Dec 14, 2010
Quotes by Thomas Kempis
"Of the two evils, the lesser is always to be chosen".
Quotes by Immanuel Kant
"There is no possibility of thinking of anything at all in the world, or even out of it, which can be regarded as good without qualification, except a good will. We do not need science and philosophy to know what we should do to be honest and good, yea, even wise and virtuous".
Quotes by Franz Kafka
"When one has once accepted and absorbed Evil, it no longer ... Read More
Oct 8, 2010
Quotes by Thomas Jefferson
"[On beer] I wish to see this beverage become common instead of the whiskey which kills one third of our citizens, and ruins their families".
Quotes by Washington Irving
"They who drink beer will think beer".
Quotes by Eugene Ionesco
"Yoghurt is very good for the stomach, the lumbar regions, appendicitis and apotheosis".
Quotes by Alfred Edward Housman
"And malt does more than Milton can, To justify God's ways to man. Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink, For fellows whom it hurts to ... Read More
Apr 26, 2010
Quotes by Thomas Hood
"Spring it is cheery, Winter is dreary, Green leaves hang, but the brown must fly; When he's forsaken, Wither'd and shaken, What can an old man do but die".
Quotes by Robert Herrick
"Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old Time is still a-flying: And this same flower that smiles today, Tomorrow will be dying".
Quotes by Nathaniel Hawthorne
"The past lies upon the Present like a giant's body".
Quotes by William Harrison
"The times are changing, and we are changing in them".
Quotes ... Read More
Apr 3, 2010
Quotes by St Ignatius of Loyola
"A sound mind in a sound body is the most useful instrument wherewith to serve God".
Quotes by Gerard Manley Hopkins
"Glory be to God for dappled things. The world is charged with the grandeur of God. I am all at once what Christ is, since he was what I am, and this Jack, joke, poor potsherd, patch, matchwood, immortal diamond, Is immortal diamond".
Quotes by Thomas Hood
"I remember, I remember, The fir trees dark and high; I used to ... Read More
Jan 20, 2010
Quotes by Richard Jefferies
"If only we could persuade ourselves to be quiescent when we are happy".
Quotes by William James
"Happiness, like every other emotional state, has blindness and insensibility to opposing facts given it as its instinctive weapon for self-protection against disturbance".
Quotes by Henrik Ibsen
"What right have we to happiness. Take the life-lie away from the average man and straight away you take away his happiness".
Quotes by Aldous Huxley
"Happiness is like coke - something you get as a by-product in the process of ... Read More
Nov 10, 2009
Quotes by Horace
"Greece, once overcome, overcame her wild conquerer and brought the arts into rustic Latium".
Quotes by Thomas Hood
"Holland... lies so low they're only saved by being damned".
Quotes by Katharine Hepburn
"First God made England, Ireland and Scotland. That's when he corrected his mistakes and made Wales".
Quotes by Christine Johann Heinrich Heine
"The French and the Russians have shared out the land, Britannia rules the oceans; We reign unchallenged in the realm, Of dreamy abstract notions".
Quotes by Margaret Halsey
"Listening to Britons dining ... Read More