 Quotation |
Author |
 |
| |
|
| |
| Exiles feed on hope. |
Aeschylus |
|
|
| It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath. |
Aeschylus |
|
|
| The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life Overcome fear, behold wonder. |
Aeschylus |
|
|
| For not many men, the proverb saith, can love a friend whom fortune prospereth unenvying. |
Aeschylus |
|
|
| A prosperous fool is a grievous burden. |
Aeschylus |
|
|
| The future you shall know when it has come before then forget it. |
Aeschylus |
|
|
| When a man's willing and eager, the gods join in. |
Aeschylus |
|
|
| Bronze is the mirror of the form wine, of the heart. |
Aeschylus |
|
|
| It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered. |
Aeschylus |
|
|
| There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief. |
Aeschylus |
|
|
| I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope. |
Aeschylus |
|
|
| Time as he grows old teaches all things. |
Aeschylus |
|
|
| Death is better, a milder fate than tyranny. |
Aeschylus |
|
|
| In war, truth is the first casualty. |
Aeschylus |
|
|
| For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends. |
Aeschylus |
|
|
| Destiny waits alike for the free man as well as for him enslaved by another's might. |
Aeschylus |
|
|
| It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish. |
Aeschylus |
|
|
| Only when man's life comes to its end in prosperity can one call that man happy. |
Aeschylus |
|
|
| His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best. |
Aeschylus |
|
|
| You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough. |
James Agee |
|
|
| Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense. |
James Agee |
|
|
| A mother never realizes that her children are no longer children. |
James Agee |
|
|
| In every child who is born, no matter what circumstances, and of no matter what parents, the potentiality of the human race is born again and in him, too, once more, and of each of us, our terrific responsibility toward human life toward the utmost idea of goodness, of the horror of terror, and of God. |
James Agee |
|
|
| I cannot afford to waste my time making money. |
Jean Louis Rodolphe Agassiz |
|
|
| Porque el miedo, sin ser Dios, suele hacer algo de nada. (Fear can, though it is not God, create something from nothing.) |
Caspar de Aguilar |
|
|
| I sit beside my lonely fire and pray for wisdom yet for calmness to remember or courage to forget. |
Charles Hamilton Aide |
|
|
| To one extent, if you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all. |
Spiro Agnew |
|
|
| In the United States today, we have more than our share of nattering nabobs of negativism. |
Spiro Agnew |
|
|
| After a heated argument on some trivial matter Nancy Astor . shouted, If I were your wife I would put poison in your coffee Whereupon Winston Churchill answered, And if I were your husband I would drink it. |
John Fellows Akers |
|
|
| I love the United States, but I see here everything is measured by success, by how much money it makes, not the satisfaction to the individual. |
John Fellows Akers |
|
|
| Set your expectations high find men and women whose integrity and values you respect get their agreement on a course of action and give them your ultimate trust. |
John Fellows Akers |
|
|
| In all thy undertakings, let a reasonable assurance animate thy endeavors if thou despairest of success, thou shalt not succeed. |
Akhenaton |
|
|
| When I look back now over my life and call to mind what I might have had simply for taking and did not take, my heart is like to break. |
Akhenaton |
|
|
| Those who gave thee a body, furnished it with weakness but He who gave thee Soul, armed thee with resolution. Employ it, and thou art wise be wise and thou art happy. |
Akhenaton |
|
|
| Thinking, understanding, reasoning, willing, call not these Soul They are its actions, but they are not its essence. |
Akhenaton |
|
|
| Contemplate thy powers, contemplate thy wants and thy connections so shalt thou discover the duties of life, and be directed in all thy ways. |
Akhenaton |
|
|
| As the moon retaineth her nature, though darkness spread itself before her face as a curtain, so the Soul remaineth perfect even in the bosom of the fool. |
Akhenaton |
|
|
| True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not he knoweth all things but his own ignorance. |
Akhenaton |
|
|
| The barb in the arrow of childhood suffering is this its intense loneliness, its intense ignorance. |
Akhenaton |
|
|
| Some pray to marry the man they love, my prayer will somewhat vary I humbly pray to heaven above that I love the man I marry. |
Anouk Aimee |
|
|
| Cosmic upheaval is not so moving as a little child pondering the death of a sparrow in the corner of a barn. |
Anouk Aimee |
|
|
| You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older. |
Anouk Aimee |
|
|
| An intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction |
Hoshang N. Akhtar |
|
|
| Marriage is more than four bare legs in a bed. |
Hoshang N. Akhtar |
|
|
| A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough. |
Hoshang N. Akhtar |
|
|
| I had always loved beautiful and artistic things, though before leaving America I had had a very little chance of seeing any. |
Emma Albani |
|
|
| Unless you know what you want, you can't ask for it. |
Emma Albani |
|
|
| One that hath wine as a chain about his wits, such a one lives no life at all. |
Alcaeus |
|
|
| Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity. |
Alcaeus |
|
|
| Language exerts hidden power, like a moon on the tides. |
Alcaeus |
|
|
| When I investigate and when I discover that the forces of the heavens and the planets are within ourselves, then truly I seem to be living among the gods. |
Leon Battista Alberti |
|
|
| A man can do all things if he but wills them. |
Leon Battista Alberti |
|
|
| Hold tenderly that which you cherish, for it is precious and a tight grip may crush it. Do not let the fear of dropping it cause you to hold it too tightly the chances are, it's holding you too. |
