Random Sample of Quotes |
 | It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself. — Graham Greene, 1904-1991, British writer 4 likes |
 | Is it progress if a cannibal uses knife and fork? — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec, 1906-1966, Polish author of maxims 10 likes |
 | The reason that clichés become clichés is that they are the hammers and screwdrivers in the toolbox of communication. — Terry Pratchett, 1948-2015, British writer 1 likes |
 | Every man who possibly can should force himself to a holiday of a full month in a year, whether he feels like taking it or not. — William James, 1842-1910, American philosopher 3 likes |
 | As soon as you have made a thought, laugh at it. — Lao-Tzu, 6th cent. BC, Chinese philosopher 8 likes |
 | Hate traps us by binding us too tightly to our adversary. — Milan Kundera, 1929-2023, Czech writer 1 likes |
 | Diplomacy, n. The patriotic art of lying for one's country. — Ambrose Bierce, 1842–1914, American writer 5 likes |
 | War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that the enemy too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost. — Karl Kraus, 1874-1936, Austrian writer 9 likes |
 | An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones. — Somerset Maugham, 1874-1965, British writer 4 likes |
 | Poetry, Painting & Music, the three powers in man of conversing with paradise, which the flood did not sweep away. — William Blake, 1757-1827, English poet & painter 3 likes |
 | In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability. — John Kenneth Galbraith, 1908-2006, American-Canadian economist 1 likes |
 | Mental toughness is essential to success. — Vince Lombardi, 1913-1970, American football coach 4 likes |
 | We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving. — Cyril Connolly, 1903-1974, British writer 6 likes |
 | When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. — Elbert Hubbard, 1856-1915, American writer 4 likes |
 | I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am. — Sylvia Plath, 1932-1963, American poet & writer 5 likes |
 | Age is a state of mind. Youth and age exist only among the ordinary people. All the more talented and exceptional of us are sometimes old, just as we are sometimes happy, and sometimes sad. — Hermann Hesse, 1877-1962, German writer, Nobel 1946 1 likes |
 | For many people, speaking precedes thinking. They only know what they are thinking after they have heard what they have said. — Gustave Le Bon, 1841-1931, French polymath & writer 2 likes |
 | Now she is like everyone else. — Charles de Gaulle, 1890-1970, French President (at the funeral of his daughter Anne, who had Down Syndrome, 1948) 5 likes |
| I had to touch you with my hands, I had to taste you with my tongue; one can’t love and do nothing. — Graham Greene, 1904-1991, British writer 1 likes |
 | It's not so much being rich that brings happiness, it's becoming rich. — Stendhal, 1783-1842, French writer 1 likes |
 | And then will come the day when the last person who remembers me will die. — Vladimir Nabokov, 1899-1977, Russian-American writer 6 likes |
 | Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance. — Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784, English writer 3 likes |
 | The general limits of your freedom are merely these: that you do not trespass upon the equal rights of others. — Dwight Eisenhower, 1890-1969, American general & President 8 likes |
 | Men are born naked and live clothed, as they are born independent and live under laws. — Antoine Rivarol, 1753-1801, French author of maxims 1 likes |
| Chaos is found in greatest abundance wherever order is being sought. It always defeats order, because it is better organized. — Terry Pratchett, 1948-2015, British writer 1 likes |
 | I have an appetite for silence. — Emily Dickinson, 1830-1886, American poet 1 likes |
 | There is no shame in changing your mind every day: to change your mind you need to have spare ideas. — Pitigrilli (Dino Segre), 1893-1975, Italian writer 3 likes |
 | Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity. — Simone Weil, 1909-1943, French philosopher 1 likes |
 | I like to be the right thing in the wrong place and the wrong thing in the right place. — Andy Warhol, 1928-1987, American artist 4 likes |
 | I believe in Spinoza's God, Who reveals Himself in the lawful harmony of the world, not in a God Who concerns Himself with the fate and the doings of mankind. — Albert Einstein, 1879-1955, German-Jewish physicist 7 likes |
 | Hope is patience with the lamp lit. — Tertullian, 155-240 AD, Berber-Roman Christian author 1 likes |
 | Democracy is not a tearing down; it is a building up. It does not denial of the divine right of kings; it asserts the divine right of all men. — Calvin Coolidge, 1872-1933, American President [1923-1929] 5 likes |
 | Every ruler new to power is harsh. Άπας δε τραχύς όστις αν νέον κρατή. — Aeschylus, 525-456 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Prometheus Bound 3 likes |
 | I knew a time when the main pollution came from people shaking their carpets out of the window. — Gilbert Cesbron, 1913-1979, French writer 2 likes |
 | Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan. — Galeazzo Ciano, 1903-1944, Italian politician 26 likes |
 | I come from a stupid family. During the Civil War my great uncle fought for the West. — Rodney Dangerfield, 1924-2004, American comedian 9 likes |
| They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. — Andy Warhol, 1928-1987, American artist 4 likes |
 | I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy. — Joseph Roux, 1834-1905, French clergyman & poet 5 likes |
 | The gates of hell are open night and day. Smooth the descent, and easy is the way. But to return, and view the cheerful skies, In this the task and mighty labor lies. — Virgil, 70-19 BC, Roman poet 9 likes |
 | The car has become an article of dress without which we feel uncertain, unclad, and incomplete in the urban compound. — Marshall McLuhan, 1911-1980, Canadian academic & media theorist 1 likes |
