Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Sophocles Quotes
For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that. - Sophocles
Francis Bacon Quotes
It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other. - Francis Bacon
George Carlin Quotes
"I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence? - George Carlin
George Washington Quotes
The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon. - George Washington
Alfred Lord Tennyson Quotes
Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die. - Alfred Lord Tennyson
Anne Frank Quotes
We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same. - Anne Frank
Meryl Streep Quotes
My feeling about fears is, if you voice your fears, they may come true. I'm superstitious enough to believe that. - Meryl Streep
John Ruskin Quotes
Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth. - John Ruskin
Victor Hugo Quotes
Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization. - Victor Hugo
Virginia Woolf Quotes
Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue. - Virginia Woolf
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
John D. Rockefeller Quotes
It is wrong to assume that men of immense wealth are always happy. - John D. Rockefeller
Voltaire Quotes
I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it. - Voltaire
Epicurus Quotes
A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs. - Epicurus
Zig Ziglar Quotes
People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace. - Zig Ziglar
Alexander Pope Quotes
True ease in writing comes from art, not chance, as those who move easiest have learned to dance. - Alexander Pope
Francis Bacon Quotes
Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul. - Francis Bacon
John F. Kennedy Quotes
We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last. - John F. Kennedy
Virginia Woolf Quotes
As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world. - Virginia Woolf
William Shakespeare Quotes
When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain. - William Shakespeare
Winston Churchill Quotes
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. - Winston Churchill
Benjamin Franklin Quotes
There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self. - Benjamin Franklin
Sun Tzu Quotes
The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man. - Sun Tzu
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
That fatal drollery called a representative government. - Benjamin Disraeli
Benjamin Franklin Quotes
God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man. - Benjamin Franklin
Zig Ziglar Quotes
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily. - Zig Ziglar
Sophocles Quotes
Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future. - Sophocles
Winston Churchill Quotes
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see. - Winston Churchill
William Feather Quotes
Most of us regard good luck as our right, and bad luck as a betrayal of that right. - William Feather
Virginia Woolf Quotes
Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body? - Virginia Woolf
Mark Twain Quotes
My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water. - Mark Twain
George Carlin Quotes
You know the good part about all those executions in Texas? Fewer Texans. - George Carlin
Oscar Wilde Quotes
There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad. - Oscar Wilde
Charles Dickens Quotes
The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself. - Charles Dickens
Mahatma Gandhi Quotes
Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. - Mahatma Gandhi
Mark Twain Quotes
Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do. - Mark Twain
Emile M. Cioran Quotes
Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory. - Emile M. Cioran
John F. Kennedy Quotes
The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds. - John F. Kennedy
Albert Camus Quotes
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion. - Albert Camus
Albert Camus Quotes
In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist. - Albert Camus
Oscar Wilde Quotes
It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information. - Oscar Wilde
Benjamin Disraeli Quotes
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own. - Benjamin Disraeli
Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes
Mysticism is the mistake of an accidental and individual symbol for an universal one. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
George Washington Quotes
Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light. - George Washington
Theodore Roosevelt Quotes
No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse. - Theodore Roosevelt
Emile M. Cioran Quotes
It is because we are all imposters that we endure each other. - Emile M. Cioran
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