Best Famous Quotes by: Edgard Varese, Doug Vargas, John Varley, Marcus Terentius Varro, Bill Vaughan, Harry Vaughan, Marquis de Vauvenargues, Thorstein Veblen, Carl Van Vechten, Rig Veda, Bill Veeck, Vegetius, Ken Venturi, Louis Vermeil, Jules Verne, Marie De Vichy-Chaconne, Lou Vickery, Gore Vidal, Alfred Victor Vigny, Pancho Villa, Claude Louis Hector de Villars, Francois Villon, Joan Vinge, Judith Viorst, Rudolf Virchow, Virgil, Virginia, David Viscott, Swami Vivekananda, and Stephen Vizinczey

Best Edgard Varese Quotes: The most famous quotes by Edgard Varese

Everyone is born with genius, but most people only keep it a few minutes. — Edgard Varese

Best Doug Vargas Quotes: The most famous quotes by Doug Vargas

It’s easy to cry ‘bug’ when the truth is that you’ve got a complex system and sometimes it takes a while to get all the components to co-exist peacefully. — Doug Vargas

Best John Varley Quotes: The most famous quotes by John Varley

Never trust anybody who says ‘trust me.’ Except just this once, of course. – from Steel Beach — John Varley

Best Marcus Terentius Varro Quotes: The most famous quotes by Marcus Terentius Varro

The longest part of the journey is said to be the passing of the gate. — Marcus Terentius Varro

The number of guests at dinner should not be less than the number of the Graces nor exceed that of the Muses, i.e., it should begin with three and stop at nine. — Marcus Terentius Varro

Best Bill Vaughan Quotes: The most famous quotes by Bill Vaughan

A three-year-old child is a being who gets almost as much fun out of a fifty-six dollar set of swings as it does out of finding a small green worm. — Bill Vaughan

We learn something every day, and lots of times it’s that what we learned the day before was wrong. — Bill Vaughan

Economists report that a college education adds many thousands of dollars to a man’s lifetime income — which he then spends sending his son to college. — Bill Vaughan

Money won’t buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem. — Bill Vaughan

Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them. — Bill Vaughan

Maybe the answer to Selective Service is to start everyone off in the army and draft them for civilian life as needed. — Bill Vaughan

The Vice Presidency is sort of like the last cookie on the plate. Everybody insists he won’t take it, but somebody always does. — Bill Vaughan

People learn something every day, and a lot of times it’s that what they learned the day before was wrong. — Bill Vaughan

Retirement, we understand, is great if you are busy, rich, and healthy. But then, under those conditions, work is great too. — Bill Vaughan

If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it’s another nonconformist who doesn’t conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity. — Bill Vaughan

A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won’t cross the street to vote in a national election. — Bill Vaughan

Best Harry Vaughan Quotes: The most famous quotes by Harry Vaughan

If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. — Harry Vaughan

Best Marquis de Vauvenargues Quotes: The most famous quotes by Marquis de Vauvenargues

Hatred of dishonesty generally arises from fear of being deceived. — Marquis de Vauvenargues

To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die. — Marquis de Vauvenargues

It is not true that equality is a law of nature. Nature has no equality. Its soverign law is subordination and dependence. — Marquis de Vauvenargues

When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, simply drop it. — Marquis de Vauvenargues

Best Thorstein Veblen Quotes: The most famous quotes by Thorstein Veblen

Conspicuous consumption of valuable goods is a means of reputability to the gentleman of leisure. — Thorstein Veblen

The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before. — Thorstein Veblen

No one travelling on a business trip would be missed if he failed to arrive. — Thorstein Veblen

Invention is the mother of necessity. — Thorstein Veblen

Best Carl Van Vechten Quotes: The most famous quotes by Carl Van Vechten

There are two kinds of people in this world, those who long to be understood and those who long to be misunderstood. It is the irony of life that neither is gratified. — Carl Van Vechten

Best Rig Veda Quotes: The most famous quotes by Rig Veda

Wake up with one mind, my friends, and kindle the fire, you many who share the same nest. Make your thoughts harmonious stretch them on the loom make a ship whose oars will carry us across. — Rig Veda

Let the stronger man give to the man whose need is greater let him gaze upon the lengthening path of life. For riches roll like the wheels of a chariot, turning from one to another. — Rig Veda

