| Quotes |
Topic |
Author |
| No man should travel until he has learned the language of the country he visits. Otherwise he voluntarily makes himself a great baby-so helpless and so ridiculous. | Travel | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| The envious will die, but envy never. | Proverbs | Jean Baptiste Poquelin Moliere |
| In life, the only certainty is uncertainty. | Destiny | Robert Levine |
| He prayeth best who loveth best All things, both great and small. | Prayer | Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude. Also, a tactical misrepresentation. | Inspirational | Alexander Haig |
| There are two types of pain in this life,that of discipline, which lasts a short while... and that of regret, which can last a life time. | Cliches and One Liners | Unknown |
| A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose. | Poetry | Samuel Mcchord Crothers |
| I have cut my leg with my own adze. | Proverbs | Periander of Corinth |
| A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed. | Rest | William Cowper |
| A lover without discretion is no lover at all. | Discretion | Thomas Hardy |
| I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iii. Sc. 3. | Shakespeare | William Shakespeare |
| At all times it is better to have a method. | Consistency | Mark Caine |
| Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer's cloud Without our special wonder? | Wonders | William Shakespeare |
| Saying that Windows95 is equal to Macintosh is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus and believing you've witnessed the second coming. | Science | D H Lawrence |
| The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines. | Kindness | Charles Kuralt |
| For many persons, law appears to be black magic--an obscure domain that can be fathomed only by the professional initiated into the mysteries. | Law | Susan C Ross |
| He made an instrument to know If the moon shine at full or no, That would, as soon as e'er she shone straight, Whether 'twere day or night demonstrate, Tell what her d'ameter to an inch is, And prove that she's not made of green cheese. | Moon | Samuel Butler |
| The lustre of diamonds is invigorated by the interposition of darker bodies; the lights of a picture are created by the shades; the highest pleasure which nature has indulged to sensitive perception is that of rest after fatigue. | Contrast | Samuel Johnson |
| When people are fee to do as they please, they usually imitate each other. Originality is deliberate and forced, and partakes of the nature of a protest. | Originality | Eric Hoffer |
| His ignorance is encyclopedic. | Miscellaneous | Abba Eban |
| I have a dog of Blenheim birth, With fine long ears and full of mirth; And sometimes, running o'er the plain, He tumbles on his nose: But quickly jumping up again, Like lightning on he goes! | Dogs | John Ruskin |
| Those who work most for the world's advancement are the ones who demand least. | Progress | Henry Doherty |
| A diamond with a flaw is better than a common stone that is perfect. | Fault | Chinese Proverb |
| In sculpture did ever anybody call the Apollo a fancy piece? Or say of the Laocoon how it might be made difference? A masterpiece of art has in the mind a fixed place in the chain of being, as much as a plant or a crystal. | Sculpture | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Many friends in generall, one in speciall. | Proverbs | George Herbert |
| To learn to get along without, to realize that what the world is going to demand of us may be a good deal more important than what we are entitled to demand of it -- this is a hard lesson. | All About Self | Bruce Catton |
| Fair is the kingcup that in meadow blows, Fair is the daisy that beside her grows. | Buttercups | John Gay |
| When a girl ceases to blush, she has lost the most powerful charm of her beauty. | Men and Women | Gregory I |
| Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. | Education | Gilbert Keith Chesterton |
| The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Errand err again but less and less and less. | Relationships | Piet Hein |
| As for myself, I always willingly acknowledge my own self as the principal cause of every good and of every evil which may befall me; therefore I have always found myself capable of being my own pupil, and ready to love my teacher. | Psychological Subjects | Giacomo Casanova |
| Gentlemen of the Jury: The one, absolute, unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog. | Dogs | George Graham Vest |
| One's liberty should end when it becomes the curse of his neighbor. | Government | Frederick Farrar |
| In vain have you acquired knowledge if you have not imparted it to others. | Inspirational | Deuteronomy Rabbah |
| Life is like jelly beans, and sometimes you get your favorite color. | Jelly beans | Source Unknown |
| People who want by the yard, but try by the inch, should be kicked by the foot ! | Cliches and One Liners | Unknown |
| I used to think there was light at the end of the tunnel, but for me today the light is on a locomotive headed right for me. | Addiction | Source Unknown |
| The soft blue sky did never melt Into his heart, he never felt The witching of the soft blue sky! | Sky | William Wordsworth |
| If you had taken off the shoe then, at length you would feel in what part it pinched you. | Shoemaking | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration. | Home | Charles Dickens |