Random Sample of Quotes |
 | There is nothing more stimulating than a case where everything goes against you. |
 | I am the cat that walks alone. |
 | Old age takes from the man of intellect no qualities save those that are useless to wisdom. |
 | Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing. — Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer 5 likes |
 | Be slow in considering, but resolute in action. Βραδέως εγχείρει· ό δ᾽ αν άρξη, διαβεβαιού. — Bias of Priene, 625-540 BC, one of the 7 sages of Ancient Greece 4 likes |
 | Science is much more than a body of knowledge. It is a way of thinking. Science invites us to let the facts in, even when they don’t conform to our preconceptions. — Carl Sagan, 1934-1996, American astronomer 7 likes |
 | Weak desires bring weak results, just as a small amount of fire brings a small amount of heat. — Napoleon Hill, 1883-1970, American self-help writer 3 likes |
 | There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting. — John Kenneth Galbraith, 1908-2006, American-Canadian economist |
 | I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US Congress. — Ronald Reagan, 1911-2004, American President [1981-1989] 9 likes |
 | This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts. — Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784, English writer 3 likes |
 | You will not persuade me, not even if you persuade me. Ου με πείσεις, καν με πείσης. — Aristophanes, 445-386 BC, Ancient Greek comic playwright ‐ Plutus 5 likes |
 | To succeed you must add water to your wine, until there is no more wine. — Jules Renard, 1864-1910, French writer 2 likes |
 | A work of art is good if it has grown out of necessity. |
 | The longer I live, the less future there is to worry about. — Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-2025, British cartoonist & epigrammatist |
 | History is a constant conspiracy against the truth. — Joseph De Maistre, 1753-1821, Savoyard diplomat & philosopher |
 | I have known men who could see through the motivations of others with the skill of a clairvoyant; only to prove blind to their own mistakes. I have been one of those men. — Bernard Baruch, 1870-1965, American businessman & statesman |
 | I don't agree with mathematics; the sum total of zeros is a frightening figure. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec, 1906-1966, Polish author of maxims 7 likes |
 | The definition of hell is a place where nothing connects with nothing. — T. S. Eliot, 1888-1965, British poet, Nobel 1948 3 likes |
 | The progress of society is mainly—is, in its proper sense, the improvement in the condition of the workingmen of the world. — Rutherford B. Hayes, 1822-1893, American President [1877-1881] 2 likes |
 | The best mirror is an old friend. |
 | - You're not the man I knew ten years ago. - It's not the years, honey, it's the mileage. — from the film Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) 3 likes |
 | Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. — H.L. Mencken, 1880-1956, American columnist & cultural critic 11 likes |
 | If we ever travel far in the universe to another planet with intelligent life, let's just make patterns in their crops and leave. — Anonymous 5 likes |
 | In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed. — Charles Darwin, 1809-1882, British scientist 13 likes |
 | I translated Dante’s “Inferno” because I discovered some of my ancestors in it! — Antoine Rivarol, 1753-1801, French author of maxims 3 likes |
| So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp. |
| The average man does not want to be free. He simply wants to be safe. — H.L. Mencken, 1880-1956, American columnist & cultural critic 6 likes |
 | Politicians are wonderful people as long as they stay away from things they don't understand, such as working for a living. |
 | Where large sums of money are concerned, it is advisable to trust nobody. |
 | It isn't sufficient just to want - you've got to ask yourself what you are going to do to get the things you want. — Franklin Roosevelt, 1882-1945, American President [1936-1945] 2 likes |
| If we surrendered to earth’s intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees. |
 | Complaints are prayers to the devil. — Bob Marley, 1945-1981, Jamaican singer 9 likes |
 | The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. — George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 5 likes |
| To be able to make a conversation, you must know many useless things. — Jules Renard, 1864-1910, French writer 4 likes |
 | There is not love of life without despair about life. — Albert Camus, 1913-1960, French writer, Nobel 1957 6 likes |
 | A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kickboxing. — Emo Philips, 1956-, American comedian 5 likes |
 | The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality. |
 | Facts are the enemy of truth. — Miguel Cervantes, 1547-1616, Spanish writer 1 likes |
 | Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people. — Aleister Crowley, 1875-1945, British magician & occultist, 4 likes |
 | Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish. — Hermann Hesse, 1877-1962, German writer, Nobel 1946 4 likes |
