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PRINCE WILLIAM Family is the most important thing in the world.
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CATHERINE THE GREAT With the right help, children have a good chance of overcoming their issues while they are still you...
KATE MIDDLETON As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.
KING SOLOMON I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather th...
ZARA PHILLIPS I was always told from the hat-makers that you should have your hair up because it shows the hat mor...
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ZARA PHILLIPS My dad's not a big talker.
ZARA PHILLIPS My dad can be pretty critical sometimes.
ZARA PHILLIPS I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment.
ZARA PHILLIPS You cannot make horses 'safe.'
ZARA PHILLIPS Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter wha...
ZARA PHILLIPS It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stu...
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ZARA PHILLIPS I don't think about the media.
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ZARA PHILLIPS I hate having my picture taken.
ZARA PHILLIPS Unfortunately in sport it's either good or bad. You've got to take the highs and the lows.
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ZARA PHILLIPS I'm not a princess anyway so I find that quite weird to be labelled as one.
ZARA PHILLIPS Smoking is hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs.
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WALLIS SIMPSON I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave.
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WALLIS SIMPSON Never explain, never complain.
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WALLIS SIMPSON I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers.
WALLIS SIMPSON For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.
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WALLIS SIMPSON You can never be too rich or too thin.
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QUEEN VICTORIA I can make a lord, but only God can make a gentleman.
KING JAMES I I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.
CHARLES V I feel very, very lucky that George has got a little sister.
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MARIE ANTOINETTE I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
AUGUSTUS A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.
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More Muhammad Ali

All of us are so mixed. My great-grandfather was white.
MUHAMMAD ALI Ever since I first came here in 1963 to fight Henry Cooper, I have loved the people of England.
MUHAMMAD ALI It's in my blood to be around people while I was training.
MUHAMMAD ALI I had a good time boxing. I enjoyed it - and I may come back.
MUHAMMAD ALI If I said I would knock out Sonny Liston in 1 minute and 49 seconds of the first round, that would h...
MUHAMMAD ALI You think the world was shocked when Nixon resigned? Wait till I whup George Foreman's behind.
MUHAMMAD ALI No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson's. There's no injury in my brain that su...
MUHAMMAD ALI White people just don't want their slaves to be free. That's the whole thing.
MUHAMMAD ALI Never put your money against Cassius Clay, for you will never have a lucky day.
MUHAMMAD ALI When you can whip any man in the world, you never know peace.
MUHAMMAD ALI I'm more at home with my log cabins than I am in my house in Cherry Hill.
MUHAMMAD ALI The white man is destroying the world.
MUHAMMAD ALI We who follow the teachings of Elijah Muhammad don't want to be forced to integrate. Integration...
MUHAMMAD ALI The fact is, I was never too bright in school. I ain't ashamed of it, though. I mean, how much d...
MUHAMMAD ALI I didn't want to submit to the army and then, on the day of judgment, have God say to me, 'W...
MUHAMMAD ALI My lectures, based on Islamic teachings, were on various subjects. Some of the titles were, 'The...
MUHAMMAD ALI You can't keep your mind on fighting when you're thinking about a woman. You can't keep ...
MUHAMMAD ALI Anywhere I go, there is always an incredible crowd that follows me. In Rome, as I land at the airpor...
MUHAMMAD ALI All black Americans have slave names. They have white names; names that the slave master has given t...
MUHAMMAD ALI To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that y...
MUHAMMAD ALI I used to tease Joe Louis by reminding him that I was the greatest of all time. But Joe Louis was th...
MUHAMMAD ALI Joe Frazier got hit more than me - and he doesn't have Parkinson's.
MUHAMMAD ALI I had to prove you could be a new kind of black man. I had to show the world.
MUHAMMAD ALI People don't realize what they had till it's gone. Like President Kennedy, there was no one ...
MUHAMMAD ALI I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin' hell, but as long as they ain...
MUHAMMAD ALI Joe Frazier is so ugly that when he cries, the tears turn around and go down the back of his head.
MUHAMMAD ALI My trainer don't tell me nothing between rounds. I don't allow him to. I fight the fight. Al...
MUHAMMAD ALI God tries you in certain, certain ways. Some people are rich, and they believe in God. They lose the...
MUHAMMAD ALI No one knows what to say in the loser's locker room.
MUHAMMAD ALI There are no pleasures in a fight but some of my fights have been a pleasure to win.
