Random Sample of Quotes |
 | He who is silent consents. Qui tacet consentit. 31 likes |
 | You know, it takes two to get one in trouble. — from the film She Done Him Wrong (1933) 6 likes |
 | 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. — Nicolas Gomez Davila, 1913-1994, Colombian writer 1 likes |
 | The message behind the words is the voice of the heart. — Rumi, 1207-1273, Persian mystic & poet 4 likes |
 | Lovers have a way of using this word “nothing” which implies exactly the opposite. — Honoré de Balzac, 1799-1850, French writer 1 likes |
 | Every happiness is the child of a separation it did not think it could survive. — Rainer Maria Rilke, 1875-1926, Czech-German poet 1 likes |
 | Never tell your problems to anyone...20% don't care and the other 80% are glad you have them. — Lou Holtz, 1937-, American football coach 9 likes |
 | To succeed in the world, it is much more necessary to possess the penetration to discern who is a fool, than to discover who is a clever man. — Talleyrand, 1754-1838, French statesman & diplomat 17 likes |
 | Man is the only living species that has the power to act as his own destroyer—and that is the way he has acted through most of his history. — Ayn Rand, 1905-1982, American writer & philosopher 5 likes |
 | We all dream of being the darling of everybody's darling. — Mignon McLaughlin, 1913-1983, American magazine editor 3 likes |
 | I think there’s an artist hidden at the bottom of every single one of us. — Bob Ross, 1942-1995, American painter & TV personality 1 likes |
 | To be idle requires a strong sense of personal identity. — Robert Louis Stevenson, 1850-1894, Scottish writer 1 likes |
 | A highly intelligent man should take a primitive woman. Imagine if on top of everything else, I had a woman who interfered with my work. — Adolf Hitler, 1889-1945, German dictator 5 likes |
 | To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it. — Charles Caleb Colton, 1780-1832, English cleric & writer 5 likes |
 | People are governed with the head; kindness of heart is little use in chess. — Nicolas Chamfort, 1740-1794, French writer 1 likes |
 | Righteous indignation: Your own wrath as opposed to the shocking bad temper of others. — Elbert Hubbard, 1856-1915, American writer 3 likes |
 | Do not taste food while you’re cooking. You may lose your nerve to serve it. — Phyllis Diller, 1917-2012, American comedian 4 likes |
 | Dictionary, n. A malevolent literary device for cramping the growth of a language and making it hard and inelastic. — Ambrose Bierce, 1842–1914, American writer 1 likes |
 | I am against revolutions because they always involve a return to the status quo. — Henry Miller, 1891-1980, American writer 1 likes |
 | Don't put a finger between the tree and the bark. 3 likes |
 | The supreme measure of a man, is what he would risk his life for. — George S. Patton, 1885-1945, American general 2 likes |
 | First of all, I choose the great roles, and if none of these come, I choose the mediocre ones, and if they don't come, I choose the ones that pay the rent. — Michael Caine, 1933-, English actor 6 likes |
 | Let us speak courteously, deal fairly, and keep ourselves armed and ready. — Theodore Roosevelt, 1858-1919, American President [1901-1909] 4 likes |
 | Books and ideas are the most effective weapons against intolerance and ignorance. — Lyndon Johnson, 1908-1973, American President [1963-1969] 4 likes |
 | To kill time is not murder, it's suicide. — William James, 1842-1910, American philosopher 8 likes |
| The poet speaks adequately only when he speaks somewhat wildly... not with intellect alone, but with intellect inebriated by nectar. — Henry Miller, 1891-1980, American writer 1 likes |
 | I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be. — Charles Dickens, 1812-1870, British writer 3 likes |
 | What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care. — William Blake, 1757-1827, English poet & painter 4 likes |
| We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it. — Lyndon Johnson, 1908-1973, American President [1963-1969] 4 likes |
 | One luminary clock against the sky Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right. — Robert Frost, 1874-1963, American poet 4 likes |
 | Improving yourself is a lot more profitable than trying to improve others. — Dale Carnegie, 1888-1955, American self-help writer 1 likes |
 | Music is well said to be the speech of angels — Thomas Carlyle, 1795-1881, English writer 1 likes |
 | Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon. — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 5 likes |
 | The electric light is pure information. It is a medium without a message. — Marshall McLuhan, 1911-1980, Canadian academic & media theorist 1 likes |
 | The quiet sense of something lost. — Alfred Tennyson, 1809-1892, English poet 4 likes |
 | To have his path made clear for him is the aspiration of every human being in our beclouded and tempestuous existence. — Joseph Conrad, 1857-1924, British-Polish writer 2 likes |
 | There is a scarcity of friendship, but not of friends. — Dr. Thomas Fuller, 1654-1734, English physician and adage collector 4 likes |
 | Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessaries. — Mark Twain, 1835-1910, American writer 12 likes |
 | To be praised while you live, to be beatified after you die. Ζων μεν επαινού, αποθανών δε μακαρίζου. — Periander of Corinth, 668-584 BC, tyrant of Corinth 3 likes |
