QUOTES PAGE

Why so many quotes? To answer this I shall of course quote some others...

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What are you trying to do?
I don't know, I just thought I'd do a quotes page. I thought that making an exceptional reference page would create world peace, feed the hungry, solve Fermat's last theorem, create a cure for cancer, help usher in the information age, and impress women.
        - David Borenstein

I quote others only the better to express myself.
        - Michel de Montaigne

Why should I give my Readers bad lines of my own when good ones of other People's are so plenty?
        - Benjamin Franklin

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced - even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.
        - John Keats

Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely-read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.
        - Hesketh Pearson

A witty saying proves nothing.
        - Voltaire

We often feel that a clever aphorism captures a truth that would require pages to defend in any other way.
        - Stephen Pinker, "How The Mind Works"

Favorite quotations are a way of crystallizing our thoughts and folding up our dreams and goals into easily portable units.
        - JA Fludd, "Quantum Comics"

A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years."
        - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Be careful, with quotations you can damn anything.
The bumper sticker... is secular America's Book of Proverbs.
        - John Shea

Don't quote me; That's what you heard, not what I said.
        - Lawrence K. Frank

I hate quotations.
        - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Telling computer guys that they need to have permission to quote things is like having to tell little children about Death.
        - Ted Nelson

Web pages are like babies: creation involves a level of enthusiasm that does not necessarily carry over into maintenance.
        - Joe Chew

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QUOTES SECTION

QUOTES ABOUT LIFE SCIENCE HISTORY

  History - quotes from history
   Historians - quotes about history

   British History
   Pre History - quotes about the ancient world

   American History
   American Colonies - Alan Taylor documents the settling of North America by European powers
   The American Civil War
   Battle Cry of Freedom - James McPherson's Pullitzer prize winning history of the Civil War
   Shelby Foote - quotes from his epic narrative of the American Civil War

   Life At Sea - quotes about the age of sail and maritime\naval history
   The Rise and Fall of British Naval Mastery - by Paul Kennedy
   The Great Naval Race - by Peter Padfield

   Humour - having fun with history
   Books - quotes from history books such as 1688 & Tank
   Historical Speeches from Pericles of Athens, Abraham Lincoln
   Winston Churchill - speeches from the greatest Briton in history
   Bernard Lewis - quotes by one of the West's foremost Middle-Eastern experts

   In War and Peace
   The Cold War - described by Churchill, Havel, Thatcher  & Reagan

   The First World War - by renowned military historian Sir John Keegan
   The Second World War - also by Sir John Keegan
   Intellience In War - John Keegan analyses military intelligence from Napoleon to Al-Qadea
   Warpaths - John Keegan tours the battlefields that shaped North American history
   A History Of Warfare - by John Keegan
   The Face of Battle - by John Keegan
   Battle At Sea -by John Keegan
   Six Armies in Normandy - by John Keegan
   Soldiers - the companion book to the BBC TV series by John Keegan & Richard Holmes
   War Walks - A page to accompany the BBC military history program presented by Richard Holmes
   Richard Holmes - A page containing quotes his military history books

   Why The West Has Won - Western warfare examined by Victor Davis Hanson
   The 100 - Michael Hart ranks the 100 most influential persons in history
   The Shape of Irish History - ATQ Stewart's overview of the dynamics of Irish history
   The Narrow Ground - ATQ Stewart examines the patterns of the Ulster conflict

   The Civilization of Ancient Egypt - Paul Johnson's overview of Egyptian history and culture
   Tom Holland - quotes from "Rubicon" & "Persian Fire" set in Ancient Rome & Greece

   Mother Tongue - Bill Bryson's witty look at the history of the English language
   Bill Bryson - Quotes from his other works, including "Made In America"

TV COLLECTION

POPULAR CULTURE SCIENCE FICTION THE WRITTEN WORD SOCIETY & THE MODERN WORLD FOOTBALL #

LINKS

All the best Quotation Links on the net
The Quotation Ring links up an awful lot of quotes sites. Growing daily.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is the online version of a quotations reference book from 100 years ago
Notable Quotes - from notable people on various topics
Quotez contains over 5000 quotations
AMK's Quotation Collection is vast
Durge.Org has many recent quotes, with a very British slant
loQtus quote collections
The Cookie Jar has political quotes from diverse sources
CoolQuotes.Com - cool quotes from the past and present
John Petrie - personal collection of quotes on similar topics to mine
Quotes Central - vast collection of famous quotes, sorted by categories and authors
Words takes interesting & funny quotes from The Seattle Times [gone]

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