Napoleon Bonaparte
“Victory belongs to the most persevering.”
Category: Quotes of the day
Dwight D. Eisenhower
“Don’t join the book burners. Don’t think you’re going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don’t be afraid to go in …
Jane Wyman
“The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.”
Jackie Mason
“I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something.”
Niels Bohr
“An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”
Henry Kissinger
“The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.”
George Carlin
“I think it’s the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.”
Bell Hooks
“The moment we choose to love we begin to move towards freedom…”
Trey Parker and Matt Stone
“I just realized that there’s going to be a lot of painful times in life, so I better learn to deal with it the right …
H. R. Schaffer
“There is?nothing to suggest that mothering cannot be shared by several people.”
Richard M. Nixon
“Always remember others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.”
Kathy Sierra
“In many cases, the more you try to compete, the less competitive you actually are.”
Raymond Chandler
“At least half the mystery novels published violate the law that the solution, once revealed, must seem to be inevitable.”
David Lloyd George
“Don’t be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps.”
George Washington
“It’s wonderful what we can do if we’re always doing.”
Thomas Sowell
“There are only two ways of telling the complete truth–anonymously and posthumously.”
Leonard Bernstein
“Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time… The wait is simply too long.”
Frank Lloyd Wright
“The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines – so they should go as far as …
Hugh White
“When you make a mistake, don’t look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes …
Stuart’s Law of Retroaction
“It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.”
Scott Westerfeld
“We don’t always get to choose what we love.”
Chuck Palahniuk
“It’s only after we’ve lost everything that we’re free to do anything.”
Muriel Fox
“Women and men have to fight together to change society – and both will benefit… Partnership, not dependence, is the real romance in marriage.”
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
“…when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
Robert Chapman
“A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion.”
Hesketh Pearson
“Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he …
Laurie Anderson
“When love is gone, there’s always justice./ And when justice is gone, there’s always force./ And when force is gone, there’s always Mom./ Hi, Mom!”
Art Spander
“The great thing about democracy is that it gives every voter a chance to do something stupid.”
Jack Handey
“I hope that when I die, people say about me, ‘Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'”
Mickey Rooney
“Always get married early in the morning. That way, if it doesn’t work out, you haven’t wasted a whole day.”
Emerson Pugh
“If the human mind was simple enough to understand, we’d be too simple to understand it.”
Ausonius
“Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself.”
Cesare Pavese
“The only joy in the world is to begin.”
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
“To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent – that is to triumph over old age.”
Whoopi Goldberg
“I am where I am because I believe in all possibilities.”
Julian Jaynes
“Civilization is the art of living in towns of such size the everyone does not know everyone else.”
Randall Jarrell
“But be, as you have been, my happiness…”
A. Whitney Brown
“I’m not a vegetarian because I love animals. I’m a vegetarian because I hate plants.”
Philip Guedalla
“Autobiography is an unrivaled vehicle for telling the truth about other people.”
Henry Miller
“Living apart and at peace with myself, I came to realize more vividly the meaning of the doctrine of acceptance. To refrain from giving advice, …