Random Sample of Quotes |
 | It was the possibility of darkness that made the day seem so bright. — Stephen King, 1947-, American author of horror & fantasy fiction 4 likes |
 | Salary is no object: I want only enough to keep body and soul apart. — Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, American writer, poet, satirist, critic 2 likes |
 | Politics, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. — Ambrose Bierce, 1842–1914, American writer 8 likes |
 | What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence. — Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784, English writer 3 likes |
 | There is no failure except in no longer trying. — Elbert Hubbard, 1856-1915, American writer 5 likes |
 | Remember, your body needs 6 to 8 glasses of fluid daily. Straight up or on the rocks. |
 | Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. — Søren Kierkegaard, 1813-1855, Danish philosopher 8 likes |
 | In case you haven’t noticed, we are now almost as feared and hated all over the world as the Nazis were. — Kurt Vonnegut, 1922-2007, American writer 4 likes |
 | I'm just trying to make a smudge on the collective unconscious. — Dave Letterman, 1947-, American TV talk show host 4 likes |
 | Give me a flagon of red wine, a book of verses, a loaf of bread, and a little idleness. If with such store I might sit by thy dear side in some lonely place, I should deem myself happier than a king in his kingdom. |
 | Two things are infinite: the universe and the human stupidity. — Albert Einstein, 1879-1955, German-Jewish physicist 32 likes |
 | You need talent, you need brains, and you need confidence. Those are the three things you need to do virtually anything. Confidence is a fascinating commodity. There’s no upper limit on the usefulness of it, as long as it doesn’t bleed into arrogance. — Jerry Seinfeld, 1954-, American comedian 5 likes |
| Politics is the business of getting power and privilege without possessing merit. |
 | Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes. — Joseph Roux, 1834-1905, French clergyman & poet 3 likes |
 | Law is order, and good law is good order. — Aristotle, 384-322 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 10 likes |
 | Let's exchange body and loneliness. I shall give you despair to stop being an animal, you will give me strength to stop being a wreck. — Dinos Christianopoulos, 1931-2020, Greek poet 7 likes |
 | They will say you are on the wrong road, if it is your own. — Antonio Porchia, 1885-1968, Italian-Argentinian poet 4 likes |
 | Wars have never hurt anybody except the people who die. — Salvador Dali, 1904-1989, Spanish painter 6 likes |
 | To shut your eyes is to travel. |
 | Somewhere between Tuesday and Wednesday your true day must have been lost. |
 | Morale in an organization does not mean that “people get along together”; the test is performance not conformance. — Peter Drucker, 1909–2005, Austrian management guru 2 likes |
 | Every hero becomes a bore at last. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1884, American philosopher 2 likes |
 | The philosophy of a generation is the common sense of the next. — Gebhard von Blücher, 1742-1819, German field marshal 27 likes |
 | We realize that we have become specialists when the things we talk about with pleasure bore others. |
 | When you are young, you think about death without waiting for it. When you're old, you wait for it without thinking about it. — Maurice Chapelan, 1906-1992, French author of maxims & journalist |
 | Do you know why swallows build in the eaves of houses? It is to listen to the stories. |
 | Don't be afraid to cry. It will free your mind of sorrowful thoughts. — American Indian proverb ‐ Hopi 4 likes |
 | The cause of fear is ignorance. Timendi causa est nescire. — Seneca, 5 AD-65 AD, Roman philosopher 83 likes |
 | We generally change ourselves for one of two reasons: inspiration or desperation. — Jim Rohn, 1930-2009, American self-help speker 2 likes |
| A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1884, American philosopher 5 likes |
 | Civilization is the process of setting man free from men. — Ayn Rand, 1905-1982, American writer & philosopher 5 likes |
 | A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man of his bones. But if you break a nation's nationality it will think of nothing else but getting it set again. — George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 10 likes |
 | Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being children. — Mignon McLaughlin, 1913-1983, American magazine editor 3 likes |
 | Do as you would be done by, is the surest method of pleasing. — Lord Chesterfield, 1694-1773, English statesman & writer 3 likes |
| Some people are worried about the difference between right and wrong. I'm worried about the difference between wrong and fun. |
 | Be happy, but never satisfied. |
 | Too much sensibility creates unhappiness and too much insensibility creates crime. — Talleyrand, 1754-1838, French statesman & diplomat 10 likes |
 | Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present. |
 | The difference between organic and mechanical in social matters is a moral one: the “organic” is the result of innumerable humble acts; the “mechanical” is the result of one decisive act of arrogance. |
 | He was like a cock who thought the sun had risen to hear him crow. |
