| Quotes |
Topic |
Author |
| Ideology has very little to do with "consciousness" -- it is profoundly unconscious. | Government | Louis Althusser |
| Never violate the sacredness of your individual self-respect. | Self Respect | Theodore Parker |
| Soon as thy letters trembling I unclose, That well-known name awakens all my woes. | Post | Alexander Pope |
| All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit quietly in a room alone. | Inspirational | Blaise Pascal |
| I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build. | Ambition | John D Rockefeller |
| No man succeeds without a good woman behind him. Wife or mother, if it is both, he is twice blessed indeed. | Inspirational | Harold MacMillan |
| He that plants thorns must never expect to gather roses. | Roses | Bidpai |
| The secrets of life are not shown except to sympathy and likeness. | Sympathy | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us,is a direct result of the asymmetry of the universe or of its indirect consequences. The universe is asymmetric. | Universe | Louis Pasteur |
| The kind of man who wants the government to adopt and enforce his ideas is always the kind of man whose ideas are idiotic. | Government | H L Mencken |
| I'm at the age where food has taken the place of sex in my life. In fact, I've just had a mirror put over my kitchen table. | Miscellaneous | Jackie Gleason |
| The great unity which true science seeks is found only by beginning with our knowledge of God, and coming down from Him along the stream of causation to every fact and event that affects us. . | Christianity | Howard Crosby |
| The miserable have no other medicine, But only hope, I have hope to live, and am prepared to die. | Proverbs | William Shakespeare |
| We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, "We have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.". | Existence | Charles E Hummel |
| Feares are divided in the midst. | Proverbs | George Herbert |
| How goes it now, sir? This news which is called true is so like an old tale that the verity of it is in strong suspicion. | News | William Shakespeare |
| His bark is worse than his bite. | Proverbs | George Herbert |
| The block of granite which is an obstacle in the pathway of the weak becomes a stepping-stone in the pathway of the strong. -Unknown. | Opportunity | Unknown |
| Death is as sure for that which is born, as birth is for that which is dead. Therefore grieve not for what is inevitable. | Immortality | Bhagavad Gita |
| Stoop, boys. This gate Instructs you how t' adore the heavens and bows you To a morning's holy office. | Worship | William Shakespeare |
| Generosity is a two-edged virtue for an artist - it nourishes his imagination but has a fatal effect on his routine. | Generosity | Alexander Solzhenitsyn |
| Can't I another's face commend, Or to her virtues be a friend, But instantly your forehead louers, As if her merit lessen'd yours? | Jealousy | Edward Moore |
| Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the consensus chooses to regard, as mentally unwell. | Psychological Subjects | Renata Adler |
| O, good my lord, no Latin! I am not such a truant since my coming As not to know the language I have lived in. A strnage tongue makes my cause more strnage, suspicious. Pray speak in English. | Linguists | William Shakespeare |
| Competing in sports has taught me that if I'm not willing to give 120 percent, somebody else will. | All About Love | Ron Blomberg |
| If the newspapers of a country are filled with good news, the jails of that country will be filled with good people. | Journalism | Daniel Moynihan |
| When it draws near to witching time of night. | Night | Robert Blair |
| Towered cities please us then, And the busy hum of men. | Cities | John Milton |
| True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness. | All About Love | Petrarch |
| Dispel this cloud, the light of heaven restore; Give me to see, and Ajax asks no more. | Blindness | Homer |
| God never gave man a thing to do concerning which it were irreverent to ponder how the Son of God would have done it. | Christ | George MacDonald |
| Every silver lining has a cloud. | Advice | Avon |
| Their kitchen is their shrine, the cook their priest, the table their altar, and their belly their god. | Miscellaneous | Charles Buck |
| Wise people always think wisely and never otherwise !. | Advice | Bhalchandra |
| Be still, sad heart, and cease repining, Behind the clouds the sun is shining, Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary. | Rain | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |
| True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable. | Friendship | David Tyson Gentry |
| Now my soul hath elbow-room. -King John. Act v. Sc. 7. | Shakespeare | William Shakespeare |
| It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust. | Trust | Samuel Johnson |
| The greatest compliment that was ever paid me was when one asked me what I thought, and attended to my answer. -Henry David Thoreau. | Listening | Henry David Thoreau |
| Take your work seriously, but never yourself. | Society | Dame Margot Fonteyn |