Famous Quotes and Proverbs

Life is terrible. It rules us, we do not rule it.

Oscar Wilde

Pain is a treasure, for it contains mercies.

Rumi

I would fain grow old learning many things.

Plato

Never regret what you don't write.

Abraham Lincoln

Friends have all things in common.

Plato

To define is to limit.

Oscar Wilde

These violent delight have violent ends. And their triumph die like fire and powder, which, as they kiss, consume.

William Shakespeare

Succeed; that is the advice that falls, drop by drop, from the overhanging fruit of corruption.

Victor Hugo

I hide behind the door, so that Reality won't see me when it enters.

Fernando Pessoa

People are of two types: they are either your brothers in faith or your equals in humanity.

Ali Ibn Abi Talib

To dwell on the things that depress or anger us does not help in overcoming them. One must knock them down alone.

Albert Einstein

I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.

Oscar Wilde