Lao Tzu - Quotes
All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small. - Lao Tzu
Jane Austen - Quotes
Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim. - Jane Austen
Albert Einstein - Quotes
There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle. - Albert Einstein
John Ruskin - Quotes
Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime. - John Ruskin
Katharine Hepburn - Quotes
Acting is a nice childish profession - pretending you're someone else and, at the same time, selling yourself. - Katharine Hepburn
Charles Dickens - Quotes
He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two. - Charles Dickens #quotes
Michael J. Fox - Quotes
The only thing worse than an opportunity you don't deserve is blowing an opportunity. - Michael J. Fox #quotes
Michael Jordan - Quotes
I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying. - Michael Jordan #quotes
James F. Cooper - Quotes
Systems are to be appreciated by their general effects, and not by particular exceptions. - James F. Cooper #quotes
Meryl Streep - Quotes
People say, When you have children, everything changes. But maybe things are awakened that were already there. - Meryl Streep
Wallace Stevens - Quotes
The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it. - Wallace Stevens #quotes
Lao Tzu - Quotes
The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world. - Lao Tzu #quotes
F. Scott Fitzgerald - Quotes
No decent career was ever founded on a public. - F. Scott Fitzgerald #quotes
Tom Stoppard - Quotes
A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier. - Tom Stoppard #quotes
Mark Twain - Quotes
Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold. - Mark Twain #quotes
Jean de La Fontaine - Quotes
People must help one another; it is nature's law. - Jean de La Fontaine #quotes
Charles Darwin - Quotes
What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature! - Charles Darwin
Lao Tzu - Quotes
He who controls others may be powerful, but he who has mastered himself is mightier still. - Lao Tzu #quotes
James F. Cooper - Quotes
The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity. - James F. Cooper #quotes
Jean de La Fontaine - Quotes
Nothing is as dangerous as an ignorant friend; a wise enemy is to be preferred. - Jean de La Fontaine #quotes
Plato - Quotes
Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery. - Plato #quotes
Mark Twain - Quotes
Don't say the old lady screamed. Bring her on and let her scream. - Mark Twain #quotes
Lao Tzu - Quotes
A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. - Lao Tzu #quotes
Eminem - Quotes
I always wished for this, but it's almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream. - Eminem #quotes
Wallace Stevens - Quotes
In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature. - Wallace Stevens #quotes
Meryl Streep - Quotes
It is well that the earth is round that we do not see too far ahead. - Meryl Streep #quotes
Mark Twain - Quotes
Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven. - Mark Twain
Samuel Beckett - Quotes
Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity. - Samuel Beckett #quotes
Katharine Hepburn - Quotes
I never realized until lately that women were supposed to be the inferior sex. - Katharine Hepburn #quotes
Oscar Wilde - Quotes
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same. - Oscar Wilde #quotes
Erma Bombeck - Quotes
House guests should be regarded as perishables: Leave them out too long and they go bad. - Erma Bombeck #quotes
Charles Dickens - Quotes
Credit is a system whereby a person who can not pay gets another person who can not pay to guarantee that he can pay. - Charles Dickens
Dudley Moore - Quotes
I am trapped in this body, and there is nothing I can do about it. - Dudley Moore #quotes
Ludwig van Beethoven - Quotes
Only the pure in heart can make a good soup. - Ludwig van Beethoven #quotes
F. Scott Fitzgerald - Quotes
The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs. - F. Scott Fitzgerald #quotes
John Lennon - Quotes
You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are! - John Lennon
Albert Einstein - Quotes
The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive. - Albert Einstein #quotes
Jane Austen - Quotes
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. - Jane Austen #quotes
William Shakespeare - Quotes
I wasted time, and now doth time waste me. - William Shakespeare #quotes
Mark Twain - Quotes
By trying we can easily endure adversity. Another man's, I mean. - Mark Twain #quotes
Charles Dickens - Quotes
The men who learn endurance, are they who call the whole world, brother. - Charles Dickens #quotes
Jean de La Fontaine - Quotes
Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him. - Jean de La Fontaine #quotes
John Stuart Mill - Quotes
The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people. - John Stuart Mill
Jane Austen - Quotes
Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable. - Jane Austen
Mark Twain - Quotes
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. - Mark Twain
Charles Dickens - Biography
Source:
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Oscar Wilde - Quotes
I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability. - Oscar Wilde
Albert Einstein - Quotes
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed. - Albert Einstein
William Shakespeare - Quotes
Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered. - William Shakespeare #quotes
Bruce Lee - Quotes
A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at. - Bruce Lee #quotes
Nelson Mandela - Quotes
Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another. - Nelson Mandela
John Lennon - Quotes
Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans. - John Lennon #quotes
Patrick Stewart - Quotes
For seven years I did very little theatre, and I have to make up some time. - Patrick Stewart #quotes
Socrates - Quotes
Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant. - Socrates #quotes
