Henry David Thoreau Quotes

I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men. - Henry David Thoreau

Stephen King Quotes

You can't deny laughter; when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants. - Stephen King

Leonardo da Vinci Quotes

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it. - Leonardo da Vinci

Alexander Pope Quotes

Passions are the gales of life. - Alexander Pope

Albert Einstein Quotes

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity. - Albert Einstein

Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

Love is not consolation. It is light. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Warren Buffett Quotes

We always live in an uncertain world. What is certain is that the United States will go forward over time. - Warren Buffett

Benjamin Franklin Quotes

When will mankind be convinced and agree to settle their difficulties by arbitration? - Benjamin Franklin

Pablo Picasso Quotes

To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic. - Pablo Picasso

Voltaire Quotes

I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom. - Voltaire

Mark Twain Quotes

There is no distinctly American criminal class - except Congress. - Mark Twain

William Shakespeare Quotes

The empty vessel makes the loudest sound. - William Shakespeare

Aristotle Quotes

Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. - Aristotle

Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver. - Friedrich Nietzsche

George Burns Quotes

If it's a good script I'll do it. And if it's a bad script, and they pay me enough, I'll do it. - George Burns

Emile M. Cioran Quotes

Philosophers write for professors; thinkers for writers. - Emile M. Cioran

Voltaire Quotes

Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce. - Voltaire

Pablo Picasso Quotes

We don't grow older, we grow riper. - Pablo Picasso

Henry David Thoreau Quotes

The bluebird carries the sky on his back. - Henry David Thoreau

Virginia Woolf Quotes

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. - Virginia Woolf

Victor Hugo Quotes

Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots. - Victor Hugo

William Shakespeare Quotes

There's many a man has more hair than wit. - William Shakespeare

Albert Schweitzer Quotes

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve. - Albert Schweitzer

Johnny Carson Quotes

If life were fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead. - Johnny Carson

Oscar Wilde Quotes

A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies. - Oscar Wilde

George Berkeley Quotes

So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken. - George Berkeley

Benjamin Disraeli Quotes

London is a modern Babylon. - Benjamin Disraeli

Maya Angelou Quotes

The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind. - Maya Angelou

Harold Wilson Quotes

If I had the choice between smoked salmon and tinned salmon, I'd have it tinned. With vinegar. - Harold Wilson

Voltaire Quotes

Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung. - Voltaire

Emile M. Cioran Quotes

A marvel that has nothing to offer, democracy is at once a nation's paradise and its tomb. - Emile M. Cioran

Francis Bacon Quotes

If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world. - Francis Bacon

Benjamin Franklin Quotes

Beauty and folly are old companions. - Benjamin Franklin

Jackie Kennedy Quotes

An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor. - Jackie Kennedy

Mark Twain Quotes

Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident. - Mark Twain

F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes

Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within. - Mahatma Gandhi

William Shakespeare Quotes

How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world. - William Shakespeare

Buddha Quotes

The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart. - Buddha

Francis Bacon Quotes

The desire of excessive power caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge caused men to fall. - Francis Bacon

Virginia Woolf Quotes

Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others. - Virginia Woolf

Napoleon Hill Quotes

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top. - Napoleon Hill

Henry David Thoreau Quotes

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are. - Henry David Thoreau

Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Aristotle Quotes

Hope is the dream of a waking man. - Aristotle

Alexander Pope Quotes

For Forms of Government let fools contest; whatever is best administered is best. - Alexander Pope

Charles Lindbergh Quotes

Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests. - Charles Lindbergh

Victor Hugo Quotes

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant. - Victor Hugo

Benjamin Franklin Quotes

He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals. - Benjamin Franklin

Aristotle Quotes

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. - Aristotle

George Orwell Quotes

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection. - George Orwell

Victor Hugo Quotes

When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind. - Victor Hugo

Peter Cook Quotes

I would much prefer to be a judge than a coal miner because of the absence of falling coal. - Peter Cook

Mark Twain Quotes

The lack of money is the root of all evil. - Mark Twain

Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

The abdomen is the reason why man does not readily take himself to be a god. - Friedrich Nietzsche

William Shakespeare Quotes

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt. - William Shakespeare

Abraham Lincoln Quotes

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help. - Abraham Lincoln

Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind. - Mahatma Gandhi

Pablo Picasso Quotes

One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail. - Pablo Picasso

Mortimer Adler Quotes

Theories of love are found in the works of scientists, philosophers, and theologians. - Mortimer Adler

Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination. - Napoleon Bonaparte

John Keats Quotes

Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen. - John Keats

William Feather Quotes

Business is always interfering with pleasure - but it makes other pleasures possible. - William Feather

William Shakespeare Quotes

Nothing can come of nothing. - William Shakespeare

Noel Coward Quotes

The higher the building the lower the morals. - Noel Coward

Benjamin Franklin Quotes

How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them. - Benjamin Franklin

Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes

You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Pablo Picasso Quotes

The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima. - Pablo Picasso

Charles Dickens Quotes

We forge the chains we wear in life. - Charles Dickens

Mahatma Gandhi Quotes

Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies. - Mahatma Gandhi

George Carlin Quotes

The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live. - George Carlin

Warren Buffett Quotes

We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful. - Warren Buffett

Bud Abbott Quotes

Well, I always had a chauffer, because I have never driven a car in my life. I still can't drive. - Bud Abbott

Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes

The strong man is the one who is able to intercept at will the communication between the senses and the mind. - Napoleon Bonaparte

John Keats Quotes

He ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead. - John Keats

Meryl Streep Quotes

Every single decision I make about what material I do, what I'm putting out in the world, is because of my children. - Meryl Streep

Michelangelo Quotes

Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven. - Michelangelo

George Berkeley Quotes

Truth is the cry of all, but the game of few. - George Berkeley

Alexander Pope Quotes

How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot. - Alexander Pope

Stephen King Quotes

Get busy living, or get busy dying. - Stephen King

Pablo Picasso Quotes

If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur. - Pablo Picasso

Epicurus Quotes

I would rather be first in a little Iberian village than second in Rome. - Epicurus

George Orwell Quotes

Liberal: a power worshipper without power. - George Orwell

Buddha Quotes

The tongue like a sharp knife... Kills without drawing blood. - Buddha