Random Sample of Quotes |
 | Ι have opinions of my own, strong opinions, but I don't always agree with them. — George W. Bush, 1946-, American President 3 likes |
 | Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time. — George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 13 likes |
 | God is the only being who, in order to reign, doesn't even need to exist. — Charles Baudelaire, 1821-1867, French poet 8 likes |
 | She was the amoureuse of all the novels, the heroine of all the plays, the vague “she” of all the poetry books. — Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1880, French writer ‐ Madame Bovary |
 | It’s strange that some people commit crimes when there are so many legal ways to be dishonest. — George Courteline, 1858-1929, French writer 1 likes |
 | The central fact of my life has been the existence of words and the possibility of weaving those words into poetry. |
 | Every cloud has a silver lining. 4 likes |
| The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel. — Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1880, French writer 3 likes |
 | Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along. — Rumi, 1207-1273, Persian mystic & poet 2 likes |
 | A woman of thirty-five always looks older than a man of thirty-five. Why ? Because it really is. |
 | Death has always been the asylum of glory. |
 | I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions. — Lou Holtz, 1937-, American football coach 2 likes |
 | Wisdom is known only by contrasting it with folly; by shadow only we perceive that all visible objects are not flat. |
 | Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses. — Francis Bacon, 1561-1626, English philosopher 4 likes |
 | Your future will be good, if you arrange well the present. Ευ σοι το μέλλον έξει, αν το παρόν ευ τιθής. — Isocrates, 436-338 BC, Ancient Greek rhetorician 11 likes |
 | If you don't concentrate on what you are doing then the thing that you are doing is not what you are thinking. — Alfred Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet 4 likes |
 | When you made me into another, I left you with me. — Antonio Porchia, 1885-1968, Italian-Argentinian poet 4 likes |
 | Moderation is best. Μέτρον άριστον. — Cleobulus, 6th cent. BC, Ancient Greek Poet, one of the 7 sages 6 likes |
 | Oh, let me be mawkish for the nonce! I am so tired of being cynical. — Vladimir Nabokov, 1899-1977, Russian-American writer 3 likes |
 | A ship should not ride on a single anchor, nor life on a single hope. Ούτε ναυν εκ μιάς αγκύρας, ούτε βίον εκ μιας ελπίδος ορμιστέον. — Epictetus, 50-120 AD, Ancient Greek Stoic philosopher 5 likes |
 | There are many people for whom “thinking” necessarily means identifying with existing trends. — Marshall McLuhan, 1911-1980, Canadian academic & media theorist |
 | The greatest service you can render someone else is helping him help himself. |
 | The answer to any question starting, “Why don’t they...” is almost always, “Money”. |
 | The main conflicts in society unfold between the elites: the minority that holds power against another minority that is moving towards power. — Niccolò Machiavelli, 1469-1527, Italian political philosopher 1 likes |
 | Three things ruin a man: power, money, and women. I never wanted power. I never had any money, and the only woman in my life is up at the house right now. — Harry Truman, 1884-1972, American President [1945-1953] 6 likes |
 | Nobody is going to pour truth into your brain. It’s something you have to find out for yourself. — Noam Chomsky, 1928-, American linguist, philosopher, social activist |
 | He never felt loneliness except when he was happy. — Ayn Rand, 1905-1982, American writer & philosopher 2 likes |
 | If Dracula can't see his reflection in a mirror, how come his hair is always so neatly combed? — Steven Wright, 1955-, American comedian 4 likes |
 | A man should never neglect his family for business. — Walt Disney, 1901-1966, American businessman & cartoonist 2 likes |
 | Poetry is what happens when nothing else can. |
 | An old man was asked what had robbed him of joy in his life. His reply was, “Things that never happened.” |
 | Chaos demands to be recognized and experienced before letting itself be converted into a new order. |
 | Freedom would be not to choose between black and white but to abjure such prescribed choices. |
 | Understanding is a two-way street. — Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884-1962, Wife of the 32nd USA president 3 likes |
 | You have to write for yourself, that's how you can get to others. — Eugene Ionesco, 1912-1994, French-Romanian playwright 4 likes |
 | The caterpillar becomes a butterfly, the pig becomes a sausage, it is a great law of nature. |
| I fired MacArthur because he wouldn’t respect the authority of the president. I didn’t fire him because he was a dumb son of a bitch, although he was. — Harry Truman, 1884-1972, American President [1945-1953] 3 likes |
 | Autumn is a second Spring when every leaf is a flower. — Albert Camus, 1913-1960, French writer, Nobel 1957 3 likes |
 | Most people don’t grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging. |
 | As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom. |
