| Quotes |
Topic |
Author |
| Always when I see a man fond of praise I always think it is because he is an affectionate man craving for affection. - Letters to His Son, W. B. Yeats and Others. | Miscellaneous | J B Yeats |
| Nothing focuses the mind better than the constant sight of a competitor who wants to wipe you off the map. | Perspective | Wayne Calloway |
| Success, its an never ending improvement in what you do. | Cliches and One Liners | Unknown |
| The wise man's eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness; and I myself perceived also that one event happeneth to them all. | Death | Bible |
| Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it. | Inspirational | Syrus |
| Character must be kept bright as well as clean. | Advice | Lord Chesterfield |
| Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. | Inspirational | Eddie Rickenbacker |
| Don't eat the yellow snow. | Cliches and One Liners | Unknown |
| Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself. | Movies | Oprah Winfrey |
| Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head. | Body | Ellen Degeneres |
| What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things. -Unknown love quote. | Love | Unknown Love Quote |
| If o'er the dial glides a shade, redeem The time for lo! it passes like a dream, But if 'tis all a blank, then mark the loss Of hours unblest by shadows from the cross. | Sun Dial Mottoes | Unattributed Author |
| Most writers regard truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use. | Truth | Mark Twain |
| Remarriage, A triumph of hope over experience. | The sexes | Samuel Johnson |
| Money talks...but all mine ever says is good-bye. | Finance and Economics | Anonymous |
| Nature always tends to act in the simplest way. | Nature | Bernoulli |
| Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering. | Lies | Steven Soderbergh |
| Renounce the devil and all his works, the vain pomp and glory of the world. | World | Book of Common Prayer |
| The true poem is the poet's mind. | Poetry | Ralph Waldo Emerson |
| Boredom is like a pitiless zooming in on the epidermis of time. Every instant is dilated and magnified like the pores of the face. | Boredom | Jean Baudrillard |
| Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting. | Books and Reading | Dr Emmit Fox |
| A life of ease is a difficult pursuit. | Inspirational | William Cowper |
| As lousy as things are now, tomorrow they will be somebody's good old days. | History | Gerald Barzan |
| Suspicion follows close on mistrust. | Suspicion | Ephraim Gotthold Lessing |
| Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment. | Irony | Edwin P Whipple |
| Touch a scientist and you touch a child. | Science | Ray Bradbury |
| The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. | Advice | Socrates |
| That it should come to this, But two months dead, nay, not so much, not two, So excellent a king, that was to this Hyperion to a satyr, so loving to my mother That he might not beteem the winds of heaven Visit her face too roughly. Heaven and earth, Must I remember? Why, she would hang on him As if increase of appetite had grown By what it fed on, and yet within a month-- Let me not think on't, frailty, thy name is woman-- A little month, or ere those shoes were old With which she followed my poor father's body Like Niobe, all tears, why she, even she-- O God, a beast that wants discourse of reason Would have mourned longer--married with my uncle, My father's brother, but no more like my father Than I to Hercules. | Motherhood | William Shakespeare |
| If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him. | Revenge | William Shakespeare |
| I was recently on a tour of Latin America,and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people. | Government | Dan Quayle |
| He thought as a sage, though he felt as a man. | Feeling | James Beattie |
| How do our philosophers act? Do they not inscribe their signatures to the very essays they write on the propriety of despising glory. | Proverbs | Charles Churchill |
| The baby figure of the giant mass Of things to come. -Troilus and Cressida. Act i. Sc. 3. | Shakespeare | William Shakespeare |
| Honour and profit lie not in one sacke. | Proverbs | George Herbert |
| All power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist. | Public Trust | Benjamin Disraeli |
| Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success. | Faith | Edward Dowden |
| The next time the devil reminds you of your past, remind him of his future. | Cliches and One Liners | Unknown |
| 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 |
| Gently on tiptoe Sunday creeps, Cheerfully from the stars he peeps, Mortals are all asleep below, None in the village hears him go; E'en chanticleer keeps very still, For Sunday whispered, 'twas his will. | Sabbath | John Peter Hebel |
| Calamity is man's true touchstone. | Negativity | Beaumont And Fletcher |