Random Sample of Quotes |
 | What we pay for with our lives never costs too much. — Antonio Porchia, 1885-1968, Italian-Argentinian poet 3 likes |
 | The quality of your life is determined by the quality of your relationships. The quality of your business is no different. |
 | Anything worth doing is worth overdoing. — Dave Letterman, 1947-, American TV talk show host 6 likes |
 | It’s not so important who starts the game but who finishes it. — John Wooden, 1910-2010, American basketball coach 9 likes |
 | Several excuses are always less convincing than one. |
 | A man tells you the most interesting things he knows during the first half hour he talks to you; after that, he either repeats himself or offers you variations of the same theme. — Pitigrilli (Dino Segre), 1893-1975, Italian writer 2 likes |
 | “Without the gods, how would I sing?” I asked. “With your own voice,” he said. |
 | The majority of husbands remind me of an orangutan trying to play the violin. |
 | All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books. — Jean-Paul Sartre, 1905-1980, French philosopher 2 likes |
 | If you have to do it every day, for God’s sake learn to do it well. — Mignon McLaughlin, 1913-1983, American magazine editor 2 likes |
 | One mother achieves more than a hundred teachers. 5 likes |
 | War is the business of barbarians. — Napoleon, 1769-1821, French Emperor 6 likes |
 | Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. — Timothy Leary, 1920-1996, American psychologist 3 likes |
 | Obscenity is a cleansing process, whereas pornography only adds to the murk. — Henry Miller, 1891-1980, American writer 5 likes |
 | The Romans, foreseeing troubles, dealt with them at once... for they knew that war is not to be avoided, but is only put off to the advantage of others. — Niccolò Machiavelli, 1469-1527, Italian political philosopher 2 likes |
 | The inventor of the mirror poisoned the human heart. — Fernando Pessoa, 1888-1935, Portuguese poet & writer 2 likes |
 | At twenty, the things for which one does not care a damn should, properly, be many. |
 | What I find interesting in a woman is what I don't dare ask of her. — Wolinski, 1934-2015, French cartoonist 1 likes |
 | To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart. — Eleanor Roosevelt, 1884-1962, Wife of the 32nd USA president 2 likes |
 | If you're born with a gift, to behave like it's an achievement is not right. — Woody Allen, 1935-, American actor & film director 2 likes |
 | It is the weak and confused who worship the pseudosimplicities of brutal directness. — Marshall McLuhan, 1911-1980, Canadian academic & media theorist |
 | I write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still. — Sylvia Plath, 1932-1963, American poet & writer 3 likes |
 | I usually solve problems by letting them devour me. |
 | We believe that all men are created equal because they are created in the image of God — Harry Truman, 1884-1972, American President [1945-1953] 3 likes |
 | You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough. — William Blake, 1757-1827, English poet & painter 2 likes |
 | So often, a visit to a bookshop has cheered me, and reminded me that there are good things in the world. — Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890, Dutch painter 4 likes |
 | It is the mark of a good action that it appears inevitable in retrospect. |
 | To doubt the experience is to discourage it. Let it be developed, see what is in it. — Sri Aurobindo, 1872-1950, Indian nationalist, yogi & philosopher |
 | There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature. — Lawrence Durrell, 1912-1990, British writer 4 likes |
 | It wasn’t my day. My week. My month. My year. My life. God damn it. |
 | Everyone in Italy is 20 years old, including me. |
 | When I die, I hope to go to Heaven, whatever the Hell that is. — Ayn Rand, 1905-1982, American writer & philosopher 5 likes |
| There is no other way of guarding oneself against flattery than by letting men understand that they will not offend you by speaking the truth; but when everyone can tell you the truth, you lose their respect. — Niccolò Machiavelli, 1469-1527, Italian political philosopher 4 likes |
 | Your preparation for the real world is not in the answers you’ve learned, but in the questions you’ve learned how to ask yourself. |
 | Through prayer we speak to God. In meditation, God speaks to us. |
 | The expert in battle seeks his victory from strategic advantage and does not demand it from his men. — Sun Tzu, c. 5th cent. BC, Chinese general & military strategist 4 likes |
 | I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts. |
 | The biggest coward of a man is to awaken the love of a woman without the intention of loving her. — Bob Marley, 1945-1981, Jamaican singer 6 likes |
 | Foolish strength is very often damaging. Ρώμη αμαθής πολλάκις τίκτει βλάβην. — Euripides, 480-406 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian ‐ Temenidae 5 likes |
 | The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human can alter his life by altering his attitude. — William James, 1842-1910, American philosopher 7 likes |
