Random Sample of Quotes |
 | No one is lucky in everything. Ουδείς γαρ πάντα έστι πανόλβιος. — Theognis of Megara, 6th cent. BC, Ancient Greek poet 1 likes |
 | If you see ten troubles coming down the road, you can be sure that nine will run into the ditch before they reach you and you have to battle with only one of them. — Calvin Coolidge, 1872-1933, American President [1923-1929] 6 likes |
 | Oh, let me be mawkish for the nonce! I am so tired of being cynical. — Vladimir Nabokov, 1899-1977, Russian-American writer 4 likes |
 | Everything in the world is about sex except sex. Sex is about power. — Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer 21 likes |
 | Quality is much better than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles. — Steve Jobs, 1955-2011, American businessman 3 likes |
 | War is a series of catastrophes that results in a victory. — Georges Clemenceau, 1841-1929, French Prime Minister 4 likes |
 | Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope; and few are reduced so low as that. — William Hazlitt , 1778-1830, English essayist & critic 1 likes |
 | My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right. — Abraham Lincoln, 1809-1865, American President 22 likes |
 | Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers. — Mignon McLaughlin, 1913-1983, American magazine editor 4 likes |
 | Environment: what nature becomes when humans protect it. — Yevgeny Kaseyev, contemporary Russian author of maxims 2 likes |
 | There's no greater absurdity than taking everything seriously. — Baltasar Gracian, 1601-1658, Spanish writer 1 likes |
 | When the wrong people leave your life, the right things start to happen. — Zig Ziglar, 1926-2012, American self-help writer 3 likes |
 | All labor is better than inactivity. Της ησυχίης πάντες οι πόνοι ηδίονες. — Democritus, 470-370 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 4 likes |
 | Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame. — Bertrand Russell, 1872-1970, British philosopher 1 likes |
 | Sex with you is really a Kafka-esque experience...I mean that as a compliment. — from the film Annie Hall (1977) 5 likes |
 | Film-making is like spermatozoa: only one in a million makes it. — Claude Lelouch, 1937-, French film director 2 likes |
 | God is for men, and religion for women. — Joseph Conrad, 1857-1924, British-Polish writer 4 likes |
 | My first homelands were books. — Marguerite Yourcenar, 1903-1987, French writer 3 likes |
 | Dying is a wild night and a new road. — Emily Dickinson, 1830-1886, American poet 2 likes |
 | Seven social sins: politics without principles, wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, and worship without sacrifice. — Mahatma Gandhi, 1869-1948, Indian leader of independence 9 likes |
 | Just remember that Dumbo didn't need the feather; the magic was in him. — Stephen King, 1947-, American author of horror & fantasy fiction 4 likes |
 | Sex between a man and a woman can be wonderful, provided you can get between the right man and the right woman. — Woody Allen, 1935-, American actor & film director 7 likes |
 | You can't find the right roads when the streets are paved. — Bob Marley, 1945-1981, Jamaican singer 4 likes |
 | The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong. — George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 29 likes |
 | You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some of it with you. — Joseph Joubert, 1754-1824, French author of maxims 5 likes |
 | Man can only be built by pursuing what exceeds him. — André Malraux, 1901-1976, French writer & statesman 1 likes |
 | I have measured out my life with coffee spoons. — T. S. Eliot, 1888-1965, British poet, Nobel 1948 3 likes |
 | A woman who doesn’t wear perfume has no future. — Coco Chanel, 1883-1971, French fashion designer 1 likes |
 | Grateful are those who still have something to ask. — Pitigrilli (Dino Segre), 1893-1975, Italian writer 3 likes |
 | All that I’ve learned, I’ve forgotten. The little that I still know, I’ve guessed. — Nicolas Chamfort, 1740-1794, French writer 1 likes |
| Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone. — Baltasar Gracian, 1601-1658, Spanish writer 1 likes |
 | I shall be so brief that I have already finished. — Salvador Dali, 1904-1989, Spanish painter 1 likes |
 | Diplomacy without military might is like music without instruments. — Friedrich II, 1712-1786, Emperor of Prussia [1740-1786] 2 likes |
 | When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick. — George Burns, 1896-1996, American comedian 6 likes |
 | The gent who wakes up and finds himself a success hasn't been asleep. — Wilson Mizner, 1876-1913, American playwright 4 likes |
 | Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them. — Elbert Hubbard, 1856-1915, American writer 4 likes |
 | A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them. — Karl Jung, 1875-1961, Swiss psychiatrist 3 likes |
 | I'm for anything that gets you through the night, be it prayer, benzedrine or a bottle of Jack Daniel's. — Frank Sinatra, 1915-1998, American singer 7 likes |
 | If you lie on the ground, you cannot fall. 4 likes |
 | The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1884, American philosopher 3 likes |
