Popular Quotes

If you would be loved, love and be lovable. - Benjamin Franklin I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have. - Abraham Lincoln Home is the place, when you have to go there, they have to take you in. - Robert Frost One man who has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't. - George Bernard Shaw The language of friendship is not words, but meanings. - Henry David Thoreau The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end. - Benjamin Disraeli

Most people go on living their everyday life: frightened, half indifferent, they behold the ghostly tragi-comedy that has been performed on the international stage before the eyes and ears of the world.

- Albert Einstein

We are, in truth, more than a half of what we are by imitation.

- Lord Chesterfield

When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.

- Eric Hoffer

Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those whom we cannot resemble.

- Samuel Johnson

There is a difference between imitating a good man and counterfeiting him.

- Benjamin Franklin

Every man is a borrower and a mimic; life is theatrical and literature a quotation.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

We do not imitate, but are a model to others.

- Pericles

The crow that mimics a cormorant gets drowned.

- Japanese proverb

We love in others what we lack ourselves, and would be everything but what we are.

- R. H. Stoddard

Immature poets imitate: mature poets steal.

- Philip Massinger

Agesilaus, the Spartan king, was once invited to hear a mimic imitate the nightingale, but declined with the comment that he had heard the nightingale itself.

- Plutarch

Fewer things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example.

- Mark Twain

Imitation is the sincerest (form) of flattery.

- Walter Colton

It is impossible to imitate Voltaire without being Voltaire.

- Frederick the Great

He who imitates what is evil always goes beyond the example that is set; on the contrary, he who imitates what is good always falls short.

- Francesco Guicciardini

A good imitation is the most perfect originality.

- Voltaire