Quotes from the famous and not so famous

Published: April 27, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Last edited: 2 March,2026 at 1:25 PM

In this post we’ll take a look at interesting quotes I found across the internet and books I read. For a glimpse I’m featuring George Bernard Shaw and Captain Jack Sparrow.

The problem with stealing quotes off the internet is you never know if they are genuine

Warren Buffett

Patience

“The stock market is a device for transferring money from the impatient to the patient.”

Abraham Lincoln

Originality Books

“Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.”

Source

Psalm 37:35-36

Scripture Wisdom

I have seen a wicked and ruthless man flourishing like a luxuriant native tree, but he soon passed away and was no more; though I looked for him, he could not be found.

George Bernard Shaw

Growth Change

The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor: he took my measure anew every time he saw me, whilst all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me.

Chinua Achebe

Community Culture

“A man who calls his kinsmen to a feast does not do so to save them from starving. They all have food in their own homes. When we gather together in the moonlit village ground it is not because of the moon. Every man can see it in his own compound. We come together because it is good for kinsmen to do so.”

Source

Lin-Chi

Strategy Context

“When you meet a master swordsman, show him your sword. When you meet a man who is not a poet, do not show him your poem.”

Captain Jack Sparrow

Treasure Life

Not all treasure is Silver and Gold mate.

Minnie Louise Haskins

Faith Courage

And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year: “Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown”. And he replied: “Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the Hand of God. That shall be to you better than light and safer than a known way”.

Poem Source