Alexander Smith Famous Quotes



"Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition."

"It is not so much consequence what you say, as how you say it. Memorable sentences are memorable, on account of some single irradiating word."

To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.

"Memory is a man's real possession...In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor."


Alexander Smith Quotations






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Readiness of speech is often inability to hold the tongue.
Jean Baptiste Rousseau

"Let no one flatter himself of himself he is Satan. Let man take sin, which is his own, and leave righteousness with God."
Saint Augustine

"If doctors ever tell you that you've 'flipped out,' don't believe them, and just keep on doing what you were doing, because something tells me 'the Man' is behind this."
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

God save me from my friends. I can protect myself from my enemies.
Claude Louis Hector de Villars

He who is only just is cruel. Who on earth could live were all judged justly
George Gordon Byron

Oh for a book and a shady nook...
John Wilson

"Winston Churchill was not entirely British. His mother was American, making Sir Winston part Iroquois Indian."
Rachel Blanchard

"For most of history, Anonymous was a woman."
Virginia

"A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day."
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

"If you're a cowboy, and you're dragging a guy behind your horse, I bet it would really make you mad if you looked back and the guy was reading a magazine."
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts