Random Sample of Quotes |
 | Forget mistakes. Forget failure. Forget everything except what you're going to do now and do it. Today is your lucky day. — Will Durant, 1885-1981, American historian & philosopher 9 likes |
 | Occultism is the metaphysic of dunces. — Theodore Adorno, 1903-1969, German philosopher 3 likes |
 | There are only two things wrong with money: too much or too little. — Charles Bukowski, 1920-1994, American writer 1 likes |
 | Nowadays people are born to find fault. When they look at Achilles, they see only his heel. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1830-1916, German author of maxims 1 likes |
 | Myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human manifestation. — Joseph Campbell, 1904-1987, American academic 1 likes |
 | The most interesting information come from children, for they tell all they know and then stop. — Mark Twain, 1835-1910, American writer 6 likes |
 | There is one undeniable sign that you recognize that you love someone romantically, and that is when their face arouses more desire in you than any other part of their body. — Michel Tournier, 1924-2016, French writer 4 likes |
 | I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die. — Isaac Asimov, 1920-1992, American Sci-Fi writer 8 likes |
 | Advertisements constitute the only “good news” in the newspaper. — Marshall McLuhan, 1911-1980, Canadian academic & media theorist 1 likes |
 | Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous. — Chanakya, 370-280 π.X., Indian teacher & philosopher 1 likes |
 | Choose the positive. You have choice, you are master of your attitude, choose the positive, the constructive. Optimism is a faith that leads to success. — Bruce Lee, 1940-1973, Chinese-American actor 1 likes |
 | Sing to me of the man, Muse, the man of twists and turns driven time and again off course, once he had plundered the hallowed heights of Troy. Άνδρα μοι έννεπε, Μούσα, πολύτροπον, ός μάλα πολλά — Homer, c. 800-750 BC, Ancient Greek Poet ‐ Odyssey I 5 likes |
 | Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. — Oliver W. Holmes Sr., 1809-1894, American writer 1 likes |
 | Wisdom is one of the few things that looks bigger the further away it is. — Terry Pratchett, 1948-2015, British writer 1 likes |
 | The less satisfaction we derive from being ourselves, the greater is our desire to be like others. — Eric Hoffer, 1902-1983, American writer & philosopher 6 likes |
 | I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will. — Charlotte Brontë, 1816-1855, English novelist & poet 2 likes |
 | Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life. — Robert Louis Stevenson, 1850-1894, Scottish writer 5 likes |
 | Everyone who wants to know what will happen ought to examine what has happened: everything in this world in any epoch has their replicas in antiquity. — Niccolò Machiavelli, 1469-1527, Italian political philosopher 5 likes |
 | A man is in general better pleased when he has a good dinner upon his table, than when his wife talks Greek. — Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784, English writer 8 likes |
 | Character is destiny. — Heraclitus, 544-484 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 13 likes |
| No man can step twice into the same river. — Heraclitus, 544-484 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 9 likes |
 | One must dare to be happy. — Gertrude Stein, 1874-1946, American writer 1 likes |
 | A man should never neglect his family for business. — Walt Disney, 1901-1966, American businessman & cartoonist 3 likes |
| The political machine triumphs because it is a united minority acting against a divided majority. — Will Durant, 1885-1981, American historian & philosopher 12 likes |
 | I spent seven hours in a beauty shop... and that was for the estimate. — Phyllis Diller, 1917-2012, American comedian 4 likes |
 | If you're born with a gift, to behave like it's an achievement is not right. — Woody Allen, 1935-, American actor & film director 3 likes |
 | It is not the stories that matter, but the tone in which they are told. — Christian Bobin, 1951-2022, French writer 1 likes |
 | What is the first task of the knowledge seeker? To rid oneself of conceit, for you cannot learn what you think you already know. Τι πρώτον εστιν έργον του φιλοσοφούντος; αποβαλείν οίησιν· αμήχανον γαρ, ά τις ειδέναι οίεται ταύτα άρξασθαι μανθάνειν. — Epictetus, 50-120 AD, Ancient Greek Stoic philosopher 1 likes |
 | Young is the one that plunges in the future and never looks back. — Milan Kundera, 1929-2023, Czech writer 1 likes |
 | An idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all. — Elbert Hubbard, 1856-1915, American writer 6 likes |
 | The United States is, not are. The Civil War was fought over a verb. — Carl Sandburg, 1878-1967, American poet 6 likes |
 | Cities and Thrones and Powers Stand in Time's eye, Almost as long as flowers, Which daily die. — Rudyard Kipling, 1865-1936, English writer, Nobel 1907 2 likes |
 | This is what divorce is: taking things you no longer want from people you no longer love. — Zadie Smith, 1975-, British writer 3 likes |
 | I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person. — Walt Whitman, 1819-1892, American poet 3 likes |
 | He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature. — George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 7 likes |
 | Why is art beautiful? Because it's useless. Why is life ugly? Because it's all ends and purposes and intentions. — Fernando Pessoa, 1888-1935, Portuguese poet & writer 6 likes |
 | The advice of adults to young people is aimed at how to make them stop behaving like young people. — Francis De Croisset, 1877-1937, Belgian writer 5 likes |
 | It is difficult to obtain the friendship of a cat. It is a philosophical animal, one that does not place its affections thoughtlessly. — Théophile Gautier, 1811-1872, French poet & writer 1 likes |
 | He has the most who is most content with the least. — Diogenes, 410-323 BC, Ancient Greek Cynic philosopher 11 likes |
 | You can forget who you are if you're alone too much. — Margaret Atwood, 1939 -, Canadian writer 7 likes |
