A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.
Bob Dylan

A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.
Bob Dylan

A poem is a naked person... Some people say that I am a poet.
Bob Dylan

A song is anything that can walk by itself.
Bob Dylan

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.
Bob Dylan

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.
Bob Dylan

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.
Bob Dylan

Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.
Bob Dylan

Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.
Bob Dylan

But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.
Bob Dylan

Chaos is a friend of mine.
Bob Dylan

Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.
Bob Dylan

Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and there's lost people.
Bob Dylan

He not busy being born is busy dying.
Bob Dylan

I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.
Bob Dylan


I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.
Bob Dylan

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.
Bob Dylan

I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusions that can manipulate you into thinking theres some kind of change.
Bob Dylan

I have dined with kings, I've been offered wings. And I've never been too impressed.
Bob Dylan

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.
Bob Dylan

I say there're no depressed words just depressed minds.
Bob Dylan


I'm just glad to be feeling better. I really thought I'd be seeing Elvis soon.
Bob Dylan

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" I am most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Women's Rights', with all its attendant horrors, on which her poor feeble sex is bent, forgetting every sense of womanly feelings and propriety. Feminists ought to get a good whipping. Were woman to 'unsex' themselves by claiming equality with men, they would become the most hateful, heathen and disgusting of beings and would surely perish without male protection."

- Queen Victoria

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How times change....

Presumably Queen Victoria didn't give much interest to the rights of Indians and other parts of the British Empire.

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“One life is all we have and we live it as we believe in living it. But to sacrifice what you are and to live without belief, that is a fate more terrible than dying.”

- Joan of Arc

Because Joan of Arc's trial was recorded we have a unique access to the direct words of Joan. These words were written under the stress of trial, but they show tremendous bravery, faith and determination.

It is worth remembering that during the trial Joan faced:
Imprisonment by English soldiers, who at at times threatened to mistreat her.
Although she was never tortured at one time she was led into the torture room
She had no independent counsel.
All those in the room were expected to find her guilty

Despite facing almost certain death at the stake, her written words display a remarkable presence of mind given her circumstances and age (only 19)

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"My Jesus, mercy" Al Capone

" The best is yet to come."
Frank Sinatra

"This is the last of Earth! I am content!"
John Quincy Adams (1767 - 1848)

"A tomb now suffices him for whom the world was not enough"
Alexander the Great

"Well this was fun, let's do it again sometime."
Quniaron Bellthing (1930-2004)

"Truth and History. 21 Men. The Boy Bandit King. He Died As He Lived. William H. Bonney 'Billy the Kid'"
Billy the Kid (unknown)

· "That's all, folks!"
Mel Blanc (the epitaph is the trademark line of cartoon character Porky Pig, whose voice was provided by Blanc for many years)

"I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter."

Winston Churchill

"She did it the hard way"
Bette Davis

"Nothing's So Sacred As Honour And Nothing's So Loyal As Love"
Wyatt Earp

· "I had a lover's quarrel with the world"
Robert Frost

· "Cast a cold eye On life, on death. Horseman, pass by!"
W. B. Yeats

"Hey Ram" (Translated "Oh, God")
Mahatma Gandhi

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"Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to
remain cool and unruffled under all circumstances."

"I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it."

"The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it."

"The policy of the American government is to leave their citizens free, neither restraining nor aiding them in their pursuits."

"No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another, and this is all from which the laws ought to restrain him."

"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty."

"Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear."

"The god who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time: the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them."

"In matters of style, swim with the current;
In matters of principle, stand like a rock."

"What country can preserve its liberties if its rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? "

"I have sworn on the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."

"I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others."

"I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."

"Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one. "

- Thomas Jefferson

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"I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person."

"I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true."

"People associate me with a time when movies were pleasant, when women wore pretty dresses in films and you heard beautiful music. I always love it when people write me and and say 'I was having a rotten time, and I walked into a cinema and saw one of your movies, and it made such a difference.'"

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Thomas Jefferson left a profound mark on America and her constitution. Jefferson was a deep thinker who contemplated many areas of social, religious and political importance. It is clear from his thoughts that Jefferson was an independently minded thinker who took nothing for granted and sought to seek the truth, devoid of intolerance, bigotry and prejudice.

"Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom."

Thomas Jefferson

" I do not believe war the most certain means of enforcing principles. Those peaceable coercions which are in the power of every nation, if undertaken in concert and in time of peace, are more likely to produce the desired effect."

"I cannot live without books."

Thomas Jefferson

"I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it."

Thomas Jefferson


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