famous quotes

As both writers and speakers often cite quotes from noted individuals or historic moments, famous quotes is a popular internet tag.

Quotes, short for "quotations," are the use of words first said by another person.  Famous quotes are quotes considered notable because of who said or wrote the statement, where and when it was made, its source, or any combination of those.  They can are often used to illustrate or support a point or position.  

There is a long history of compiling famous quotes.  Today, numerous web sites and blogs are sources for quotes on anywhere from one topic to interrelated subjects to an entire range of topics.

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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “famous quotes”

• “Mark Twain Once Said …”: A Small Collection of Legendary Quotations by Author Mark Twain

  
  MyTownTalks — Authority: 506
  Mark Twain is one of the most famous US novelists. Mark Twain was actually the pen name of Samuel Clemens. Clemens was born in Missouri in November 1835. Twain died in 1910 at the age of 74. Mark Twain is celebrated for his books “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” and “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer”. Twain [...]
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• QualiCare Maids-Maid Service Of Charlotte NC-Helping Homeless For Christmas

  
  3stepADS - Free Advertising Blog — Authority: 587
  QualiCare will also donate 10% of all profits that come from customers buying maid service gift certificates from Thanksgiving to Christmas, in addition to requesting that citizens and business owners join this worthy cause to help the needy this holiday season.
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• SOAPBOX of the week:intoxication of a pastime

  
  Pure Soapbox — Authority: 108
  “Passion is all about allowing yourself to get lost in something.”     – Gail Sheehy, writer and lecturer Picture an artist covered in paint, a cook in sauces and spices, a mechanic in grease.  Picture a writer surrounded by stacks of books, an athlete by gear and sneakers, a musician by sheet music and ...
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• Heinlein on censorship by government

  
  Stars Over Washington — Authority: 132
  “When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, ‘This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know,’ the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been ...
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• Church Monuments

  
  Poems for All Occasions — Authority: 123
  While that my soul repairs to her devotion, Here I intomb my flesh, that it betimes May take acquaintance of this heap of dust ; To which the blast of death’s incessant motion, Fed with the exhalation of our crimes, Drives all at last. Therefore I gladly trust My body to this school, that it may learn ...
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• Alice in Bomberland – Sonic BOOM, Inc.

  
  Christopher Ross — Authority: 148
  #### Weve heard your requests for improvements to Alices user interface and we are submitting a major update in the next couple days!! ####Alice in Bomberland brings a new spin to the classical stories and characters from legendary author Lewis Carroll. Help Alice collect the missing pages of her story as she tries ...
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• Famous Quotes About Money and Investing From Philip Fisher

  
  Own The Dollar — Authority: 561
  I don’t want a lot of good investments; I want a few outstanding ones. If the job has been correctly done when a common stock is purchased, the time to sell it is almost never.” – Philip Fisher Fisher is a fan of owning just a few individual stocks.  He was under the impression that if you screened your ...
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• In the words of a football coach, philosopher, father…

  
  Front Row Washington — Authority: 693
  At the start of  Sarah Palin’s “Going Rogue,” before the words begin, there’s a map: “The View from the Top of the World.” It shows Alaska closer to the center of the top of the world than Washington, D.C. — deliberate perhaps? Then wandering through the book, the quotes at the start of each chapter ...
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• SOAPBOX of the week: pitch in to get paid back

  
  Pure Soapbox — Authority: 108
  “Service is the rent you pay for room on this earth.”     – Shirley Chisholm, Congresswoman, educator & author Fifty bucks says, many of you would have laughed this one off when you were the omniscient age of 18, and assumed it was one of your parent’s devious mantras.  That self-centered mentality ...
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• How to have a New Year free of stress

  
  mypurpleblog.com — Authority: 104
  Hello lovely people The year 2010 will ring in a new decade. What happened to your New Year’s resolutions for last year?  Can you remember how long they lasted?  And can you remember how you felt when you realised that you had failed in keeping them?  You failed yourself. Why did you make those resolutions in ...
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• Pay Attention to the Miracle: Inspirational Quote

  
  Beautiful Summer Morning — Authority: 120
  Somewhere far off the silence rings with the crystal clarity of quicksilver. Beneath the sounds you can always find it…waiting for your touch…a touch that brings magic…a touch only you have…a touch of soul to soul. When you find that silence and it opens up like a flower to engulf you… you are there…sight ...
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• not-so-famous-quotes xii

  
  toomanytribbles — Authority: 134
  its a very very sad commentary on the values in our culture when shooting a ball into a basket is more laudable, more praiseworthy, more admirable and more rewarded than teasing out some fundamental truth about the natural world or finding a cure for AIDS or cancer. - one of a long series of poignant observations by ...
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• Famous Quotes About Money and Investing From Peter Lynch

  
  Own The Dollar — Authority: 561
  “If you’re prepared to invest in a company, then you ought to be able to explain why in simple language that a fifth grader could understand, and quickly enough so the fifth grader won’t get bored.” – Peter Lynch This is a big mistake that novice investors make.  You must know everything there is to ...
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• Some Famous Quotes on Vegetarian Diet

  
  1stAngel Arts Magazine — Authority: 154
  I’m not saying these justify anything. Just something to think about. Leonardo da Vinci Truely man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds theirs. We live by the death of others: we are burial places! I have from an early age abjured the use of meat, and the time will come when men such as I will ...
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• SOAPBOX of the week: elbow-greased responsibility

  
  Pure Soapbox — Authority: 108
  Folks, this is a snapshot of life’s self-inflicted aggravations…step back and look at the Bigger Picture and see how daily avoidance in responsibility breeds issues larger than society can handle.  Just think about it… “Our greatest weariness comes from work not done.”     – Eric Hoffer, social ...
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• Quote of the moment: Robert F. Kennedy, on what matters in economies

  
  Millard Fillmore's Bathtub — Authority: 500
  Cribbing completely from Harry Clarke (with a few corrections in the text) : Robert F. Kennedy speech at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, March 18, 1968 - Photo by George Silk, Time-Life Pictures/Getty Images RFK said this in 1968 .  In a speech I heard today it was quoted and it stirred me. Too much ...
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• Thomas Jefferson Quotes

  
  Heartfelt Homeschool — Authority: 120
  Wow... let us reflect on these quotes in light of all that is going on in our country today. "I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them." ~ Thomas Jefferson "To compel a man to furnish funds for the ...
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• Famous Quotes About Money and Investing From Charlie Munger

  
  Own The Dollar — Authority: 561
  “Anyone with an engineering frame of mind will look at [accounting standards] and want to throw up.” – Charlie Munger There are so many ways for companies to report different earnings on their Annual and Quarterly Reports than what is actually physically in the bank.  Generally Accepted Accounting ...
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• On the Late Massacre in Piedmont’

  
  Poems for All Occasions — Authority: 123
  Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold, Even them who kept thy truth so pure of old When all our fathers worshiped stocks and stones, Forget not: in thy book record their groans Who were thy sheep and in their ancient fold Slain by the bloody ...
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• SOAPBOX of the week: lose the crown, folks!

  
  Pure Soapbox — Authority: 108
  “Extremes meet, and there is no better example than the haughtiness of humility.”     - Ralph Waldo Emerson, philosopher and poet Aaah, the precariously transient state between humility and pride.  None of us are excluded from being that unconditionally-loved child who’s still starving for ...
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