Once they get their hooks into you, you're a dead pigeon. - Bud Abbott
Mae West Quotes
Love thy neighbor - and if he happens to be tall, debonair and devastating, it will be that much easier. - Mae West
Francis Bacon Quotes
There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. - Francis Bacon
Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
We are all born for love. It is the principle of existence, and its only end. - Benjamin Disraeli
George Bernard Shaw Quotes
The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people. - George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else. - George Bernard Shaw
Confucius Quotes
To see and listen to the wicked is already the beginning of wickedness. - Confucius
Winston Churchill Quotes
The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult. - Winston Churchill
Sophocles Quotes
Do not grieve yourself too much for those you hate, nor yet forget them utterly. - Sophocles
Aristotle Quotes
You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. - Aristotle
George Bernard Shaw Quotes
The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react. - George Bernard Shaw
Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Agatha Christie Quotes
Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody. - Agatha Christie
Lao Tzu Quotes
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. - Lao Tzu
Jimi Hendrix Quotes
All I'm writing is just what I feel, that's all. I just keep it almost naked. And probably the words are so bland. - Jimi Hendrix
Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
The demand to be loved is the greatest of all arrogant presumptions. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Martin Luther King, Jr Quotes
There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth. - Martin Luther King, Jr
George Bernard Shaw Quotes
If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion. - George Bernard Shaw
Victor Hugo Quotes
One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas. - Victor Hugo
Winston Churchill Quotes
He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire. - Winston Churchill
Carl Jung Quotes
Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain. - Carl Jung
George Orwell quotes
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past. - George Orwell
Plato Quotes
Man never legislates, but destinies and accidents, happening in all sorts of ways, legislate in all sorts of ways. - Plato
Charlie Chaplin Quotes
Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles. - Charlie Chaplin
Epicurus Quotes
Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist. - Epicurus
Johnny Carson Quotes
Married men live longer than single men. But married men are a lot more willing to die. - Johnny Carson
T.S. Eliot Quotes
The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious. - T.S. Eliot
George Washington Quotes
The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government. - George Washington
Morihei Ueshiba Quotes
To injure an opponent is to injure yourself. To control aggression without inflicting injury in the Art of Peace. - Morihei Ueshiba
Winston Churchill Quotes
I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me. - Winston Churchill
Simone Weil Quotes
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life. - Simone Weil
George Orwell Quotes
No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy. - George Orwell
George Orwell Quotes
We sleep safe in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm. - George Orwell
Albert Camus Quotes
Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object. - Albert Camus
Jimi Hendrix Quotes
The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar. - Jimi Hendrix
Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues. - Napoleon Bonaparte
Dale Carnegie Quotes
Those convinced against their will are of the same opinion still. - Dale Carnegie
Agatha Christie Quotes
But surely for everything you have to love you have to pay some price. - Agatha Christie
Napoleon Hill Quotes
Patience, persistence and perspiration make an unbeatable combination for success. - Napoleon Hill
Henry David Thoreau Quotes
If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment. - Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau Quotes
It is remarkable how closely the history of the apple tree is connected with that of man. - Henry David Thoreau
Rudyard Kipling Quotes
Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run. - Rudyard Kipling
Winston Churchill Quotes
I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly. - Winston Churchill
John D. Rockefeller Quotes
I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity. - John D. Rockefeller
Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands. - Mahatma Gandhi
Abraham Lincoln Quotes
Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this. - Abraham Lincoln
Isaac Newton Quotes
To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science. - Isaac Newton
Winston Churchill Quotes
The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself. - Winston Churchill
T.S. Eliot Quotes
The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it. - T.S. Eliot
Rudyard Kipling Quotes
If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten. - Rudyard Kipling
Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace. - Theodore Roosevelt
Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
There is a rollicking kindness that looks like malice. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Jimi Hendrix Quotes
It's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead your made for life. - Jimi Hendrix
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Marilyn Monroe Quotes
If you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best. - Marilyn Monroe
Isaac Asimov Quotes
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. - Isaac Asimov
Plato Quotes
The first and greatest victory is to conquer yourself; to be conquered by yourself is of all things most shameful and vile. - Plato