MUHAMMAD ALI I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.
MUHAMMAD ALI I have been so great in boxing they had to create an image like Rocky, a white image on the screen, ...
MUHAMMAD ALI At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don&...
MUHAMMAD ALI I figure I'll be champ for about ten years and then I'll let my brother take over - like the...
MUHAMMAD ALI When I won the Golden Gloves in 1960, that made me realize I had a chance. And when I won at the Oly...
MUHAMMAD ALI I got no quarrel with them Vietcong.
MUHAMMAD ALI I should be a postage stamp, because that's the only way I'll ever get licked. I'm beaut...
MUHAMMAD ALI I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the r...
MUHAMMAD ALI No intelligent black man or black woman in his or her right black mind wants white boys and white gi...
MUHAMMAD ALI I shook up the world, I shook up the world.
MUHAMMAD ALI The only thing that matters is submitting to the will of God.
MUHAMMAD ALI Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the U.S. Bureau of Wild Life.
MUHAMMAD ALI To make America the greatest is my goal, so I beat the Russian and I beat the Pole. And for the U.S....
MUHAMMAD ALI I always bring out the best in men I fight, but Joe Frazier, I'll tell the world right now, brin...
MUHAMMAD ALI It will be a killer, and a chiller, and a thriller, when I get the gorilla in Manila.
MUHAMMAD ALI The Nation of Islam's main focus was teaching black pride and self-awareness. Why should we keep...
MUHAMMAD ALI A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have se...
MUHAMMAD ALI I don't have to be what you want me to be.
MUHAMMAD ALI I've been everywhere in the world, seen everything, had everything a man can have.
MUHAMMAD ALI My only fault is that I don't realize how great I really am.
MUHAMMAD ALI Go up in an airplane. Go high enough, and it's like we don't even exist.
MUHAMMAD ALI It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep co...
MUHAMMAD ALI I would say things like 'I am the greatest! I'm pretty! If you talk jive, you'll drop in...
MUHAMMAD ALI Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
MUHAMMAD ALI Don't feel sorry for me.
MUHAMMAD ALI I calculate that I took 20,000 punches, but I earned millions and kept a lot of it. I may talk slow,...
MUHAMMAD ALI America is the greatest country in the world.
MUHAMMAD ALI Life is so, so short. Bible says it's like a vapor.
MUHAMMAD ALI I'm the most recognized and loved man that ever lived cuz there weren't no satellites when J...
MUHAMMAD ALI I wanted to use my fame and this face that everyone knows so well to help uplift and inspire people ...
MUHAMMAD ALI I'm no leader; I'm a little humble follower.
MUHAMMAD ALI I've made my share of mistakes along the way, but if I have changed even one life for the better...
MUHAMMAD ALI Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating...
MUHAMMAD ALI I never thought of losing, but now that it' s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That&#...
MUHAMMAD ALI I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before...
MUHAMMAD ALI I'll beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.
MUHAMMAD ALI My way of joking is to tell the truth. That's the funniest joke in the world.
MUHAMMAD ALI A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
MUHAMMAD ALI It's not bragging if you can back it up.
MUHAMMAD ALI Wars of nations are fought to change maps. But wars of poverty are fought to map change.
MUHAMMAD ALI Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friend...
MUHAMMAD ALI Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. Bu...
MUHAMMAD ALI Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But...
MUHAMMAD ALI Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets ...
MUHAMMAD ALI What keeps me going is goals.
MUHAMMAD ALI Where do you think I'd be next week if I didn't know how to shout and holler and make the public tak...
MUHAMMAD ALI I am the greatest. Not only do I knock em out, I pick the round!
MUHAMMAD ALI I hated every minute of training, but I said, Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your li...
MUHAMMAD ALI I run on the road, long before I dance under the lights.
MUHAMMAD ALI No one knows what to say in the loser's locker room.
MUHAMMAD ALI I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.
MUHAMMAD ALI I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.
MUHAMMAD ALI Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets ...
MUHAMMAD ALI If they can make penicillin out of mouldy bread, they can sure make something out of you.
MUHAMMAD ALI The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses – behind the lines, in the gym and out there on th...
MUHAMMAD ALI It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am.
MUHAMMAD ALI Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them: A desir...
MUHAMMAD ALI The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.
MUHAMMAD ALI It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.
MUHAMMAD ALI I never thought of losing, but now that it' s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my ...
MUHAMMAD ALI It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believe in myself.
