Famous Quotes by Famous (and sometimes not so famous) Authors

“As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents.”
―George Orwell

“Money is kind of a base subject. Like water, food, air and housing, it affects everything yet for some reason the world of academics thinks it's a subject below their social standing.”
―Robert Kiyosaki

“If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.”
―James Dean

Source/Notes:
As quoted in: "Boulevard of broken dreams: the life, times, and legend of James Dean" (Plume, 1997) by Paul Alexander, p. 71 - ISBN: 9780452278400. Also in: "Rebels united: James Dean, the enduring reality" (Brean-Jones Pub. Co., 1984) by Joel Brean, p. 133. And also in: "Rebels: The Rebel Hero in Films" (Citadel Press, 1973 ) by Joe Morella, Edward Z. Epstein, p. 91 - ISBN: 9780806503608

“Everything goes by the board: honor, pride, decency to get the book written.”
―William Faulkner

“If it doesn't matter who wins or loses, then why do they keep score?”
―Vince Lombardi

“Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.”
―George Santayana

Source/Notes:
The Life of Reason (1905-1906), Vol. V, Reason in Science, Chapter VIII

“I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want.”
―Jean Racine

“Christ's crucifix shall be made an excuse for executing criminals.”
―William Blake

“No one ever reached the worst of a vice at one leap.”
―Juvenal

“We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after some minutes, my eyes had not been able to discern even the faintest glimmer.”
―Jules Verne

“As great as kings may be, they are what we are: they can err like other men.”
―Pierre Corneille

“It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.”
―Epicurus

“An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.”
―François-René de Chateaubriand

“A mother's life, you see, is one long succession of dramas, now soft and tender, now terrible. Not an hour but has its joys and fears.”
―Honore de Balzac

“Experts often possess more data than judgment.”
―Colin Powell

Source/Notes:
My American Journey (2010 edition), Ballantine Books - ISBN: 9780307763686

“A war between Europeans is a civil war.”
―Victor Hugo

“An Indian philosopher, being asked what were, according to his opinion, the two most beautiful things in the universe, answered: The starry heavens above our heads, and the feeling of duty in our hearts.”
―Jacques Bossuet

Source/Notes:
As quoted in: "Treasury of Thought: Forming an Encyclopædia of Quotations from Ancient and Modern Authors" (J. R. Osgood and Company, 1872), p. 48