"Pride goeth before destruction, and an haughty spirit before a fall."

King James Version

"I have measured out my life with coffee spoons."

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

"April is the cruellest month."

The Waste Land

"The horror! The horror!"

Heart of Darkness

"We live as we dream, alone."

Heart of Darkness

"Lost time is never found again."

Poor Richard's Almanack

"Well done is better than well said."

Poor Richard's Almanack

"Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise."

Poor Richard's Almanack

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."

Attributed

"Speak softly and carry a big stick."

Speech at Minnesota State Fair

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

Attributed

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

The Life of Reason

"The life of man is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."

Leviathan

"Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains."

The Social Contract

"Dare to know."

What Is Enlightenment?

"That which does not kill us makes us stronger."

Twilight of the Idols

"Without music, life would be a mistake."

Twilight of the Idols

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."

First Inaugural Address

"That government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

Gettysburg Address

"I think, therefore I am."

Discourse on the Method

"To be, or not to be, that is the question."

Hamlet

"All that glitters is not gold."

The Merchant of Venice

"The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step."

Tao Te Ching

"Knowledge is power."

Meditationes Sacrae

"The unexamined life is not worth living."

Plato's Apology

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."

Pride and Prejudice

"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times."

A Tale of Two Cities

"Please, sir, I want some more."

Oliver Twist

"Call me Ishmael."

Moby-Dick

"The truth is rarely pure and never simple."

The Importance of Being Earnest

"To thine own self be true."

Hamlet

"Brevity is the soul of wit."

Hamlet

"The lady doth protest too much, methinks."

Hamlet

"Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once."

Julius Caesar

"A rose by any other name would smell as sweet."

Romeo and Juliet

"Now is the winter of our discontent."

Richard III

"Double, double toil and trouble; fire burn and cauldron bubble."

Macbeth

"The course of true love never did run smooth."

A Midsummer Night's Dream

"Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them."

Twelfth Night

"Hell is empty and all the devils are here."

The Tempest

"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation."

Walden

"Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string."

Self-Reliance

"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds."

Self-Reliance

"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

Attributed interview

"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration."

Attributed interview

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

Attributed

"The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated."

Attributed

"Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country."

Inaugural Address

"The buck stops here."

Desk sign

"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall."

Berlin Wall Speech