Unattributed Quotes
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If the truth were a palpable object, it would be a modeling clay.
André Dahmer, in the Brazilian webcomic Malvados 
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Pale, mournful flower, that hidest in shade Mid dewy damps and murky glade, With moss and mould, Why dost thou hang thy ghastly head, So sad and cold?
Unattributed— Catherine E. Beecher, To the Monotropa, or Ghost Flower.
Romance is the poetry of literature.
Unattributed— Madame Necker.
The Macedonian kings, who maintained that their Greek ancestry traced back to Zeus, had long given homes and patronage to Greece's most distinguished artists.
Unattributed— Robin Lane Fox, "Alexander the Great", p.48
There is not a moral evil which has not its infallible antidote, nor any moral virtue which has not its spring and sustenance in Jesus Christ and Him crucified. To apprehend Him with every faculty of the mind, and with every affection of the heart, and to grow daily in that apprehension, is to emerge from every thing that enthralls, to surmount all that can contaminate.
Unattributed— Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 96.
The story of Ramachandra, as narrated in the Valmiki Ramayan and the Adhyatma Ramayan, after reinforcing and revitalizing it with the essence of whatever the Puranas , the Vedas , and other scriptures could give, I, Tulsidas, am writing for the delight of my own soul .
Unattributed— In the invocation of his epic poetry of Ramacharitamanas. Quoted in "A Garden of Deeds: Ramacharitmanas, a Message of Human Ethics", p.91
Extreme Programming is the most prominent new, light-weight (or agile) methods, defined to contrast the current heavy-weight and partially overloaded object-oriented methods. It focuses on the core issues of software technology. One of its principles is not to rely on diagrams to document a system.
Unattributed— Bernhard Rumpe (2002). "Executable Modeling with UML. A vision or a Nightmare." Issues & Trends of Information Technology Management in Contemporary Associations. p. 697
It's The Eye Of The Tiger It's the thrill of The Fight! Standing up to the challenge of your rival.
Unattributed— Survivor, "Eye of the Tiger" Eye of the Tiger (1982).
Si nolueris habitare cum turpidis, non habitatis Londonie. If you do not want to live among wicked people, do not live in London.
Unattributed— c.1192 Chronicle of Richard of Devizes of theTime of King Richard I.
Love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave.
Unattributed— Song of Solomon, VIII. 6.
A wise man cab pick up a grain of sand and envision a whole universe.
Unattributed— By Jack Handey in QuotationsBook.com. Quotes about Wisdom. Quotations Book. pp. 15–. GGKEY:56Q6ULJ32RP.
You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
Unattributed— Attributed to Abraham Lincoln
The true history of mankind will be written only when Albanians participate in its writing.
Unattributed— Maximilian Lambertz, Albanien erzählt: ein Einblick in die albanische Literatur (Berlin 1956)
The wheels of justice turn slowly, but grind exceedingly fine.
Unattributed— Slow but sure moves the might of the gods
Voyager upon life's sea, to yourself be true, and whate'er your lot may be, paddle your own canoe.
Unattributed— Dr. Edward P. Philpots, Paddle your own Canoe; Written for Harry Clifton. Appeared in Harper's Monthly, May 1854. See Notes and Queries, May 25, 1901, p. 414. Another song written by Mrs. S. K. Bolton has same refrain. Pub. in Family Herald, 1853. Also in Song by Mrs. Sarah Tittle. (Barritt).
The Democratic and Republican parties each operates as a necessary counterweight in a partnership designed to keep the pendulum of power swinging in perpetuity from the one set of colluding quislings to the other, and back.
Unattributed— “A Palin Third-Party?” WorldNetDaily.com, January 15, 2010.
C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success.
Unattributed— Dennis Ritchie, "The Development of the C Language," History of Programming Languages-II, ed. Thomas J. Bergin, Jr. and Richard G. Gibson, Jr., ACM Press, 1996
Lightning never strikes twice in the same place.
Unattributed— Meaning: "The same unpleasant or unexpected phenomenon will not recur in the same place or circumstances, or happen to the same person again; a superstition that often leads to a false sense of security."
— Source for meaning: Martin H. Manser (2007). The Facts on File Dictionary of Proverbs. Infobase Publishing. p. 169.
— Mieder, Wolfgang; Kingsbury, Stewart A.; Harder, Kelsie B. (1992). A Dictionary of American proverbs. pp. 710. , p. 634
The core idea was to be as realistic as possible and we wanted people to identify with the characters.
Unattributed— Olly Blackburn (20 June 2008). "News - Self portrait: Olly Blackburn". Edinburgh International Film Festival (www.edfilmfest.org.uk). Retrieved on 23 February 2012.
Yunan-o-Misr-o-Roma Sab Mit Gaye Jahan Se, Ab Tak Magar Hai Baki Naam-o-Nishan Hamara, Kuchh Baat Hai Ke Hasti Mit’ti Nahin Hamari, Sadiyon Raha Hai Dushman Daur-e-Zaman Hamara.
Unattributed— Muhammad Iqbal, Indian Poet, Philosopher and Politician[ ]
Frankly speaking, it is difficult to trust the Chinese.Once bitten bya snake, you feel suspicious even when you see a piece of rope.
Unattributed— 1981 Quoted in the Observer Colour Magazine, 5 Apr.
A solemn decision of a competent Judge is by no means to be disregarded, and I ought not to overrule it without being clearly satisfied in my own mind that the decision is erroneous.
Unattributed— Lord Longdaie, M.R., Ward v. Painter (1839), 2 Beav. 93.
Intellectual property is the oil of the 21 century. Look at the richest men a hundred years ago; they all made their money extracting natural resources or moving them around. All today’s richest men have made their money out of intellectual property.
Unattributed— "Blood and Oil," The Economist (March 4, 2000), p. 68
Grave crimes of this nature, and the impunity that has accompanied them, entail violations of numerous international treaty provisions and constitute an assault on the rule of law, an affront to the international community and a threat to the international order.
Unattributed— UN experts urge Iraq to establish the whereabouts of the seven missing residents of Camp Ashraf [14]
Even when the pioneer didn't rape Nature, he divorced her a little too easily: he missed the great lesson that both ecology and medicine teach - that Man's great mission is not to conquer nature by main force but to cooperate with her intelligently but lovingly for his own purposes.
Unattributed— Lewis Mumford, "California and the Human Prospect", Sierra Club Bulletin,
Quand on n'a pas ce que l'on aime, Il faut aimer ce que l'on a.
Unattributed— When we have not what we love, we must love what we have.
— Bussy-Rabutin, Lettre à Mme. de Sevigné (1667).
One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved.
Unattributed— Romain Rolland, as quoted in On Relationships: A Book for Teenagers (1999) by Kimberly Kirberger
Our headstrong passions shut the door of our souls against God.
Unattributed— Confucius, reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 442.
