Random Sample of Quotes |
 | Part of the public horror of sexual irregularity so-called is due to the fact that everyone knows himself essentially guilty. — Aleister Crowley, 1875-1945, British magician & occultist, 3 likes |
 | There's no secret about success. Did you ever know a successful man who didn't tell you about it? |
 | I protest against any absolute conclusion. |
 | The worst-tempered people I have ever met were those who knew that they were wrong. — Dave Letterman, 1947-, American TV talk show host 6 likes |
 | The artist is not the transcriber of the world, he is its rival. — André Malraux, 1901-1976, French writer & statesman 4 likes |
 | The object of art is to give life shape. — Jean Anouilh, 1910-1987, French playwright 12 likes |
 | I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day. |
 | Death is the healer of incurable diseases. Θάνατος των ανηκέστων κακών ιατρός. — Aeschylus, 525-456 BC, Ancient Greek tragedian 41 likes |
 | Write the oaths of vicious men in water. Ανδρών δε φαύλων όρκον εις ύδωρ γράφε. — Menander, 4th cent. BC, Ancient Greek dramatist (New Comedy) 5 likes |
 | Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your knees bent? — Dave Barry, 1947-, American journalist 5 likes |
 | The envious man torments himself like an enemy. Ο φθονέων εωυτόν ως εχθρόν λυπέει. — Democritus, 470-370 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 3 likes |
 | Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart. — Rumi, 1207-1273, Persian mystic & poet 2 likes |
 | Virgil had the gift of expressing much in little, and sometimes in silence. — John Dryden, 1631-1700, English poet 2 likes |
 | A good plan isn't one where someone wins, it's where nobody thinks they've lost. |
 | Today the guns are silent. A great tragedy has ended. A great victory has been won. — Douglas MacArthur, 1880-1964, American general (Victory broadcast, 1945) 3 likes |
 | Politics is the business of getting power and privilege without possessing merit. |
 | Poverty is the lack of many things, avarice is the lack of all things. Inopiae desunt multa, avaritiae omnia. — Publilius Syrus, 1st cent. AD, Roman author of maxims 31 likes |
 | We only know one thing about God: He is what we are not. — Simone Weil, 1909-1943, French philosopher 1 likes |
| A well governed state is the best environment for growth. Πόλις ευ αγομένη μεγίστη όρθωσις εστι. — Democritus, 470-370 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 2 likes |
 | Curiosity is only vanity. We usually only want to know something so that we can talk about it. — Blaise Pascal, 1623-1662, French thinker 8 likes |
 | If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed. — Sylvia Plath, 1932-1963, American poet & writer 4 likes |
 | The man’s tail came off, but the need to wag it remained. |
 | Everything goes away, Jack Sawyer, like the moon. Everything comes back, like the moon. — Stephen King, 1947-, American author of horror & fantasy fiction 4 likes |
 | To eat and drink without a friend is to devour like the lion and the wolf. — Epicurus, 341-270 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher 6 likes |
 | Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much: such men are dangerous. — William Shakespeare, 1564-1616, English poet & playwright ‐ Julius Caesar 2 likes |
 | Poetry and the arts can’t exist in America. Mere exposure to the arts does nothing for a mentality which is incorrigibly dialectical. The vital tensions and nutritive action of ideogram remain inaccessible to this state of mind. — Marshall McLuhan, 1911-1980, Canadian academic & media theorist (Letter to Ezra Pound, 21 December 1948) |
 | The Greeks are crazy but their God is wise. — Theodoros Kolokotronis, 1770-1843, Hero of the Greek Revolution 12 likes |
 | There is no exquisite beauty without some strangeness in the proportion. — Edgar Allan Poe, 1809-1849, American writer 5 likes |
 | Public services are the place where employees who arrive late meet those who leave early on the stairs. |
 | Do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing, and you'll never be criticized. — Elbert Hubbard, 1856-1915, American writer 4 likes |
 | It's easier to be good for everyone than for someone. |
 | Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable. — H.L. Mencken, 1880-1956, American columnist & cultural critic 2 likes |
 | If you want happiness, provide it to others. — Frank Tyger, 1929-2011, American cartoonist 4 likes |
 | Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing. — Oliver W. Holmes Sr., 1809-1894, American writer 6 likes |
 | A shortage is a sign that somebody is keeping the price artificially lower than it would be if supply and demand were allowed to operate freely. |
 | Just when I nearly had the answer, I forgot the question. — Ashleigh Brilliant, 1933-2025, British cartoonist & epigrammatist 9 likes |
 | In full light we are not even a shadow. — Antonio Porchia, 1885-1968, Italian-Argentinian poet 3 likes |
 | I think I can remember being dead. Many times, in winter, I approached Zeus. Tell me, I would ask him, how can I endure the earth? — Louise Glück, 1943-2023, American poet, Nobel 2020 1 likes |
 | Man will only become better when you make him see what he is like. — Anton Chekhov, 1860-1904, Russian writer 2 likes |
 | I wish I was a woman, so I could have a relationship with a man like me. — Wolinski, 1934-2015, French cartoonist 2 likes |
