Into Motivation

Quotes by William Somerset Maugham "It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future". Quotes by Andrew Marvell "But at my back I always hear, Time's winged chariot drawing near; And yonder all before us lie, Deserts of vast eternity". Quotes by Christopher Marlowe "Stand still, you ever-moving spheres of Heaven, That time may cease, and midnight never come, O lente, lente currite, noctis equi: The stars move still, time runs, the clock will strike, The devil will come, and ... Read More

Quotes by Alexander Pope Wit and judgement often are at strife, Though meant each other's aid, like man wife. True wit is Nature to advantage dressed, what oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed; something whose truth convinced at sight we find, that gives us back the image of our mind. Quotes by Thomas Parnell Wit is the Muse's horse, and bears on high .The daring rider to the Muse's sky. Quotes by Dorothy Rothschild Parker "Wit has truth in it ...wisecracking is simply calisthenics with ... Read More

Quotes by John Motley Morehead "It's a long time between drinks". Quotes by John Cameron Andrieu "Vegetarians have wicked, shifty eyes, and laugh in a cold and calculating manner. They pinch little children steal stamps, drink water, favour beards...wheeze, squeak, drawl and maunder". Quotes by Thomas Moore "Yet, who can help loving the land that has taught us, six hundred and eighty-five ways to dress eggs". Quotes by Moliere "He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him. One should eat to ... Read More

Quotes by Dame Iris Murdoch "Humility is not a peculiar habit of self-effacement, rather like having an inaudible voice, it is a selfless respect for reality and one of the most difficult and central of all the virtues". Quotes by Michel de Montaigne "One may be humble out of pride." Quotes by Thomas Middieton "Lands mortgag'd may return, and more esteem'd, but honesty once pawned, is ne'er redeemed". Quotes by George Meredith "Want of courage is want of sense". Quotes by William Somerset Maugham "Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-wracking ... Read More

Quotes by George Augustus Moore "Humanity is a pigsty where liars, hypocrites and the obscene in spirit congregate. If you are a good man you want a bad one to convert; if you are a bad man you want a bad one to go out on a spree with". Quotes by Henry Louis Mencken "Conscience is the inner voice that warns us that someone might be looking. An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it ... Read More

Quotes by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu "Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my deary! kiss me, and be quiet". Quotes by Wilson Mizner "Be nice to people on your way up, because you'll meet them on your way down". Quotes by Alan Alexander Milne "Underneath the knocker there was a notice which said: PLES RING IF AN RNSER IS REQIRD. Underneath the bell-pull there was a notice which said: PLES CNOKE IF AN RNSER IS NOT REQID. You must never go down ... Read More

Quotes by Alexander Pope "Some have at first for Wits then Poets past, Turn'd Critics next, and prov'd plain fools at last. Good-nature and good-sense must ever join; To err is human, to forgive, divine. Pride, the never-failing vice of fools. For fools admire, but men of sense approve. For fools rush in where angels fear to tread. For forms of government let fools contest; What'er is best administer'd is best: For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; He can't be wrong ... Read More