Quotes from George Washington

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her.

Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.

Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.

Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.

It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

Quotes from Edgar Allan Poe

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.

All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.

If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.

There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.

Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.

With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.

12 Robert Frost Quotes

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.

But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep, and miles to go before I sleep.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.

The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended-and not to take a hint when a hint isn't intended.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

Thinking isn't agreeing or disagreeing. That's voting.

The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.

Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

12 Eleanor Roosevelt Quotes...

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

It is better to light a candle than curse the darkness.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

Remember always that you not only have the right to be an individual, you have an obligation to be one.

14 Frank Lloyd Wright Quotes

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.

Nature is my manifestation of God. I go to nature every day for inspiration in the day's work. I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union.

The mother art is architecture. Without an architecture of our own we have no soul of our own civilization.

Art for art's sake is a philosophy of the well-fed.

The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes.

Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.

No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other.

New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.

Well, now that he's finished one building, he'll go write four books about it.

16 Great Quotes From Abraham Lincoln

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.

You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

12 Neil Armstrong Quotes

This is one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.

I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.

It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.

I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul... we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.

The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go further than that and our opportunities are unlimited.

Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that's when something snaps up and bites you.

I guess we all like to be recognized not for one piece of fireworks, but for the ledger of our daily work.

I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.

I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely new medium.

The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel.

I can honestly say - and it's a big surprise to me - that I have never had a dream about being on the moon.

The Eagle has landed.

12 Delightful Ogden Nash Quotes

Candy is dandy but liquor is quicker.

Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.

To keep your marriage brimming, With love in the loving cup, Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up.

Certainly there are things in life that money can't buy, but it's very funny - Did you ever try buying them without money?

A family is a unit composed not only of children but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold.

I have an idea that the phrase 'weaker sex' was coined by some woman to disarm the man she was preparing to overwhelm.

Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.

I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it.

Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave when they think that their children are naive.

The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

Commitments the voters don't know about can't hurt you.

Some debts are fun when you are acquiring them, but none are fun when you set about retiring them.

20 Great Albert Einstein Quotes

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?

The only source of knowledge is experience.

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed.

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.

Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.

Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.