Random Sample of Quotes |
 | A gifted humanity can only produce skeptics, never saints. — Emile M. Cioran, 1911-1995, French-Romanian philosopher 4 likes |
 | Years of secret suffering had taught me superhuman self-control. — Vladimir Nabokov, 1899-1977, Russian-American writer 6 likes |
 | Adversity reminds men of their religious duties. — Titus Livius, 59 BC-17 AD, Roman historian 5 likes |
 | The foundation of all technology is fire. — Isaac Asimov, 1920-1992, American Sci-Fi writer 12 likes |
 | Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. — H.L. Mencken, 1880-1956, American columnist & cultural critic 11 likes |
 | It is nobler to love the person next to you than to love mankind in general. — Zig Ziglar, 1926-2012, American self-help writer 4 likes |
 | It is less important to redistribute wealth than it is to redistribute opportunity. — Arthur Vandenberg, 1884-1951, American senator 4 likes |
 | Innocence is no protection. — Dr. Thomas Fuller, 1654-1734, English physician and adage collector 4 likes |
 | When liberty destroys order, the hunger for order will destroy liberty. — Will Durant, 1885-1981, American historian & philosopher 13 likes |
 | Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel. — Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784, English writer 9 likes |
 | Don't burn your bridges behind you. 3 likes |
 | All the tragedies which we can imagine return in the end to the one and only tragedy: the passage of time. — Simone Weil, 1909-1943, French philosopher 1 likes |
 | Those that go searching for love only make manifest their own lovelessness, and the loveless never find love, only the loving find love, and they never have to seek for it. — D. H. Lawrence, 1885-1930, British writer 1 likes |
 | One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing. — Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer 4 likes |
 | I also avoid green vegetables. They're grossly overrated. — Noel Coward, 1899-1973, British playwright 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 |
 | Women in America read “lifestyle” pages which are really glorifications of shopping. They teach us we must veil ourselves in make-up to be loved. And we willingly take the veil, thinking ourselves freed by it. Make-up is no more optional for us than the veil is for Arab women: it is our Western version of the chador. — Erica Jong, 1942-, American writer 1 likes |
 | Don't cry, you idiot! Live or die, but don't poison everything. — Saul Bellow, 1914-2005, Canadian-American writer, Nobel 1976 1 likes |
| You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy. — Erica Jong, 1942-, American writer 21 likes |
 | No person is important enough to make me angry. — Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881, English writer 1 likes |
 | Novelists tell that piece of truth hidden at the bottom of every lie. — Italo Calvino, 1923-1985, Italian writer 1 likes |
 | Psychoanalysis: a rabbit that was swallowed by a boa constrictor who just wanted to see what it was like in there. — Karl Kraus, 1874-1936, Austrian writer 3 likes |
 | The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor. — William Hazlitt , 1778-1830, English essayist & critic 1 likes |
 | At 50, everyone has the face he deserves. — George Orwell, 1903-1950, British writer 7 likes |
 | Prisons are built with stones of law; brothels with bricks of religion. — William Blake, 1757-1827, English poet & painter 12 likes |
 | The modern Little Red Riding Hood, reared on singing commercials, has no objection to being eaten by the wolf. — Marshall McLuhan, 1911-1980, Canadian academic & media theorist 1 likes |
 | They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality. — Frida Kahlo, 1907-1954, Mexican painter 1 likes |
 | Let our advance worrying become advance thinking and planning. — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 14 likes |
 | It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez, 1927-2014, Colombian writer 1 likes |
 | He who rides a tiger is afraid to dismount. 4 likes |
 | Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody. — Agatha Christie, 1890-1976, British writer 1 likes |
| I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze. — D. H. Lawrence, 1885-1930, British writer 1 likes |
 | When I want your opinion I'll give it to you. — Laurence J Peter, 1919-1990, Canadian writer & educator 6 likes |
 | My specialty is detached malevolence. — Alice Roosevelt Longworth, 1884-1980, daughter of Theodore Roosevelt 7 likes |
 | Know how to ask favors. There is nothing more difficult for some people, nor for others, easier. — Baltasar Gracian, 1601-1658, Spanish writer 1 likes |
 | [I don’t write because] I cannot write as I want and I wouldn’t write as I can. Ως μεν βούλομαι ου δύναμαι, ως δε δύναμαι ου βούλομαι. — Theocritus, 3rd cent. BC, Ancient Greek poet 6 likes |
| Politics offers yesterday’s answers to today’s questions — Marshall McLuhan, 1911-1980, Canadian academic & media theorist 1 likes |
 | Good fences make good neighbours. 5 likes |
 | In an ugly and unhappy world, the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness. — George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 13 likes |
 | Believe none of what you hear, and only half of what you see. — Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790, American politician & writer 5 likes |
