Category: Quotes of the day

Benchley, Robert

Drawing on my fine command of the language, I said nothing. Benchley, Robert quotes

Feyerabend, Paul Karl

The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education Feyerabend, Paul Karl quotes

Proverb, English

The mob has many heads but no brains. Proverb, English quotes

Paglia, Camille

If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts. Paglia, Camille quotes

Mckain, Robert J.

Become all that you are capable of becoming! Mckain, Robert J. quotes

Richard Louis Evans

“Don’t let life discourage you; everyone who got where he is had to begin where he was.” Richard Louis Evans quotes

Josh Billings on Marriage

Marrying for love may be a bit risky, but it is so honest that God can’t help but smile on it. – Josh Billings Quotes, …

William Wrigley Jr.

“When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.” William Wrigley Jr. quotes

William Saroyan

“Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.” William Saroyan quotes

Mary Pettibone Poole

“To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.” Mary Pettibone Poole quotes

Charles Horton Cooley

“An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.” Charles Horton Cooley quotes

Chen Shui-bian

“Even if one tree falls down it wouldn’t affect the entire forest.” Chen Shui-bian quotes

Nader, Ralph

This administration is not sympathetic to corporations, it is indentured to corporations. Nader, Ralph quotes

Sheridan, Richard Brinsley

Ay, ay, the best terms will grow obsolete: damns have had their day. Sheridan, Richard Brinsley quotes

Charell, Ralph

The inner speech, your thoughts, can cause you to be rich or poor, loved or unloved, happy or unhappy, attractive or unattractive, powerful or weak. …

Auden, W. H.

Poetry makes nothing happen. It survives in the valley of its saying. Auden, W. H. quotes

Goldsmith, Oliver

You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are …

Heave

Health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. Heave quotes

Smith, Logan Pearsall

What I like in a good author isn’t what he says, but what he whispers. Smith, Logan Pearsall quotes

Schweitzer, Albert

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now — always. Schweitzer, Albert quotes

Haile Selassie on History

Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of …

Attitude

To different minds, the same world is a hell, and a heaven. – Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Thomas Szasz on Society

Punishment is now unfashionable… because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to …

Jascha Heifetz

“No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.” Jascha …

Augustine, St.

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity. Augustine, St. quotes

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

No author ever drew a character consistent to human nature, but he was forced to ascribe to it many inconsistencies. Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. quotes

Kennedy, John F.

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all. Kennedy, John F. quotes

Leonard

“I loved you in the morning, our kisses deep and warm, your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy, golden storm, yes many loved before …

John Madden on Sports

The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break. – John Madden Quotes, Famous Quotes, John Madden, Sports

Rejection

Any man who does not accept the conditions of human life sells his soul. – Baudelaire, Charles

Walt Whitman on Poetry

To have great poets, there must be great audiences. – Walt Whitman Quotes, Famous Quotes, Walt Whitman, Poetry

Thurber, James

Love is what you’ve been through with somebody. Thurber, James quotes

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent. Wittgenstein, Ludwig quotes

Shaw, George Bernard

You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother’s milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes. Shaw, George Bernard quotes

Thoreau, Henry David

The way by which you may get money almost without exception leads downward. Thoreau, Henry David quotes

Baldwin, James

The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him. Baldwin, James quotes

Dreams

Keep true to the dreams of your youth. – Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von