Sep 11, 2010
Quotes by Peter Ouspensky
"Truths that become old become decrepit and unreliable; sometimes they may be kept going artificially for a certain time, but there is no life in them...Ideas can be too old".
Quotes by Richard Milhous Nixon
"Let us begin by committing ourselves to the truth, to see it like it is and to tell it like it is, to find the truth, to speak the truth and live with the truth. That's what we'll do".
Quotes by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"Truths are illusions about ... Read More
Apr 14, 2010
Quotes by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
"Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my deary! kiss me, and be quiet".
Quotes by Wilson Mizner
"Be nice to people on your way up, because you'll meet them on your way down".
Quotes by Alan Alexander Milne
"Underneath the knocker there was a notice which said: PLES RING IF AN RNSER IS REQIRD. Underneath the bell-pull there was a notice which said: PLES CNOKE IF AN RNSER IS NOT REQID. You must never go down ... Read More
Mar 31, 2010
Quotes by Napoleon Bonaparte
"Has he luck?"
Quotes by Henry Miller
"In this life I am god, and like God, I am indifferent to my own fate".
Quotes by William Julius Mickle
"For there's nae luck about the house, There's nae luck as a': There's little pleasure in the house, When our gudeman's awa'".
Quotes by Anita Loos
"Fate keeps on happening".
Quotes by Frank Loesser
"Luck be a lady tonight"
Quotes by Livy
"Good fortune and a good disposition are rarely given on the same man".
Quotes by Stephen Butler Leacock
"I ... Read More
Nov 23, 2009
Quotes by John Morley
"The great business of life is to be, to do, to do without, and to depart".
Quotes by Christopher Morley
"There are three ingredients in the good life: learning, earning and yearning. Life is a foreign language: all men mispronounce it".
Quotes by Thomas Moore
"Life is a waste of wearisome hours, which seldom the rose of enjoyment adorns; And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers, Is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns".
Quotes by Michel de Montaigne
"The ... Read More
Nov 14, 2009
Quotes by Edna O'Brien
"Irish? In truth I would not want to be anything else. it is a state of mind as well as an actual country. It is being at odds with other nationalities, having a quite different philosophy about pleasure, about punishment, about life, and about death. At least it does not leave one pusillanimous".
Quotes by Robert Morley
"The French are a logical people, which is one reason the English dislike them so intensely. The other is that they own ... Read More