Quotes of Prominent - somelinesforyou

“ A good listener is not someone with nothing to say. A good listener is a good talker with a sore throat. ”

- Katharine Whitehorn

“ There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular is providence. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite. ”

- Victor Hugo

“ We're more popular than Jesus Christ now. I don't know which will go first; rock and roll or Christianity. ”

- John Lennon

“ Mr. Watson - come here - I want to see you. ”

- Alexander Graham Bell

“ The government must always be a step ahead of the popular movement. ”

- Count Boytzwnburg

“ Love your Neighbour; yet don't pull down your Hedge. ”

- Benjamin Franklin

“ For a sentence is not complete unless each word, once its syllables have been pronounced, gives way to make room for the next. ”

- St. Augustine

“ Reason can never be popular. Passions and feelings may become popular, but reason will always remain the sole property of a few eminent individuals. ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“ A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something. - Wilson Mizner. ”

- Wilson Mizner

“ Despite the high cost of living it remains a popular item. ”

- Unknown

“ Whatever the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve. ”

- Napoleon Hill

“ I made this letter very long, because I did not have the leisure to make it shorter. ”

- Blaise Pascal

“ As long as war is regarded as wicked it will always have its fascinations. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ I want to be famous everywhere. ”

- Luciano Pavarotti

“ Irish Fest is known at home in Ireland as one of the biggest and most popular celebrations of Irish culture anywhere in the world. ”

- Mary McAleese

“ The more laws and order are made prominent, The more thieves and robbers there will be. ”

- Lao tzu

“ Until the last 50 years the most prominent enthusiasts for a single European state were Napoleon and Hitler. ”

- Rod Martin

“ These are matters of external history. They are indeed prominent objects, often changing and giving a new direction to the current; but they tell us not why it flows onward and will ever flow. ”

- Jones Very

“ Beware of over-great pleasure in being popular or even beloved. ”

- Margaret Witter Fuller

“ It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ If love is blind, why is lingerie so popular? ”

- Unknown

“ A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something. ”

- Wilson Mizner

“ Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something. ”

- Edward M. Forster

“ Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad. ”

- A.A. Milne

“ Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad. ”

- A. A. Milne

“ A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he knows something. ”

- Wilson Mizner

“ We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Anyone who is popular is bound to be disliked. ”

- Yogi Berra

“ Great individuals are not only popular themselves, but they give popularity to whatever they touch. ”

- Unknown
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