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Quotes by English Authors
"Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds."
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
"I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me."
"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
"Loss and possession, death and life are one, There falls no shadow where there shines no sun."
"I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early."
"Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility."
"If you fell down yesterday, stand up today."
"It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar."
"Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
"Never stop testing, and your advertising will never stop improving."
"A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury."
"Good temper is one of the greatest preservers of the features."
"People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what's wrong with it."
"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often."
"The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind."
"The Bush administration doesn't particularly like public participation. It makes them look bad."
"Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise."
"Truth, like the juice of the poppy, in small quantities, calms men; in larger, heats and irritates them, and is attended by fatal consequences in excess."
"Errors using inadequate data are much less than those using no data at all."
"As this world was not intended to be a state of any great satisfaction or high enjoyment, so neither was it intended to be a mere scene of unhappiness and sorrow."
"Advertising reflects the mores of society, but it does not influence them."
"Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic."
"Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire."
"On the average, five times as many people read the headline as read the body copy. When you have written your headline, you have spent eighty cents out of your dollar."
"It could be that the methods needed to take the next step may simply be beyond present day mathematics. Perhaps the methods I needed to complete the proof would not be invented for a hundred years."
"Had Cain been Scot, God would have changed his doom nor forced him wander, but confine him home."
"Nothing happens, and nothing happens, and then everything happens."
"Life is an offensive, directed against the repetitious mechanism of the Universe."
"Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever puts one down without the feeling of disappointment."
"As it fell upon a day in the merry month of May, sitting in a pleasant shade which a grove of myrtles made."
"Love Comes Quickly is our favourite record ever, and it did really badly."
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