H. G. Wells - Quotes
Sailors ought never to go to church. They ought to go to hell, where it is much more comfortable. - H. G. Wells
Mark Twain - Quotes
If you hold a cat by the tail you learn things you cannot learn any other way. - Mark Twain #quotes
Michael Jordan - Quotes
I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come. - Michael Jordan #quotes
Mark Twain - Quotes
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so. - Mark Twain
Meryl Streep - Quotes
I'm older. There's some sort of seniority. As a matter of fact, the seniority ebbs as you get older. - Meryl Streep #quotes
William Shakespeare - Quotes
Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them. - William Shakespeare
Charles Dickens - Quotes
Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that. - Charles Dickens
Mark Twain - Quotes
Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it. - Mark Twain
Michael J. Fox - Quotes
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business. - Michael J. Fox
Albert Einstein - Quotes
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. - Albert Einstein #quotes
Nelson Mandela - Quotes
We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right. - Nelson Mandela #quotes
Albert Einstein - Quotes
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater. - Albert Einstein #quotes
John Lennon - Quotes
Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you've got to let it grow. - John Lennon
Oscar Wilde - Quotes
A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. - Oscar Wilde #quotes
Sigmund Freud - Quotes
Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires. - Sigmund Freud
Albert Einstein - Quotes
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking. - Albert Einstein #quotes
Jane Austen - Quotes
One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering. - Jane Austen
Socrates - Quotes
He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy. - Socrates
Stephen Hawking - Quotes
It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value. - Stephen Hawking #quotes
Michael J. Fox - Quotes
I'm going to marry a Jewish woman because I like the idea of getting up Sunday morning and going to the deli. - Michael J. Fox
Oscar Wilde - Quotes
If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life. - Oscar Wilde #quotes
Charles Dickens - Quotes
The pain of parting is nothing to the joy of meeting again. - Charles Dickens #quotes
Coco Chanel - Quotes
As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom. - Coco Chanel
Mark Twain - Quotes
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. - Mark Twain #quotes
Meryl Streep - Quotes
Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials. - Meryl Streep #quotes
Albert Einstein - Quotes
It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge. - Albert Einstein #quotes
H. G. Wells - Quotes
The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships. - H. G. Wells #quotes
Audrey Hepburn - Quotes
If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all. - Audrey Hepburn #quotes
Jane Austen - Quotes
I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle. - Jane Austen #quotes
Nelson Mandela - Quotes
When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat. - Nelson Mandela #quotes
Marilyn Monroe - Quotes
It's not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on. - Marilyn Monroe #quotes
William Shakespeare - Quotes
How well he's read, to reason against reading! - William Shakespeare #quotes
Meryl Streep - Quotes
Sometimes with my children, I remember exactly how I felt as the child in this situation, not just how it feels to be me. - Meryl Streep
Oscar Wilde - Quotes
He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends. - Oscar Wilde #quotes
H. G. Wells - Quotes
The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law. - H. G. Wells #quotes
Charles Dickens - Quotes
Vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess! - Charles Dickens #quotes
Socrates - Quotes
Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us. - Socrates #quotes
William Shakespeare - Quotes
Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me. - William Shakespeare #quotes
Charles Dickens - Quotes
It opens the lungs, washes the countenance, exercises the eyes, and softens down the temper; so cry away. - Charles Dickens
John Stuart Mill - Quotes
Men might as well be imprisoned, as excluded from the means of earning their bread. - John Stuart Mill #quotes
William Shakespeare - Quotes
He that is giddy thinks the world turns round. - William Shakespeare #quotes
Albert Einstein - Quotes
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. - Albert Einstein #quotes
Mark Twain - Quotes
I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough. - Mark Twain
Meryl Streep - Quotes
My family really does come first. It always did and always will. - Meryl Streep #quotes
Charles Dickens - Quotes
This is a world of action, and not for moping and droning in. - Charles Dickens #quotes
Ludwig van Beethoven - Quotes
This is the mark of a really admirable man: steadfastness in the face of trouble. - Ludwig van Beethoven #quotes
Charles Dickens - Quotes
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else. - Charles Dickens #quotes
Jane Austen - Quotes
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love. - Jane Austen #quotes
William Shakespeare - Quotes
I will praise any man that will praise me. - William Shakespeare #quotes
Meryl Streep - Quotes
Chris Cooper is one of my favorite actors in the world. I've seen him in most everything he's done. - Meryl Streep
Jane Austen - Quotes
I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal. - Jane Austen
Meryl Streep - Quotes
I don't like to be gone all weekend and at night too. Because for 20 years, I've had children who are in school. - Meryl Streep
Michael J. Fox - Quotes
What other people think about me is not my business. - Michael J. Fox #quotes
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