Famous Unknown Quotations

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"The best mind might be the wisest mind if it were a mind alone that produces wisdom."
by Source Unknown
"After listening to a lecture on evolution by a science professor, a student wrote a poem and titled it ''The Amazing Professor.'' The poem read: Once I was a tadpole when I began to begin. Then I was a frog with my tail tucked in. Next I was a monkey on a coconut tree. Now I am a doctor with a Ph.D."
by Source Unknown
"A winner makes commitment. A loser makes promises."
by Source Unknown
"Adversity is a fact of life. It can't be controlled. What we can control is how we react to it."
by Source Unknown
"The kindness planned for tomorrow doesn't count for today."
by Source Unknown
"The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety."
by H. L. Mencken
"The mechanisms behind the observed lower risk of breast cancer among stressed women remain unknown,"
by Rod Nielsen
"The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you just learned this morning."
by Source Unknown
"The time I am most powerful and in control of my life is when I drive my car. Whatever lonely feelings I have from the lack of communication with my husband disappear in no time flat. When the windows and the top are open with my favorite jazz station on the radio playing, nothing and nobody can touch me. Then I go home to the same relentless battle. Life can be a pisser"
by Source Unknown
"The test of any man's character is how he takes praise."
by Source Unknown
"There are unknown forces in nature; when we give ourselves wholly to her, without reserve, she lends them to us; she shows us these forms, which our watching eyes do not see, which our intelligence does not understand or suspect."
by Auguste Rodin
"To be happy in this world, especially when youth is past, it is necessary to feel oneself not merely an isolated individual whose day will soon be over, but part of the stream of life slowing on from the first germ to the remote and unknown future."
by Anonymous
"Two people can do anything as long as one of them is the Lord."
by Source Unknown
"Two frogs fell into a bowl of cream. One didn't panic, he relaxed and drowned. The other kicked and struggled so much that the cream turned to butter and he walked out."
by Source Unknown
"We all know that sponges grow in the ocean but I wander how much deeper the ocean would be if that wasn't the case."
by Source Unknown
"Whenever you get red in the face, whenever you raise your voice, whenever you get hot under the collar or angry, rebellious or negative in spirit, then know that the spirit of God is leaving you and the spirit of Satan is beginning to take over."
by Source Unknown
"Women sometimes seem to share a quiet, unalterable dogma of persecution that endows even the most sophisticated of them with the inarticulate poignancy of the peasant."
by Source Unknown
"All marriages are happy. It's living together afterwards that is difficult."
by Source Unknown
"Your attitude determines your altitude."
by Source Unknown
"Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor."
by Source Unknown
"As our faith increases, so does our ability to obey."
by Source Unknown
"Evil spelled backward is live."
by Source Unknown
"Everything around us is made up of energy. To attract positive things in your life, start by giving off positive energy."
by Author unknown
"Determination makes a person thrive in life."
by Source Unknown
"Freedom of men under government is to have a standing rule to live by, common to every one of that society, and made by the legislative power vested in it; a liberty to follow my own will in all things, when the rule prescribes not, and not to be subject to the inconstant, unknown, arbitrary will of another man."
by John Locke
"Few women admit their age. Few men act theirs."
by Source Unknown
"Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from the known to the unknown."
by George Shinn
"If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people jumping up and down for joy."
by Source Unknown
"It is easier to ask forgiveness than permission."
by Source Unknown
"It's always possible. It's a tough business and certainly that's not unknown that they leverage one city against the other. I don't believe so myself. I think they have some serious interest in San Antonio. But perhaps I'm of a trusting nature."
by Phil Hardberger
"Let each day be your masterpiece."
by Source Unknown
"Love and respect do not automatically accompany a position of leadership. They must be earned."
by Source Unknown
"Obedience without faith is possible, but not faith without obedience."
by Source Unknown
"Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you."
by Source Unknown
"Our country is the only one in the world with a national anthem that the last two words are Play Ball!"
by Source Unknown
"On this mounting the scaffold to be beheaded: ''I pray you Master Lieutenant, see me safely up, and for my coming down, let me shift for myself.'' To the executioner: ''Pick up thy spirits, Man, and be not afraid to do thy office; my neck is very short; take heed, therefore thou strike not awry, for saving of thy honesty.''"
by Source Unknown
"Reverence is one of the signs of strength, irreverence one of the surest indications of weakness. No man will rise high who jeers at sacred things. The fine loyalties of life must be reverenced or they will be fore sworn in the day of trial."
by Source Unknown
"Something that irritates you and won't let you go. That's the anguish of it. Do this book, or die. You have to go through that. Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance."
by Source Unknown
"No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves."
by William Hazlitt
"No one can make us angry. People can say and do things to us but it is still up to us as individuals to do what we want with our emotions in response to those things."
by Source Unknown
"Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return."
by E. M. Forster
"Of all the things that tax a man's patience, there's nothing to compare with a stuck zipper."