Morihei Ueshiba Quotes
When an opponent comes forward, move in and greet him; if he wants to pull back, send him on his way. - Morihei Ueshiba
Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all. - Theodore Roosevelt
Maya Angelou Quotes
If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love. - Maya Angelou
Jimi Hendrix Quotes
Sometimes you want to give up the guitar, you'll hate the guitar. But if you stick with it, you're gonna be rewarded. - Jimi Hendrix
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Jimi Hendrix Quotes
Rock is so much fun. That's what it's all about - filling up the chest cavities and empty kneecaps and elbows. - Jimi Hendrix
Abraham Lincoln Quotes
When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees. - Abraham Lincoln
Alexander Pope Quotes
For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, His can't be wrong whose life is in the right. - Alexander Pope
Sophocles Quotes
What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence? - Sophocles
Confucius Quotes
It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them. - Confucius
C. S. Lewis Quotes
Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. - C. S. Lewis
Abraham Lincoln Quotes
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. - Abraham Lincoln
Ray Bradbury Quotes
Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall. - Ray Bradbury
Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
When art dresses in worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Isaac Asimov Quotes
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety. - Isaac Asimov
Dalai Lama Quotes
With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world. - Dalai Lama
Francis Bacon Quotes
In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior. - Francis Bacon
Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
We should never lose an occasion. Opportunity is more powerful even than conquerors and prophets. - Benjamin Disraeli
Samuel Beckett Quotes
We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much? - Samuel Beckett
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people. - Mahatma Gandhi
Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do. - Benjamin Disraeli
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Emile M. Cioran Quotes
Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth. - Emile M. Cioran
Albert Camus Quotes
It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all. - Albert Camus
Andy Warhol Quotes
Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art. - Andy Warhol
Henry David Thoreau Quotes
The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness. - Henry David Thoreau
Sophocles Quotes
For those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things. - Sophocles
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed. - Mahatma Gandhi
John D. Rockefeller Quotes
Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. - John D. Rockefeller
Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
When a doctor does go wrong he is the first of criminals. He has nerve and he has knowledge. - Arthur Conan Doyle
Maya Angelou Quotes
While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man. - Maya Angelou
Simone Weil Quotes
Petroleum is a more likely cause of international conflict than wheat. - Simone Weil
Martin Luther King, Jr Quotes
We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear. - Martin Luther King, Jr
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice. - Mahatma Gandhi
Abraham Lincoln Quotes
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. - Abraham Lincoln
Albert Camus Quotes
Without work, all life goes rotten. But when work is soulless, life stifles and dies. - Albert Camus
Ray Bradbury Quotes
I love all of the arts. I love motion pictures. I love stage. I love theater. - Ray Bradbury
George Carlin Quotes
Death is caused by swallowing small amounts of saliva over a long period of time. - George Carlin
Emile M. Cioran Quotes
When we cannot be delivered from ourselves, we delight in devouring ourselves. - Emile M. Cioran
Earl Nightingale Quotes
Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal. - Earl Nightingale
Alexander Pope Quotes
To observations which ourselves we make, we grow more partial for th' observer's sake. - Alexander Pope
Virginia Woolf Quotes
Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than either thought or theory. - Virginia Woolf
Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Albert Camus Quotes
There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed. - Albert Camus
Sun Tzu Quotes
Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move. - Sun Tzu
Victor Hugo Quotes
Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it. - Victor Hugo
Zig Ziglar Quotes
You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want. - Zig Ziglar
T.S. Eliot Quotes
I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics. - T.S. Eliot
Martin Luther King, Jr Quotes
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. - Martin Luther King, Jr
Francis Bacon Quotes
The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. - Francis Bacon
Henry David Thoreau Quotes
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new. - Henry David Thoreau
T.S. Eliot Quotes
There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him. - T.S. Eliot
Aristotle Quotes
Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. - Aristotle
George S. Patton Quotes
The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom. - George S. Patton
Meryl Streep Quotes
There's no road map on how to raise a family: it's always an enormous negotiation. - Meryl Streep
Emile M. Cioran Quotes
It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late. - Emile M. Cioran
Abraham Lincoln Quotes
Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition. - Abraham Lincoln
Mark Twain Quotes
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen. - Mark Twain
Plato Quotes
There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain. - Plato
Maya Angelou Quotes
