Stoppard, Tom
Life is a gamble at terrible odds, if it were a bet, you would not take it. Stoppard, Tom quotes
Category: Quotes of the day
Junius
“How much easier it is to be generous than just! Men are sometimes bountiful who are not honest.” Junius quotes
Morality
We moralize among ruins. – Disraeli, Benjamin
Food and Eating
Hunger is a good cook. – Proverb
Literature
All literature is political. – Burton, LeVar
War
The pioneers of a warless world are the young men and women who refuse military service. – Einstein, Albert
Gold
The golden age only comes to men when they have forgotten gold. – Chesterton, Gilbert K.
Impossibility
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking. – Schuller, Robert H.
Courage
There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage. – Seneca
Pierre Schaeffer
“Sound is the vocabulary of nature.” Pierre Schaeffer quotes
Butler, Samuel
Every man’s work, whether it be literature, or music or pictures or architecture or anything else, is always a portrait of himself. Butler, Samuel quotes
Addison, Joseph
A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes. Addison, Joseph quotes
Macinness, Helen
Nothing is interesting if you are not interested. Macinness, Helen quotes
Dandemis
Do not condemn the judgment of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong. Dandemis quotes
Pilgrim, Peace
We are all cells in the same body of humanity. Pilgrim, Peace quotes
Hamilton, Alexander
Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government. Hamilton, Alexander quotes
Lindbergh, Anne Morrow
Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found. Lindbergh, Anne Morrow quotes
Young, Owen D.
In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn’t know what he is …
Chuang-Tzu
“Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech is cantankerous.” Chuang-Tzu quotes
Gifts
The only gift is a portion of thyself. – Emerson, Ralph Waldo
America
For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon. – Kissinger, Henry
Ben Jonson
“Language most shews a man: Speak, that I may see thee.” Ben Jonson quotes
Lawana Blackwell
“Patterning your life around other’s opinions is nothing more than slavery.” Lawana Blackwell quotes
Spanish Proverb
“If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.” Spanish Proverb quotes
Max L. Forman
“Always hold your head up, but be careful to keep your nose at a friendly level.” Max L. Forman quotes
John Gay
“Follow love and it will flee, flee love and it will follow thee.” John Gay quotes
John Dewey
“Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of the imagination.” John Dewey quotes
Resolution
For I am full of spirit and resolve to meet all perils very constantly. – Shakespeare, William
Persuasion
He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves. – Chesterfield, Lord
Simplicity
The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective. – Buffett, Warren
Culture
Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny. – Camus, Albert
Alienation
There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we …
Stardom
You have to know exactly what you want out of your career. If you want to be a star, you don’t bother with other things. …
Obscurity
What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care. – Blake, …
Pearl Bailey
“What the world really needs is more love and less paper work.” Pearl Bailey quotes
Ludwig van Beethoven
“Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.” Ludwig van Beethoven quotes
George Will
“The future has a way of arriving unannounced.” George Will quotes
Francis of Assisi, St.
It is not fitting, when one is in God’s service, to have a gloomy face or a chilling look. Francis of Assisi, St. quotes
Hoffer, Eric
Where everything is possible miracles become commonplaces, but the familiar ceases to be self-evident. Hoffer, Eric quotes
Cicero, Marcus T.
The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body. Cicero, Marcus T. quotes