Famous quotes

Collection of the best phrases and famous quotes from the most prominent authors.

Jean de La Fontaine

Jean de La Fontaine

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In all times, the small have had to pay for the foolishness of the great.

Michael Levine

Michael Levine

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Having children doesn't make one a father, just like having a piano doesn't make one a pianist.

Michael Levine

Michael Levine

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Winners are very lucky. If you don't believe it, ask a loser.

Duke of Levis

Duke of Levis

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Laughter keeps us more reasonable than anger.

Duke of Levis

Duke of Levis

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It is easier to judge a man's talent by his questions than by his answers.

Duke of Levis

Duke of Levis

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Repeating is persuading with more detail.

Duke of Levis

Duke of Levis

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A lot of people could be made happy with all the happiness that is lost in this world.

Gregg Levoy

Gregg Levoy

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He is my dearest friend and the cruelest of my rivals, my confidant and the one who betrays me, the one who supports me and the one I depend on; and most terrifying of all: he is my equal.

Bernard-Henri Lévy

Bernard-Henri Lévy

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The path to wealth fundamentally depends on two words: work and savings.

Bernard-Henri Lévy

Bernard-Henri Lévy

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Literature is a strange machine that devours, that absorbs all the pleasures, all the events of life. Writers are vampires.

Clive Staples Lewis

Clive Staples Lewis

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No creo que God exactly wants us to be happy, he wants us to be capable of loving and being loved, he wants us to mature, and I suggest that precisely because God loves us he granted us the gift of suffering; or to put it another way: pain is the megaphone that God uses to awaken a world of the deaf; because we are like blocks of stone, from which the sculptor gradually forms the figure of a man, the blows of his chisel that cause us so much harm also make us more perfect.

Clive Staples Lewis

Clive Staples Lewis

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The future is something that everyone reaches at a rate of sixty minutes per hour, no matter what they do or who they are.