Thursday 25 August 2011

Molli Quotes Things

Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
Voltaire

Behind every successful man stands a surprised mother-in-law.
Voltaire

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.
Benjamin Franklin

I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.
Benjamin Franklin

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
Mark Twain

The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.
Mark Twain

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.
Mark Twain

Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say "infinitely" when you mean "very"; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
C. S. Lewis

Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
C. S. Lewis

1 comment:

  1. IT'S MOLLIE'S FREAKING BIRTHDAY! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

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