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 John Dryden "Ill fortune seldom comes alone. Fate seemed to wind him up for fourscore years; Yet freshly ran he on ten winters more". Quotes by William Robertson Davies "What we call luck is the inner man externalized. We make things happen to us". Quotes by Sir Winston Churchill "Which brings me to my conclusion upon Free Will and Predestination, namely let the reader mark it that they are identical". Quotes by Lydia Maria Child "Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such ... Read More

Quotes by Charles Dickens "A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature". Quotes by Destouches "Those not present are always wrong". Quotes by Rene Descartes "Good sense is of all things in the world the most equally distributed, for everybody thinks he is so well supplied with it, that even those most difficult to please in all other matters never desire more of ... Read More

Quotes by Gilbert Keith "Charity is the power of defending that which we know to be indefensible". Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes "Diligence is the mother of good fortune; and the goal of a good intention was never reached through its opposite, laziness". Quotes by Joyce Lunel Cary "Sara could commit adultery at one end and weep for her sins at the other, and enjoy both operations at once". Quotes by Jimmy Carter "I've looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many ... Read More

Quotes by Colly Cibber "If I can please myself with my own follies, have I not a plentiful provision for life?" Quotes by Miguel de Cervantes "He's a muddled fool, full of lucid intervals". Quotes by Thomas Carlyle "A Parliament speaking through reporters to Buncombe and the twenty-seven million, mostly fools". Quotes by Byron Lord George Gordon "I'll publish right or wrong: Fools are my theme, let satire be my song. We are the fools of time and terror: Days Steal on us, and steal from us; yet ... 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