“Misery is when you make your bed and then your mother tells you it’s the day she’s changing the sheets.” Suzanne Heller quotes
To err is human, but when the eraser wears out ahead of the pencil, you’re overdoing it. -Jenkins, Josh
Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery. – Brothers, Dr. Joyce
Ignorance is bold and knowledge reserved. -Thucydides
A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man’s mind. -Da Vinci, Leonardo
He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words. -Hubbard, Elbert
“When you build bridges you can keep crossing them.” Rick Pitino quotes
“Holding on to anger, resentment and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth. Forgiveness gives you …
“The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.” George Sand quotes
“Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them.” A. A. Milne quotes
“Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.” Lewis Mumford quotes
“It’s easy to make a buck. It’s a lot tougher to make a difference.” Tom Brokaw quotes
Wat heeft een jong meisje aan een boek dat voor jonge meisjes geschikt is? -Boon, Louis Paul
“We need not think alike to love alike.” Francis David quotes
The greatest art of a politician is to render vice serviceable to the cause of virtue. Bolingbroke, Henry quotes
Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be …
They are not long, the days of wine and roses:Out of a misty dreamOur path emerges for a while, then closesWithin a dream. Dowson, Ernest …
Being a part of success is more important than being personally indispensable. Riley, Pat quotes
I find myself fascinating. Dreyfus, Richard quotes
Things have got to be wrong in order that they may be deplored. Griswold, Alfred Whitney quotes
Gentlemen prefer bonds. -Mellon, Andrew William
How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long? -Rousseau, Jean Jacques
Wealth, religion, military victory have more rhetorical than efficacious worth. – Santayana, George
The question arises as to whether it is possible not to live in the world of men and still to live in the world. – …
Quit worrying about your health. It’ll go away. -Orben, Robert
Good temper is one of the greatest preservers of the features. -Hazlitt, William
Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent. -Swift, Jonathan
“Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can?t be taken …
“All love shifts and changes. I don’t know if you can be wholeheartedly in love all the time.” Julie Andrews quotes
“The first mistake of art is to assume that it’s serious.” Lester Bangs quotes
“The way to succeed is to double your error rate.” Thomas J. Watson quotes
Nunc scio quit sit amor. Lat., Now I know what love is. -Virgil
Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything. Delacroix, Eugene quotes
That most delicious of all privilegesspending other peoples money. Randolph, John quotes
The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination. Meredith, George quotes
Science is for those who learn, poetry is for those who know. Roux, Joseph quotes
On the day when a young writer corrects his first proof-sheet he is as proud as a schoolboy who has just got his first dose …
The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married. Connolly, Cyril quotes
People resent articulacy, as if articulacy were a form of vice. Raphael, Frederic quotes
Democracy! Bah! When I hear that word I reach for my feather Boa! Ginsberg, Allen quotes