But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead. -Albert Camus
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a person and life they lead. -Albert Camus
Category: Quotes of the day
People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame — and only one — themselves. -Robert Collier
People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame — and only one — themselves. -Robert Collier
People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives. -Walter Lippmann
People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives. -Walter Lippmann
Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell. -Frank Borman
Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell. -Frank Borman
He who opens a school door, closes a prison. -Victor Hugo
He who opens a school door, closes a prison. -Victor Hugo
There are two kinds of light — the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures. -James Thurber
There are two kinds of light — the glow that illumines, and the glare that obscures. -James Thurber
A lawyer starts life giving $500 worth of law for $5 and ends giving $5 worth for $500. -Benjamin Brewster
A lawyer starts life giving $500 worth of law for $5 and ends giving $5 worth for $500. -Benjamin Brewster
Alain-Rene Le Sage
I wish you all manner of prosperity, with a little more taste. Alain-Rene Le Sage quotes
Northrup Christiane
Feeling grateful or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life. …
Boris Marshalov
Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens, then everybody disagrees. Boris Marshalov quotes
William J. Durant
Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory. William J. Durant quotes
Fear God, and offend not the Prince nor his laws, and keep thyself out of the magistrate’s claws. -Thomas Tusser
Fear God, and offend not the Prince nor his laws, and keep thyself out of the magistrate’s claws. -Thomas Tusser
We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. -Joan Didion
We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. -Joan Didion
Let us do or die. -Robert Burns
Let us do or die. -Robert Burns
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. -Edward Abbey
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. -Edward Abbey
At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks. -E.E. (Edward. E.) Cummings
At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks. -E.E. (Edward. E.) Cummings
Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun. -Martin Amis
Bullets cannot be recalled. They cannot be uninvented. But they can be taken out of the gun. -Martin Amis
To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old. -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old. -Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Stephen Bayley
Fashion is the most intense expression of the phenomenon of neomania, which has grown ever since the birth of capitalism. Neomania assumes that purchasing the …
Thomas Ehrlich
A college education should equip one to entertain three things: a friend, an idea and oneself. Thomas Ehrlich quotes
Attempt something so impossible that unless God is in it, it’s doomed to failure. -John Haggai
Attempt something so impossible that unless God is in it, it’s doomed to failure. -John Haggai
Women lie about their age; men lie about their income. -William Feather
Women lie about their age; men lie about their income. -William Feather
Don’t be humble, you’re not that great. -Golda Meir
Don’t be humble, you’re not that great. -Golda Meir
Them meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Them meaning of good and bad, of better and worse, is simply helping or hurting. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Money makes a good servant, but a bad master. -Francis Bacon
Money makes a good servant, but a bad master. -Francis Bacon
No one can pray well, but those who live well. -Proverb
No one can pray well, but those who live well. -Proverb
The key to your universe is that you can choose. -Frederick (Carl) Frieseke
The key to your universe is that you can choose. -Frederick (Carl) Frieseke
Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton
The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between the great and the insignificant, is energy — invincible determination — …
The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs. -Karl Marx
The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs. -Karl Marx
The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake. -Proverb
The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake. -Proverb
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn’t correct it is committing another mistake. -Confucius
A man who has committed a mistake and doesn’t correct it is committing another mistake. -Confucius
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. -Cesare Pavese
Life is pain and the enjoyment of love is an anesthetic. -Cesare Pavese
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. -Robert Frost
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. -Robert Frost
Clifton Paul Fadiman
“When you read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was …
I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy. -Samuel Butler
I do not mind lying, but I hate inaccuracy. -Samuel Butler
Herb Shriner
Conversation is three women stand on the corner talking. Gossip is when one of them leaves. Herb Shriner quotes
Mikhail Strabo
The poets were not alone in sanctioning myths, for long before the poets the states and the lawmakers had sanctioned them as a useful expedient. …
Quality is remembered long after the price is forgotten. -Gucci Family Slogan
Quality is remembered long after the price is forgotten. -Gucci Family Slogan
The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure. -Laurence J. Peter
The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure. -Laurence J. Peter