Quotation Search
To search for quotations, enter a phrase to search for in the quotation, a whole or partial
author name, or both. Also specify the collections to search in below. See the
Search Instructions for details.
- Idleness is a constant sin, and labor is a duty. Idleness is the devil's home for temptation and for unprofitable, distracting musings; while labor profiteth others and ourselves.
- Anne Baxter
- Too many people run out of ideas long before they run out of words.
- Author Unknown
- It isn't easy for an idea to squeeze itself into a head filled with prejudice.
- Author Unknown
- "What made the deepest impression upon you?" inquired a friend one day of Lincoln, "when you stood in the presence of the Falls of Niagara, the greatest of natural wonders?" ---- "The thing that stuck me most forcibly when I saw the Falls," Lincoln responded with the characteristic deliberation, "was where in the world did all that water come from?"
- Author Unknown
- There is nothing in the world more powerful than an idea. No weapon can destroy it; no power can conquer it except the power of another idea.
- James Roy Smith
- It is useless to close the gates against ideas; they overlap them.
- Klemens Von Metternich
- Men who accomplish great things in the industrial world are the ones who have faith in the money producing power of ideas.
- Charles Fillmore
- We are prisoners of ideas.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- There is only one way in which a person acquires a new idea; by combination or association of two or more ideas he already has into a new juxtaposition in such a manner as to discover a relationship among them of which he was not previously aware.
- Francis A. Carter
- No man is a hypocrite in his pleasures.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784)
|
![[info]](/icon_info.gif){kind=icon}
![[add]](/icon_plus.gif){kind=icon}
![[mail]](/icon_email.gif){kind=icon}
![[note]](/icon_note.gif){kind=icon}