Famous Quotes and Proverbs

I see my life in terms of music.

Albert Einstein

Books are immortal sons defying their sires.

Plato

I grow impatient at the length of your exordium.

Plato

Life is a great disappointment.

Oscar Wilde

I never worry about action, but only inaction.

Winston Churchill

To pretend is to know oneself.

Fernando Pessoa

If the answer is simple, God is speaking.

Albert Einstein

A good friend will always stab you in the front.

Oscar Wilde

In the midst of death life persists.

Mahatma Gandhi

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Heaven walks among us ordinarily muffled in such triple or tenfold disguises that the wisest are deceived and no one suspects the days to be gods.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The struggle of today, is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also.

Abraham Lincoln

Intuition,, not intellect, is the 'open sesame' of yourself.

Albert Einstein

Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half.

Plato

His biggest misgiving came from his concern about the loud crash that was bound to occur and would probably create, if not terror, at least anxiety behind all the doors. But that would have to be risked.

Franz Kafka

First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end.

Aristotle

For why is gambling a whit worse than any other method of acquiring money? How, for instance, is it worse than trade? True, out of a hundred persons, only one can win; yet what business is that of yours or of mine?

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The perfection of means and the confusion of ends seems to be our problem.

Albert Einstein

And now, let us go out on the terrace where 'droops the milk-white peacock like a ghost,' while the evening star 'washes the dusk with silver.' At twilight nature becomes a wonderfully suggestive effect, and is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.

Oscar Wilde

Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders.

Oscar Wilde

To become 'unique,' the challenge is to fight the hardest battle which anyone can imagine until you reach your destination.

Abdul Kalam

The real great man is the man who makes every man feel great.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

One Reality, all-comprehensive, contains within itself all realities.

Aldous Huxley

Snape was looking as though the first person to ask him for a Love Potion would be force-fed poison.

J.K. Rowling

Progress and healing involves seeing every person as not so different from ourselves.

Bryant H. McGill