WHo know's a good quote?

Question

for my homework i have to find a good quote so if you could give some options that would be great :D, o and don't forget to say who said it! thanks!

Answer 1

"An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools" - Ernest Hemingway

Answer 2

Some favorites of mine...

Common sense is not so common
-Voltaire

"Life passes most people by while they're busy making grand plans for it"
-BLOW

There are three kinds of lies; lies, damned lies, and statistics
-Benjamin Disreali

The law does not content itself with classifying and punishing crime. It invents crime.
-Norman Douglas

Lazy people are always looking for something to do
-Vauvenargues

Nothing wrong with southern california that a rise in the ocean wouldn't cure
-Ross McDonald

"Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk"
-(I don't know)

Some mistakes are just too fun to make once
-(I don't know)

If we are to guard against ignorance and remain free, it is the responsibility of every American to be informed.
-Thomas Jefferson

"Prohibition... goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded."
-Abraham Lincoln December, 1840

"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."
-Albert Einstein

Some of my own...

Lies are more certain than truths.

"If there's one thing I dislike more than the ones who write the unjust laws, it's the fools who think they have no choice but to abide by them"

The less you speak, the more you say.

You are not where you have been or where you are from; you are what you have seen and experienced.

It's true you should have an open mind, but if you leave it open all the time you'll eventually get robbed.

Passing time is only assisting time in passing you.

You can't fully understand life until you're dead.

With age comes new thinking.

-Dustin Hartz

Answer 3

I suggest you look for your own quotation so that you can match it to the subject at hand. Try going to a source such as the three below and enter a word (honor, toothpaste, war...) about which you want a quotation. You'll have a much better list than the random ones you receive here.

Answer 4

"When Im Good, im very very Good
When Im Bad - Im Better"

Mae West
(1893 - 1980)

She has a whole heap of cheeky qoutes - view some of them here :
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/m/mae_west.html

Answer 5

"You will do foolish things but do them with enthusiasm" said by the french novelist Colette.
I live by this quote:)

Answer 6

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -- it is the illusion of knowledge." --Daniel Boorstin

Answer 7

"In faith and hope the world will disagree, But all mankind's concern is charity. "

-Alexander the Great

Answer 8

"If you know you are going to fail, then fail gloriously!"
-Cate Blanchett

"A genius is someone who shoots at something no one else can see and hits it."
-Chris Walker

Answer 9

dreams die hard and you hold them in your hands long after they have turned to dust
Bowen from dragon heart

Answer 10

to the world you are one person.
to one person you are the world.


anonymous