If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself. - Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin Quotes
George Burns Quotes
Too bad all the people who know how to run this country are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair. - George Burns
George Orwell Quotes
On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. - George Orwell
Gaston Bachelard Quotes
One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it. - Gaston Bachelard
George Orwell Quotes
Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice. - George Orwell
Epicurus Quotes
It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself. - Epicurus
Mark Twain Quotes
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. - Mark Twain
Alexander Pope Quotes
On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale. - Alexander Pope
Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
The future influences the present just as much as the past. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Emile M. Cioran Quotes
What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name - and moving on. - Emile M. Cioran
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear. - Mahatma Gandhi
Lewis Carroll Quotes
Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves. - Lewis Carroll
Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
I have been ever of opinion that revolutions are not to be evaded. - Benjamin Disraeli
T.S. Eliot Quotes
What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from. - T.S. Eliot
John Adams Quotes
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. - John Adams
Mark Twain Quotes
Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied. - Mark Twain
Victor Hugo Quotes
Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit. - Victor Hugo
Henry David Thoreau Quotes
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. - Henry David Thoreau
Albert Schweitzer Quotes
Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory. - Albert Schweitzer
Aristotle Quotes
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. - Aristotle
Virginia Woolf Quotes
One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune than when they triumph. - Virginia Woolf
Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
Whoever does not have a good father should procure one. - Friedrich Nietzsche
James F. Cooper Quotes
No civilized society can long exist, with an active power in its bosom that is stronger than the law. - James F. Cooper
Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in. - Napoleon Bonaparte
Lewis Carroll Quotes
One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others. - Lewis Carroll
Mark Twain Quotes
Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. - Mark Twain
Plato Quotes
No man should bring children into the world who is unwilling to persevere to the end in their nature and education. - Plato
Leonardo da Vinci Quotes
Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake? - Leonardo da Vinci
Stephen King Quotes
I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged. - Stephen King
Mark Twain Quotes
Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself. - Mark Twain
Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
Such a one do I remember, whom to look at was love. - Alfred Lord Tennyson
Lewis Carroll Quotes
She generally gave herself very good advice, (though she very seldom followed it). - Lewis Carroll
William Shakespeare Quotes
Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent. - William Shakespeare
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart. - Mahatma Gandhi
Simone Weil Quotes
In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish. - Simone Weil
Benjamin Franklin Quotes
When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it. - Benjamin Franklin
Victor Hugo Quotes
It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life. - Victor Hugo
Abraham Lincoln Quotes
That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well. - Abraham Lincoln
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is. - Mahatma Gandhi
William Wordsworth Quotes
To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears. - William Wordsworth
Johnny Carson Quotes
If variety is the spice of life, marriage is the big can of leftover Spam. - Johnny Carson
Albert Einstein Quotes
It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder. - Albert Einstein
Albert Schweitzer Quotes
The highest proof of the spirit is love. Love the eternal thing which can already on earth possess as it really is. - Albert Schweitzer
Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Rita Rudner Quotes
I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult. - Rita Rudner
Carl Jung Quotes
The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. - Carl Jung
George Orwell Quotes
If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever. - George Orwell
Henry David Thoreau Quotes
It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right. - Henry David Thoreau
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity. - Mahatma Gandhi
Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy. - Napoleon Bonaparte
Rudyard Kipling Quotes
He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors. - Rudyard Kipling
Jane Austen Quotes
The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid. - Jane Austen
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