Known Quotes

A sure friend is known in unsure times. (Ennius)
I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known. View quote
Walt Disney
If man does find the solution for world peace it will be the most revolutionary reversal of his record we have ever known. View quote
George C. Marshall
There are things known and there are things unknown and in between are the doors. View quote
Jim Morrison
A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized. View quote
Fred Allen
We easily forget our faults when they are known only to ourselves. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views. View quote
Edith Wharton
Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars. View quote
Warren Buffett
And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation. View quote
Kahlil Gibran
A man is known by the books he reads. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well. (Elias Canetti)
Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy. View quote
William Hazlitt
Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom. View quote
Friedrich Hayek
We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community. View quote
Dorothy Day
The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is. View quote
Susan Sontag
I drink booze, I smoke, and I'm hooked on caffeine. I actually have been known to swear at times and belch and even raise my voice when provoked. And I'm not physically repressed! View quote
Helena Bonham Carter
The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land, to add something to the extent and the solidity of our possessions. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War. View quote
George Washington
Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them. View quote
Angela Carter
People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less criticized. View quote
Ben Hecht
A process which led from the amœba to man appeared to the philosophers to be obviously a progress - though whether the amœba would agree with this opinion is not known. (Bertrand Russell)
I have always known what I wanted, and that was beauty... in every form. View quote
Joan Crawford
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by his heart, and his friends can only read the title. View quote
Virginia Woolf
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, live in a city. View quote
Charles Caleb Colton
In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival. View quote
Luis Buñuel