Random Sample of Quotes |
 | A great fortune is a great slavery. Magna servitus est magna fortuna. — Seneca, 5 AD-65 AD, Roman philosopher 21 likes |
 | I love you more than my own skin. |
 | If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1884, American philosopher 2 likes |
 | In war we primarily strike at the enemy’s center of gravity. — Carl von Clausewitz, 1780-1831, Prussian military theorist |
 | Wisdom is oft-times nearer when we stoop Than when we soar. — William Wordsworth, 1770-1850, English poet 2 likes |
 | Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another. — Anatole France, 1844-1924, French writer, Nobel 1921 3 likes |
 | There should be a law against doing work one doesn’t like or believe in. — Marty Rubin, 1930-1994, Canadian gay activist, author & journalist |
 | Man will only become better when you make him see what he is like. — Anton Chekhov, 1860-1904, Russian writer 2 likes |
| The pain you hide leaves the deepest scars. — Marty Rubin, 1930-1994, Canadian gay activist, author & journalist |
 | During my 87 years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think. — Bernard Baruch, 1870-1965, American businessman & statesman |
 | In finance, everything that is agreeable is unsound and everything that is sound is disagreeable. — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 2 likes |
 | Exaggeration is the lie of the honest man. — Joseph De Maistre, 1753-1821, Savoyard diplomat & philosopher |
 | Ducking for apples -change one letter and it's the story of my life. — Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, American writer, poet, satirist, critic 7 likes |
| There is no man who desires as passionately as a Russian. If we could imprison a Russian desire beneath a fortress, that fortress would explode. — Joseph De Maistre, 1753-1821, Savoyard diplomat & philosopher |
 | Speak nothing but the truth, and you'll soon be considered dangerous. — Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-, British cartoonist & epigrammatist |
 | Politics is the systematic cultivation of hatred. — Talleyrand, 1754-1838, French statesman & diplomat 26 likes |
 | Put your iron hand in a velvet glove. — Napoleon, 1769-1821, French Emperor 5 likes |
 | If you can't beat 'em, join 'em. 4 likes |
 | Doubt everything. De omnibus dubitandum. — René Descartes, 1596-1650, French philosopher (Karl Marx’s favorite motto and, also, title of a book by Søren Kierkegaard ) 52 likes |
 | When everything seem to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. — Henry Ford, 1863-1947, American industrialist, founder of FORD 2 likes |
 | A baby is God's opinion that life should go on. — Carl Sandburg, 1878-1967, American poet 3 likes |
 | Experience informs us that the first defence of weak minds is to recriminate. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1772-1834, English poet & philosopher 2 likes |
 | God is silent. Now if only man would shut up. — Woody Allen, 1935-, American actor & film director 3 likes |
 | I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust. — Charles Baudelaire, 1821-1867, French poet 2 likes |
 | Wherever I travel, Greece hurts me. |
 | Of all those arts in which the wise excel, the greatest gift is to write well. — André Breton, 1896-1966, French writer, founder of Surrealism 1 likes |
 | To be joyous is to be a madman in a world of sad ghosts. |
 | Money is not only the object but also the fountainhead of greed. — Karl Marx, 1818-1883, German philosopher 9 likes |
 | Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. — H.L. Mencken, 1880-1956, American columnist & cultural critic 13 likes |
 | A husband and wife who have separate bedrooms have either drifted apart or found happiness. |
| Everything takes longer than you expect, even when you expect it to take longer than you expect. — Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-, British cartoonist & epigrammatist |
 | Dictionary, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. |
 | At war as at war. A la guerre comme a la guerre. 3 likes |
 | Reading the Socratic dialogues one has the feeling: what a frightful waste of time! What's the point of these arguments that prove nothing and clarify nothing? |
 | I must change my life so that I can live it, not wait for it. — Susan Sontag, 1933-2004, American writer, critic, activist |
 | The age of antiquity is the youth of the world. — Francis Bacon, 1561-1626, English philosopher 3 likes |
 | There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time. |
 | I have nothing to declare except my genius. — Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer (to Customs Officials in New York, in 1881) 4 likes |
 | There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. — William Shakespeare, 1564-1616, English poet & playwright ‐ Hamlet 2 likes |
 | Too great a hurry to be discharged of an obligation is a kind of ingratitude. — La Rochefoucauld, 1613-1680, French writer 4 likes |
