Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.
Everything runs to excess; every good quality is noxious if unmixed.
Wherever a man comes, there comes revolution. The old is for slaves.
I pay the schoolmaster, but 'tis the schoolboys that educate my son.
If you have something to say, you will be given the power to say it.
Skepticism? Yes, but a saint is a skeptic once in twenty-four hours.
The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.
A beautiful woman is a picture which drives all beholders nobly mad.
The imagination and the senses cannot be gratified at the same time.
History is the action and reaction of these two, nature and thought.
We owe to man higher succors than food and fire. We owe to man, man.
Let the river roll which way it will, cities will rise on its banks.
For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem.
Why should we not have a first-hand and immediate experience of God?
Solitude, the safeguard of mediocrity, is to genius the stern friend
The height of the pinnacle is determined by the breadth of the base.
The noblest ministry of nature is to stand as the apparition of God.
A man in the wrong may more easily be convinced than one half right.
Life loiters at the book's first page,-- Ah! could we turn the leaf.
A man should not be a silkworm; nor a nation a tent of caterpillars.
I like a man who likes to see a fine barn as well as a good tragedy.
Every actual State is corrupt. Good men must not obey laws too well.
Life is a sweet mistake that happened when the world wasn't looking.
The step between ecstatic vision and sinful frenzy is all too brief.
I was in a maze. No matter which way I turned, it was the wrong way.
Wit is as infinite as love, and a deal more lasting in its qualities.
I am about to - or I am going to - die; either expression is correct.
A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.
Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.
Love, anger, pride and avarice all visibly move in those little orbs.
It is folly to seek the approbation of any being besides the Supreme.
The one real goal of education is to leave a person asking questions.
Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful.
No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'.
Great men are but life-sized. Most of them, indeed, are rather short.
Power is not just political. It can be cultural; it can be spiritual.
Most suffering is human-made and avoidable. It's mostly in your head.
Travel is not really about leaving our homes, but leaving our habits.
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
Friendship requires more time than poor busy men can usually command.
Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.
With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
Neither you nor the world knows what you can do until you have tried.
Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.
Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.
To make knowledge valuable, you must have the cheerfulness of wisdom.
But genius is religious. It is a larger imbibing of the common heart.
The power of a man increases steadily by continuing in one direction.
Men should take their knowledge from the Sun, the Moon and the Stars.