For a while now since I've been able to read, I have come across quite a handful of sharp one-lined insightful strings of words put together by famous people. I just thought I'd share a couple of those sentences that have made mutter "hmm" and made my nostrils expand in admiration.

Impress your audience with the words the famous.

The quotations are going to be grouped by subject and will be consistently updated.

Feel free to add yours.

All is fair in love and war

Lovin u ve made my life to ve light 4eva

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All animals are equal but some are "more equal" than others.. George Orwell ( animal farm)

Only you waka come

The one we are going to make use of is going to be made known by, my oga at the top

Now the first lady is calling you to come and find your missing child; Will you keep quiet?!

- Famous Nigerian Quotes!

Nice one! I love quotes

"Live your life and forget your age" - Jean Paul.


"The best way to learn is to acknowledge your ignorance" - Socrates

"when life knocks you down you should always try to land on your back because if you can look up, you can get up" - Les Brown

"It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared" - Whitney Young Jr

"Press on. Nothing can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; the world is full of unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education alone will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent." - Calvin Coolidge

"I don't FÜCK much with the past but FÜCK plenty with the future" Patti Smith

"If you can't say 'FÜCK', you can't say FÜCK the government" Lenny Bruce

"This world is so FÜCKED up that people can’t even take a shi/t in a public rest room" Unknown

"Keep your head up high and your middle finger higher" Unknown

Some people are good at rubbing acid on your wound and calling it ointment.
-Larry Sun

If you see a light at the end of the tunnel, you should be wise enough to know if it's an escape route or another oncoming train.
-Larry Sun

They feed you sh!!t and call it sugar, but piss on you without the courtesy of calling it rain.
-Larry Sun

Fighting a battle and winning that battle is interesting; indeed, it is highly satisfying, even if there are scars to show for the wounds sustained. Not how fast, but how well.
-Larry Sun

The brutal actions of men by smashing people's brains with their vehicles shows that there is still the existence of death college in this country.
-Larry Sun

Love the thread
Might add something later but for now just *Following*.

If opportunity doesn't knock on your door build a gate - El Guapo

Sometimes big ideas are built on what we already know, now watch me grow - Nateevs

The architect of the universe didn't build a stairway leading nowhere - El Guapo

If any man is working towards a predetermined goal, he's a success, if he's not, he's a failure - Anonymous

We become what we think - Anonymous

People tend to blame circumstances or fate for their misfortunes, I dont believe in circumstances, look for the circumstance you want, if you cant find them, make them - Anonymous

Be proud of your profession, it gives meaning to it - Emeka Ekenta [A big mentor]

The purpose of life is a life of purpose - Robin Sharma

Human beigns can alter their lives by altering the attitude of their mind - William James

A man is what he thinks about all day long - Anonymous

And here are the top quotes from my biggest mentor and friend, a man whose words and teachings has really altered my way of thinking.

He's no other person than Robert Kiyosaki

- Money is just an idea.

- Success is a poor teacher

- It's not what you say out of your mouth that determines your life, it's what you whisper to yourself that has the most power.

- In school we learn that mistakes are bad and we are punished for making them. Yet, if you look at the way humans are designed to learn, we learn by making mistakes. We learn to walk by falling down. If we never fell down, we would never walk.

- I'd rather welcome change than cling to the past

- The lack of money is the root of all evil

- Workers work hard enough to not be fired, and owners pay just enough so that workers wont quit

- The single most powerful asset we all have is our mind. If it is trained well, it can create enormous wealth in what seems to be an instant.

- Know a little about a lot.

- There are those who make things, there are those who watch things happen and there are those who say what happened.

Love dis thread lemme add my own
'What the hand can not get the mouth does not water for'
*an author IKEM*
"Food has only one direction 'it goes downward' weneva u see d food coming back upward,know that d man is in trouble'
*Chinua Achebe from his book Anthill of the savannah*
Good morning folks,lovly thread Dygeasy...wud add more later for now lemme stop here

it s betta to be quiet and be thought a fool than to talk and prove all doubts

I love quotes!

To love is natural, to understand the variations of love is wisdom


Badosky 2012

Idowuogbo: I love quotes!

To love is natural, to understand the variations of love is wisdom


Badosky 2012

Nice one Badosky.... my best Nairalander of all time.

Without perseverance, talent has little value


Badosky 2010