Random Sample of Quotes |
 | You should never give orders to a woman unless you are sure beforehand that you will be obeyed. |
 | There's an old proverb that says just about whatever you want it to. — Anonymous 4 likes |
 | Its typical of Mexico, of the whole human race perhaps — violence in favour of an ideal and then the ideal lost but the violence just going on. |
 | Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all. |
 | Religion is just mind control. — George Carlin, 1936-2008, American comedian 21 likes |
| There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise. |
 | The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is. — Susan Sontag, 1933-2004, American writer, critic, activist |
 | My life has a superb cast, but I cannot figure out the plot. — Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-, British cartoonist & epigrammatist |
 | You know, the Cathars believed that the world was not created by God but by a demon who had stolen a few technological secrets from Him and made this world — which is why it doesn’t work. — Eugene Ionesco, 1912-1994, French-Romanian playwright 6 likes |
 | Friendship makes prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and sharing it. — Cicero, 106-43 BC, Roman orator & statesman 5 likes |
 | Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon ’em. — William Shakespeare, 1564-1616, English poet & playwright ‐ Twelfth Night 3 likes |
 | Justice without force is powerless; force without justice is tyrannical. — Blaise Pascal, 1623-1662, French thinker 3 likes |
 | Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life. |
 | There isn't much to be seen in a little town, but what you hear makes up for it. |
 | Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1772-1834, English poet & philosopher 2 likes |
 | Love that only which happens to you and is spun with the thread of your destiny. For what is more suitable? Μόνως φιλείν το εαυτώ συμβαίνον και συγκλωθόμενον. Τι γαρ αρμοδιώτερον; — Marcus Aurelius, 121-180 AD, Roman Emperor ‐ Meditations VII, 58 6 likes |
 | There is something haunting in the light of the moon; it has all the dispassionateness of a disembodied soul, and something of its inconceivable mystery. |
| No one ever forgets where he buried the hatchet. |
 | I live in my dreams — that's what you sense. Other people live in dreams, but not in their own. That's the difference. |
 | Truth is what's left when you run out of excuses. — Marty Rubin, 1930-1994, Canadian gay activist, author & journalist |
 | The malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous. — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 8 likes |
 | Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss. |
 | The only unhappiness is a life of boredom. |
 | Men will only throw stones at trees that are laden with fruit. 4 likes |
 | Hubris gives birth to the tyrant. Ύβρις φυτεύει τύραννον. — Sophocles, 496-406 BC, Ancient tragic poet ‐ Oedipus king |
 | It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. — Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer 10 likes |
 | Facts are rarely self-explanatory; their significance, analysis, and interpretation – at least in the foreign policy world – depend on context and relevance. |
 | Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't! — George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 11 likes |
 | The tulip is a flower without a soul; but it seems that the rose and the lily have one. — Joseph Joubert, 1754-1824, French author of maxims 4 likes |
 | I shall revenge myself in the cruelest way you can imagine. I shall forget it. |
 | Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings — always darker, emptier, simpler. — Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900, German philosopher 5 likes |
| I wanted to get a job as a gynecologist, but I couldn't find an opening. — George Carlin, 1936-2008, American comedian 10 likes |
 | Sixty years ago I knew everything. Now I know nothing. Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. — Will Durant, 1885-1981, American historian & philosopher 11 likes |
 | It is not at all simple to understand the simple. — Eric Hoffer, 1902-1983, American writer & philosopher 2 likes |
 | Society is a wave. The wave moves onward, but the water of which it is composed does not. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1884, American philosopher 3 likes |
 | Like the present things, look for the better. Στέργε μεν τα παρόντα, ζήτει δε τα βελτίω. — Isokrates, 436-338 BC, Ancient Greek rhetorician 4 likes |
 | Understanding is a two-way street. — Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884-1962, Wife of the 32nd USA president 3 likes |
 | Put your feet up when you think; remove them when writing. |
 | The wise learn many things from their enemies. Απ᾽ εχθρών δήτα πολλά μανθάνουσιν οι σοφοί. — Aristophanes, 445-386 BC, Ancient Greek comic playwright ‐ Birds 6 likes |
 | I have known men who could see through the motivations of others with the skill of a clairvoyant; only to prove blind to their own mistakes. I have been one of those men. — Bernard Baruch, 1870-1965, American businessman & statesman |
