Famous quotes

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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The fly that does not want to be hunted is safer when it lands on the flyswatter.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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A nation that tries to please everyone can be despised by everyone.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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Inflation is like sin; every government denounces it, but every government practices it.

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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There are people who believe that everything done with a serious face is reasonable.

Trygve Halvdan Lie

Trygve Halvdan Lie

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Currently, the fate of the world depends, first and foremost, on statesmen, and secondly, on interpreters.

Abbott Liebling

Abbott Liebling

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Generalmente, people confuse what they read in the newspapers with the news.

Prince Charles Joseph de Ligne

Prince Charles Joseph de Ligne

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Men can be divided into two categories: those who speak to say something, and those who say something just to talk.

Prince Charles Joseph de Ligne

Prince Charles Joseph de Ligne

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To be impartial, one must have many doubloons in their pocket.

Prince Charles Joseph de Ligne

Prince Charles Joseph de Ligne

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In love, only the beginning is wonderful. That's why we find so much pleasure in starting all over again.

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

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In the end, what matters is not the years of life, but the life in the years.

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

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You can fool all the people some of the time. You can fool some of the people all the time. But you can't fool all the people all the time.

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

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The demagogy is the ability to dress minor ideas with major words.