Selected Great Quotes

A room without books is like a body without a soul.
- Cicero

A sharp tongue sometimes cuts its own throat.
- Jim Scancarelli

A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for.
- William Shedd

Amateurs wait for inspiration. The rest of us just get up and go to work.
- Chuck Close

An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made, in a very narrow field.
- Niels Bohr

Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent.
- Marilyn Vos Savant

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
- Cyril Connelly

Children are like mosquitoes. The minute they stop making a noise, you know they’re getting into something.

It takes less time to do the right thing than to explain why you did it wrong.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Every man dies. Not every man really lives.
- William Wallace

He who talks without thinking runs more risks than he who thinks without talking.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.
- Chinese Proverb

If the ladder is not leaning against the right wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
- Stephen R. Covey

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