Into Motivation

Quotes by George Elliot "A difference of taste in jokes ia s great strain on the affections." Quotes by Umberto Eco "But laughter is weakness, corruption, the foolishness of our flesh." Quotes by Peter Edward Cook "There's terrific merit in having no sense of humour, no sense of irony, practically no sense of anything at all. If you're born with these so-called defects you have a very good chance of getting to the top." Quotes by Sidonie Gabrielle Claudine Collette "A total absence of humour makes life impossible." Quotes ... Read More

Quotes by Christopher Fry "We don't want to put ourselves wrong, With anything as positive as evil". Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson "In front of these sinister facts, the first lesson in history is the good of evil. Good is a good doctor, but Bad is sometimes a better". Quotes by Henry Havelock Ellis "What we call morals is simply blind obedience to words of command". Quotes by Thomas Stearns Elliot "For every life and every act, Consequence of good and evil can be shown and as in ... Read More

Quotes by Henry Fielding 'A newspaper, which consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not...may, likewise, be compared to a stagecoach, which performs constantly the same course, empty as well as full'. Quotes by Harold Evans "A headline is not an act of journalism, it is an act of marketing". Quotes by Thomas Stearns Eliot "[Television] is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet ... Read More

Quotes by Sir Winston Churchill "There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies. Lady Astor: If I were your wife, I should flavour your coffee with poison! Sir Winston: And If I were your husband, madam, I should drink it". Quotes by Dame Agatha Christie "An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested  he is in her". Quotes by Gilbert Keith Chesterton "My country, right or wrong," is a thing that no patriot ... Read More

Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson "To fill the hour - that is happiness". Quotes by George Eliot "The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history". Quotes by John Dryden "Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call today his own: He who, secure within, can say, Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today". Quotes by Charles Dickens "In came Mrs Fezziwig, one vast substantial smile". Quotes by Dante "No grater sorrow than to recall in our misery the time when we were happy". Quotes by ... Read More

Quotes by Cyrill Connolly "Imprisoned in every fat man a thin one is wildly signalling to be let out". Quotes by Samuel Taylor Coleridge "Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink: Water, water, everywhere. Nor any drop to drink". Quotes by Irvin Cobb "[On "corn licker"] It smells like gangrene starting in a mildewed silo, it tastes like the wrath to come, and when you absorb a deep swig of it you have all the sensations of having swallowed a lighted kerosene lamp". Quotes by Gilbert ... Read More

Quotes by Marcus Tullius Cicero "Those things are better which are perfected by nature than those which are finished by art". Quotes by Gilbert Keith Chesterton "When fishes flew and forests walked, And figs grew upon thorn, Some moment when the moon was blood, Then surely I was born. With monstrous head and sickening cry, And ears like errant wings, The devil's walking parody, On all four-footed things. Fools! For I also had my hour; One far fierce hour and sweet: There was a shout ... Read More