| Quotes |
Topic |
Author |
| It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it. | Religion | Gilbert K Chesterton |
| The worst thing about work in the house or home is that whatever you do it is destroyed, laid waste or eaten within twenty-four hours. | Housework | Lady Hasluck |
| He is most free from danger, who, even when safe, is on his guard. | Vigilance | Publilius Syrus |
| Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. | Darkness | Chinese Proverb |
| I have been dying for twenty years, now I am going to live. | Last Words | James Drummond Burns |
| Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr There is not a heart but has its moments of longing, yearning for something better; nobler; holier than it knows now. | Christianity | Henry Ward Beecher |
| Oh! think what anxious moments pass between The birth of plots, and their last fatal periods, Oh! 'tis a dreadful interval of time, Filled up with horror all, and big with death! | Conscience | Joseph Addison |
| A fat house-keeper makes leane Executors. | Proverbs | George Herbert |
| The greatest thing in family life is to take a hint when a hint is intended--and not to take a kint when a hint isn't intended. | Family | Robert Frost |
| The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it. | Decisions | Edward W Howe |
| Anger is a symptom, a way of cloaking and expressing feelings too awful to experience directly — hurt, bitterness, grief, and, mostof all, fear. | Anger | Joan Rivers |
| If Mr. Vincent Price were to be co-starred with Miss Bette Davis in a story by Mr. Edgar Allan Poe directed by Mr. Roger Corman, it could not fully express the pent-up violence and depravity of a single day in the life of the average family. | Men and Women | Quentin Crisp |
| Thinking in words slows you down and actually decreases comprehension in much the same way as walking a tightrope too slowly makes one lose one's balance. | Advice | Lenore Fleischer |
| America is a land where citizens vote for Democrats but hope to live like Republicans. | Cliches and One Liners | Unknown |
| Two hundred million Americans, and there ain't two good catchers among 'em. | Baseball | Casey Stengel |
| Liberty begets license. | Proverbs | John Clarke |
| A woman in love can't be reasonable--or she probably wouldn't be in love. | All About Love | Mae West |
| The setting sun, and music at the close, As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last, Writ in remembrance more than things long past. | Sunset | William Shakespeare |
| The mentality of an army on the march is merely so much delayed adolescence; it remains persistently, incorrigibly and notoriously infantile. | Psychological Subjects | Albert Jay Nock |
| It is much better to have your gold in the hand than in the heart. | Science | Thomas Fuller |
| Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you. | Youth | Logan Pearsall Smith |
| One hand washeth another, and both the face. | Proverbs | George Herbert |
| Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside. | Fashion | Alexander Pope |
| Justice is truth in action. | Justice | Benjamin Disraeli |
| To me every hour of the day and night is an unspeakably perfect miracle. | Miracles | Walt Whitman |
| A country grows in history not only because of the heroism of its troops on the field of battle, it grows also when it turns to justice and to right for the conservation of its interests. | Government | Aristide Briand |
| Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality. | Reality | Ralph Marston |
| Light tomorrow with today. | Tomorrow | Elizabeth Barrett Browning |
| A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle. | Cliches and One Liners | Unknown |
| Without your knowledge, the eyes and ears of many will see and watch you, as they have done already. | Suspicion | Marcus Tullius Cicero |
| For right is right, since God is God, And right the day must win; To doubt would be disloyalty, To falter would be sin. | Right | Rev Frederick William Faber |
| Everything actual must also first have been possible, before having actual existence. | Possibilities | Unknown |
| When I step out of the role you have written for me you make me feel like a plagiarist. from the play Jake's Women. | Abuse | Neil Simon |
| Though a lie be well drest, it is ever overcome. | Proverbs | George Herbert |
| Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. | Experience | Douglas Adams |
| A friend is, as it were, a second self. | Friendship | Marcus T Cicero |
| They look quite promising in the shop; and not entirely without hope when I get them back into my wardrobe. But then, when I put them on they tend to deteriorate with a very strange rapidity and one feels so sorry for them. | Appearance | Joyce Grenfell |
| No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently. | Destiny | Agnes DeMille |
| It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer: but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth. | Proverbs | Bible |
| Life is a state of consciousness. | Inspirational | Emmett Fox |