FAMOUS SAYINGS… from the pens of Celebrated men, to be found on the walls of “The Centennial Room”, a favorite and prominent dining spot for the entire Midwest.

Download Famous Sayings in PDF format

Facts are stubborn things.
Rene Le Sage

Common sense is not so common.
Voltaire

A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach.
Seneca

Ability is a poor man's wealth.
Wren

Justice sir, is the great interest of man on earth.
Daniel Webster

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.
Zachary Taylor

I love everything that's old; friends, time, books and wine.
Goldsmith

Faith is a higher faculty than reason.
Charles Trubac

There is no greater immortality than to occupy a place you cannot fill.
Napoleon

A man cannot leave a better legacy to the world than an educated family.
H.S. Truman

Give me a bowl of wine; in this I bury all unkindness.
Earl Heenan

You may delay, but time will not.
Ben Franklin

If honor be your clothing, it will last a lifetime.
Grover Cleveland

It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives.
Gene Kilbourn

I have never met or heard of anyone who could out-smart honesty.
Abe Lincoln

To whom is in fear, everything rustles.
Sophocles

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill.
Larry Feiler

The cowards never started and the weak died on the way.
Kit Carson

He is only rich who owns the day.
Emerson

Eat thy bread with joy and thy wine with a merry heart.
Hans Schuler/Ben Johnson

The best teachers of humanity are the lives of great men.
Fowler

To carry care to bed is to sleep with a pack on your back.
Haliburton

Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
Mark Twain

All bow to virtue, and then walk away.
De Finod

In vino viritas (In wine there is truth).
Ed Harden

Music is the universal language of mankind.
Longfellow

Not by years but by dispositions is wisdom acquired.
Platus

Wine to the poet is like a winged steed; He who drinks water gains but little speed.
C. Stark

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

It's not how much but how well.
W. J. Schuler

The difference between good and great is just a little extra effort.
Biggie Munn

Let every man strive to add a good name to his other capital.
W. H. Taft

Envy no man that knows more than myself, but pity men that know less.
Franklin Pierce

Take time to play - it is the secret of perpetual youth.
Bernie Wolf

Young men have passion of regarding their elders as senile.
Henry Adams

I steer my bark with hope ahead and fear astern.
Thomas Jefferson

Fame is the thirst of youth.
Byron

One man with courage makes a majority
Andrew Jackson

The vegabond, when rich, is called a tourist.
Paul Richard

Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.
Shopenhauer

A light heart lives longer.
Shakespeare

Debate is the death of conversation.
Emile Ludwig