The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain and goes straight to the heart. - Maya Angelou
Winston Churchill Quotes
Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong. - Winston Churchill
Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also. - Theodore Roosevelt
Denis Waitley Quotes
Personal satisfaction is the most important ingredient of success. - Denis Waitley
Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
Talk to a man about himself and he will listen for hours. - Benjamin Disraeli
Albert Camus Quotes
The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy. - Albert Camus
Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Anna Freud Quotes
Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training. - Anna Freud
John Wooden Quotes
Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful. - John Wooden
C. S. Lewis Quotes
The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is. - C. S. Lewis
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up. - Mahatma Gandhi
Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience. - Theodore Roosevelt
Aristotle Quotes
He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god. - Aristotle
Plato Quotes
When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure. - Plato
Oscar Wilde Quotes
It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection. - Oscar Wilde
William Blake Quotes
The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind. - William Blake
Henry David Thoreau Quotes
How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living? - Henry David Thoreau
Napoleon Hill Quotes
The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself. - Napoleon Hill
Carl Jung Quotes
The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong. - Carl Jung
John F. Kennedy Quotes
I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times. - John F. Kennedy
Francis Bacon Quotes
God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures. - Francis Bacon
Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous. - Napoleon Bonaparte
Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Lewis Carroll Quotes
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. - Lewis Carroll
Henry David Thoreau Quotes
It takes two to speak the truth: one to speak, and another to hear. - Henry David Thoreau
Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering. - Theodore Roosevelt
Abraham Lincoln Quotes
Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it. - Abraham Lincoln
Albert Schweitzer Quotes
The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries. - Albert Schweitzer
William Shakespeare Quotes
If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul. - William Shakespeare
Steve Jobs Quotes
For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through. - Steve Jobs
Emile M. Cioran Quotes
Who Rebels? Who rises in arms? Rarely the slave, but almost always the oppressor turned slave. - Emile M. Cioran
John Ruskin Quotes
Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together. - John Ruskin
Abraham Lincoln Quotes
The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read. - Abraham Lincoln
George Washington Quotes
Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience. - George Washington
Henry David Thoreau Quotes
It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all. - Henry David Thoreau
Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
I love those who do not know how to live for today. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Orson Welles Quotes
Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest. - Orson Welles
Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich. - Napoleon Bonaparte
Voltaire Quotes
It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one. - Voltaire
Sophocles Quotes
Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money. - Sophocles
Benjamin Franklin Quotes
Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other. - Benjamin Franklin
Moliere Quotes
It's true Heaven forbids some pleasures, but a compromise can usually be found. - Moliere
Winston Churchill Quotes
My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me. - Winston Churchill
Rudyard Kipling Quotes
A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower. - Rudyard Kipling
Orson Welles Quotes
I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could. - Orson Welles
Albert Camus Quotes
Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity. - Albert Camus
Abraham Lincoln Quotes
Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves. - Abraham Lincoln
Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
There is no waste of time in life like that of making explanations. - Benjamin Disraeli
Henry David Thoreau Quotes
I have found that hollow, which even I had relied on for solid. - Henry David Thoreau
Plato Quotes
Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods. - Plato
Mark Twain Quotes
Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all. - Mark Twain
Denis Waitley Quotes
Never become so much of an expert that you stop gaining expertise. View life as a continuous learning experience. - Denis Waitley
Sophocles Quotes
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities. - Sophocles
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver. - Mahatma Gandhi
Oscar Wilde Quotes
It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly. - Oscar Wilde
Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. - Arthur Conan Doyle
Victor Hugo Quotes
No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep. - Victor Hugo
Simone Weil Quotes
I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her. - Simone Weil
Benjamin Franklin Quotes
There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous. - Benjamin Franklin
William Shakespeare Quotes
Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man. - William Shakespeare
Benjamin Franklin Quotes
Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it. - Benjamin Franklin
Samuel Beckett Quotes