MUHAMMAD ALI I figured that if I said it enough, I would convince the world that I really was the greatest.
MUHAMMAD ALI Boxing is a lot of white men watching two black men beat each other up.
MUHAMMAD ALI The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym and out there on th...
MUHAMMAD ALI I'm not the greatest; I'm the double greatest. Not only do I knock 'em out, I pick the round.
MUHAMMAD ALI The service you do for others is the rent you pay for the time you spend on earth.
MUHAMMAD ALI Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and com...
MUHAMMAD ALI My toughest fight was with my first wife.
MUHAMMAD ALI I'm gonna have to be killed before I lose, and I ain't going to die easy.
MUHAMMAD ALI God gave me this illness to remind me that I'm not number One; he is.
MUHAMMAD ALI I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me. Black, confident, cocky; my nam...
MUHAMMAD ALI To be a great champion you must believe you are the best. If you're not, pretend you are.
MUHAMMAD ALI Fifteen referees. I want fifteen referees to be at this fight because there ain't no one man who can...
MUHAMMAD ALI Service to others is the rent which you pay for your room here on earth.
MUHAMMAD ALI There are more pleasant things to do than beat up people.
MUHAMMAD ALI Don't count the days, make the days count.
MUHAMMAD ALI Explaining why he refused induction into the Army. I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Congs.
MUHAMMAD ALI Pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.
MUHAMMAD ALI Statement after losing his first fight to Ken Norton, March 31, 1973: I never thought of losing, but...
MUHAMMAD ALI I'm a baaaadd man!!
MUHAMMAD ALI I say get an education. Become an electrician, a mechanic, a doctor, a lawyer — anything but a fig...
MUHAMMAD ALI It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.
MUHAMMAD ALI He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
MUHAMMAD ALI Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.
MUHAMMAD ALI Ali's got a left, Ali's got a right - when he knocks you down, you'll sleep for the nigh...
MUHAMMAD ALI I done wrestled with an alligator, I done tussled with a whale; handcuffed lightning, thrown thunder...
MUHAMMAD ALI I believe in the religion of Islam. I believe in Allah and peace.
MUHAMMAD ALI He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.
MUHAMMAD ALI It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.
MUHAMMAD ALI I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. ...
MUHAMMAD ALI Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
MUHAMMAD ALI My principles are more important than the money or my title.
MUHAMMAD ALI I'm just hoping that people understand that Islam is peace and not violence.
MUHAMMAD ALI The word 'Islam' means 'peace.' The word 'Muslim' means 'one who surrend...
MUHAMMAD ALI The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym, and out there on th...
MUHAMMAD ALI Old age is just a record of one's whole life.
MUHAMMAD ALI Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.
MUHAMMAD ALI Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just a...
MUHAMMAD ALI Sonny Liston is nothing. The man can't talk. The man can't fight. The man needs talking less...
MUHAMMAD ALI I've seen George Foreman shadow boxing, and the shadow won.
MUHAMMAD ALI Cassius Clay is a name that white people gave to my slave master. Now that I am free, that I don'...
MUHAMMAD ALI Terrorists are not following Islam. Killing people and blowing up people and dropping bombs in place...
MUHAMMAD ALI Friendship... is not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of fr...
MUHAMMAD ALI I give thanks to God and to all the people in the U.K. who have supported me over the years.
MUHAMMAD ALI Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and com...
MUHAMMAD ALI Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer.
MUHAMMAD ALI If you lose a big fight, it will worry you all of your life. It will plague you - until you get your...
MUHAMMAD ALI The man who has no imagination has no wings.
MUHAMMAD ALI I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of y...
MUHAMMAD ALI I'm a fighter. I believe in the eye-for-an-eye business. I'm no cheek turner. I got no respect for a...
MUHAMMAD ALI If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, then they can sure make something out of you.
MUHAMMAD ALI I am the astronaut of boxing. Joe Louis and Dempsey were just jet pilots. I'm in a world of my o...
MUHAMMAD ALI Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car...
MUHAMMAD ALI Allah's the Arabic term for God. Stand up for God, fight for God, work for God and do the right ...
MUHAMMAD ALI It's just a job. Grass grows, birds fly, waves pound the sand. I beat people up.
MUHAMMAD ALI It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am.
MUHAMMAD ALI I'm the greatest thing that ever lived! I'm the king of the world! I'm a bad man. I'...
MUHAMMAD ALI Superman don't need no seat belt.
