Random Sample of Quotes |
 | I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. — Bill Cosby, 1937-, American comedian 4 likes |
 | The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time. — Mark Twain, 1835-1910, American writer 5 likes |
 | Seducing women is a man's most exciting adventure. — Guy de Maupassant, 1850-1893, French writer 2 likes |
 | Kissing a smoker is like licking an ashtray. — Helen Rowland, 1875-1950, American journalist & humorist 5 likes |
 | Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time. — George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 11 likes |
 | Future is everything that past has forgotten. |
 | The only thing that stops God from sending another flood is that the first one was useless. — Nicolas Chamfort, 1740-1794, French writer 1 likes |
 | Sleep, universal king of gods and men. Ύπνε άναξ πάντων τε θεών πάντων τ' ανθρώπων. — Homer, c. 800-750 BC, Ancient Greek Poet ‐ Iliad XIV 6 likes |
 | The empty sacs are inflated with air and the fools with conceit. Τους μεν κενούς ασκούς η πνοή διίστησι, τους δ’ ανοήτους, το οίημα. — Socrates, 469-399 BC, Ancient Geek Philosopher 5 likes |
 | Old people like to say that they are no longer worthy of anything, implying that at one time they were worthy of extraordinary deeds. — Manolis Doukides, Greek writer 2 likes |
 | Demosthenes when asked how he became successful in rhetoric, replied “By spending more on oil than on wine.” Δημοσθένης ερωτηθείς «πώς της ρητορικής περιγένου»; «Πλέον», έφη, «έλαιον οίνου δαπανήσας». — Demosthenes, 384-322 BC, Ancient Athenian & statesman orator 3 likes |
 | I do not exist to impress the world. I exist to live my life in a way that will make me happy. — Richard Bach, 1936-, American writer 3 likes |
 | What a man is is an arrow into the future and what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from. |
 | 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 |
 | Happiness writes in white ink on a white page. — Henry de Montherlant, 1895-1972, French writer 5 likes |
 | One of life's few really reliable pleasures: to have a family you love, and to leave them for a week. — Mignon McLaughlin, 1913-1983, American magazine editor 2 likes |
 | Russians imitate French ways, but always from a distance of fifty years. — Stendhal, 1783-1842, French writer 2 likes |
 | Freedom is a bit like money. It is not enough to be rich to know how to spend. |
 | Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience. — Laurence J Peter, 1919-1990, Canadian writer & educator 6 likes |
 | I never forget a face, but in your case, I’ll be glad to make an exception. — Groucho Marx, 1890-1977, American comedian 7 likes |
 | Take it from Richard, poor and lame, what’s begun in anger ends in shame. — Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790, American politician & writer 5 likes |
 | True to his own spirit. Κατά τον δαίμονα εαυτού. — Inscription, in Greek, on Jim Morrison’s tombstone in Paris 18 likes |
 | Repentance is the last sin of women. |
 | Happiness is a myth invented by the devil to make us despair. |
 | In business or in life, don't follow the wagon tracks too closely. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr., 1940-2021, American self-help writer 2 likes |
 | Pray as though everything depends on God. And work as if everything depends on you. — Saint Augustine, 354-430, Christian theologian & philosopher 5 likes |
 | War is the father and king of all: some he has made gods, and some men; some slaves and some free. Πόλεμος πάντων μεν πατήρ εστί, πάντων δε βασιλεύς. Και τους μεν θεούς έδειξε, τους δε ανθρώπους, τους μεν δούλους εποίησε, τους δε ελευθέρους. — Heraclitus, 544-484 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 4 likes |
 | A woman is, occasionally, quite a serviceable substitute for masturbation. It takes an abundance of imagination, to be sure. — Karl Kraus, 1874-1936, Austrian writer 6 likes |
 | There are countless people who never have an opinion different from that of their newspaper. |
 | It was only in my forties that I started feeling young. |
 | The future is literally in our hands to mold as we like. But we cannot wait until tomorrow. Tomorrow is now. — Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884-1962, Wife of the 32nd USA president 3 likes |
 | Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval. — Marshall McLuhan, 1911-1980, Canadian academic & media theorist |
 | Nothing great has great beginnings. — Joseph De Maistre, 1753-1821, Savoyard diplomat & philosopher |
 | Showing off is the fool’s idea of glory. — Bruce Lee, 1940-1973, Chinese-American actor 2 likes |
 | Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be. Hence the custom among the Scythians of plucking out a cynic's eyes to improve his vision. — Ambrose Bierce, 1842–1914, American writer 3 likes |
 | Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength — Charles Caleb Colton, 1780-1832, English cleric & writer 3 likes |
 | It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck. |
 | There's an old proverb that says just about whatever you want it to. — Anonymous 4 likes |
| A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic. — George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 3 likes |
 | Seek simplicity, and distrust it. — Alfred North Whitehead, 1861-1947, British philosopher & mathematician 2 likes |
