Random Sample of Quotes |
 | The police and the Jesuits have the virtue of never abandoning their enemies or their friends. — Honoré de Balzac, 1799-1850, French writer 1 likes |
 | Wisdom lies in clarity. Σοφόν το σαφές. — Euripides, 480-406 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Orestes 15 likes |
 | You win some, you lose some. 8 likes |
 | A novel is a meditation on existence seen through imaginary persons. — Milan Kundera, 1929-2023, Czech writer 1 likes |
 | I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them. — H.L. Mencken, 1880-1956, American columnist & cultural critic 4 likes |
 | To me every hour of the light and dark is a miracle, Every cubic inch of space is a miracle. — Walt Whitman, 1819-1892, American poet 4 likes |
 | When beggars and shoeshine boys, barbers and beauticians can tell you how to get rich, it is time to remind yourself that there is no more dangerous illusion than the belief that one can get something for nothing. — Bernard Baruch, 1870-1965, American businessman & statesman 1 likes |
 | If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself. — Saint Augustine, 354-430, Christian theologian & philosopher 9 likes |
 | God is on the side of the big battalions. — George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 8 likes |
 | The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived. — Søren Kierkegaard, 1813-1855, Danish philosopher 1 likes |
 | Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration. — Thomas Edison, 1847-1934, American inventor 9 likes |
 | Worry is a waste of emotional reserve. — Ayn Rand, 1905-1982, American writer & philosopher 4 likes |
 | My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing. — Aldοus Huxley, 1894-1963, English writer 1 likes |
 | There are some defeats more triumphant than victories. — Michel de Montaigne, 1533-1592, French thinker 6 likes |
 | Be the chief but never the lord. — Lao-Tzu, 6th cent. BC, Chinese philosopher 4 likes |
 | Let everything happen to you Beauty and terror Just keep going No feeling is final. — Rainer Maria Rilke, 1875-1926, Czech-German poet 6 likes |
 | Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt. — José Saramago, 1922-2010, Portuguese writer [Nobel 1998] 1 likes |
 | People who read the tabloids deserve to be lied to. — Jerry Seinfeld, 1954-, American comedian 18 likes |
 | Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy. — Martin Heidegger, 1889-1976, German philosopher 1 likes |
 | As you make your bed, so you must lie upon it. 3 likes |
 | The only vice which cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy. — William Hazlitt , 1778-1830, English essayist & critic 1 likes |
 | All within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state. — Benito Moussolini, 1883-1945, Italian dictator 2 likes |
 | Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise. — Francis Bacon, 1561-1626, English philosopher 6 likes |
 | Fashion fades, only style remains the same. — Coco Chanel, 1883-1971, French fashion designer 1 likes |
| Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty. — George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 7 likes |
 | All wars are made for the acquisition of assets. Δια την των χρημάτων κτήσιν πάντες οι πόλεμοι γίγνονται. — Plato, 427-347 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 4 likes |
 | People who say that yesterday was better than today are ultimately devaluing their own existence. — Karl Lagerfeld, 1933-2019, German fashion designer 4 likes |
 | God is not mocked. For whatever a man might sow, that also he will reap. — Epistles of Paul ‐ Galatians 6:7 5 likes |
 | A life which is not examined is not worth living. O δε ανεξέταστος βίος ου βιωτός ανθρώπω. — Socrates, 469-399 BC, Ancient Geek Philosopher 64 likes |
 | Life is short and Art long; the opportunity fleeting, experience deceitful, and judgment difficult. Ο βίος βραχύς, η δε τέχνη μακρή, ο δε καιρός οξύς, η δε πείρα σφαλερή, η δε κρίσις χαλεπή. — Hippocrates, 460-370 BC, Ancient Greek physician, the “Father of Medicine” (the first phrase in the “Aphorisms”) 47 likes |
 | In the end, the truth always wins. Unfortunately, we are still at the beginning. — Zarko Petan, 1929-2014, Slovenian playwright & aphorist 3 likes |
 | One mother achieves more than a hundred teachers. 6 likes |
 | Woman like silent men, they think they are listening. — Marcel Achard, 1899-1974, French playwright 9 likes |
 | Some people rule cities and are slaves to women. Ένιοι, πόλεων μεν δεσπόζουσι, γυναιξί δε δουλεύουσι. — Democritus, 470-370 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 4 likes |
 | Nurture your mind with great thoughts, for you will never go any higher than you think. — Benjamin Disraeli, 1804-1881, British Prime Minister 8 likes |
 | You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with. — Jim Rohn, 1930-2009, American self-help speker 5 likes |
 | I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance. — Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900, German philosopher 7 likes |
 | Each man carries within him the soul of a poet who died young. — Antoin de Saint-Exupéry, 1900-1940, French writer 3 likes |
 | Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating. — Simone Weil, 1909-1943, French philosopher 3 likes |
 | Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you. — Frank Tyger, 1929-2011, American cartoonist 6 likes |
