Almost every famous person at least once in their life said something that was remembered by the society, and considered meaningful, important or just funny. Those quotations can be mentioned in various situations. Often they are used in speeches or in a humorous way. In order to find some of them grub around.
Thomas hobbes
Date: June 8, 2007
Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.
Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues.
All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.
Humans are driven by a perpetual and restless desire of power.
Leisure is the mother of philosophy.
The life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.