Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Education is either from nature, from man or from things. The developing of our faculties and organs is the education of nature; that of man is the application we learn to make of this very developing; and that of things is the experience we acquire in regard to the different objects by which we are affected. All that we have not at our birth, and that we stand in need of at the years of maturity, is the gift of education.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

My liveliest delight was in having conquered myself.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Man is born free and everywhere he is in chains.

Jillian Michaels

It's not about perfect. It's about effort. And when you bring that effort every single day, that's where transformation happens. That's how change occurs.

Jill Scott

I just think it's silly to be stingy with compliments. If you see someone and they strike you as beautiful in any way, why not let them know?

Jean Sibelius

Pay no attention to what the critics say; no statue has ever been erected to a critic.

Jean Rostand

When I was young I pitied the old. Now old, it is the young I pity.

Jean Rostand

Kill one man and you're a murderer, kill a million and you're a conqueror.

Jean de La Fontaine

Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.

Jean de La Fontaine

Our destiny is frequently met in the very paths we take to avoid it.

Jean de La Fontaine

Man is so made that when anything fires his soul, impossibilities vanish.

Grover Cleveland

Good ball players make good citizens.

Grover Cleveland

A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil.

Groucho Marx

All people are born alike - except Republicans and Democrats.

Groucho Marx

Well, Art is Art, isn't it? Still, on the other hand, water is water. And east is east and west is west and if you take cranberries and stew them like applesauce they taste much more like prunes than rhubarb does. Now you tell me what you know.

Groucho Marx

Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who wants to live in an institution?

Groucho Marx

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

Groucho Marx

A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere.

Groucho Marx

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

Groucho Marx

Time wounds all heels.

Groucho Marx

Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.

Groucho Marx

I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday is dead, tomorrow hasn't arrived yet. I have just one day, today, and I'm going to be happy in it.

Graham Chapman

I think that all good, right thinking people in this country are sick and tired of being told that all good, right thinking people in this country are fed up with being told that all good, right thinking people in this country are fed up with being sick and tired. I'm certainly not, and I'm sick and tired of being told that I am.

Graham Greene

When we are not sure, we are alive.

Goran Persson

Let our New Year's resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word.

Goldie Hawn

Comedy is like catching lightning in a bottle.

Goldie Hawn

There are three words I like to repeat to myself: glass half full. Just to remind myself to be grateful for everything I have.

Golda Meir

I can honestly say that I was never affected by the question of the success of an undertaking. If I felt it was the right thing to do, I was for it regardless of the possible outcome.

Golda Meir

You'll never find a better sparring partner than adversity.

Giovanni Boccaccio

You must read, you must persevere, you must sit up nights, you must inquire, and exert the utmost power of your mind. If one way does not lead to the desired meaning, take another; if obstacles arise, then still another; until, if your strength holds out, you will find that clear which at first looked dark.