| Quotes |
Topic |
Author |
| The Rose has but a Summer reign, The daisy never dies. | Daisies | James Montgomery |
| A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing. | Inspirational | Joseph Conrad |
| Making capitalism out of socialism is like making eggs out of an omelet. | Government | Vadim Bakatin |
| From their folded mates they wander far, Their ways seem harsh and wild: They follow the beck of a baleful star, Their paths are dream-beguiled. | Character | Richard Eugene Burton |
| Save Gas, Eat Beans! | Cliches and One Liners | Unknown |
| To pluck the vicious quitch Of blood and custom wholly out of him, And make all clean and plant himself afresh. | Proverbs | Lord Alfred Tennyson |
| Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once. | Literature | Cyril Connolly |
| Hee that burnes his house warmes himselfe for once. | Proverbs | George Herbert |
| It will free man from his remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet. It will open to him the gates of heaven. | Science | Wernher Von Braun |
| There are three waies, the Vniversities, the Sea, the Court. | Proverbs | George Herbert |
| Gain cannot be made without some other person's loss. | Gain | Publilius Syrus |
| To a philosophic eye, the vices of the clergy are far less dangerous than their virtues. | Vices | Edward Gibbon |
| There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble to attend a wrestled performance of suffering than a performance of the sorrows of Arnolphe or Andromaque. | Sports | Roland Barthes |
| No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt. | Relationships | Sir Max Beerbohm |
| Culture is one thing and varnish is another. | Culture | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| It is strange that we do not temper our resentment of criticism with a thought for our many faults which have escaped us. | Resentment | Anonymous |
| Through life's dark road his sordid way he wends; an incarnation of fat dividends. | Miser | Charles Sprague |
| Who dares nothing, need hope for nothing. | Adventure | Johann Von Schiller |
| When one loves somebody everything is clear -- where to go, what to do -- it all takes care of itself and one doesn't have to ask anybody about anything. | Love | Maxim Gorky |
| Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. | Inspirational | Guillaume Apollinaire |
| Everything is funny as long as it is happening to somebody else. | Miscellaneous | Will Rogers |
| Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth. | Maturity | Thomas A Edison |
| It's a nice bonus but, you know, I have to pay taxes too. | Sports | Venus Williams |
| Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that. | All About Love | Harold Loukes |
| The very rats Instinctively had quit it. | Proverbs | William Shakespeare |
| There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place. | Change | Washington Irving |
| My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind. | Religion | Albert Einstein |
| Steps with a tender foot, light as on air, The lovely, lordly creature floated on. | Footsteps | Lord Alfred Tennyson |
| An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less, until eventually he knows everything about nothing. | Advice | Anonymous |
| Many people treat their bodies as if they were rented from Hertz-something they are using to get around in but nothing they genuinely care about understanding. | Body | Chungliang Al Huang |
| And to hie him home, at evening's close, To sweet repast, and calm repose. . . . . From toil we wins his spirits light, From busy day the peaceful night, Rich, from the very want of wealth, In heaven's best treasures, peace and health. | Wealth | Thomas Fuller |
| Feast of Stephen, Deacon, First Martyr The man who will not act until he knows all will never act at all. | Christianity | Jim Elliot |
| A bus is a vehicle that runs twice as fast when you are after it as when you are in it. | Cliches and One Liners | Unknown |
| The best memorial for a mighty man is to gain honor ere death. | Honor | Decimus Magnus Ausonius |
| Hell is full of good intentions. | Proverbs | Horace Greeley |
| Virtue is its own reward. There's a pleasure in doing good which sufficiently pays itself. | Virtue | Sir John Vanbrugh |
| A goodly apple rotten at the heart, O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath! -The Merchant of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3. | Shakespeare | William Shakespeare |
| Peace is more precious than a piece of land. | Peace | Anwar Sadat |
| What good is speed if the brain has oozed out on the way? | Haste | Saint Jerome |
| Acting on a good idea is better than just having a good idea. | Inspirational | Robert Half |