The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue. Friedrich Nietzsche

Quotes November 23, 2008

There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep. Ralph Waldo Emerson

There never was a child so lovely, but his mother was glad to get him asleep.ChildrenQuotations by Ralph …

Men often applaud an imitation and hiss the real thing.OriginalityQuotations by Aesop

One must think like a hero to behave like a merely decent human being.Heroes and HeroismQuotations by May …

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.RelationshipsQuotations by Arthur Schopenhauer

Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.ProcrastinationQuotations by Abraham …

Nothing is pleasant that is not spiced with variety.VarietyQuotations by Francis Bacon

‘Tis not in mortals to command success, but we’ll do more, Sempronius, we’ll deserve it.MeritQuotations by Joseph Addison

Indecision and delays are the parents of failure.DecisionsQuotations by George Canning

The people never give up their liberties, but under some delusion.LibertyQuotations by Edmund Burke

I am patient with stupidity, but not with those who are proud of it.PatienceQuotations by Dame Edith Sitwell