John L Motley Famous Quotes



"Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great."


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"You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land, this is no other life but this."
Henry David Thoreau

"You know what would be the most terrifying thing that could ever happen to a flea Getting caught inside a watch somehow. You don't even care, do you."
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

Questions are the creative acts of intelligence.
Frank Kingdon

"All generalizations are dangerous, even this one."
Alexandre Dumas

Weekends are a bit like rainbows they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them.
John Shirley

"We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. ... We have truly entered the century of the educated man."
Lyndon B Johnson

"The happy person is the one who finds occasions for joy at every step. He does not have to look for them, he just finds them."
Ossian Lang

Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
Edgar Allan Poe

Any activity that adversely affects society is immoral.
B J Gupta

Your true value depends entirely on what you are compared with.
Bob Wells