Random Sample of Quotes |
 | Raise your sail one foot and you get ten feet of wind. 3 likes |
 | Better the mother of the killer than the mother of the killed. 7 likes |
 | Your mind, you being here, is elsewhere. Ο νους δε σου παρών αποδημεί. — Aristophanes, 445-386 BC, Ancient Greek comic playwright ‐ Knights 12 likes |
 | All roads are long which lead to one's heart's desire. — Joseph Conrad, 1857-1924, British-Polish writer 3 likes |
 | In my life I have found two things of priceless worth: learning and loving. Nothing else - not fame, not power, not achievement for its own sake - can possible have the same lasting value. — Arthur Clarke, 1917-2008, British Sci-Fi writer 4 likes |
 | Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go. — Hermann Hesse, 1877-1962, German writer, Nobel 1946 1 likes |
 | Shared danger is the strongest of bonds; it will keep men united in spite of mutual dislike and suspicion. — Titus Livius, 59 BC-17 AD, Roman historian 3 likes |
 | In group efforts there is a reckless tendency for consensus and collective misunderstanding of serious issues, within a climate of cheerful camaraderie. — Gustave Le Bon, 1841-1931, French polymath & writer 3 likes |
 | Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you. — Elbert Hubbard, 1856-1915, American writer 6 likes |
 | Life is not about living, but to live a good life. Vita non est vivere, sed valera vita est. — Martial, 43-104 AD, Roman poet of epigrams 86 likes |
 | Potter bears a grudge against potter, and craftsman against craftsman, and beggar is envious of beggar, and bard of bard. Και κεραμεύς κεραμεί κοτέει και τέκτονι τέκτων και πτωχός πτωχώ φθονέει και αοιδός αοιδώ. — Hesiod, 7th cent. BC, Ancient Greek poet ‐ Works and Days -26 4 likes |
 | A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial. — Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860, German philosopher 8 likes |
 | Make up your mind to be happy. Learn to find pleasure in simple things. — Robert Louis Stevenson, 1850-1894, Scottish writer 1 likes |
 | Genius without education is like silver in the mine. — Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790, American politician & writer 5 likes |
 | Country acquaintances are charming only in the country and only in the summer. In the city, in winter, they lose half of their appeal. — Anton Chekhov, 1860-1904, Russian writer 3 likes |
 | Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees. — Rumi, 1207-1273, Persian mystic & poet 4 likes |
 | Metaphysics has as the proper object of its inquiries three ideas only: God, freedom, and immortality. — Immanuel Kant, 1724-1804, German philosopher 3 likes |
 | Leverage is everything; don't begin to pry till you have got the long arm on your side. — Oliver W. Holmes Sr., 1809-1894, American writer 6 likes |
 | A man would prefer to come home to an unmade bed and a happy woman than to a neatly made bed and an angry woman. — Marlen Dietrich, 1901-1992, German-American actress 4 likes |
 | Unlike most other people, I'm just an average person. — Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-2025, British cartoonist & epigrammatist 1 likes |
| Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere. They’re in each other all along. — Rumi, 1207-1273, Persian mystic & poet 3 likes |
 | We are as often duped by diffidence as by confidence. — Lord Chesterfield, 1694-1773, English statesman & writer 3 likes |
 | My favorite things in life don’t cost any money. It’s really clear that the most precious resource we all have is time. — Steve Jobs, 1955-2011, American businessman 3 likes |
 | War should neither be feared nor provoked. — Pliny the Elder, 23-79 μ.X., Roman natural philosopher 3 likes |
 | Women are like cigars: the first few puffs are the best. — Wolinski, 1934-2015, French cartoonist 5 likes |
 | Let us listen to the other side. Audiatur et altera pars. — Aeschylus, 525-456 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian 35 likes |
 | There is nothing small in God’s eyes; let there be nothing small in thine. — Sri Aurobindo, 1872-1950, Indian nationalist, yogi & philosopher 1 likes |
 | Indeed, there is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted. — Edgar Allan Poe, 1809-1849, American writer 1 likes |
 | Nothing awakens a reminiscence like an odor. — Victor Hugo, 1802-1885, French writer 5 likes |
 | Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves. — Jean Jacques Rousseau, 1712-1778, Swiss-French philosopher 8 likes |
 | When they said to you at graduation “follow your dreams,” did anybody say you had to wake up first? — Bill Cosby, 1937-, American comedian 5 likes |
 | God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically. — Albert Einstein, 1879-1955, German-Jewish physicist 3 likes |
 | Work at something you enjoy and that's worthy of your time and talent. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr., 1940-2021, American self-help writer 4 likes |
 | You Americans are dumb. You admire Lafayette and Maurice Chevalier. They're the dumbest of all Frenchmen. — from the film Breathless (1960) 4 likes |
 | Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference. — Mark Twain, 1835-1910, American writer 21 likes |
 | A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse! — William Shakespeare, 1564-1616, English poet & playwright ‐ Richard III 3 likes |
 | Be silly. Be honest. Be kind. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1884, American philosopher 5 likes |
 | Maybe I am shortsighted and a little deaf, like any self-respecting critic. — Henri Jeanson, 1900-1970, French critic & columnist 1 likes |
 | The first condition of immortality is death. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec, 1906-1966, Polish author of maxims 10 likes |
 | My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute. — Ayn Rand, 1905-1982, American writer & philosopher (“Objectivism”) 7 likes |
