Unknown Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

3,397 Famous Quotes by Unknown
“A poet is someone who is astonished by everything.”
Poetry Quotes
“Poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious attention than history.”
Poetry Quotes
“A king ruleth as he ought, a tyrant as he lists, a king to the profit of all, a tyrant only to please a few.”
Tyranny Quotes
“No tyrant need fear till men begin to feel confident in each other.”
Tyranny Quotes
“Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.”
Chastity Quotes
“Half this game is ninety percent mental.”
Effort Quotes
“Each man is the smith of his own fortune.”
Effort Quotes
“When you do the common things in life in an uncommon way, you will command the attention of the world.”
Effort Quotes
“If you are going through hell, keep going.”
Effort Quotes
“A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life depend on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.”
Effort Quotes
“Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.”
Effort Quotes
“There is an enormous number of managers who have retired on the job.”
Retirement Quotes
“My valet-de-chambre sings me no such song.”
Heroes Quotes
“Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind.”
Nationalism Quotes
“And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizend of the world: ask not what American will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.”
Nationalism Quotes
“Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence in society.”
Clothes Quotes
“Man is troubled not by events, but by the meaning he gives them.”
Events Quotes
“Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.”
Bugs Quotes
“Dead on the field of honour.”
Honor Quotes
“We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also.”
Teaching Quotes
“It has been well said that "the arch-flatterer with whom all the petty flatterers have intelligence is a man's self."”
Flattery Quotes
“Tush! Tush! my lassie, such thoughts resigne, Comparisons are cruele: Fine pictures suit in frames as fine, Consistencie's a jewell. For thee and me coarse cloathes are best, Rude folks in homelye raiment drest, Wife Joan and goodman Robin.”
Consistency Quotes
Source: Jolly Robyn-Roughhead, fake ballad appeared in American Newspaper
“Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself.”
Columbus Quotes
“We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?”
Theories Quotes
“No one loves the man whom he fears.”
Fear Quotes
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