Memorable Quotes

1012 Memorable quotes by 485 unique authors

Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never… — Charles Dickens
If all the year were playing holidays; To sport would be as tedious as to work. — William Shakespeare
One more drink and I'll be under the host. — Mae West
And I am sure that I never read any memorable news in a newspaper. If we read of one man robbed, or murdered, or killed… — Henry David Thoreau
We are not what we know but what we are willing to learn. — Mary Catherine Bateson
Fix your eyes forward on what you can do, not back on what you cannot change. — Tom Clancy
I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them. — Mark Twain
No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they'd die for. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
An artist can show things that other people are terrified of expressing. — Louise Bourgeois
Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not… — Susan B. Anthony
The three saddest things are the ill wanting to be well, the poor wanting to be rich, and the constant traveler saying 'anywhere but here'. — E E Cummings
We've got a generation now who were born with semiequality. They don't know how it was before, so they think, this isn't too bad. We're… — Erma Bombeck
What was difficult was the travel, which, on arrival, is forgotten. — Louise GluÌˆck
That man that hath a tongue, I say is no man, if with his tongue he cannot win a woman. — William Shakespeare
Never travel faster than your guardian angel can fly. — Mother Teresa
But no thoughtful man's life is uninteresting or devoid of marvels. A sincere life cannot be empty of memorable occurrences. — Charles Spurgeon
Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness. — Ray Bradbury
His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets. — Dorothy Parker
Children don’t heed the life experiences of their parents, and nations ignore history. Bad lessons always have to be learned anew. — Albert Einstein
Truth is truth to the end of reckoning. — William Shakespeare
I didn’t look to the shore much after this first long and memorable glimpse. I looked up at Heaven and her court of mythical creatures… — Anne Rice
There comes a time when silence is betrayal. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Frailty, thy name is woman! — William Shakespeare
Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear — William Shakespeare
So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt. — William Shakespeare

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