Famous Quotes

After a hard day of basic training, you could eat a rattlesnake.
Elvis Presley

Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.
Elvis Presley

Every time I think that I’m getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.
Elvis Presley

From the time I was a kid, I always knew something was going to happen to me. Didn’t know exactly what.
Elvis Presley

I have no use for bodyguards, but I have very specific use for two highly trained certified public accountants.
Elvis Presley

I hope I didn’t bore you too much with my life story.
Elvis Presley

I like entertaining people. I really miss it.
Elvis Presley

Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.
Thomas A. Edison

There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.
Thomas A. Edison

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Thomas A. Edison

If I find 10,000 ways something won’t work, I haven’t failed. I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.
Thomas A. Edison

Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
Thomas A. Edison

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
Benjamin Franklin

A penny saved is a penny earned.
Benjamin Franklin

We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately.
Benjamin Franklin

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.
Benjamin Franklin

Well done is better than well said.
Benjamin Franklin

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.
Benjamin Franklin

When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it.
Benjamin Franklin

When in doubt, don’t.
Benjamin Franklin

When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart’s the last part moves, her last, the tongue.
Benjamin Franklin

A child miseducated is a child lost.
John F. Kennedy

A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on.
John F. Kennedy

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
John F. Kennedy

All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words “Ich bin ein Berliner!”
John F. Kennedy

America has tossed its cap over the wall of space.
John F. Kennedy

And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you ask what you can do for your country.
John F. Kennedy

Crikey means gee whiz, wow!
Steve Irwin

I am optimistic globally. So many scientists are working frantically on the reparation of our planet.
Steve Irwin

I believe our biggest issue is the same biggest issue that the whole world is facing, and that’s habitat destruction.
Steve Irwin

I’m a proud Australian, a very, very proud Australian.
Steve Irwin

I’ve probably saved thousands of peoples’ lives with my educational message on snake bites, how to get in around venomous anything.
Steve Irwin

Since I was a boy, from this house, I was out rescuing crocodiles and snakes. My mum and dad were very passionate about that and, I was lucky enough to go along.
Steve Irwin

I brought myself down. I impeached myself by resigning.
Richard M. Nixon

Defeat doesn’t finish a man, quit does. A man is not finished when he’s defeated. He’s finished when he quits.
Richard M. Nixon

Don’t get the impression that you arouse my anger. You see, one can only be angry with those he respects.
Richard M. Nixon

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.
Richard M. Nixon

I am not a crook.
Richard M. Nixon

I wish I could give you a lot of advice, based on my experience of winning political debates. But I don’t have that experience. My only experience is at losing them.
Richard M. Nixon

All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
Abraham Lincoln

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?
Abraham Lincoln

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
Abraham Lincoln

Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me best that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
Abraham Lincoln

Everybody likes a compliment.
Abraham Lincoln

I care not much for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
Abraham Lincoln

“For every fatal shooting, there were roughly three non-fatal shootings. And, folks, this is unacceptable in America. It’s just unacceptable. And we’re going to do something about it.”
George W Bush

“I’m the master of low expectations.”
George W Bush

“I know what I believe. I will continue to articulate what I believe and what I believe — I believe what I believe is right.”
George W Bush

Freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward, and freedom will be defended.
George W Bush

I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman
George W Bush

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
Winston Churchill

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.
Winston Churchill

Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others.
Winston Churchill

Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.
Winston Churchill

History is written by the victors.
Winston Churchill

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
Winston Churchill

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
Winston Churchill

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
Charles Darwin

An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
Charles Darwin

I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.
Charles Darwin

I love fools’ experiments. I am always making them.
Charles Darwin

How paramount the future is to the present when one is surrounded by children.
Charles Darwin