Dec 24, 2010
Quotes by John Milton
"And feel That I am happier than I know".
Quotes by John Stuart Mill
"Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind. Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so".
Quotes by Henry Louis Mencken
"The only really people are married women and single men".
Quotes by Karl Marx
"The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion".
Quotes by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
"A long happiness loses by ... Read More
Nov 5, 2010
Quotes by Benjamin Jonson
"Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things".
quotes by Dr Samuel Johnson
"I am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven. Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas".
Quotes by Henry James
"Most English talk is a quadrille in a sentry-box".
Quotes by Thomas Hobbes
"For words are wise ... Read More
Oct 14, 2010
Quotes by Leo XIII
"The right to rule is not necessarily bound up with any special mode of government. It may take this form or that, provided only that it be of a nature to ensure the general welfare".
Quotes by Nikolai Lenin
"We must hate - hatred is the basis of Communism. Children must be taught to hate their parents if they are not Communists".
Quotes by Rudyard Kipling
"If you can talk with Kings - nor lose the common touch".
Quotes by Neil Gordon Kinnock
"If ... Read More
Oct 12, 2010
Quotes by Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
"When you jump for joy, beware that no-one moves the ground from beneath your feet".
Quotes by Charles Kingsley
"Do noble things, not dream them all day long".
Quotes by Erica Jong
"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't".
Quotes by Dr Samuel Johnson
"The advice that is wanted is commonly unwelcome, and that which is not wanted is evidently impertinent".
Quotes by Mick Jagger
"You can't always get what you want, But if you try sometimes, ... Read More
Sep 29, 2010
Quotes by John Keats
"Much have I travell'd in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and kingdoms seen".
Quotes by Juvenal
"Travel light and you can sing in the robber's face".
Quotes by Dr Samuel Johnson
"A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority, from his not having seen what it is expected a man should see. The grand object of travelling is to see the shores of the Mediterranean. The use of travelling is to regulate ... Read More
Sep 22, 2010
Quotes by David Herbert Lawrence
"Money is our madness, our vast collective madness".
Quotes by John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich".
Quotes by Juvenal
"Nothing is more intolerable than a wealthy woman".
Quotes by Dr Samuel Johnson
"There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money. No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money. [On his edition of Shakespeare] Sir, I have two ... Read More
Jul 11, 2010
Quotes by Marie Antoinette
"Let them eat cake".
Quotes by Henry Sambrooke Leigh
"If you wish to grow thinner, diminish your clinner, And take to light claret instead of pale ale; Look down with an utter contempt upon butter, And never touch bread till it's toasted - or stale".
Quotes by Fran Lebowitz
"A great many people in Los Angeles are on strict diets that restrict their intake of synthetic foods. The reason for this appears to be a widely-held belief that organically grown fruit and vegetables ... Read More