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I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.'
Muhammad Ali

Life, Live, Training

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
Maya Angelou

Forget, Made, Learned

I believe in God, but not as one thing, not as an old man in the sky. I believe that what people call God is something in all of us. I believe that what Jesus and Mohammed and Buddha and all the rest said was right. It's just that the translations have gone wrong.
John Lennon

God, Jesus, Old

I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.
Muhammad Ali

Greatest, Before, Knew

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.
Maya Angelou

Mother, School, Ignorance

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

Drunk, Keep, Sober

It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first.
Ronald Reagan

Politics, Learned, Second

The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.
George Carlin

Time, Job, Someone

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.
Abraham Lincoln

Great, Men, True

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.
Abraham Lincoln

Best, Thought, Flower

Well done is better than well said.
Benjamin Franklin

Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent.
Victor Hugo

Music, Cannot, Impossible

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'
Abraham Lincoln

Time, Truth, Remember

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
Winston Churchill

Government, Democracy, Others

The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.
George Edward Moore

Men, Art, Alone

My mother said to me, 'If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the Pope.' Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.
Pablo Picasso

Mother, Soldier, Become

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know.
Mark Twain

Able, Answer, Gratified

When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.
Desmond Tutu

Eyes, Bible, Africa

I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough.
Mark Twain

Enough, Times, Embarrass

Number of people have said to me, after hearing your thinking, their mind becomes much more happier.
Dalai Lama

Mind, Thinking, After

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
Thomas Jefferson

History, Government, Him

What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.
Mark Twain

Good, Before, Knew

I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, 'Where's the self-help section?' She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose.
George Carlin

She, Purpose, Defeat

My psychiatrist told me I was crazy and I said I want a second opinion. He said okay, you're ugly too.
Rodney Dangerfield

Crazy, Opinion, Ugly

It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.
Hubert H. Humphrey

Life, Government, Children

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.
Oscar Wilde

Life, Beauty, Sympathy

I wrapped my Christmas presents early this year, but I used the wrong paper. See, the paper I used said 'Happy Birthday' on it. I didn't want to waste it so I just wrote 'Jesus' on it.
Demetri Martin

Birthday, Christmas, Happy

Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.
Ronald Reagan

Age, Judge, Once

In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
Benjamin Franklin

Death, Nothing, Except

Blake said that the body was the soul's prison unless the five senses are fully developed and open. He considered the senses the 'windows of the soul.' When sex involves all the senses intensely, it can be like a mystical experence.
Jim Morrison

Sex, Soul, Body

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