Dublin university contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick. - Samuel Beckett
Mark Twain Quotes
It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand. - Mark Twain
Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation. - Benjamin Disraeli
Dalai Lama Quotes
We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection. - Dalai Lama
William Shakespeare Quotes
Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping? - William Shakespeare
Denis Waitley Quotes
Listen to the desires of your children. Encourage them and then give them the autonomy to make their own decision. - Denis Waitley
George S. Patton Quotes
Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more. - George S. Patton
Moliere Quotes
Of all follies there is none greater than wanting to make the world a better place. - Moliere
William Shakespeare Quotes
To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man. - William Shakespeare
Mark Twain Quotes
Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation. - Mark Twain
Francis Bacon Quotes
It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral. - Francis Bacon
Ayn Rand Quotes
The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself and live. - Ayn Rand
Benjamin Franklin Quotes
Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. - Benjamin Franklin
Henry David Thoreau Quotes
Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something. - Henry David Thoreau
Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
The paperback is very interesting but I find it will never replace the hardcover book - it makes a very poor doorstop. - Alfred Hitchcock
Aristotle Quotes
My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. - Aristotle
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion. - Mahatma Gandhi
John Ruskin Quotes
A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort. - John Ruskin
John D. Rockefeller Quotes
I would rather earn 1% off a 100 people's efforts than 100% of my own efforts. - John D. Rockefeller
Abraham Lincoln Quotes
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. - Abraham Lincoln
Charles Lindbergh Quotes
Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance. - Charles Lindbergh
John Ruskin Quotes
It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists. - John Ruskin
Thomas Merton Quotes
Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another. - Thomas Merton
Victor Hugo Quotes
Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet. - Victor Hugo
Lao Tzu Quotes
To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect. - Lao Tzu
Emile M. Cioran Quotes
The more we try to rest ourselves from our Egos, the deeper we sink into it. - Emile M. Cioran
Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people. - Theodore Roosevelt
Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander. - Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon Hill Quotes
If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge. - Napoleon Hill
Duke of Wellington Quotes
Our army is composed of the scum of the earth - the mere scum of the earth. - Duke of Wellington
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless. - Mahatma Gandhi
Winston Churchill Quotes
India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator. - Winston Churchill
Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Thomas Jefferson Quotes
Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it. - Thomas Jefferson
Buddha Quotes
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting. - Buddha
Winston Churchill Quotes
Study history, study history. In history lies all the secrets of statecraft. - Winston Churchill
Plato Quotes
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. - Plato
Winston Churchill Quotes
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else. - Winston Churchill
Morihei Ueshiba Quotes
Progress comes to those who train and train; reliance on secret techniques will get you nowhere. - Morihei Ueshiba
Arthur Conan Doyle Quotes
Our ideas must be as broad as Nature if they are to interpret Nature. - Arthur Conan Doyle
T.S. Eliot Quotes
Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to. - T.S. Eliot
William Shakespeare Quotes
Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven. - William Shakespeare
Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow. - Friedrich Nietzsche
John Ruskin Quotes
No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish. - John Ruskin
William Blake Quotes
What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care. - William Blake
Martin Luther King, Jr
I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear. - Martin Luther King, Jr
Thomas A. Edison Quotes
Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. - Thomas A. Edison
Lao Tzu Quotes
The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own. - Lao Tzu
George Orwell Quotes
So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot. - George Orwell
George Washington Quotes
Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble. - George Washington
Oscar Wilde Quotes
I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world. - Oscar Wilde
Epicurus Quotes
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship. - Epicurus
Benjamin Franklin Quotes
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. - Benjamin Franklin
Emile M. Cioran Quotes
Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh. - Emile M. Cioran
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
No man ever prayed heartily without learning something. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Pablo Picasso Quotes
Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun. - Pablo Picasso
Warren Buffett Quotes
Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago. - Warren Buffett
Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily. - Napoleon Bonaparte
Carl Jung Quotes
Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness. - Carl Jung
William Shakespeare Quotes
Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear. - William Shakespeare
