Over 40,000 Famous Quotes Sorted By Topic and Author

The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon. -- Sir John Eric Ericksen, British surgeon, appointed Surgeon-Extraordinary to Queen Victoria 1873.

I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not Gary Cooper. -- Gary Cooper, on his decision to not take the leading role in Gone With The Wind.

If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this. -- Spencer Silver on the work that led to the unique adhesives for 3-M Post-It Notepads.

Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction. -- Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, 1872.

Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau. -- Irving Fisher, Professor of Economics, Yale University, 1929.

Everything that can be invented has been invented. -- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899.

Who the hell wants to hear actors talk? -- H.M. Warner, Warner Brothers, 1927.

The opera isn't over till the fat lady sings. - "The Washington Post", June 13, 1978.

The future is just old age and illness and pain.... I must have peace and this is the only way.

Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible. -- Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895.

I am still progressing.

No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris. -- Orville Wright.

What we know is not much; what we do not know is immense.

Dear World, I am leaving you because I am bored. I feel I have lived long enough. I am leaving you with your worries in this sweet cesspool - good luck.

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

To Harald, may God forgive you and forgive me too but I prefer to take my life away and our baby's before I bring him with shame or killing him, Lupe.

A-four and a-three and a-two and a-one...

Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life.

Better is the sinner who hath thoughts about God, than the saint who hath only the show of sanctity.

Death is a law and not a punishment. Three things ought to console us for giving up life; the friends whom we have lost, the few persons worth of being loved whom we leave behind us, and finally the memory of our stupidities and the assurance that they are now going to stop.