Nov 16, 2010
Quotes by Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld
"We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to be happy ourselves. The happiness or unhappiness of men depends no less upon their dispositions than on their fortunes. We are never so happy, nor so unhappy, as we think we are. It is a kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy".
Quotes by Jean Paul Richter
"In the child happiness dances; in the man, at most, it ... Read More
Oct 23, 2010
Quotes by Seneca
"Every change of scene is a delight".
Quotes by Robert Falcon Scott
"[Of the South Pole] Great God! This is an awful place!"
Quotes by John Ruskin
"All travelling becomes dull in exact proportion to its rapidity".
Quotes by Gene Roddenberry
"Space - the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilization, to boldy go where no man has gone before".
Quotes by Jonathan Raban
"In an underdeveloped country ... Read More
Oct 6, 2010
Quotes by Jean-Paul Sartre
"Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do".
Quotes by George Santayana
"To be interested in the changing seasons is, in this middle zone, a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring".
Quotes by Victoria Mary
"Forget not the bees in winter, though they sleep, For winter's big with summer in her womb".
Quotes by William Rogers
"Half our life is spent trying to find something to do with the time we ... Read More
Sep 16, 2010
Quotes by William Shakespeare
"She's beautiful and therefore to be woo'd, She is a woman, therefore to be won. This is the way to kill a wife with kindness. Such duty as the subject owes the prince, Even such a woman owenth to her husband. Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits. The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men; for thus sings he, Cuckoo; Cuckoo, cuckoo: O world of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear. It is a wise father that knows ... Read More
Apr 17, 2010
Quotes by Seneca
"Drunkenness doesn't create vices, but it brings them to the fore".
Quotes by John Selden
"Humility is a virtue all preach, none practice; and yet everybody is content to hear".
Quotes by John Ruskin
"Your honesty is not to be based either on religion or policy. Both your religion and policy must be based on it. Your honesty must be based, as the sun is, in vacant heaven; poised, as the lights in the firmament, which have rule over the day and ... Read More
Feb 21, 2010
Quotes by Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld
"It is a boresome disease to try to keep health by following too strict a regimen".
Quotes by Francois Rabelalais
"Without health life is not life; it is not living life. Without health life is only a state of langour and an image of death".
Quotes by Francis Quarles
"Physicians of all men are most happy; What success soever they have, the world proclaimeth, and what fault they commit, the earth covereth".
Quotes by Publilius Syrus
"That sick man does badly who ... Read More
Feb 12, 2010
Quotes by Vittorio De Sica
"Moral indignation is in most cases 2 percent moral, 48 percent indignation and 50 percent envy".
Quotes by Richard Brinsley Sheridan
"Certainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible".
Quotes by William Shakespeare
"'Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss. 3rdfisherman: Master, I marvel how the fishes live in the sea. 1st fisherman: Why, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones".
Quotes by Seneca
"Man is a social animal. Man is a reasoning animal. To ... Read More