Random Sample of Quotes |
 | A guest sees more in an hour than the host in a year. 3 likes |
 | Most of us would rather risk catastrophe than read the directions. — Mignon McLaughlin, 1913-1983, American magazine editor 2 likes |
 | Let us enrich ourselves with our mutual differences. — Paul Valery, 1871-1945, French poet 3 likes |
 | Youth is the time when hearts are large. |
 | Satire that the censor understands is rightly censored. — Karl Kraus, 1874-1936, Austrian writer 3 likes |
 | America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination, and unbeatable determination to do the job at hand. — Harry Truman, 1884-1972, American President [1945-1953] 6 likes |
 | "It's a question of discipline," the little prince told me later on. "When you've finished washing and dressing each morning, you must tend your planet." — Antoin de Saint-Exupéry, 1900-1940, French writer 2 likes |
 | The weak places in a book need to be better written than the others. |
 | Make me immortal with a kiss. |
 | Non-literate societies cannot see films or photos without much training. — Marshall McLuhan, 1911-1980, Canadian academic & media theorist |
 | Praise is more sweet than all pleasures. Ηδονών ήδιον έπαινος. — Plato, 427-347 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 5 likes |
 | Following straight lines shortens distances, and also life. — Antonio Porchia, 1885-1968, Italian-Argentinian poet 3 likes |
 | When your god provides well, who needs friends? Όταν δ’ ο δαίμων ευ διδώ, τι δει φίλων; — Euripides, 480-406 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Orestes 2 likes |
| My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious. — Karl Kraus, 1874-1936, Austrian writer 2 likes |
 | The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1884, American philosopher 6 likes |
 | A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent. — Wolfgang Goethe, 1749-1832, German poet & philosopher 5 likes |
 | He who can have patience can have what he will. — Benjamin Franklin, 1706-1790, American politician & writer 3 likes |
 | Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. — Arthur Clarke, 1917-2008, British Sci-Fi writer 5 likes |
 | Never assume the other fellow will not do something you wouldn’t do. |
 | We should expect the best and the worst of mankind, as from the weather. — Vauvenargues, 1715-1747, French author of maxims 3 likes |
 | Of all the bigotries that savage the human temper there is none so stupid as the anti-Semitic. — David Lloyd George, 1863-1945, British Prime Minister [1916-1922] 4 likes |
 | If God does not present himself to atheists, it is because he is afraid that they will convert him to atheism. — François Cavanna, 1923-2014, French humorist 2 likes |
 | If I had as many love affairs as I've been given credit for, I'd be in a jar at the Harvard Medical School. |
 | Civilization is an enormous device for economizing on knowledge. |
 | Do not allow yourself to be misled by the surfaces of things. |
 | Zeal without knowledge is fire without light. — Dr. Thomas Fuller, 1654-1734, English physician and adage collector 4 likes |
 | Cynicism is the only form in which base souls approach honesty. — Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900, German philosopher 6 likes |
 | Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon. — Emily Dickinson, 1830-1886, American poet 2 likes |
 | Whoever thinks freely thinks well. — Rigas Feraios, 1757-1798, Greek writer, revolutionary, martyr 2 likes |
 | I would always rather be happy than dignified. — Charlotte Brontë, 1816-1855, English novelist & poet 2 likes |
 | Your questions are fake if you already know the answer. — José Saramago, 1922-2010, Portuguese writer [Nobel 1998] 3 likes |
| Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1884, American philosopher 2 likes |
 | If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones. — George Orwell, 1903-1950, British writer 2 likes |
 | In whatever position you find yourself, determine first your objective. — Ferdinand Foch, 1851-1929, French field marshal 4 likes |
 | A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation. — Mark Twain, 1835-1910, American writer 6 likes |
 | I am nothing. I'll never be anything. I couldn't want to be something. Apart from that, I have in me all the dreams in the world. — Fernando Pessoa, 1888-1935, Portuguese poet & writer 5 likes |
 | This man is frank and earnest with women. In Fresno, he's Frank and in Chicago he's Ernest. — Henry Youngman, 1906-1998, American comedian 3 likes |
 | Perfect balance is the art of falling gracefully. — Marty Rubin, 1930-1994, Canadian gay activist, author & journalist |
 | Be loved, be admired, be necessary; be somebody. |
 | A thought is an arrow shot at the truth; it can hit a point, but not cover the whole target. But the archer is too well satisfied with his success to ask anything farther. — Sri Aurobindo, 1872-1950, Indian nationalist, yogi & philosopher 4 likes |