by Source Unknown
"Marriage is an institution, but who wants to live in an institution?"
by Source Unknown
"Marital Freedom: The liberty that allows a husband to do exactly that which his wife pleases."
by Source Unknown
"Many people convince themselves if it is economically necessary, it's morally right. That's not always the case."
by Source Unknown
"One reason we should love our enemies is that we made them ourselves. Another reason is that they keep us on our toes, a third reason is that we should make them our friends."
by Source Unknown
"Its easy to be an angel when you are in heaven."
by Source Unknown
"It's when things get rough and you don't quit that success comes."
by Source Unknown
"If happiness could be brought, few of us could pay the price."
by Source Unknown
"I have wept in the night for the shortness of sight that to somebody's need made me blind; But I never have yet Felt a tinge of regret for being a little to kind"
by Source Unknown
"I self destruct every relationship so that i don't get hurt... but in truth i just hurt myself worse in the long run.."
by Source Unknown
"Here's a posy of flowers, and a basket too, With Birthday greetings all for you."
by Source Unknown
"Humor is a whisper from the soul, imploring mind and body to relax, let go and be at peace again."
by Source Unknown
"An educational system isn't worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living but doesn't teach them how to make a life."
by Source Unknown
"An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmasters of ever afterwards."
by Source Unknown
"A little girl at the wedding afterwards asked her mother why the bride changed her mind. What do you mean? responded her mother. Well, she went down the aisle with one man, and came back with another."
by Source Unknown
"A liberal is a socialist with a wife and two children."
by Source Unknown
"A perfect wife is one who helps her husband with the dishes."
by Source Unknown
"A spark of kindness starts a fire of love."
by Source Unknown
"All that stands between the graduate and the top of the ladder is the ladder."
by Source Unknown
"He that loseth wealth, loseth much; he that loseth friends, loseth more; but he that loseth his spirit loseth all."
by Source Unknown
"50% of the high school graduates in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class."
by Source Unknown
"We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears."
by Author Unknown
"This was love at first sight, love everlasting a feeling unknown, unhoped for, unexpected--in so far as it could be a matter of conscious awareness it took entire possession of him, and he understood, with joyous amazement, that this was for life."
by Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.
"Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it."
by Author Unknown
"Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbacks from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes."
by Source Unknown
"A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about."
by Author Unknown
"Desire for security keeps littleness little and threatens the great with smallness."
by Author Unknown
"Beware of the man who knows the answer before he understands the question."
by Author Unknown
"Between the wish and the thing life lies waiting."
by Unknown
"Better to die on your feet than live on your knees"
by Author Unknown
"Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes"
by Author Unknown
"Before a diamond shows its brilliancy and prismatic colors it has to stand a good deal of cutting and smoothing."
by Author Unknown
"It is almost impossible to smile on the outside without feeling better on the inside."
by Author Unknown
"It is a pleasure to give advice, humiliating to need it, normal to ignore it."
by Author Unknown
"Education is what you get from reading the fine print. Experience is what you get from not reading it."
by Unknown
"Education is not received. It is achieved."
by Author Unknown
"Eat a live toad the first thing in the morning and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day."
by Unknown
"The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it."
by Unknown
"The tongue weighs practically nothing, but so few people can hold it."
by Unknown
"Successful men follow the same advice they prescribe for others."
by Author Unknown
"Successful leaders have the courage to take action where others hesitate."
by Author Unknown
"Spare minutes are the Gold-dust of time; the portions of life most fruitful in good and evil; the gaps through which temptations enter."
by Author Unknown
"Some people lose their health getting wealth and then lose their wealth gaining health."
by Author Unknown
"Some have half-baked ideas because their ideals are not heated up enough."
by Author Unknown
"Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain."
by Unknown
"No poet sings because he must sing. At least no great poet does. A great poet sings because he chooses to sing."
by Author Unknown
"You can buy education, but wisdom is a gift from God."
by Author Unknown
"Wise men are not always silent, but they know when to be."
by Author Unknown
"The whole world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going."
by Unknown
"The truly educated man is that rare individual who can separate reality from illusion."
by Author Unknown
"The measure of a truly great man is the courtesy with which he treats lesser men."
by Source Unknown
"It is twice as hard to crush a half-truth as a whole lie."
by Unknown
"A man is getting along on the road to wisdom when he begins to realize that his opinion is just an opinion."
by Author Unknown
"A house is made of walls and beams; a home is built with love and dreams."
by Author Unknown
"A college education never hurt anybody who was willing to learn after he got it."
by Author Unknown
"The deadliest contagion is majority opinion."
by Author Unknown
"The brain that bubbles with phrases has hard work to collect its thoughts."
by Author Unknown
"The biggest shortage of all is the shortage of common sense."
by Author Unknown
"The best way to end a war is not to begin it."
by Author Unknown


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