent and I think I am better than he is. I don't want to be a pal, I want to be a father." Clifton Paul Fadiman 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I wasn't poor, I was needy. They told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy, I was deprived. Then they told me underprivileged was overused. I was disadvantaged. I still don't have a dime. But I have a great vocabulary." Jules Feiffer 4.5000 average rating Rate this Quote
"Now, in reality, the world have paid too great a compliment to critics, and have imagined them to be men of much greater profundity then they really are." Henry Fielding 2.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people. You can hold your tongue and, moreover, you can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don't see or care." F(rancis) Scott 3.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"A great obstacle to happiness is to anticipate too great a happiness." Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle Rate this Quote
"Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men." Gerald R. Ford 3.7143 average rating Rate this Quote
"It's the quality of the ordinary, the straight, the square, that accounts for the great stability and success of our nation. It's a quality to be proud of. But it's a quality that many people seem to have neglected." Gerald R. Ford Rate this Quote
"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at 20 or 80. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young." Henry Ford 4.9167 average rating Rate this Quote
"One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do." Henry Ford 4.8750 average rating Rate this Quote
"I have long considered it one of God's greatest mercies that the future is hidden from us. If it were not, life would surely be unbearable." Eugene Forsey Rate this Quote
"I have long considered it one of God's greatest mercies that the future is hidden from us. If it were not, life would surely be unbearable." Edward Morgan Forster 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined." Harry Emerson Fosdick 3.2500 average rating Rate this Quote
"No steam or gas drives anything until it is confined. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined." Harry Emerson Fosdick Rate this Quote
"To accomplish great things, we must not only act but also dream. Not only plan but also believe." Anatole France 4.8667 average rating Rate this Quote
"Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!" Anne Frank 4.7778 average rating Rate this Quote
"Everyone has inside himself a piece of good news! The good news is that you really don't know how great you can be, how much you can love, what you can accomplish, and what your potential is!" Anne Frank 4.7500 average rating Rate this Quote
"There are three great friends: an old wife, an old dog, and ready money." Benjamin Franklin 4.8750 average rating Rate this Quote
"The great question … which I have not been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is What does a woman want?" Sigmund Freud 5.0000 average rating Rate this Quote
"The history of man is a graveyard of great cultures that came to catastrophic ends because of their incapacity for planned, rational, voluntary reaction to challenge." Erich Fromm Rate this Quote
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