Famous English Quotations
List of famous quotations, page 1,
Authors 'A' and 'B'
Quotations from politicians, writers, actors, scientists and philosophers.
| Quotation | Author |
|---|---|
| A | |
| "After all is said and done, more is said than done." | Aesop |
| "Persuasion is often more effectual than force." | Aesop |
| "United we stand, divided we fall." | Aesop |
| "When I was born, I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half." | Gracie Allen |
| "Confidence is what you have before you understand the problem." | Woody Allen |
| "If you're not failing every now and again, it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative." | Woody Allen |
| "I'm not afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens." | Woody Allen |
| "Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once." | Woody Allen |
| "You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred." | Woody Allen |
| "The secret of life is not to do what you like, but to like what you do." | Anonymous |
| "Love is not about who you live with. It's about who you can't live without." | Anonymous |
| "A real friend is someone who walks in when the rest of the world walks out" | Anonymous |
| "Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell." | Anonymous |
| "Good supervision is the art of getting average people to do superior work." | Anonymous |
| "There is safety in numbers." | Anonymous |
| "Wit is educated insolence." | Aristotle |
| "Education is the best provision for the journey to old age." | Aristotle |
| "One swallow does not make the spring." | Aristotle |
| "Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work." | Aristotle |
| "We are what we repeatedly do." | Aristotle |
| "Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit." | Aristotle |
| B | |
| "The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship." | Sir Francis Bacon |
| “In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.” | Sir Francis Bacon |
| "Knowledge is power." | Sir Francis Bacon |
| "A prudent question is one-half of wisdom." | Sir Francis Bacon |
| "Behind every great fortune there is a crime." | Honore de Balsac |
| "It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action." | Honore de Balsac |
| "An error doesn't become a mistake until you refuse to correct it." | Orlando A. Battisa |
| "A multitude of small delights constitute happiness." | Charles Baudelaire |
| "There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start." | Charles Baudelaire |
| "Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future. Act now, without delay." | Simone de Beauvoir |
| "When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us." | Alexander Graham Bell |
| "Happiness lies in good health and a bad memory." | Ingrid Bergman |
| "Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others." | Otto von Bismarck |
| "Ability is nothing without opportunity." | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| "Glory is fleeting but obscurity is forever." | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| "If you want a thing done well, do it yourself." | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| "Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools." | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| "Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake." | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| "Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language.” | H. Jackson Brown, Jr. |
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