It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly. - Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf Quotes
Buddha Quotes
To keep the body in good health is a duty... otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear. - Buddha
Pablo Picasso Quotes
To make oneself hated is more difficult than to make oneself loved. - Pablo Picasso
Sun Tzu Quotes
Thus, what is of supreme importance in war is to attack the enemy's strategy. - Sun Tzu
Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics. - Benjamin Disraeli
Epicurus Quotes
The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd. - Epicurus
Johnny Carson Quotes
For three days after death, hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off. - Johnny Carson
Francis Bacon Quotes
The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses. - Francis Bacon
John D. Rockefeller Quotes
Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim. - John D. Rockefeller
Rodney Dangerfield Quotes
One year they asked me to be poster boy - for birth control. - Rodney Dangerfield
Gaston Bachelard Quotes
Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul. - Gaston Bachelard
Henry David Thoreau Quotes
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root. - Henry David Thoreau
Mortimer Adler Quotes
The purpose of learning is growth, and our minds, unlike our bodies, can continue growing as we continue to live. - Mortimer Adler
Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning. - Benjamin Disraeli
George Orwell Quotes
People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf. - George Orwell
Francis Bacon Quotes
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes. - Francis Bacon
Mark Twain Quotes
If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat. - Mark Twain
Bob Hope Quotes
When they asked Jack Benny to do something for the Actor's Orphanage - he shot both his parents and moved in. - Bob Hope
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent. - Mahatma Gandhi
Oscar Wilde Quotes
There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about. - Oscar Wilde
Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Johnny Carson Quotes
I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself. - Johnny Carson
Albert Schweitzer Quotes
We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness. - Albert Schweitzer
Maya Angelou Quotes
Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise. - Maya Angelou
Francis Bacon Quotes
We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do. - Francis Bacon
Virginia Woolf Quotes
I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse, perhaps, to be locked in. - Virginia Woolf
Pablo Picasso Quotes
When I die, it will be a shipwreck, and as when a huge ship sinks, many people all around will be sucked down with it. - Pablo Picasso
William Feather Quotes
An invitation to a wedding invokes more trouble than a summons to a police court. - William Feather
Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
When a hundred men stand together, each of them loses his mind and gets another one. - Friedrich Nietzsche
John Keats Quotes
With a great poet the sense of Beauty overcomes every other consideration, or rather obliterates all consideration. - John Keats
Albert Schweitzer Quotes
Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing. - Albert Schweitzer
William Shakespeare Quotes
It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood. - William Shakespeare
John D. Rockefeller Quotes
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success. - John D. Rockefeller
Carl Jung Quotes
The word "happiness" would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. - Carl Jung
Simone Weil Quotes
Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison. - Simone Weil
Oscar Wilde Quotes
America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. - Oscar Wilde
Benjamin Franklin Quotes
Wars are not paid for in wartime, the bill comes later. - Benjamin Franklin
Alexander Pope Quotes
Lo! The poor Indian, whose untutored mind sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind. - Alexander Pope
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience. - Mahatma Gandhi
Henry David Thoreau Quotes
Instead of noblemen, let us have noble villages of men. - Henry David Thoreau
Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering. - Friedrich Nietzsche
William Shakespeare Quotes
God has given you one face, and you make yourself another. - William Shakespeare
Emile M. Cioran Quotes
Our works, whatever they may be, derive from our incapacity to kill or to kill ourselves. - Emile M. Cioran
Oscar Wilde Quotes
One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry. - Oscar Wilde
Albert Einstein Quotes
We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings. - Albert Einstein
Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it. - Alfred Hitchcock
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