Aug 30, 2010
Quotes by George Orwell
"Within certain limits it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry".
Quotes by Malcolm Muggeridge
"About money and sex it is impossible to be truthful ever, one's ego is too involved".
Quotes by Henry More
"It is good for a man to have that wherewith he may live well and happily".
Quotes by Edward Moore
"I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice".
Quotes by John Milton
"Let none admire, That riches grow in hell; that soil may best, Deserve ... Read More
Aug 5, 2010
Quotes by Charles Monroe Schulz
"No matter how hard you try, you just can't bounce a croquet ball".
Quotes by Phillip Roth
"Baseball - with its lore and legends, its cultural power, its seasonal associations...its mythic transformation of the immediate - was the literature of my childhood".
Quotes by Grantland Rice
"For when the One Great Scorer comes to write against your name, He marks - not that you won or lost - but how you played the Game".
Quotes by Sidney Joseph Perelman
"Far from being a ... Read More
May 18, 2010
Quotes by Theodore Roosevelt
"To waste, to destroy, our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed".
Quotes by Alexander Pope
"All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul. Slave to no sect, who takes no private road, but looks through ... Read More
Mar 4, 2010
Quotes by Alexander Pope
"Some praise at morning what they blame at night. But always think the last opinion right. I never knew any man in my life who could not bear another's misfortunes perfectly like a Christian. Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blest".
Quotes by Pliny the Elder
"Man is the only animal that knows nothing, and can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, nor do anything at ... Read More
Feb 22, 2010
Quotes by Alexander Pope
"Go, like the Indian, in another life, Expect thy dog, thy bottle, and thy wife. Chaste to her husband, frank to all beside, A teeming mistress, but a barren bride. She who ne'er answers till a husband cools, Or, if she rules him, never shows she rules; Charms by accepting, by submitting sways, Yet has her humour most when she obeys. Not louder shrieks to pitying heaven are cast, When husbands or when lapdogs breathe their last".
Quotes by Samuel ... Read More
Jan 24, 2010
Quotes by Wilfred Owen
"Dullness best solves, The tease and doubt of shelling, And Chance's strange arithmetic, Comes simpler than the reckoning of their shilling. They keep no check on armies' decimation. Happy the soldier home, with not a notion, How somewhere, every dawn, some men attack, And many sights are drained. What passing-bells for those who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns".
Quotes by George Orwell
"War is war. The only good human being is a dead one".
Quotes by Frederick ... Read More
Dec 13, 2009
Quotes by Walter Carruthers Sellar
"Holland is a low-lying country full of low, lying people whose main object in life is to deceive the English by holding Dutch auctions, displaying Dutch courage, and talking Double-Dutch".
Quotes by Charles Louis de Secondat
"The English are a busy people. They haven't time to become polished".
Quotes by Sir Walter Scott
"O Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child! Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood, Land of my ... Read More