Famous Quotations

Our searchable collection of quotes and aphorisms aims to be the best, not the biggest. Perfect for making a convincing point at the negotiation table, in your speech or presentation.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Mark Twain

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
Winston Churchill

To the world you might be one person, but to one person you might be the world.

You don't have to be sick to get well.

Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde

Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.
Kahlil Gibran

You see things and say, 'Why?', but I dream things and say, 'Why?', but I dream things and say, 'Why not?
George Bernard Shaw

Someone who takes advice is often superior to someone who gives it.

There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
Benjamin Franklin

We should take care not to make the intellect our God; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.
Albert Einstein

Proceed as if success is inevitable.

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have, the older she gets the more interested he is in her.
Agatha Christie

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.
John Lennon

Truth is not determined by majority vote.
Doug Gwyn

Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
Confucious

Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
TS Eliot

Sometimes the majority only means that all the fools are on the same side.

You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.
Booker T Washington

It is not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you have left.
Hubert Humphrey

Live out of your imagination, not your history.
Steven Covey

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