| Quotes |
Topic |
Author |
| How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! The world forgetting, by the world forgot. | Obscurity | Alexander Pope |
| Heaven will be no heaven to me if I do not meet my wife there. | Wife | Andrew Jackson |
| Wear a Sardonyx or for thee No conjugal felicity. The August-born without this stone 'Tis said must live unloved and lone. | Jewels | Unattributed Author |
| God is clever, but not dishonest. | God | Albert Einstein |
| If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies. | Peace | Moshe Dayan |
| Then come the wild weather, come sleet or come snow, we will stand by each other, however it blow. | Friendship | Simon Dach |
| that thrives, and continues to flourish. This kingdom will become your best friend, your soulmate, and your love. | Love | Helen Adams Keller |
| To kiss the rod. | Punishment | Unattributed Author |
| So long as we have enough people in this country willing to fight for their rights, we'll be called a democracy. | Government | Roger Baldwin |
| One is not born a woman, one becomes one. | Women | Simone de Beauvoir |
| You must not know too much or be too precise or scientific about birds and trees and flowers and watercraft, a certain free-margin, and even vagueness - ignorance, credulity - helps your enjoyment of these things. | Nature | Henry David Thoreau |
| Who, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul And lap it in Elysium. | Singing | John Milton |
| Compromise, the art of dividing a cake so that everybody believes he or she got the biggest piece. | Cliches and One Liners | Unknown |
| It is better to believe that a man does possess good qualities than to assert that he does not. | Liberality | Sir John Francis Davis |
| Every calamity is a spur and valuable hint. | Calamity | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| But when he shall have been taken from sight, he quickly goes also out of mind. | Absence | Thomas A Kempis |
| The safest words are always those which bring us most directly to facts. | Word | Charles H Parkhurst |
| A good prayer is master of anothers purse. | Proverbs | George Herbert |
| Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding. | Reverie | John Locke |
| Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying. | Silence | Johannes Tauler |
| "Be bold!" first gate; "Be bold, be bold, and evermore be bold," second gate; "Be not too bold!" third gate. | Courage | Unattributed Author |
| Money is an excellent servant, but a horrible master. | Cliches and One Liners | Unknown |
| Masters, it is proved already that you are little better than false knaves, and it will go near to be thought so shortly. -Much Ado about Nothing. Act iv. Sc. 2. | Shakespeare | William Shakespeare |
| If there is anything we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves. | Change | Carl Gustav Jung |
| It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many millions of faces there should be none alike. | Faces | Sir Thomas Browne |
| Hee pays too deare for honey that licks it from thornes. | Proverbs | George Herbert |
| Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves | Irony | Karl Kraus |
| A man of three letters, " F U R." | Proverbs | Plautus Titus Maccius Plautus |
| Most skiers are really motorcyclists in cute clothes. | Sports | Bob Wilkerson |
| The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice. | History | Mark Twain |
| War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today. | War | John F Kennedy |
| It's the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen. | Affirmation | Claude M Bristol |
| He who hesitates is not only lost, but miles from the next exit. | Hesitation | Anonymous |
| The only competition worthy a wise man is with himself. | Sports | Mrs Jamieson |
| We knew it would rain, for the poplars showed The white of their leaves, the amber grain Shrunk in the wind,--and the lightning now Is tangled in tremulous skeins of rain. | Rain | Thomas Bailey Aldrich |
| Creativity, as has been said, consists largely of rearranging what we know in order to find out what we do not know....Hence, to think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted. | Inspirational | George Kneller |
| Grief drives men into habits of serious reflection, sharpens understanding and softens the heart. -John Adams. | Heart Quotes | John Adams |
| All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious. | Generosity | Homer |
| The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for. | Inspirational | Maureen Dowd |
| And give to dust that is a little gilt More laud than gilt o'er-dusted. -Troilus and Cressida. Act iii. Sc. 3. | Shakespeare | William Shakespeare |