VIRTUAL DICTIONARY - FAMOUS QUOTES

The essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.

With these shreds They vented their complainings, which being answered And a petition granted them, a strange one, To break the heart of generosity, And make bold power look pale, they threw their caps As they would hang them on the horns o' th' moon, Shouting their emulation.

A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.

Secrecy is the badge of fraud.

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

Phidias made the statue of Venue at Elis with one foot upon the shell of a tortoise, to signify two great duties of a virtuous woman, which are to keep home and be silent.

Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man.

A banker is someone who lends you an umbrella when the sun is shining, and who asks for it back when it start to rain.

To a woman, the consciousness of being will dressed gives a sense of tranquility which religion fails to bestow.

Obscurity and competence: That is the life that is worth living.

shot at and missed, hit on and hit.

Enlarge the opportunity and the person will expand to fill it

A true friend sticks with you through thick and thin no matter what.

The worst men often give the best advice. Our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts.

Well, my deliberate opinion is - it's a jolly strange world.

Been there, done that and have the tee-shirt to prove it.

You really have to experience the feeling of being with the president in the oval office. ... It's a disease I came to call Ovalitis.

Great albatross!--the meanest birds Spring up and flit away, While thou must toil to gain a flight, And spread those pinions grey, But when they once are fairly poised, Far o'er each chirping thing Thou sailest wide to other lands, E'en sleeping on the wing.

Poets are sultans, if they had their will: For every author would his brother kill.

You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much healthier your decisions are once they become entirely selfish.