Best Bill Veeck Quotes: The most famous quotes by Bill Veeck

Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can’t get you off. — Bill Veeck

I have discovered, in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats. — Bill Veeck

Best Vegetius Quotes: The most famous quotes by Vegetius

Let him who desires peace prepare for war. — Vegetius

Best Ken Venturi Quotes: The most famous quotes by Ken Venturi

1. Never tell everything at once. — Ken Venturi

Best Louis Vermeil Quotes: The most famous quotes by Louis Vermeil

The prime purpose of eloquence is to keep other people from talking. — Louis Vermeil

Best Jules Verne Quotes: The most famous quotes by Jules Verne

Whatever one man is capable of conceiving, other men will be able to achieve. — Jules Verne

Best Marie De Vichy-Chaconne Quotes: The most famous quotes by Marie De Vichy-Chaconne

It is only the first step that is difficult. — Marie De Vichy-Chaconne

Best Lou Vickery Quotes: The most famous quotes by Lou Vickery

Nothing average ever stood as a monument to progress. When progress is for a partner it doesn’t turn to those who believe that they are only average. It turns instead to those who are forever searching and striving to become the best they possibly can. If we seek the average level, we cannot hope to achieve a higher level of success. Our only hope is to avoid being a failure. — Lou Vickery

Best Gore Vidal Quotes: The most famous quotes by Gore Vidal

The more money an American accumulates, the less interesting he becomes. — Gore Vidal

Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates. — Gore Vidal

The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along, paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return. — Gore Vidal

Of ex-President Eisenhower at the Republican convention of 1964 Reading a speech with his usual sense of discovery. — Gore Vidal

Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half. — Gore Vidal

Teaching has ruined more American novelists than drink. — Gore Vidal

Today’s public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can’t read them either. — Gore Vidal

Never have children, only grandchildren. — Gore Vidal

Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so. — Gore Vidal

Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say and not giving a damn. — Gore Vidal

I’m a born-again atheist. — Gore Vidal

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail. — Gore Vidal

A good deed never goes unpunished. — Gore Vidal

There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise. — Gore Vidal

Best Alfred Victor Vigny Quotes: The most famous quotes by Alfred Victor Vigny

Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age. — Alfred Victor Vigny

Above all, we must abolish hope in the heart of man. A calm despair, without angry convulsions, without reproaches to Heaven, is the essence of wisdom. — Alfred Victor Vigny

Perform your long and heavy task with energy, treading the path to which Fate has been pleased to call you. — Alfred Victor Vigny

The true God, the mighty God, is the God of ideas. — Alfred Victor Vigny

Fainthearted animals move about in herds. The lion walks alone in the desert. Let the poet always walk thus. — Alfred Victor Vigny

Every man has seen the wall that limits his mind. — Alfred Victor Vigny

Best Pancho Villa Quotes: The most famous quotes by Pancho Villa

Don’t let it end like this. Tell them I said something. — Pancho Villa

Best Claude Louis Hector de Villars Quotes: The most famous quotes by Claude Louis Hector de Villars

God save me from my friends. I can protect myself from my enemies. — Claude Louis Hector de Villars

Best Francois Villon Quotes: The most famous quotes by Francois Villon

I know all except myself. — Francois Villon

Best Joan Vinge Quotes: The most famous quotes by Joan Vinge

Indifference is the strongest force in the universe. It makes everything it touches meaningless. Love and hate don’t stand a chance against it. — Joan Vinge

Best Judith Viorst Quotes: The most famous quotes by Judith Viorst

But it’s hard to be hip over thirty When everyone else is nineteen, When the last dance we learned was the Lindy, And the last we heard, girls who looked like Barbra Streisand Were trying to do something about it. — Judith Viorst

One advantage of marriage, it seems to me, is that when you fall out of love with him, or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you maybe fall in love again. — Judith Viorst

Best Rudolf Virchow Quotes: The most famous quotes by Rudolf Virchow

The task of science is to stake out the limits of the knowable, and to center consciousness within them. — Rudolf Virchow

Best Virgil Quotes: The most famous quotes by Virgil

Do not trust the horse, Trojans Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks, even though they bring gifts. — Virgil

