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Famous Quote

You Will Enjoy Each and Every Famous Quote on This Page

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Do their quotes make the famous, or do the famous make quotes? Sounds like the age-old chicken and egg conundrum, right? Rest assured that when you read a famous quote, you know that the author behind the quote had a flair for words. Perhaps it's the penchant for rhetoric that makes famous people make a famous quote. Now you know that the ticket to fame and immortality lies in a mere string of words.

Buddha
Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

William Shakespeare
Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs. Being purged, a fire sparkling in lovers eyes. Being vexed, a sea nourished with lovers tears. What is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall and a preserving sweet.

Mother Teresa
If you judge people, you have no time to love them

Helen Keller
When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

Albert Einstein
You can't blame gravity for falling in love.

Robert Atkins
Don't fix what's not broken.

Joan of Arc
I am not afraid... I was born to do this.

Buddha
A jug fills drop by drop.

Voltaire
Common sense is not so common.

Francis Bacon
A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

Alfred Lord Tennyson
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

Edgar Allan Poe
Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.

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