| Quotes |
Topic |
Author |
| One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum. | Life | Sir Walter Scott |
| It is my heart That makes my songs, not I. Marc Chagall -Sara Teasdale. | Heart Quotes | Sara Teasdale |
| Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it. | Nature | Henry David Thoreau |
| Still your mind in me, still yourself in me, and without a doubt you shall be united with me, Lord of Love, dwelling in your heart. | Meditation | Bhagavad Gita |
| Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh: For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags. | Sleep | Bible |
| The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins. | Tragedy | Heywood C Broun |
| A piece of a Churchyard fitts every body. | Proverbs | George Herbert |
| Dame Nature gave him comeliness and health, And Fortune gave him wealth. | Wealth | Walter Harte |
| Egotism is nature's compensation for mediocrity. | Egotism | L A Safian |
| She stood breast-high amid the corn, Clasp'd by the golden light of morn, Like the sweetheart of the sun, Who many a glowing kiss had won. | Sun | Thomas Hood |
| He who is first in time has the prior right. | Proverbs | Decimus Laberius |
| I just need enough to tide me over until I need more. | All About Love | David Mamet |
| The legacy of Democrats and Republicans approaches: Libertarianism by bankruptcy. | Government | Nick Nuessle |
| When poverty comes in at doors, love leaps out at windows. | Love | John Clarke |
| Say what you mean, mean what you say, but don't say it mean. | Cliches and One Liners | Unknown |
| And God made two great lights, great for their use To man, the greater to have rule by day, The less by night, altern. | Astronomy | John Milton |
| So spake the seraph Abdiel, faithful found, Among the faithless faithful only he. | Fidelity | John Milton |
| From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests; you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own. | Rights | Carl Schurz |
| Wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms. | Losing | William Shakespeare |
| The world does not pay for what a person knows. But it pays for what a person does with what he knows. -Laurence Lee. | Education | Laurence Lee |
| Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time | Democracy | Alfred Emanuel Smith |
| To be or not to be I think its a trick question. | Cliches and One Liners | Unknown |
| You can't choose up sides on a round world. | Inspirational | Wayne Dyer |
| A good motto is: Use friendliness but do not use your friends. | Friendship | Frank Crane |
| Brook! whose society the poet seeks, Intent his wasted spirits to renew, And whom the curious painter doth pursue Through rocky passes, among flowery creeks, And tracks thee dancing down thy water-breaks. | Brooks | William Wordsworth |
| God's finger touched him, and he slept. | Immortality | Lord Alfred Tennyson |
| He was a bold man that first eat an oyster. | Oysters | Jonathan Swift |
| Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray. | Instinct | William Cowper |
| While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die -- whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness | Tragedy | Gilda Radner |
| Musick helps not the tooth-ach. | Proverbs | George Herbert |
| Those that are most slow in making a promise are the most faithful in the performance of it. | Promises | Jean Jacques Rousseau |
| Quotations offer one kind of break in what the eye can see, the ear can hear. | Quotes | Ihab Hassan |
| I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste. | Contradiction | Marcel Duchamp |
| But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you. | Zeal | Bible |
| The difference is no less real because it is of degree. | Difference | Benjamin Nathan Cardozo |
| Consider an enemy may become a friend. | Proverbs | Sir Walter Scott |
| In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are. | Inspirational | Arnold H Glasgow |
| The wearer knowes, where the shoe wrings. | Shoemaking | George Herbert |
| a penny saved is a penny saved. | Cliches and One Liners | Unknown |
| Variety's the very spice of life, that gives it all its flavor. | Variety | William Cowper |