Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age. - Victor Hugo
Aristotle Quotes
We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action. - Aristotle
Benjamin Franklin Quotes
The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice. - Benjamin Franklin
Wallace Stevens Quotes
How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture. - Wallace Stevens
Albert Einstein Quotes
We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive. - Albert Einstein
Mark Twain Quotes
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. - Mark Twain
John Keats Quotes
It appears to me that almost any man may like the spider spin from his own inwards his own airy citadel. - John Keats
Buddha Quotes
We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves. - Buddha
Mother Teresa Quotes
Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness. - Mother Teresa
Jackie Kennedy Quotes
He didn't even have the satisfaction of being killed for civil rights. it had to be some silly little Communist. - Jackie Kennedy
Lao Tzu Quotes
Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength. - Lao Tzu
Charles Dickens Quotes
Papa, potatoes, poultry, prunes and prism, are all very good words for the lips. - Charles Dickens
Mortimer Adler Quotes
Ask others about themselves, at the same time, be on guard not to talk too much about yourself. - Mortimer Adler
Deborah Kerr Quotes
When you're young, you just go banging about, but you're more sensitive as you grow older. - Deborah Kerr
Charles Darwin Quotes
My mind seems to have become a kind of machine for grinding general laws out of large collections of facts. - Charles Darwin
Jackie Kennedy Quotes
The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship. - Jackie Kennedy
Andy Warhol Quotes
I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning. - Andy Warhol
Francis Bacon Quotes
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider. - Francis Bacon
Mark Twain Quotes
Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I've done it thousands of times. - Mark Twain
Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Charles Lindbergh Quotes
To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission. - Charles Lindbergh
Aristotle Quotes
Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way. - Aristotle
Pablo Picasso Quotes
You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer. - Pablo Picasso
Rodney Dangerfield Quotes
Men who do things without being told draw the most wages. - Rodney Dangerfield
Benjamin Franklin Quotes
Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good. - Benjamin Franklin
Leonardo da Vinci Quotes
Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel. - Leonardo da Vinci
Henry David Thoreau Quotes
I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor. - Henry David Thoreau
Albert Schweitzer Quotes
The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others. - Albert Schweitzer
Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. - Benjamin Disraeli
Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me. - Napoleon Bonaparte
Michael J. Fox Quotes
After a year or so I really thought I was Howard Hughes. Here I was at eighteen years old, getting all these checks. - Michael J. Fox
Pablo Picasso Quotes
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. - Pablo Picasso
Katharine Hepburn Quotes
It would be a terrific innovation if you could get your mind to stretch a little further than the next wisecrack. - Katharine Hepburn
Leonardo da Vinci Quotes
While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die. - Leonardo da Vinci
George Orwell Quotes
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness. - George Orwell
William Feather Quotes
When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children. - William Feather
Francis Bacon Quotes
Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible. - Francis Bacon
Emile M. Cioran Quotes
We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade tot he void. - Emile M. Cioran
Albert Schweitzer Quotes
Let me give you a definition of ethics: It is good to maintain and further life it is bad to damage and destroy life. - Albert Schweitzer
Mark Twain Quotes
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer. - Mark Twain
Maya Angelou Quotes
If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die. - Maya Angelou
John Ruskin Quotes
All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness. - John Ruskin
Alfred Hitchcock Quotes
The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them. - Alfred Hitchcock
Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Alexander Pope Quotes
Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined. - Alexander Pope
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible. - Mahatma Gandhi
Victor Hugo Quotes
The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas. - Victor Hugo
George Orwell Quotes
To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization. - George Orwell
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent. - Mahatma Gandhi
Virginia Woolf Quotes
I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. - Virginia Woolf
Maya Angelou Quotes
Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: "I'm with you kid. Let's go." - Maya Angelou
Emile M. Cioran Quotes
The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself. - Emile M. Cioran
Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Mark Twain Quotes
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. - Mark Twain
Aristotle Quotes
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. - Aristotle
Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes
Character is determined more by the lack of certain experiences than by those one has had. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Albert Einstein Quotes
Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters. - Albert Einstein
Voltaire Quotes
It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind. - Voltaire
William Shakespeare Quotes
O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad! - William Shakespeare
Abraham Lincoln Quotes
You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's initiative and independence. - Abraham Lincoln
Ronnie Barker Quotes
The marvelous thing about a joke with a double meaning is that it can only mean one thing. - Ronnie Barker
Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment. - Napoleon Bonaparte
Virginia Woolf Quotes
Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry. - Virginia Woolf
George Carlin Quotes
You know an odd feeling? Sitting on the toilet eating a chocolate candy bar. - George Carlin
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