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Phrases/Quotes

Famous Sayings/Phrase Origins

  • “All that glitters not gold”
  • “Card up one’s sleeve”
  • “Absence makes the heart grow founder”
  • Achilles’ Heel
  • “All Roads Lead to Rome”
  • Care Package
  • “Keep me posted”
  • “Mary had a little lamb…”
  • “Ring a Ring o’ Roses…”
  • “rob Peter to pay Paul”
  • “Rule of Thumb”
  • “Speak Softly and Carry a Big Stick”
  • Tweedledum & Tweedledee

Quotes

  • Margaret Culkin Banning
  • Cree Indian Prophecy
  • Albert Einstein
  • Mary Anne Evans (George Eliot)
  • Sleepy Eyes, Dakota Chief
  • Henry Ford
  • Anne Frank
  • Dick Gregory
  • William Halsey
  • Helen Keller
  • C. S. Lewis
  • Plato
  • Chief White Shield
  • Mark Twain
  • Frank Lloyd Wright

Quotes by Presidents/First Ladies

  • Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • Thomas Jefferson
  • Jackie Kennedy Onassis
  • Eleanor Roosevelt

Funny Quotes

  • Presidents
    • Bill Clinton
    • Lyndon Johnson
    • Ronald Reagan
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