Random Sample of Quotes |
 | Friends love misery... our misery is what endears us to our friends. — Erica Jong, 1942-, American writer 1 likes |
 | All hat and no cattle. 5 likes |
 | If we have not found heaven within, it is a certainty we will not find it without. — Henry Miller, 1891-1980, American writer 3 likes |
 | For every little kid who still believes in Santa Claus, there is at least one adult who still believes in professional wrestling. — Doug Larson, 1926-2017, American columnist 7 likes |
| Because I loved myself, I was loved. — Erica Jong, 1942-, American writer 1 likes |
 | Talking to fools is like lighting a torch for the blind. — Pierre Claude Boiste, 1765-1824, French lexicographer 1 likes |
 | It’s extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it’s just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome. — Joseph Conrad, 1857-1924, British-Polish writer 1 likes |
 | Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs. — Zig Ziglar, 1926-2012, American self-help writer 4 likes |
 | I suppose our capacity for self-delusion is boundless. — John Steinbeck, 1902-1968, American writer, Nobel 1962 1 likes |
 | Dying for a cause doesn’t make that cause just. — Henry de Montherlant, 1895-1972, French writer 1 likes |
 | The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul. — William Butler Yeats, 1865-1939, Irish poet, Nobel 1923 1 likes |
 | Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing. — Lao-Tzu, 6th cent. BC, Chinese philosopher 8 likes |
 | Convictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies. — Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900, German philosopher 10 likes |
 | The weak places in a book need to be better written than the others. — Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1880, French writer 1 likes |
 | Actions of the young, decisions of the middle-aged, wishes of the old. Έργα νέων, βουλαί δε μέσων ευχαί δε γερόντων. — Hesiod, 7th cent. BC, Ancient Greek poet 12 likes |
 | Magic's just science that we don't understand yet. — Arthur Clarke, 1917-2008, British Sci-Fi writer 8 likes |
 | Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. — Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890, Dutch painter 4 likes |
 | The kinder and the more thoughtful a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people. — Leo Tolstoy, 1828–1910, Russian writer 1 likes |
 | The universe is stingy for anyone who denies himself. — Tagore, 1861-1941, Indian poet, Nobel 1913 4 likes |
 | Those who are at war with others are not at peace with themselves. — William Hazlitt , 1778-1830, English essayist & critic 1 likes |
 | We must help the poor, not encourage idleness. Απορίαν γαρ δει βοηθείν, ουκ αργίαν εφοδιάζειν. — Solon, 630-560 BC, Ancient Greek lawmaker & philosopher 6 likes |
| There is no truth. There is only perception. — Gustave Flaubert, 1821-1880, French writer 1 likes |
 | If it requires a uniform, it’s a worthless endeavor. — George Carlin, 1936-2008, American comedian 16 likes |
 | I've got all the money I'll ever need. If I die by four o'clock. — Henry Youngman, 1906-1998, American comedian 5 likes |
 | The first man who died must have been stunned. — Wolinski, 1934-2015, French cartoonist 3 likes |
 | I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through. — Jules Verne, 1826-1905, French writer 1 likes |
 | I have no ambitions nor desires To be a poet is not my ambition, It's simply my way of being alone. — Fernando Pessoa, 1888-1935, Portuguese poet & writer 6 likes |
 | Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it. — Lyndon Johnson, 1908-1973, American President [1963-1969] 4 likes |
 | Arrogance in full bloom bears a crop of ruinous folly from which it reaps a harvest all of tears. Ύβρις γαρ εξανθούσ᾽ εκάρπωσεν στάχυν άτης, όθεν πάγκλαυτον εξαμά θέρος. — Aeschylus, 525-456 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian 4 likes |
 | Ideas are a dime a dozen. It's execution that counts. — Frank Herbert, 1920-1986, American sci-fi writer 2 likes |
 | Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge. — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 5 likes |
 | You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline – it helps if you have some kind of football team, or some nuclear weapons, but in the very least you need a beer. — Frank Zappa, 1940-1993, American musician 5 likes |
 | Care not for time and success. Act out thy part, whether it be to fail or to prosper. — Sri Aurobindo, 1872-1950, Indian nationalist, yogi & philosopher 1 likes |
 | The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. — Martin Luther King, 1929-1968, American leader in the Civil Rights Movement 8 likes |
 | If any organism fails to fulfil its potentialities, it becomes sick. — William James, 1842-1910, American philosopher 4 likes |
 | Some days, God seems to be so distant that I think He is absent. — Simone De Beauvoir, 1908-1986, French writer 5 likes |
 | The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful. — Kurt Vonnegut, 1922-2007, American writer 4 likes |
 | More! More! is the cry of a mistaken soul. — William Blake, 1757-1827, English poet & painter 5 likes |
 | To be able to make a conversation, you must know many useless things. — Jules Renard, 1864-1910, French writer 5 likes |
