The Great Sayings by the Famous and not so Famous.

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
― Winston Churchill

“If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. No use being a damn fool about it.”
― W.C. Fields
 
“A Penny Saved is a Penny Earned”
― Benjamin Franklin

“When someone asks you, a penny for your thoughts, and you put your two cents in, what happens to the other penny?”
― George Carlin
 
“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down ‘happy’. They told me I didn’t understand the assignment, and I told them they didn’t understand life.”
― John Lennon

“There's no bitch on earth like a mother frightened for her kids.”
― Stephen King
 
“I drink to make other people more interesting.”
― Ernest Hemingway o_0

“Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.”
― Ernest Hemingway o_0

“An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.”
― Ernest Hemingway :p
 
“It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.”
― Ernest Hemingway
 
"We think sometimes that poverty is only being hungry, naked and homeless. The poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty. We must start in our own homes to remedy this kind of poverty."
- Mother Teresa

"I was going to be homeless at one time, a taxi driver, truck driver, or any kind of job that would get me a crust of bread. You never know what's going to happen."
- Morgan Freeman
 
God

“Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous.”
― Albert Einstein, The World as I See It

“I know God won't give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much.”
― Mother Teresa

“God created war so that Americans would learn geography.”
― Mark Twain
 
Hell

“The road to hell is paved with adverbs.”
― Stephen King, On Writing

“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest
 
Guns


“A free people ought...to be armed”
― George Washington

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron.”
― Dwight D. Eisenhower
 
Little Boys:

“Speak roughly to your little boy
and beat him when he sneezes!
he only does it to annoy,
because he knows it teases!”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

“I am only 8 years old, I told myself. No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone. It's not possible.”
― Roald Dahl
 

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