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”

• SOAPBOX of the week: elbow-greased responsibility

  
  Pure Soapbox — Authority: 106
  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: 555
  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 ...
  2 days ago

• Thomas Jefferson Quotes

  
  Heartfelt Homeschool — Authority: 114
  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 ...
  5 days ago

• Famous Quotes About Money and Investing From Charlie Munger

  
  Own The Dollar — Authority: 568
  “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 ...
  5 days ago

• On the Late Massacre in Piedmont’

  
  Poems for All Occasions — Authority: 114
  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 ...
  6 days ago

• SOAPBOX of the week: lose the crown, folks!

  
  Pure Soapbox — Authority: 106
  “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 ...
  1 week ago

• Lies Or Errors, It Really Doesn’t Matter

  
  Making Money Online — Authority: 123
  “In the simplicity of their minds, people more readily fall victims to the big lie than the small lie, since they themselves often tell small lies in little matters but would be ashamed to resort to large-scale falsehoods. It would never come into their heads to fabricate colossal untruths, and they would not ...
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• A Thought From Oppenheimer: Physics and the Buddha

  
  TOG, Thoughts On God — Authority: 124
  Quotes and sayings from booksJulius Robert Oppenheimer: Physics and the Buddha” The general notions about human understanding which are illustrated by discoveries in atomic physics are not in the nature of things wholly unfamiliar, wholly unheard of, or new. Even in our own culture they have a history, and in ...
  1 week ago

• Cowboy Wisdom 49

  
  Nepotism Ranch — Authority: 532
    Courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyway.
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• Cowboy Wisdom 49

  
  Nepotism Ranch — Authority: 532
    Courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyway.
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• Happy Halloween

  
  Nepotism Ranch — Authority: 532
  If you ain’t got no apples, bob for what you can get. Dopey
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• Happy Halloween

  
  Nepotism Ranch — Authority: 532
  If you ain’t got no apples, bob for what you can get. Dopey
  1 week ago

• SOAPBOX of the week: ode to Halloween

  
  Pure Soapbox — Authority: 106
  Folks, this was one of the very first SOAPBOX® vignettes launched on the site… but it bears repeating!  As kiddos, we’re constantly told to “GROW UP!”… but as adults we truly need to LIGHTEN UP and recognize what fun can still look like !  The upcoming holiday of dressing up for no damn reason and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Cowboy Wisdom 48

  
  Nepotism Ranch — Authority: 532
  Sure you can trust the Government, ask any Indian.
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• Quote of the moment: Eric Blair (”George Orwell”) on lies becoming history

  
  Millard Fillmore's Bathtub — Authority: 555
  George Orwell (Eric Blair) on cover of Time Magazine, Novmber 28, 1983 And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth. ‘Who controls the past’ ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Famous Quotes About Money And Investing From Adam Smith The Father of Capitalism

  
  Own The Dollar — Authority: 568
  “Labor was the first price, the original purchase – money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labor, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.” – Adam Smith The greatest advantage that we have with our money is the power to earn more of it in the future.  ...
  2 weeks ago

• Cowboy Wisdom 47

  
  Nepotism Ranch — Authority: 532
  Don’t wake a sleepin’ Rattler.
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• All The World’s a Stage And On It The Balloon Boy’s Family Are Stars

  
  Politics 24/7 — Authority: 502
      All the world’s a stage, and on it we no longer live reality.  Today fiction does not imitate reality.  Today we tend to make reality imitate fiction. Assholes Richard and Mayumi Heene with their props, Uh , I mean kids. Case in point: As a national watched this silver, Jiffy Pop shaped balloon ...
  3 weeks ago

• SOAPBOX of the week: read between the lines

  
  Pure Soapbox — Authority: 106
  “The advertisement is the most truthful part of the newspaper.”     – Thomas Jefferson, U.S. President You  heard me correctly.  Businesses openly tell us:  Yup, we plunked down a bunch of cash for a flashy ad to sell you something.  Yes, there might be some strings attached…but at least we’ve ...
  3 weeks ago

• Monday Morning Links – 19th October

  
  How to Manage a Camel - Project Management and Recruitment — Authority: 123
  I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that’s when something snaps up and bites you. -Neil Armstrong Our heads are swelling with all the commentary and songs of praise for the Monday Morning Links, and this being week three of that experiment no less! I think we ...
  3 weeks ago

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