MUHAMMAD ALI I am an ordinary man who worked hard to develop the talent I was given. I believed in myself, and I ...
MUHAMMAD ALI It's lack of faith that makes people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself.
MUHAMMAD ALI If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize.
MUHAMMAD ALI The name Muhammad is the most common name in the world. In all the countries around the world - Paki...
MUHAMMAD ALI Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It...
MUHAMMAD ALI The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses - behind the lines, in the gym and out there on th...
MUHAMMAD ALI I'm the best. I just haven't played yet [on his golf game].
MUHAMMAD ALI Superman don't need no seat belt. [Comment to flight attendant, who replied, 'Superman don't need no...
MUHAMMAD ALI If my fans think I can do everything I say I can do, then they're crazier than I am. After one of hi...
MUHAMMAD ALI The fight is won or lost far away from witnesses — behind the lines, in the gym and out there on t...
MUHAMMAD ALI We have one life; it soon will be past; what we do for God is all that will last.
MUHAMMAD ALI I got nothing against no Viet Cong. No Vietnamese ever called me a nigger.
MUHAMMAD ALI Champions aren´t made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a...
MUHAMMAD ALI It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep convic...
MUHAMMAD ALI I know where I'm going and I know the truth, and I don't have to be what you want me to be. I'm free...
MUHAMMAD ALI I'll be floating like a butterfly and stinging like a bee.
MUHAMMAD ALI I'm so fast that last night I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the...
MUHAMMAD ALI It isn't the mountains ahead to climb that wear you out; it's the pebble in your shoe.
MUHAMMAD ALI Champions aren't made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire...
MUHAMMAD ALI I hated every minute of training, but I said, ''Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your lif...
MUHAMMAD ALI If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize.
MUHAMMAD ALI I'll beat him so bad he'll need a shoehorn to put his hat on.
MUHAMMAD ALI one of the greatest athletes of all time.
MUHAMMAD ALI If a matter has been ruled on or issued by a decree and later is the object of doubt in the minds of...
MUHAMMAD ALI I'm the best. I just haven't played yet.
MUHAMMAD ALI This may shockan amasia but I'm gonna beat Joe Frazier.
MUHAMMAD ALI The one without dreams is the one without wings.
MUHAMMAD ALI Politicians are always saying that they are in support of Iraqi citizens and now they are increasing...
MUHAMMAD ALI I have not lost [Allah's] hope in us to show compassion where none exists and to extend mercy in the...
MUHAMMAD ALI I'm so pretty I even smell pretty.
MUHAMMAD ALI a fierce fighter and a man of peace.
MUHAMMAD ALI And if God ever calls me to a holy war, I want Joe fighting beside me.
MUHAMMAD ALI This relationship will help guarantee that, for generations to come, people of all nations will unde...
MUHAMMAD ALI I'm always confident. My image is being confident. Why you trying to make it look like something new...
MUHAMMAD ALI Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams Ñ they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just ...
MUHAMMAD ALI You know I hate fighting. If I knew how to make a living some other way, I would.
MUHAMMAD ALI War on nations change maps. War on poverty maps change.
MUHAMMAD ALI Life is a gamble. You can get hurt, but people die in plane crashes, lose their arms and legs in car...
MUHAMMAD ALI I want to get out with my greatness intact.
MUHAMMAD ALI At home I am a nice guy: but I don't want the world to know. Humble people, I've found, don't get ve...
MUHAMMAD ALI Love is a net that catches hearts like a fish.
MUHAMMAD ALI All through my life, I have been tested. My will has been tested, my courage has been tested, my str...
MUHAMMAD ALI Often it isn't the mountains ahead that wear you out, it's the little pebble in your shoe.
MUHAMMAD ALI My face is so pretty, you don't see a scar, which proves I'm the king of the ring by far.
MUHAMMAD ALI Champions aren´t made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them - a...
MUHAMMAD ALI Old age is just a record of one's whole life.
MUHAMMAD ALI The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his lif...
MUHAMMAD ALI You don't want no pie in the sky when you die,/ You want something here on the ground while you're s...
MUHAMMAD ALI [Frazier soaked it all up like a sponge. When they arrived in Manila it was the same story. Ali pour...
MUHAMMAD ALI A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he'll never crow. I have seen t...
MUHAMMAD ALI It's not bragging if you can back it up.
MUHAMMAD ALI Give up what appears to be doubtful for what is certain. Truth brings peace of mind, and deception d...
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