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
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 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
Feb 24, 2010
Quotes by William Hazlitt
"So have I loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing, thinking, writing on what pleased me best. I have wanted only one thing to keep me happy, but wanting that have wanted everything".
Quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we ... Read More
Feb 19, 2010
Quotes by Edgar Watson Howe
"When we lose a friend we die a little".
Quotes by Robert Herrick
"Wilt thou my true friend be? then love not mine, but me".
Quotes by William Hazlitt
"I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about".
Quotes by Julius Charles Hare
"We never know the true value of friends. While they live we are too sensitive of their faults: when we have lost them we only see their virtues".
Quotes by Thomas Gray
"A fav'rite has no friend".
Quotes by ... Read More
Feb 8, 2010
Quotes by Henry lV
"The wisest fool in Christendom".
Quotes by Tom Hanks
"Stupid is as stupid does".
Quotes by Oscar Hammerstein
"Fools give you reasons, wise men never try".
Quotes by Thomas Gray
"Thought would destroy their paradise, No more; - where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise".
Quotes by Oliver Goldsmith
"When lovely woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray, What charm can soothe her melancholy? What art can her guilt away? The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame ... Read More
Nov 25, 2009
Quotes by Tom Lehrer
"Life is a sewer. What you take out depends on what you put into it".
Quotes by Fran Lebowitz
"Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep".
Quotes by Charles Kingsley
"Life is too short mean anxieties".
Quotes by John Fitzgerald Kennedy
"There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war and some men are wounded, and some men never leave the country... Life is unfair".
Quotes by Dr Samuel Johnson
"Human life is everywhere a state in ... Read More