Confucius
“When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.”
Category: Quotes of the day
Dorothy Parker
“That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.”
Michel de Montaigne
“I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.”
Bethania McKenstry
“I’m not sure I want popular opinion on my side — I’ve noticed those with the most opinions often have the fewest facts.”
Harold Rosenberg
“No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating.”
Henry J. Tillman
“Oregano is the spice of life.”
Brendan Behan
“When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot …
Honore de Balzac
“First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint a second time.”
Paul Valery
“What others think of us would be of little moment did it not, when known, so deeply tinge what we think of ourselves.”
Ronnie Shakes
“I was going to buy a copy of The Power of Positive Thinking, and then I thought: What the hell good would that do?”
Julie-Jeanne-Eleonore de Lespinasse
“If you can attain repose and calm, believe that you have seized happiness.”
Kurt Vonnegut
“Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.”
Woody Allen
“I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.”
Albert Einstein
“Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming …
Sir William Preece
“The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.”
Marie de Rabutin-Chantal
“We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.”
Robbie Gass
“Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.”
Dr. David M. Burns
“Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can’t accept your imperfections, that’s their fault.”
Sir Winston Churchill
“When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.”
Seth MacFarlane
“The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.”
Granville Hicks
“A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to.”
W. Lee Grant
“Shared laughter creates a bond of friendships. When people laugh together, they cease to be young and old, teacher and pupils, worker and boss. They …
Robert Louis Stevenson
“If your morals make you dreary, depend on it , they are wrong.”
Thomas Guthrie
“Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.”
Andre Gide
“Dare to be yourself.”
Noel Coward
“Television is for appearing on – not for looking at.”
P. G. Wodehouse
“It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a …
Herbert Rappaport
“I hope that while so many people are out smelling the flowers, someone is taking the time to plant some.”
Margaret Mitchell
“Until you’ve lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was.”
Langston Coleman
“Luck is what you have left over after you give 100 percent.”
John Fletcher
“Man is his own star and the soul that can render an honest and perfect man commands all light, all influence, all fate.”
Norman Douglas
“You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements.”
Rebecca West
“There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at …
John F. Kennedy
“Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.”
Dorothy L. Sayers
“A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.”
Ruby Dee
“The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within – strength, courage, dignity.”
Jacques Delille
“Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.”
Norman Vincent Peale
“Change your thoughts and you change your world.”
Joss Whedon, Zack Whedon, Maurissa Tancharoen, and Jed Whedon
“Everyone’s a hero in their own way, in their own not that heroic way.”
Thomas A. Edison
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”