Nunc scio quit sit amor. — Virgil

Oh you who are born of the blood of the gods, Trojan son of Anchises, easy is the descent to Hell the door of dark Dis stands open day and night. But to retrace your steps and come out to the air above, that is work, that is labor — Virgil

Perhaps even these things, one day, will be pleasing to remember. — Virgil

Lat., Now I know what love is. — Virgil

Latet anguis in herba. (There’s a snake hidden in the grass) — Virgil

This quote reminds me to enjoy each moment of the summer Steep thyself in a bowl of summertime. — Virgil

As the twig is bent the tree inclines. — Virgil

It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep may be. — Virgil

The gates of hell are open, night and day Smooth the descent, and easy the way. — Virgil

All these souls, after they have passed away a thousand years, are summoned by the divine ones in great array, to the lethean river. . .In this way they become forgetful of the former earthlife, and re-visit the vaulted realms of the world, willing to return again into living bodies. — Virgil

Possunt quia posse videntur. (They can because they think they can, from The Aeneid) — Virgil

Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit (Perhaps it will be pleasing sometime to have remembered these things, from The Aeneid) — Virgil

They are able because they think they are able. — Virgil

I feel again a spark of that ancient flame. — Virgil

Love begets love, love knows no rules, this is the same for all. — Virgil

Love conquers all things let us too surrender to Love. — Virgil

Audentis Fortuna iuvat. (Fortune assists the bold) also Fortune favors the bold. — Virgil

Each man is led by his own liking. — Virgil

Look with favour upon a bold beginning. — Virgil

Death’s brother, Sleep. — Virgil

Believe one who has proved it. Believe an expert. — Virgil

In quarrels such as these not ours to intervene. — Virgil

Each of us bears his own Hell. — Virgil

Your descendants shall gather your fruits. — Virgil

They can do all because they think they can. — Virgil

They can conquer who believe they can. — Virgil

O tyrant love, to what do you not drive the hearts of men. — Virgil

Practice and thought might gradually forge many an art. — Virgil

Trust one who has gone through it. — Virgil

A snake lurks in the grass. — Virgil

Whatever it is, I fear Greeks even when they bring gifts. — Virgil

Yield not to evils, but attack all the more boldly. — Virgil

Fortune favors the brave. — Virgil

It is easy to go down into Hell night and day, the gates of dark Death stand wide but to climb back again, to retrace one’s steps to the upper air – there’s the rub, the task. — Virgil

Let us go singing as far as we go the road will be less tedious. — Virgil

I have known sorrow and learned to aid the wretched. — Virgil

Best Virginia Quotes: The most famous quotes by Virginia

The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder. — Virginia

If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it at all. — Virginia

Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires I have lost friends, some by death others through sheer inability to cross the street. — Virginia

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government. — Virginia

On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points. — Virginia

Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded. — Virginia

For most of history, Anonymous was a woman. — Virginia

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them. — Virginia

One likes people much better when they’re battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph. — Virginia

If we didn’t live venturously, plucking the wild goat by the beard, and trembling over precipices, we should never be depressed, I’ve no doubt but already should be faded, fatalistic and aged. — Virginia

The first duty of a lecturer to hand you after an hour’s discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks, and keep on the mantlepiece forever. — Virginia

I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street. — Virginia

Some people go to priests others to poetry I to my friends. — Virginia

Arrange whatever pieces come your way. — Virginia

These are the soul’s changes. I don’t believe in ageing. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism. — Virginia

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. — Virginia

It is just when opinions universally prevail and we have added lip service to their authority that we become sometimes most keenly conscious that we do not believe a word that we are saying. — Virginia

Best David Viscott Quotes: The most famous quotes by David Viscott

To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again. — David Viscott

In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try. — David Viscott

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. — David Viscott

Best Swami Vivekananda Quotes: The most famous quotes by Swami Vivekananda

Three things are necessary to make every man great,every nation great1.Conviction of the powers of goodness.2.Absence of jealousy and suspicion.3.Helping all who are trying to be and do good. — Swami Vivekananda

This world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong. — Swami Vivekananda

Purity,patience, and preserverance are the three essentials to success, and above all love. — Swami Vivekananda

Best Stephen Vizinczey Quotes: The most famous quotes by Stephen Vizinczey

Strange as it seems, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it. — Stephen Vizinczey

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