Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Our salvation is in work, but let us also take delight in that work.
Every new time will give its law.
Our most merciless enemy is our past.
Truth doesn't always heal a wounded soul.
Anger is like ice, and also quick to melt
Even a bad man is better than a good book.
You will not drown the truth in seas of blood
When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.
To an old man any place that's warm is homeland.
In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.
In the carriages of the past you can't go anywhere.
In the carriages of the past, you can't go anywhere.
Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.
Everything which is good in me should be credited to books.
When the life is monotonous , even grief is a welcome event.
The most beautiful words in the English language are 'not guilty'.
But I'm not to be caught with such poor bait! I'm a big fish, I am.
We ever long for visions of beauty, We ever dream of unknown worlds.
A good man can be stupid and still be good. But a bad man must have brains.
All human beings have gray little souls-and they all want to rouge them up.
You must write for children the same way you write for adults, only better.
When work is a pleasure, life is a joy! When work is a duty, life is slavery.
You must write for children in the same way as you do for adults, only better.
Lies are the religion of slaves and masters. Truth is the god of the free man.
One word of praise from a woman is dearer to me than a whole ode from a man . .
An honest man is all right even if he's an idiot...but a crook must have brains.
Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future
Talent I say is what an actor needs. And talent is faith in oneself, one's own powers.
Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.
Processing the human raw material is naturally more complicated than processing lumber.
One has to be able to count if only so that at fifty one doesn't marry a girl of twenty.
Writers build castles in the air, the reader lives inside, and the publisher inns the rent.
Hunger can explain many acts. It can be said that all vile acts are done to satisfy hunger.
You can't do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.
With his own money a person can live as he likes-a ruble that's your own is dearer than a brother.
Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn to think for yourself.
The more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life.
What can you do by killing? Nothing. You kill one dog, the master buys another-that's all there is to it.
Just think, reader, what will happen to you if the truth of a mad beast overpowers the sane truth of man?
Everywhere, within man and without, there is devastation, instability, chaos, and evidence of some prolonged rout.
All of us are pilgrims on this earth. I've even heard people say that the earth itself is a pilgrim in the heavens.
Jail doesn't teach anyone to do good, nor Siberia, but a man-yes! A man can teach another man to do good-believe me!
Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.
Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.
Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.
The Englishman walks before the law like a trained horse in the circus. He has the sense of legality in his bones, in his muscles.
What I'd like is to meet a man I could take off my hat to and say: "Thank you for having got born, and the longer you live the better.
Let us not search for the guilty ones only among others, let us speak the bitter truth: we are all guilty ... each and every one of us.
It is quiet and peaceful here, the air is good, there are numerous gardens, and in them nightingales sing and spies lurk under the bushes.
There is no one on earth more disgusting and repulsive than he who gives alms. Even as there is no one so miserable as he who accepts them.
