Famous Quotes from Famous Folks

It is better to die on your feet than live on your knees. Emiliano Zapata

"a political or religious belief which can't stand up to insult, mockery or abuse is not worth having"
john mortimer

(very much my motto too)

great quote Hamburger but it is an "M" and not an "A". It is the author in alphabetical order, not the quote. (I missed that on my first post on this thread too though.)

A - Hank Aaron

Didn't come up here to read. Came up here to hit.

Acquaintance: A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. Ambrose Bierce

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.--Samuel Clemens

David ( King )

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?
Albert Einstein

A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.

Sigmund Freud

Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering. R. Buckminster Fuller

Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo.
Al Gore

Believe me, my dear fellow, that so long as people refuse to give up everything for the sake of which they attack and devour each other on earth, that so long as they refuse to think of putting their spiritual fortune in order, there will be no fair distribution of earthly fortunes, either.

Nikolai Gogol

Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.
Samuel Langhornne Clemens (Mark Twain)

D is next ?

Taking a new step... is what people fear most.

Dostoyevski

About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
Ernest Hemingway

(I think we're back in alphabetical order )

cry havoc, and let slip the dogs of war.

damn, i read that in elementary school but it has stuck in my mind ever since.


not really a person syaing it i guess, a character but whatever.

Have a read of this Ogionik
http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/105600.html

very interesting.

I'm not trying to convince you that you should like what Larry Flynt does. I don't like what Larry Flynt does. But, what I do like is that I live in a country where you and I can make that decision for ourselves. I like that I live in a country where I can pick up Hustler magazine and read it if I want to, or throw it in the garbage can if that's where I think it belongs. Or, better yet, I can exercise my opinion and not buy it. I like that I have that right. I care about it. And, you should care about it too.

Alan Isaacman: (larry flint's lawyer - close enough for being famous ?)

If you let a bully come in your front yard, he'll be on your porch the next day and the day after that he'll rape your wife in your own bed. -Lyndon B. Johnson

John Keats