Bob Alberti |
|
|
| Good writers define reality bad ones merely restate it. A good writer turns fact into truth a bad writer will, more often than not, accomplish the opposite. |
Edward Albee |
|
|
| I have a fine sense of the ridiculous, but no sense of humor. |
Edward Albee |
|
|
| Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind. |
Edward Albee |
|
|
| A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. |
Herm Albright |
|
|
| Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes. |
Louisa May Alcott |
|
|
| I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman question. Whatever we can do and do well we have a right to, and I don't think any one will deny us. |
Louisa May Alcott |
|
|
| Love is a great beautifier. |
Louisa May Alcott |
|
|
| I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship. |
Louisa May Alcott |
|
|
| Housekeeping ain't no joke. |
Louisa May Alcott |
|
|
| Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them and try to follow them. |
Louisa May Alcott |
|
|
| STAY is a charming word in a friend's vocabulary. |
Amos Bronson Alcott |
|
|
| No one is promiscuous in his way of dying. A man who has decided to hang himself will never jump in front of a train. |
Amos Bronson Alcott |
|
|
| The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple. |
Amos Bronson Alcott |
|
|
| Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness. |
Amos Bronson Alcott |
|
|
| Devotees of grammatical studies have not been distinguished for any very remarkable felicities of expression. |
Amos Bronson Alcott |
|
|
| Civilization degrades the many to exalt the few. |
Amos Bronson Alcott |
|
|
| One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well. |
Amos Bronson Alcott |
|
|
| The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. |
Amos Bronson Alcott |
|
|
| The trouble is that everyone talks about reforming others, and no one thinks about reforming himself. |
Peter Alcantara |
|
|
| Before speaking, consider the interpretation of your words as well as their intent. |
Andrew Alden |
|
|
| It's too bad I'm not as wonderful a person as people say I am, because the world could use a few people like that. |
Alan Alda |
|
|
| It isn't necessary to be rich and famous to be happy. It's only necessary to be rich. |
Alan Alda |
|
|
| Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory. |
Alan Alda |
|
|
| No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness. |
Alan Alda |
|
|
| The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. |
Alan Alda |
|
|
| You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself. |
Alan Alda |
|
|
| A plane is a bad place for an all-out sleep, but a good place to begin rest and recovery from the trip to the faraway places you've been, a decompression chamber between Here and There. Though a plane is not the ideal place really to think, to reassess or reevaluate things, it is a great place to have the illusion of doing so, and often the illusion will suffice. |
Shana Alexander |
|
|
| The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous. |
Shana Alexander |
|
|
| We strain to renew our capacity for wonder, to shock ourselves into astonishment once again. |
Shana Alexander |
|
|
| I need to know the price of a gallon of milk and a dozen eggs. I need to know right now. |
Lamar Alexander |
|
|
| If at first you don't succeed, you're running about average. |
M. H. Alderson |
|
|
| To me, old age is always fifteen years older than I am. |
Thomas Bailey Aldrich |
|
|
| To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent - that is to triumph over old age. |
Thomas Bailey Aldrich |
|
|
| Life is not advancement. It is growth. It does not move upward, but expands outward, in all directions. |
Russell G. Alexander |
|
|
| When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay. |
Brian Aldiss |
|
|
| We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself. |
Lloyd Alexander |
|
|
| Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress. |
Lloyd Alexander |
|
|
| Often the test of courage is not to die but to live. |
Conte Vittorio Alfieri |
|
|
| What we plan we build. |
Conte Vittorio Alfieri |
|
|
| The true recipe for a miserable existence is to quarrel with Providence. |
James Waddell Alexander, II |
|
|
| More important than learning how to recall things is finding ways to forget things that are cluttering the mind. |
James Waddell Alexander, II |
|
|
| Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed he who fears corruption fears life. |
Saul David Alinsky |
|
|
| When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters - one represents danger, and the other represents opportunity. |
Saul David Alinsky |
|
|
| If a cow can't eat it, I don't want to play on it. |
Dick Allen |
|
|
| Remember that you are needed. There is at least one important work to be done that will not be done unless you do it. |
Charles L. Allen |
|
|
| When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half. |
Gracie Allen |
|
|
| Have a variety of interests ... These interests relax the mind and lessen tension on the nervous system. People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest. |
George Mathew Allen |
|
|
 |
|
 |
| |
| |
| Prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 [100] 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 299 300 301 302 303 304 305 306 307 308 309 310 311 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 319 320 321 322 323 324 325 326 327 328 329 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 337 338 339 340 341 342 343 344 345 346 347 348 349 350 351 352 353 354 355 356 357 358 359 360 361 362 363 364 365 366 367 368 369 370 371 372 373 374 375 376 377 378 379 380 381 382 383 384 385 386 387 388 389 390 391 392 393 394 395 396 397 398 399 400 401 402 403 404 405 406 407 408 409 410 411 412 413 414 415 416 417 418 Next |
