Random Sample of Quotes |
 | The soul is awakened through service. — Erica Jong, 1942-, American writer 1 likes |
 | To realize the unimportance of time is the gate to wisdom. — Bertrand Russell, 1872-1970, British philosopher 1 likes |
 | The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., 1841-1935, 1 likes |
 | What could we accomplish if we knew we could not fail? — Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884-1962, Wife of the 32nd USA president 9 likes |
 | Not only do I not know what's going on, I wouldn't know what to do about it if I did. — George Carlin, 1936-2008, American comedian 9 likes |
 | We often miss opportunity because it's dressed in overalls and looks like work. — Thomas Edison, 1847-1934, American inventor 3 likes |
 | Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. — Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862, American writer 3 likes |
 | The Balkans aren't worth the life of a single Pomeranian grenadier. — Otto von Bismarck, 1815-1898, German chancellor 10 likes |
 | Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation. — Rumi, 1207-1273, Persian mystic & poet 11 likes |
 | Conquered people tend to be witty. — Saul Bellow, 1914-2005, Canadian-American writer, Nobel 1976 1 likes |
 | Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same. — Wilhelm Reich, 1897-1957, Austrian psychoanalyst & writer 1 likes |
 | He that will only believe what he can fully comprehend must either have a very long head, or a very short creed. — Charles Caleb Colton, 1780-1832, English cleric & writer 4 likes |
 | A civilization comes about through the successive contributions of generations that support each other, like the stones of a building. — André Frossard, 1915-1995, French politician & essayist 1 likes |
 | The door to happiness opens outward. — Søren Kierkegaard, 1813-1855, Danish philosopher 5 likes |
 | Beauty, devoid of grace, is a mere hook without the bait. — Talleyrand, 1754-1838, French statesman & diplomat 13 likes |
 | My life so far has been a long series of things I wasn't ready for. — Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-2025, British cartoonist & epigrammatist 1 likes |
 | Art for art's sake. Ars Gratia Artis. — motto of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (from the 19th century French slogan “l’art pour l’art”) 10 likes |
 | The sea hates a coward. — Eugene O’Neill, 1888-1953, American playwright, Nobel 1936 4 likes |
 | The only reason to give a speech is to change the world. — John Kennedy, 1917-1963, American President [1961-1963] 3 likes |
 | Forgetting is the great secret of strong and creative lives. — Honoré de Balzac, 1799-1850, French writer 1 likes |
 | Happy people are poor psychologists. — Stefan Zweig, 1881-1942, Austrian writer 4 likes |
 | Unexpected results are the rule rather than the exception. — Plautus, c. 254-184 BC, Roman playwright 1 likes |
| Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The Grace of God is glue. — Eugene O’Neill, 1888-1953, American playwright, Nobel 1936 5 likes |
 | Thinking of Poe, thinking of Mark Twain and Vachel Lindsay, thinking of Jack London and Tom Wolfe, one begins to feel there is almost no way of becoming a creative writer in America without being a loser. — Nelson Algren, 1909-1981, American writer 3 likes |
 | Test a servant while in the discharge of his duty, a relative in difficulty, a friend in adversity, and a wife in misfortune. — Chanakya, 370-280 π.X., Indian teacher & philosopher 1 likes |
 | Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained. — Joseph Roux, 1834-1905, French clergyman & poet 3 likes |
 | In every parting there is an image of death. — George Eliot, 1819-1880, English writer 1 likes |
 | I'm a strange person. Sometimes I hardly know what I'm going to do or say next. Sometimes I seem a stranger to myself. Sometimes what I do surprises me and I can't understand why I do it. — Philip Dick, 1928-1982, American sci-fi writer 1 likes |
| Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker. — George Eliot, 1819-1880, English writer 1 likes |
 | I've always thought that a feeling which changes never existed in the first place. — Ayn Rand, 1905-1982, American writer & philosopher 4 likes |
| Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind. — Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862, American writer 4 likes |
 | We are always the same age inside. — Gertrude Stein, 1874-1946, American writer 1 likes |
 | It will not always be summer, build barns. Ουκ αεί θέρος εσσείται, ποιείσθε καλιάς. — Hesiod, 7th cent. BC, Ancient Greek poet ‐ Works and Days -503 4 likes |
 | The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. — Jean-Paul Sartre, 1905-1980, French philosopher 5 likes |
 | Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in. — Robert Frost, 1874-1963, American poet 3 likes |
 | Education is a system of imposed ignorance. — Noam Chomsky, 1928-, American linguist, philosopher, social activist 1 likes |
 | Mankind became hysterical in the Middle Ages because it poorly repressed the sexual impressions of its Greek boyhood. — Karl Kraus, 1874-1936, Austrian writer 7 likes |
 | You have to die a few times before you can really live. — Charles Bukowski, 1920-1994, American writer 1 likes |
 | Why does the eye see more clearly when asleep than the imagination when awake? — Leonardo da Vinci, 1452-1519, Italian polymath & painter 1 likes |
 | No one is truly dead until they are no longer loved. — Théophile Gautier, 1811-1872, French poet & writer 1 likes |
