Bernard M. Baruch
“Approach each new problem not with a view of finding what you hope will be there, but to get the truth, the realities that must …
Category: Quotes of the day
Grenville Kleiser
“By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.”
Clarence Darrow
“The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents, and the second half by our children.”
Johnny Carson
“If life was fair, Elvis would be alive and all the impersonators would be dead.”
Lee Simonson
“Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.”
Seneca
“I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.”
Tom Lehrer
“I know that there are people who do not love their fellow man, and I hate people like that!”
Slovenian Proverb
“Speak the truth, but leave immediately after.”
Saki
“A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.”
Fred Hoyle
“Space isn’t remote at all. It’s only an hour’s drive away if your car could go straight upwards.”
Mark Twain
“I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.”
Pablo Picasso
“There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.”
Fran Lebowitz
“Your life story would not make a good book. Don’t even try.”
J. D. Salinger
“I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.”
Robertson Davies
“Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a …
Jean-Luc Picard
“Things are only impossible until they’re not.”
Laurence J. Peter
“Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.”
David P. Mikkelson
“The power of illustrative anecdotes often lies not in how well they present reality, but in how well they reflect the core beliefs of their …
Budd Schulberg
“Isn’t everyone a part of everyone else?”
Shimon Peres
“If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact – not to be solved, but to be coped with …
Alfred Lord Tennyson
“The greater man the greater courtesy.”
Ellen Goodman
“Traditions are the guideposts driven deep in our subconscious minds. The most powerful ones are those we can’t even describe, aren’t even aware of.”
George Eliot
“There’s folks ‘ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was i’ their boots.”
Erica Jong
“If you don’t risk anything you risk even more.”
the Dhammapada
“If one speaks or acts with a cruel mind, misery follows, as the cart follows the horse… If one speaks or acts with a pure …
Gertrude Stein
“In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is.”
Eric Hoffer
“The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.”
Jane Wagner
“Reality is the leading cause of stress amongst those in touch with it.”
Oscar Wilde
“Why was I born with such contemporaries?”
Mahatma Gandhi
“Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.”
John Keats
“Poetry should please by a fine excess and not by singularity. It should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and …
Arnold Bennett
“Having once decided to achieve a certain task, achieve it at all costs of tedium and distaste. The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a …
Horace
“He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.”
Princess Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco
“Blessed are those who can give without remembering, and take without forgetting.”
Amy Bloom
“Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.”
Ann Radcliffe
“Employment is the surest antidote to sorrow.”
Ben Stein
“I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it is my duty…This is my highest …
Anton Chekhov
“Man is what he believes.”
Helen Keller
“We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.”