Random Sample of Quotes |
 | I present myself to you in a form suitable to the relationship I wish to achieve with you. — Luigi Pirandello, 1867-1936, Italian writer (Nobel 1934) 1 likes |
 | Set your life on fire. Seek those who fan your flames. — Rumi, 1207-1273, Persian mystic & poet 5 likes |
 | A lie told often enough becomes the truth. — Vladimir Lenin, 1870-1924, Soviet revolutionary & leader 37 likes |
 | There are four properties of the perfect virtue: wisdom, justice, courage, and prudence. Της τελείας αρετής είδη τέτταρα: έν μεν φρόνησις, έν δε δικαιοσύνη, άλλο δ’ ανδρεία, ταέταρτον σωφροσύνη. — Plato, 427-347 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 1 likes |
 | The rich man despises those who flatter him too much, and hates those who do not flatter him at all. — Talleyrand, 1754-1838, French statesman & diplomat 10 likes |
 | The souls in the underworld smell. Αι ψυχαί οσμώνται καθ΄ Άιδην. — Heraclitus, 544-484 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 21 likes |
 | God and Nature met in light. — Alfred Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet 4 likes |
 | The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone! Sweet voice, sweet lips, soft hand, and softer breast. — John Keats, 1795-1821, English poet 6 likes |
 | In War: Resolution, In Defeat: Defiance, In Victory: Magnanimity, In Peace: Good Will. — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 5 likes |
 | We are fighting Germany, Austria and drink, and as far as I can see, the greatest of these three deadly foes is drink. — David Lloyd George, 1863-1945, British Prime Minister [1916-1922] 6 likes |
 | For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth. — Bo Bennett, 1972-, American self-help guru 2 likes |
 | The responsibility of tolerance lies in those who have the wider vision. — George Eliot, 1819-1880, English writer 1 likes |
 | Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. — Carl Sagan, 1934-1996, American astronomer 4 likes |
 | A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful. — Karl Kraus, 1874-1936, Austrian writer 3 likes |
 | His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets. — Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, American writer, poet, satirist, critic 7 likes |
| I follow up the quest despite of day and night and death and hell. — Alfred Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet 10 likes |
 | I am not primarily an advocate of capitalism, but of egoism; and I am not primarily an advocate of egoism, but of reason. — Ayn Rand, 1905-1982, American writer & philosopher 6 likes |
 | I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her. — Rodney Dangerfield, 1924-2004, American comedian 6 likes |
 | Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't! — George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 12 likes |
 | I haven’t slept for ten days, because that would be too long. — Mitch Hedberg, 1968-2005, American comedian 6 likes |
 | Optimism is the opium of the people. — Milan Kundera, 1929-2023, Czech writer 1 likes |
 | We are born arsonists and end up firefighters. — Pitigrilli (Dino Segre), 1893-1975, Italian writer 3 likes |
 | This is what divorce is: taking things you no longer want from people you no longer love. — Zadie Smith, 1975-, British writer 3 likes |
 | Marriage, n. The state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress and two slaves, making in all, two. — Ambrose Bierce, 1842–1914, American writer 5 likes |
 | I am no more humble than my talents require. — Oscar Levant, 1906-1972, American pianist 5 likes |
 | Never let your inferiors do you a favor - it will be extremely costly. — H.L. Mencken, 1880-1956, American columnist & cultural critic 6 likes |
 | A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy. — Jean Baudrillard, 1929-2007, French intellectual 7 likes |
 | A husband, like a government, should never confess wrongdoing. — Honoré de Balzac, 1799-1850, French writer 1 likes |
 | It is misfortune not to be able to bear misfortune. Ατυχή είναι τον ατυχίαν μη φέροντα. — Bias of Priene, 625-540 BC, one of the 7 sages of Ancient Greece 5 likes |
 | Religious persecutors are not believers, they are rascals. — Jean Jacques Rousseau, 1712-1778, Swiss-French philosopher 10 likes |
 | War of all against all. Bellum omnium contra omnes. — Thomas Hobbes, 1588-1679, English philosopher (a description to human existence in the state of nature) 2 likes |
 | There is the great lesson of “Beauty and the Beast,” that a thing must be loved before it is lovable. — G. K. Chesterton, 1874-1936, English writer & critic 5 likes |
 | I had three rules for my players: No profanity. Don’t criticize a teammate. Never be late. — John Wooden, 1910-2010, American basketball coach 4 likes |
 | I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political world as storms in the physical. — Thomas Jefferson, 1749-1826, American President [1801-1809] 5 likes |
 | God and the imagination are one. — Wallace Stevens, 1879-1955, American poet 7 likes |
 | Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice. — William James, 1842-1910, American philosopher 6 likes |
 | Hate presupposes reciprocity. — Yevgeny Kaseyev, contemporary Russian author of maxims 1 likes |
 | Mirrors would do well to reflect a little more before sending back images. — Jean Cocteau, 1889-1963, French artist 7 likes |
 | There are just wars. There is no just army. — André Malraux, 1901-1976, French writer & statesman 1 likes |
| Future, n.That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured. — Ambrose Bierce, 1842–1914, American writer 10 likes |
