Do you know any unknown meaningful quotes by someone important to literature?

Question

i need serious help!! i can't find any!

stupid english teacher! didn't like my dr. suess quote :D

Answer 1

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

Mark Twain

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.

Mark Twain

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

Mark Twain

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.

Mark Twain

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.

Mark Twain

Go to Heaven for the climate, h**l for the company.

Mark Twain

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.

Mark Twain

If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way.

Mark Twain

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.

Mark Twain

Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.

Mark Twain

'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.

Mark Twain  

Answer 2

Folks important to literature don't have many unknown meaningful quotations.  The best way to find one is to read someone important to literature and pick out something meaningful to you that isn't in the standard sources for quotations.  The bad news is that this takes some effort.  The good news is that the best writers have something you can quote on nearly every page.

Taking that as a cue, I spent ten minutes browsing in Daniel Defoe and found this bit of cynical wisdom:

"Oh, what a felicity is it to mankind, said I to myself, that they cannot see into the hearts of one another."

Answer 3

“There is not room for Death, / Nor atom that his might could render void: / Thou - Thou art Being and Breath, / And what Thou art may never be destroyed.” - Emily Bronte

“When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain” - Mark Twain

“Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth.” - Mark Twain

“The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love” - William Wordsworth

“Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.” - William Butler Yeats

Answer 4

Here is one that your English teacher has never heard:

"It is now the moment when by common consent we pause to become conscious of our national life and to rejoice in it, to recall what our country has done for each of us, and to ask ourselves what we can do for our country in return."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

Quoted in Tom Clancy's "Executive Orders," p. 875.

Also,

"Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country."

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

President of the United States of America, and author of "Profiles in Courage.

Give her both versions!

Regards,

Dan

PS I suggest that you read more. Knowledge is power. If you need to read to babies, the are just as content to have classics read to them as baby books. You will learn as you read to them, too.

Answer 5

candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker

-the fabulous poet odgen nash :D

Answer 6

www.thesimplestencil.com

They have some quotes by many famous authors...you may try them.

Here is a link to a page that has many authors listed.

http://www.thesimplestencil.com/catalog/...

Good Luck.

Answer 7

"Take away love and our earth is a tomb"

- Robert Browning (an English poet)