Random Sample of Quotes |
 | Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings. — Salvador Dali, 1904-1989, Spanish painter 8 likes |
 | The praise of the people is much better than most things. Πολλών χρημάτων κρείττων ο παρά του πλήθους έπαινος. — Isocrates, 436-338 BC, Ancient Greek rhetorician 4 likes |
 | Love doesn't make the world go round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile. — Franklin P. Jones, 1908-1980, American columnist 11 likes |
 | Technology is both a tool for helping humans and for destroying them. This is the paradox of our times which we're compelled to face. — Frank Herbert, 1920-1986, American sci-fi writer 1 likes |
 | Death: I would like to know who makes this bad joke on us. — Manolis Doukides, Greek writer 3 likes |
 | The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble. — Henry Miller, 1891-1980, American writer 1 likes |
 | Evil knows of the Good, but Good does not know of Evil. Knowledge of oneself is something only Evil has. — Franz Kafka, 1883-1924, Bohemian writer 2 likes |
 | To feel nostalgia for you place being in your place nothing is more bitter. — Giorgos Seferis, 1900-1971, Greek poet, Nobel 1963 1 likes |
 | We are all sprung from a heavenly seed. Caelesti sumus omnes semine oriundi. — Lucretius, 98-55 BC, Roman poet 27 likes |
 | Unfortunately sometimes one can't do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy. — Somerset Maugham, 1874-1965, British writer 3 likes |
 | All labor is better than inactivity. Της ησυχίης πάντες οι πόνοι ηδίονες. — Democritus, 470-370 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 4 likes |
 | The most important thing in the world is family and love. — John Wooden, 1910-2010, American basketball coach 3 likes |
 | As a poet, there is only one political duty, and that is to defend one’s language from corruption. — W.H. Auden, 1907-1973, British poet 1 likes |
 | I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it. — Frank A. Clark, 1911-1991, American cartoonist 1 likes |
 | Always remember that the crowd that applauds your coronation is the same crowd that will applaud your beheading. People like a show. — Terry Pratchett, 1948-2015, British writer 1 likes |
 | The earth laughs in flowers. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1884, American philosopher 4 likes |
 | He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career. — George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 14 likes |
 | Your future depends on many things, but mostly on you. — Frank Tyger, 1929-2011, American cartoonist 6 likes |
 | Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr., 1940-2021, American self-help writer 8 likes |
 | Mediocrity in poets has never been tolerated by either men, or gods, or booksellers. 5 likes |
 | I got a new shadow. I had to get rid of the other one – it wasn’t doing what I was doing. — Steven Wright, 1955-, American comedian 7 likes |
 | The theater is one of those beehives where we transform the honey of the visible into the invisible. — Louis Jouvet, 1887-1951, French actor 6 likes |
 | Lawyer – One skilled in the circumvention of the law. — Ambrose Bierce, 1842–1914, American writer 1 likes |
| You never realize what a good memory you have until you try to forget something. — Franklin P. Jones, 1908-1980, American columnist 1 likes |
 | Nothing in excess. Μηδέν Άγαν. — Chilon of Sparta, 6th cent. BC, one of the 7 sages of Ancient Greece 7 likes |
 | The newspapers are the cemeteries of ideas. — Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, 1809-1865, French anarchist 3 likes |
 | The Balkans aren't worth the life of a single Pomeranian grenadier. — Otto von Bismarck, 1815-1898, German chancellor 10 likes |
| I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth. — Henry Miller, 1891-1980, American writer 1 likes |
 | It is impossible to be free if you are enslaved and dominated by your passions. Ελεύθερον αδύνατον είναι τον πάθεσι δουλεύοντα και υπό παθών κρατούμενον. — Pythagoras, 580-490 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 1 likes |
 | Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these. — Ovid, 43 BC-17 AD, Roman poet 6 likes |
 | To a mind that is still the whole universe surrenders. — Lao-Tzu, 6th cent. BC, Chinese philosopher 8 likes |
 | The 'C' students run the world. — Harry Truman, 1884-1972, American President [1945-1953] 14 likes |
 | Who would deny that sound cinema has made us discover silence? Silence is the most beautiful conquest of speaking. — Henri Jeanson, 1900-1970, French critic & columnist 1 likes |
 | Kings and women believe that everything that happens is due to them. — Honoré de Balzac, 1799-1850, French writer 1 likes |
 | My photographs don't do me justice - they just look like me. — Phyllis Diller, 1917-2012, American comedian 3 likes |
 | Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved: commitment to a scenario. — Jean Baudrillard, 1929-2007, French intellectual 5 likes |
 | Politics: a race of Trojan horses. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec, 1906-1966, Polish author of maxims 14 likes |
 | If you think about it, Christ is the only truly successful anarchist. — André Malraux, 1901-1976, French writer & statesman 9 likes |
| A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1884, American philosopher 6 likes |
 | No law can satisfy everyone. We should be happy if it is beneficial overall and for the majority. — Titus Livius, 59 BC-17 AD, Roman historian 2 likes |
