Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
If you don't ride in the rain, you don't ride.
We read often with as much talent as we write.
Adult males are what their moms designed them.
Give me truths for I am weary of the surfaces.
We must be our own before we can be another's.
The only true gifts are a portion of yourself.
My life is for itself and not for a spectacle.
Every sweet has its sour; every evil its good.
There is no eloquence without a man behind it.
Every man I meet is in some way my superior...
Why should we be cowed by the name of Action?.
In good writing, words become one with things.
You are constantly invited to be what you are.
The eye is the painter and the ear the singer.
By God, I will not obey this filthy enactment!
There is one mind common to all individual men
The reality is more excellent than the report.
Its the not the Destination, It's the journey.
The Artist always has the masters in his eyes.
People only see what they are prepared to see.
Science does not know its debt to imagination.
For every benefit you receive a tax is levied.
Infancy conforms to nobody; all conform to it.
When the night is darkest, the stars come out.
A philosopher must be more than a philosopher.
Love is the bright foreigner, the foreign self.
It is better to suffer injustice than to do it.
Every chair should be a throne and hold a king.
People who know how to act are never preachers.
The people are to be taken in very small doses.
Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay.
Commit a crime, and the earth is made of glass.
Nothing external to you has any power over you.
Character is that which can do without success.
Only that is poetry which cleanses and mans me.
A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
A little fact is worth a whole limbo of dreams.
The world exists for the education of each man.
The unsaid part is the best of every discourse.
Justice satisfies everybody, and justice alone.
Universities are of course hostile to geniuses.
Your work should be in praise of what you love.
It is very hard to be simple enough to be good.
Only so much of life do I know as I have lived.
Nothing great ever happened without enthusiasm.
If I know your sect, I anticipate your argument
Sincerity is the highest complement you can pay
Let the bird sing without deciphering the song.
In self-trust all the virtues are comprehended.
Could Shakespeare give a theory of Shakespeare?