Oct 29, 2010
Quotes by O Henry
"Whenever he saw a dollar in another man's hand he took it as a personal grudge, if he couldn't take it any other way".
Quotes by Thomas Gray
"Let not ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure; Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile, The short and simple annals of the poor".
Quotes by Oliver Goldsmith
"I'll fares the land, to hast'ning ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish, or ... 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 30, 2010
Quotes by Andrew Jackson
"One man with courage makes a majority".
Quotes by David Hume
"Nothing appears more surprising to those who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye, than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few".
Quotes by Richard Hooker
"He that goeth about to persuade a multitude, that they are not so well governed as they ought to be, shall never want attentive and favourable hearers".
Quotes by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
"But what experience and history teach is this, that peoples and ... Read More
Aug 8, 2010
Quotes by Fitz-Greene Halleck
"None knew thee but to love thee, Nor named thee but to praise".
Quotes by Thomas Gray
"The bloom of young desire and purple light of love. Bright-eyed Fancy, hovering o'er, Scatters from her pictured urn thoughts that breathe and words that burn".
Quotes by Robert von Ranke Graves
"O Love, be fed with apples while you may, And feel the sun and go in royal array, A smiling innocent on the heavenly causeway".
Quotes by Oliver Goldsmith
"The hawthorn bush, with seats beneath the ... Read More
May 17, 2010
Quotes by Joseph Heller
"Hungry Joe collected lists of fatal diseases and arranged them in alphabetical order so that he could put his finger without delay on any one he wanted to worry about".
Quotes by Samuel Goldwyn
"Anybody who goes to see a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined".
Quotes by Oliver Goldsmith
"Sweet Auburn, loveliest village of the plain, Where health and plenty cheered the labouring swain. Where smiling spring its earliest visit paid, And parting summer's lingering blooms delayed. And in that ... Read More
May 7, 2010
Quotes by Charles Lamb
"The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow, and the men who lend".
Quotes by Rudyard Kipling
"Horrible, hairy, human".
Quotes by Carl Gustav Jung
"A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them".
Quotes by Dr Samuel Johnson
"A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself. Humanity is very uniform".
Quotes by Homer
"Of all the creatures that creep and ... Read More
Apr 29, 2010
Quotes by Thomas Hardy
"Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down, You'd treat if met where any bar is, Or help to half-a-crown".
Quotes by William Frederic
"Our ships have been salvaged and are retiring at high speed toward the Japanese fleet".
Quotes by Ulysses Simpson Grant
"The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can and as often as you can, ... Read More