Random Sample of Quotes |
 | It's the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter. — Marlen Dietrich, 1901-1992, German-American actress 5 likes |
| Grumbling is the death of love. — Marlen Dietrich, 1901-1992, German-American actress 3 likes |
 | Art is a house that tries to be haunted. |
 | Wisdom lies in taking everything with good humor and a grain of salt. — George Santayana, 1863-1952, Spanish-American philosopher 3 likes |
 | What is the seal of liberation? — No longer being ashamed in front of oneself. — Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900, German philosopher 6 likes |
 | There is danger for him who taketh the tiger cub, and danger also for whoso snatches a delusion from a woman. — Arthur Conan Doyle, 1859-1930, British writer 1 likes |
 | He who can create disdains to destroy. |
 | No good neurotic finds it difficult to be both opinionated and indecisive. — Mignon McLaughlin, 1913-1983, American magazine editor 2 likes |
 | He looks as though he's been weaned on a pickle. — Alice Roosevelt Longworth, 1884-1980, daughter of Theodore Roosevelt (on US president Calvin Coolidge) 2 likes |
 | We run fastest and farthest when we run from ourselves. — Eric Hoffer, 1902-1983, American writer & philosopher 3 likes |
 | What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it. |
 | I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumours to my dogs. — Andy Warhol, 1928-1987, American artist 4 likes |
| The less satisfaction we derive from being ourselves, the greater is our desire to be like others. — Eric Hoffer, 1902-1983, American writer & philosopher 5 likes |
 | Nature does nothing without purpose or in vain. Η φύσις μηδέν μήτε ατελές ποιεί μήτε μάτην. — Aristotle, 384-322 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 14 likes |
 | Free speech is a bourgeois prejudice. — Vladimir Lenin, 1870-1924, Soviet revolutionary & leader 11 likes |
 | Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it. |
 | We are our own devils; we drive ourselves out of our Edens. — Wolfgang Goethe, 1749-1832, German poet & philosopher 8 likes |
 | We should live totally in the face of the night and of the Evil. |
 | Those who know nothing about history are doomed forever to repeat it. — Will Durant, 1885-1981, American historian & philosopher 9 likes |
 | Modesty is sometimes hypocritical, and simplicity never is. — Jean d’ Alembert, 1717-1783, French mathematician & philosopher |
| But a Book is only the Heart’s Portrait- every Page a Pulse. |
 | If you do too much, it’s going to lose its effectiveness. |
| Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality. — Mignon McLaughlin, 1913-1983, American magazine editor 5 likes |
 | Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. — Robert Frost, 1874-1963, American poet 11 likes |
 | There are men who struggle for a day and they are good. There are men who struggle for a year and they are better. There are men who struggle many years, and they are better still. But there are those who struggle all their lives: These are the indispensable ones. |
 | All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his. — Oscar Wilde, 1854-1900, Irish writer 6 likes |
 | When men ask me how I know so much about men, they get a simple answer: everything I know about men, I learned from me. — Anton Chekhov, 1860-1904, Russian writer 3 likes |
 | The awful thing is that beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there and the battlefield is the heart of man. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1821-1881, Russian writer 4 likes |
 | I never learn anything talking. I only learn things when I ask questions. — Lou Holtz, 1937-, American football coach 2 likes |
 | Mankind must put an end to war before war puts an end to mankind. — John Kennedy, 1917-1963, American President [1961-1963] 14 likes |
| That for which we find words is something already dead in our hearts. — Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900, German philosopher 2 likes |
 | Almost all human life is corrupted by the need to justify existence. |
 | We spend half our life remembering without understanding, and the other half understanding without remembering. |
 | Armaments, universal debt and planned obsolescence – those are the three pillars of Western prosperity. |
 | There are only two ways of getting on in the world: by one's own industry, or by the stupidity of others. |
 | For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses. |
 | Diplomacy is the ability to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they look forward to the trip. — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 9 likes |
 | Which death is preferably to every other? The unexpected. — Julius Caesar, 100-44 BC, Roman general & Consul 12 likes |
 | The more serious the face, the more beautiful the smile. — François-René de Chateaubriand, 1768-1848, French poet & politician |
