Random Sample of Quotes |
 | The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause. — Mark Twain, 1835-1910, American writer 10 likes |
 | What are they planting to grow the seedless watermelon? — Jerry Seinfeld, 1954-, American comedian 4 likes |
 | The government was set to protect man from criminals-and the constitution was written to protect man from the government. The Bill of Rights was not directed at private citizens, but against the government-as an explicit declaration that individual rights supersede any public or social power. — Ayn Rand, 1905-1982, American writer & philosopher 5 likes |
 | Ability can take you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there. — John Wooden, 1910-2010, American basketball coach 6 likes |
 | But test them all; hold on to what is good. — Epistles of Paul ‐ 1 Thessalonians 5:21 4 likes |
 | Take away paradox from the thinker and you have a professor. |
 | Those who know nothing about history are doomed forever to repeat it. — Will Durant, 1885-1981, American historian & philosopher 9 likes |
 | Sometimes it’s more important to be human, than to have good taste. |
| If the truth shall kill them, let them die. — Ayn Rand, 1905-1982, American writer & philosopher 7 likes |
 | Better to live on a corner of the roof than share a house with a quarrelsome wife. — Old Testament ‐ Proverbs 21:1 4 likes |
 | If you believe everything you read, better not read. 4 likes |
 | He’d been wrong, there was a light at the end of the tunnel, and it was a flamethrower. |
| Never trust any complicated cocktail that remains perfectly clear until the last ingredient goes in, and then immediately clouds. |
 | Hope is the normal form of delirium. — Emile M. Cioran, 1911-1995, French-Romanian philosopher 3 likes |
 | I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive. |
 | Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache. |
 | A sure sign of a good book is that you like it more the older you get. — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, 1742-1799, German author of maxims 5 likes |
 | What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics. — David Lloyd George, 1863-1945, British Prime Minister [1916-1922] 2 likes |
 | The books we read should be chosen with great care, that they may be, as an Egyptian king wrote over his library, “The medicines of the soul”. |
 | A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time. — Francis Bacon, 1561-1626, English philosopher 5 likes |
 | Sooner or later...one has to take sides – if one is to remain human. |
 | Perfection of the soul puts right the faults of the body. Ψυχής τελεότης σκήνεος μοχθηρίην ορθοί. — Democritus, 470-370 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 12 likes |
 | When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear. |
| Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter. — Ayn Rand, 1905-1982, American writer & philosopher 3 likes |
 | You don't make good literature with good feelings. So the Bible, what a masterpiece! |
 | A kiss is a rosy dot placed on the “i” in loving. — Edmond Rostand, 1868-1918, French playwright (“Cyrano de Bergerac”) |
 | To have doubted one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man. |
| Gods don't like people not doing much work. People who aren't busy all the time might start to think. — Terry Pratchett, 1948-2015, British writer 5 likes |
 | Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn. — Gore Vidal, 1925-2012, American writer 5 likes |
 | Either define the moment or the moment will define you. — Walt Whitman, 1819-1892, American poet 5 likes |
 | The sea has neither meaning nor pity. — Anton Chekhov, 1860-1904, Russian writer 5 likes |
 | It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't. — Mignon McLaughlin, 1913-1983, American magazine editor 3 likes |
 | Freedom is nothing but a chance to be better. — Albert Camus, 1913-1960, French writer, Nobel 1957 4 likes |
 | If you are poor, distinguish yourself by your virtues; if rich, by your good deeds. |
 | Until we get rid of religion, we won't be able to conduct the search for God. — Arthur Clarke, 1917-2008, British Sci-Fi writer 4 likes |
 | The theater is the domain of appearances. |
 | Whoever you are, I have always depended on the kindness of strangers. — from the film A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) 6 likes |
 | Delay is the deadliest form of denial. — Northcote Parkinson, 1909-1993, British historian 4 likes |
 | First live, then be a philosopher. Primum vivere deinde philosophari. — Thomas Hobbes, 1588-1679, English philosopher 16 likes |
 | You must give birth to your images. They are the future waiting to be born. |
