Random Sample of Quotes |
 | You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. — Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884-1962, Wife of the 32nd USA president 7 likes |
 | The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. — William Shakespeare, 1564-1616, English poet & playwright ‐ As You Like It 17 likes |
 | The more innocent they are, the more they deserve to be shot. — Bertolt Brecht, 1898-1956, German writer 1 likes |
 | Film your murders like love scenes, and film your love scenes like murders. — Alfred Hitchcock, 1899-1980, British film director 3 likes |
 | You don't make art, you find it. — Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973, Spanish painter 3 likes |
 | To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield. — Alfred Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet 3 likes |
 | A drug is not bad. A drug is a chemical compound. The problem comes in when people who take drugs treat them like a license to behave like an asshole. — Frank Zappa, 1940-1993, American musician 1 likes |
 | A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it. — Anonymous (wrongly attributed to Mencken, Oscar Wilde and others) 10 likes |
 | No great achievement is possible without persistent work. — Bertrand Russell, 1872-1970, British philosopher 1 likes |
 | Rest, nature, books, music...such is my idea of happiness. — Leo Tolstoy, 1828–1910, Russian writer 1 likes |
 | Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest. — Napoleon, 1769-1821, French Emperor 10 likes |
 | Some cannot find a bridge to cross the water, while others cannot find water to drink. 7 likes |
 | To know what everyone knows is to know nothing. Knowledge begins where what the world does not know begins. — Remy de Gourmont, 1858-1915, French poet 5 likes |
 | The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too. — Oscar Levant, 1906-1972, American pianist 9 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 |
 | Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon. — Emily Dickinson, 1830-1886, American poet 3 likes |
 | If I know the answer I'll tell you the answer, and if I don't, I'll just respond, cleverly. — Donald Rumsfeld, 1932-2021, American politician 1 likes |
 | A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. 6 likes |
 | For where did Dante get the material for his Hell, if not from this actual world of ours? — Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860, German philosopher 3 likes |
 | The evils of mankind are caused, not by the primary aggressiveness of individuals, but by their self-transcending identification with groups whose common denominator is low intelligence and high emotionality. — Arthur Koestler, 1905-1983, Hungarian-British writer 1 likes |
 | Kings fight for empires, madmen for applause. — John Dryden, 1631-1700, English poet 3 likes |
 | All the civilizations we know have been created and directed by small intellectual aristocracies, never by people in the mass. The power of crowds is only to destroy. — Gustave Le Bon, 1841-1931, French polymath & writer 1 likes |
 | We should not care much about what the many say about us, but what the one who knows about right and wrong says. Ου πάνυ ημίν ούτω φροντιστέον τι ερούσιν οι πολλοί ημάς, αλλ’ ό,τι ο επαΐων περί των δικαίων και αδίκων. — Plato, 427-347 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 1 likes |
 | It's better to dance than to march through life. — Yoko Ono, 1935-, Japanese artist 1 likes |
 | People like to say, 'What do you mean exactly?' I would answer, 'I mean, but not exactly.' — Jean-Luc Godard, 1930-2022, French film director 3 likes |
 | He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss. — Leonardo da Vinci, 1452-1519, Italian polymath & painter 1 likes |
 | Plans are nothing; planning is everything. — Dwight Eisenhower, 1890-1969, American general & President 7 likes |
 | The sea is not less beautiful in our eyes because we know that sometimes ships are wrecked by it. — Simone Weil, 1909-1943, French philosopher 1 likes |
 | Laugh, and the world laughs with you. Weep, an' it keeps on laughin'. — Kin Hubbard, 1868-1930, American cartoonist 1 likes |
 | Your very flesh shall be a great poem. — Walt Whitman, 1819-1892, American poet 5 likes |
 | She loved the sea only for its storms, and greenery only when it was scattered among ruins. — Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1880, French writer 1 likes |
 | Pip, dear old chap, life is made of ever so many partings welded together… — Charles Dickens, 1812-1870, British writer 3 likes |
 | God is on your side? Is He a Conservative? The Devil's on my side, he's a good Communist. — Joseph Stalin, 1879-1953, Soviet leader (to Churchill) 54 likes |
 | Beauty often fades, but seldom so swiftly as the joy it gives us. — Mignon McLaughlin, 1913-1983, American magazine editor 4 likes |
 | The most civilized people are as near to barbarism as the most polished steel is to rust. Nations, like metals, have only a superficial brilliancy. — Antoine Rivarol, 1753-1801, French author of maxims 7 likes |
 | Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied. — Charles Caleb Colton, 1780-1832, English cleric & writer 12 likes |
 | Always go too far, because that's where you'll find the truth. — Albert Camus, 1913-1960, French writer, Nobel 1957 5 likes |
 | Abstainer, n. A weak person who yields to the temptation of denying himself a pleasure. — Ambrose Bierce, 1842–1914, American writer 5 likes |
 | The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the center of each and every town or city. — Oliver W. Holmes Sr., 1809-1894, American writer 1 likes |
 | People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately. — Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer 5 likes |
