Random Sample of Quotes |
 | You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec, 1906-1966, Polish author of maxims 7 likes |
 | A work is perfectly finished only when nothing can be added to it and nothing taken away. |
 | You only live once, and the way I live, once is enough. — Frank Sinatra, 1915-1998, American singer 8 likes |
 | A great chessplayer is not a great man, for he leaves the world as he found it. |
 | The one who holds the chain is no freer than the one who drags. |
 | We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them. — Khalil Gibran, 1883-1931, Lebanese-American poet & philosopher 3 likes |
 | I am a brain, Watson. The rest of me is a mere appendix. |
 | A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom. — Ayn Rand, 1905-1982, American writer & philosopher 4 likes |
 | The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. — Walt Disney, 1901-1966, American businessman & cartoonist 3 likes |
 | The older you get the stronger the wind gets - and it's always in your face. — Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973, Spanish painter 3 likes |
 | Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. — Jim Rohn, 1930-2009, American self-help speker 2 likes |
 | If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is the father. |
 | Nothing that is complete breathes. — Antonio Porchia, 1885-1968, Italian-Argentinian poet 3 likes |
 | No one wants advice – only corroboration. |
 | Good things, when short, are twice as good. — Baltasar Gracian, 1601-1658, Spanish writer 5 likes |
 | If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales. — Albert Einstein, 1879-1955, German-Jewish physicist 7 likes |
 | The surest sign that a man has a genuine taste of his own is that he is uncertain of it. |
 | Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached. |
 | Either Man will abolish war, or war will abolish Man. |
 | The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer. — Oliver W. Holmes Sr., 1809-1894, American writer 3 likes |
 | Wisdom comes not from reason but from love. — André Gide, 1869-1951, French writer, Nobel 1947 3 likes |
 | A painter should begin every canvas with a wash of black, because all things in nature are dark except where exposed by the light. |
 | Too quick revenge is no longer revenge; it is a response. — Henry de Montherlant, 1895-1972, French writer 5 likes |
 | Freedom is a very great reality, but it means above all things, freedom from lies. — D. H. Lawrence, 1885-1930, British writer 6 likes |
 | I have nothing, owe a great deal, and the rest I leave to the poor. — François Rabelais, 1484-1553, French writer (His last will) 1 likes |
| The imagination is of so delicate a texture that even words wound it. |
 | It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else. — Arthur Schopenhauer, 1788-1860, German philosopher 3 likes |
 | If we see light at the end of the tunnel, It's the light of the oncoming train. — Robert Lowell, 1917-1977, American poet 11 likes |
 | The one man to distrust, however, is the man who never makes a mistake, never commits a blunder, never fails in what he tries to do. He is either a phony, or he stays with the safe, the tried, and the trivial. — Peter Drucker, 1909–2005, Austrian management guru 3 likes |
 | His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets. — Dorothy Parker, 1893-1967, American writer, poet, satirist, critic 6 likes |
 | Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous. — Somerset Maugham, 1874-1965, British writer 2 likes |
 | No fact is so simple that it is not harder to believe than to doubt at the first presentation. Equally, there is nothing so mighty or so marvellous that the wonder it evokes does not tend to diminish in time. — Lucretius, 98-55 BC, Roman poet 2 likes |
 | Progress: The process whereby the human race has got rid of whiskers, the vermiform appendix and God. — H.L. Mencken, 1880-1956, American columnist & cultural critic 4 likes |
 | I saw a human pyramid once. It was very unnecessary. — Mitch Hedberg, 1968-2005, American comedian 3 likes |
 | The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place. — George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 5 likes |
 | I don't believe in astrology. The only stars I can blame for my failures are those that walk about the stage. — Noel Coward, 1899-1973, British playwright 4 likes |
| I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions – adding that no general proposition is worth a damn. |
 | Am I not a man? And is a man not stupid? I'm a man, so I married. Wife, children, house, everything. The full catastrophe. — from the film Zorba the Greek (1964) 10 likes |
 | What dies does not fall out of the world. Έξω του κόσμου το αποθανόν ου πίπτει. — Marcus Aurelius, 121-180 AD, Roman Emperor 9 likes |
 | The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe. |