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. - Mahatma Gandhi
Plato Quotes
Justice in the life and conduct of the State is possible only as first it resides in the hearts and souls of the citizens. - Plato
Albert Schweitzer Quotes
Until he extends his circle of compassion to include all living things, man will not himself find peace. - Albert Schweitzer
C. S. Lewis Quotes
Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time. - C. S. Lewis
Morihei Ueshiba Quotes
Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead. - Morihei Ueshiba
Robert Mitchum Quotes
People think I have an interesting walk. Hell, I'm just trying to hold my gut in. - Robert Mitchum
George S. Patton Quotes
There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear. - George S. Patton
Henry David Thoreau Quotes
The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles. - Henry David Thoreau
Warren Buffett Quotes
Rule No.1: Never lose money. Rule No.2: Never forget rule No.1. - Warren Buffett
George Burns Quotes
If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age. - George Burns
Audrey Hepburn Quotes
When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that's when I think life is over. - Audrey Hepburn
Agatha Christie Quotes
One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late. - Agatha Christie
Denis Waitley Quotes
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence. - Denis Waitley
Alexander Pope Quotes
Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly. - Alexander Pope
Steve Jobs Quotes
And no, we don't know where it will lead. We just know there's something much bigger than any of us here. - Steve Jobs
Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it. - Alfred Hitchcock
Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
There is no such thing as accident; it is fate misnamed. - Napoleon Bonaparte
Orson Welles Quotes
At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable. - Orson Welles
John D. Rockefeller Quotes
Don't blame the marketing department. The buck stops with the chief executive. - John D. Rockefeller
Denis Waitley Quotes
Life is inherently risky. There is only one big risk you should avoid at all costs, and that is the risk of doing nothing. - Denis Waitley
Leonardo da Vinci Quotes
There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see. - Leonardo da Vinci
Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
What do I care about the purring of one who cannot love, like the cat? - Friedrich Nietzsche
Gaston Bachelard Quotes
Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make. - Gaston Bachelard
Winston Churchill Quotes
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse. - Winston Churchill
Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Henry David Thoreau Quotes
We are not what we are, nor do we treat or esteem each other for such, but for what we are capable of being. - Henry David Thoreau
Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Albert Camus Quotes
Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference. - Albert Camus
Plato Quotes
Music is the movement of sound to reach the soul for the education of its virtue. - Plato
Abraham Lincoln Quotes
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure. - Abraham Lincoln
Oscar Wilde Quotes
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation. - Oscar Wilde
Victor Hugo Quotes
I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself. - Victor Hugo
Alexander Pope Quotes
Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind. - Alexander Pope
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Henry David Thoreau Quotes
Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves. - Henry David Thoreau
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
No great man ever complains of want of opportunity. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Buddha Quotes
Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life. - Buddha
Noel Coward Quotes
Wit ought to be a glorious treat like caviar; never spread it about like marmalade. - Noel Coward
Victor Hugo Quotes
Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful. - Victor Hugo
Jules Verne Quotes
I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through. - Jules Verne
Emile M. Cioran Quotes
Great persecutors are recruited among martyrs whose heads haven't been cut off. - Emile M. Cioran
Thomas A. Edison Quotes
Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure. - Thomas A. Edison
Henry David Thoreau Quotes
It is too late to be studying Hebrew; it is more important to understand even the slang of today. - Henry David Thoreau
Isaac Asimov Quotes
The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing. - Isaac Asimov
T.S. Eliot Quotes
Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly. - T.S. Eliot
Virginia Woolf Quotes
Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art. - Virginia Woolf
Gaston Bachelard Quotes
So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us. - Gaston Bachelard
Emile M. Cioran Quotes
Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows. - Emile M. Cioran
Henry David Thoreau Quotes
Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. - Henry David Thoreau
Henry David Thoreau Quotes
We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success. - Henry David Thoreau
Victor Hugo Quotes
Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest. - Victor Hugo
Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things. - Theodore Roosevelt
Pablo Picasso Quotes
The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls. - Pablo Picasso
Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer. - Theodore Roosevelt
Carl Jung Quotes
Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose. - Carl Jung
Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Oscar Wilde Quotes
It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious. - Oscar Wilde
Victor Hugo Quotes
Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come. - Victor Hugo
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