Random Sample of Quotes |
 | The word poet literally means maker: anything which is not well made doesn’t exist. |
 | Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. |
 | A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees. — William Blake, 1757-1827, English poet & painter 3 likes |
 | When a man says he does not want to speak of something, he usually means he can think of nothing else. |
 | Freedom is the power to choose our own chains. — Jean Jacques Rousseau, 1712-1778, Swiss-French philosopher 32 likes |
 | There is a right time for all things. Καιρός επί πάσιν άριστος. — Theognis of Megara, 6th cent. BC, Ancient Greek poet 1 likes |
 | To the strongest! Τω κρατίστω. — Alexander the Great, 356-323 BC, King of Macedon (about who he thought was worthy enough to succeed him) 12 likes |
 | Whoring is like military service...okay in the upper brackets, not so good lower down. — Robert Heinlein, 1907-1988, American sci-fi writer 1 likes |
 | One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar. — Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer 2 likes |
 | Rules cannot substitute for character. — Alan Greenspan, 1926-, American economist 4 likes |
 | Politics: a race of Trojan horses. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec, 1906-1966, Polish author of maxims 13 likes |
 | When a man sits with a pretty girl for an hour, it seems like a minute. But let him sit on a hot stove for a minute and it's longer than any hour. That's relativity. — Albert Einstein, 1879-1955, German-Jewish physicist 5 likes |
 | If man can live in Manhattan, he can live anywhere. — Arthur Clarke, 1917-2008, British Sci-Fi writer 3 likes |
 | Love is of all the passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart, and the body. — Voltaire, 1694-1778, French philosopher & writer 9 likes |
 | Youth is a mistake, middle age a struggle, and old age a regret. 12 likes |
 | Nothing human is finally calculable; even to ourselves we are strange. — Gore Vidal, 1925-2012, American writer 2 likes |
 | In the afterlife, we’ll sit around talking about the good old days, when we wished that we were dead. — Samuel Beckett, 1906-1989, Irish writer, Nobel 1969 26 likes |
 | I saw a very old movie. The leading lady said “no.” — Alfred Hitchcock, 1899-1980, British film director 1 likes |
 | It’s much harder to act in a bad film than in a good one. A terrible script makes for very difficult acting. You can win an Academy Award for some of the easiest acting in your career, made possible by a brilliant script. — Michael Caine, 1933-, English actor 3 likes |
 | We spend half our life remembering without understanding, and the other half understanding without remembering. |
 | Happiness is a virtue, not its reward. — Baruch Spinoza, 1632-1677, Dutch philosopher 3 likes |
 | Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance. |
 | I know I'm drinking myself to a slow death, but then I'm in no hurry. — Robert Benchley, 1889-1945, American columnist 6 likes |
 | Style is to forget all styles. — Jules Renard, 1864-1910, French writer 3 likes |
 | Feet, what do I need you for when I have wings to fly? |
 | You can only admire for a long time what you admire without knowing why. |
 | If you even dream of beating me you’d better wake up and apologize. |
 | If you neglect your work, you will dislike it; if you do it well, you will enjoy it. — Philip Sidney, 1554-1586, English poet & courtier 2 likes |
 | People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom. — Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860, German philosopher 5 likes |
 | The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm. |
 | Progress is our most important product. — Advertising slogan, General Electric 2 likes |
 | The more a person limits himself, the more resourceful he becomes. |
 | There may not be a Heaven, but there is a San Francisco. — Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-2025, British cartoonist & epigrammatist |
 | Mental toughness is essential to success. — Vince Lombardi, 1913-1970, American football coach 3 likes |
 | One witness is no witness. Testis unus, testis nullus. 34 likes |
 | But I don't give up; I forget why not. — Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, American writer, poet, satirist, critic 3 likes |
 | If you have abandoned one faith, do not abandon all faith. There is always an alternative to the faith we lose. Or is it the same faith under another mask? |
 | The fact is: I no longer believe in my own infallibility. That is why I am lost. |
 | Everything in war is very simple, but even the simplest is very difficult. — Carl von Clausewitz, 1780-1831, Prussian military theorist |
