Famous Quotes

"'The horror! The horror!" ~ Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad A fool, a fool! I met a fool i' th' forest,
A motley fool. ~ As You Like It by William Shakespeare "I never make exceptions. An exception disproves the rule." ~ The Sign of The Four by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle "Fifteen men on the dead man's chest -- Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!" ~ Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson Impropriety is the soul of wit. ~ The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham "There she blows!--there she blows! A hump like a snow-hill! It is Moby Dick!" ~ Moby Dick by Herman Melville "I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things, so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it. Now the skilful workman is very careful indeed as to what he takes into his brain-attic. He will have nothing but the tools which may help him in doing his work, but of these he has a large assortment, and all in the most perfect order. It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. Depend upon it - there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones." ~ A Study in Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle "All that glisters is not gold." ~ The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare "The quality of mercy is not strain'd, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath. It is twice blest, It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes." ~ The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare The chief part of the stories, however, turned upon the favorite spectre of Sleepy Hollow, the Headless Horseman, who had been heard several times of late, patrolling the country; and, it was said, tethered his horse nightly among the graves in the churchyard. ~ The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving