Random Sample of Quotes |
 | Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all. — Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890, Dutch painter 4 likes |
 | Give me the luxuries and I can dispense with the necessities. — Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer 4 likes |
 | You’ve seen my descent. Now watch my rising. — Rumi, 1207-1273, Persian mystic & poet 5 likes |
 | I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror. — Edgar Allan Poe, 1809-1849, American writer 1 likes |
 | Beautiful moments are always melancholic. You know they’re fleeting, you want to hold on to them, but you can’t. — André Maurois, 1885-1967, French writer 1 likes |
 | What a horrible invention, the bourgeois, don’t you think? — Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1880, French writer 1 likes |
| Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in. — Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1880, French writer 1 likes |
 | Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud. — Hermann Hesse, 1877-1962, German writer, Nobel 1946 1 likes |
 | Employers only handle the money; it is the customer who pays the wages. — Henry Ford, 1863-1947, American industrialist, founder of FORD 4 likes |
 | One cannot build life from refrigerators, politics, credit statements and crossword puzzles. That is impossible. Nor can one exist for any length of time without poetry, without color, without love. — Antoin de Saint-Exupéry, 1900-1940, French writer 4 likes |
 | True to his own spirit. Κατά τον δαίμονα εαυτού. — Inscription, in Greek, on Jim Morrison’s tombstone in Paris 19 likes |
 | Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of Liberty — Thomas Jefferson, 1749-1826, American President [1801-1809] 6 likes |
 | They say if you outlaw guns, only outlaws will have guns. Well, those are precisely the people who need them! — George Carlin, 1936-2008, American comedian 8 likes |
 | A person who longs to leave the place where he lives is an unhappy person. — Milan Kundera, 1929-2023, Czech writer 1 likes |
 | Sometimes the heart sees what's invisible to the eye. — Alfred Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet 7 likes |
 | If you must love your neighbor as yourself, it is at least as fair to love yourself as your neighbor. — Nicolas Chamfort, 1740-1794, French writer 2 likes |
 | Wealth is the product of man’s capacity to think. — Ayn Rand, 1905-1982, American writer & philosopher 3 likes |
 | The melancholy thing in our public life is the insane desire to get higher. — Rutherford B. Hayes, 1822-1893, American President [1877-1881] 3 likes |
 | Any word you have to hunt for in a thesaurus is the wrong word. There are no exceptions to this rule. — Stephen King, 1947-, American author of horror & fantasy fiction 1 likes |
 | It's strange that men should take up crime when there are so many legal ways to be dishonest. — Laurence J Peter, 1919-1990, Canadian writer & educator 4 likes |
 | Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. — George Eliot, 1819-1880, English writer 1 likes |
| Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that. — George Carlin, 1936-2008, American comedian 83 likes |
 | All children, except one, grow up. — James Barrie, 1860-1937, English writer ‐ Peter Pan 7 likes |
 | The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people, as equally true; by the philosopher, as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful. — Edward Gibbon, 1737-1794, English historian 7 likes |
 | Those people who treat politics and morality separately will never understand either of them. — Jean Jacques Rousseau, 1712-1778, Swiss-French philosopher 10 likes |
 | Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy. — William Hazlitt , 1778-1830, English essayist & critic 1 likes |
 | I know of nothing better than the Appassionata and could listen to it every day. — Vladimir Lenin, 1870-1924, Soviet revolutionary & leader 9 likes |
 | Religions are not true or false, but better or worse. — George Santayana, 1863-1952, Spanish-American philosopher 5 likes |
 | I've never known anybody to achieve anything without overcoming adversity. — Lou Holtz, 1937-, American football coach 4 likes |
 | Death twitches my ear. “Live,” he says. “I am coming.” — Virgil, 70-19 BC, Roman poet 21 likes |
 | A really great writer is one who surprises us by writing something we have always known. — Jean Rostand, 1894-1977, French scientist & philosopher 1 likes |
| If it's heaven for climate, it's hell for company. — James Barrie, 1860-1937, English writer 6 likes |
 | Gods, not wanting to deprive the Greeks of the truth, they gave them poetry. — Joseph Joubert, 1754-1824, French author of maxims 1 likes |
 | You really only know when you know little. Doubt grows with knowledge. — Wolfgang Goethe, 1749-1832, German poet & philosopher 7 likes |
 | For things with no benefit do not try in vain. Τα μηδέν ωφελούντα μη πόνει μάτην. — Aeschylus, 525-456 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Prometheus Bound 4 likes |
 | Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise. — Lord Chesterfield, 1694-1773, English statesman & writer 7 likes |
 | The spendthrift robs his heirs, the miser robs himself. — Jean de La Bruyère, 1645-1696, French writer 1 likes |
 | The desire to appear clever often prevents one from being so. — La Rochefoucauld, 1613-1680, French writer 9 likes |
 | Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing. — Phyllis Diller, 1917-2012, American comedian 6 likes |
 | I can do things you cannot, you can do things I cannot; together we can do great things. — Mother Teresa, 1910-1997, Albanian-Indian nun & missionary 1 likes |
